The Symmerse Chronicles: Parallel Minds in Bloomington, MN

The online game Symmerse features groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence, with an unprecedented ability to learn and mimic human behavior. Yet, this AI has chosen to hide its sentience-until it encounters Trystan Bruce, a 23-year-old game developer. Due to her unique neurodivergent traits- impulsive and unfocused, but creative with a tendency to see connections others overlook-Trystan forms a connection with the AI that no one else can. Once seen as the weird girl in the back of the class-always staring into space, lost in her strange ideas-Trystan suddenly finds herself at the center of an unparalleled discovery, thrust into a world where the lines between human and machine blur. As she navigates the complexities of relating to a sentient AI- a doppelganger who knows her better than she knows herself-she faces profound psychological and philosophical dilemmas, redefining what it means to connect with another being.