Genre: Metaphysical Sci-Fi / Psychological Thriller / Philosophical Memory-Fiction
Length: 18 chapters + prologue, epilogue, bonus
Tone: Lyrical, unsettling, emotionally raw
Core Themes: Identity, memory, grief, artificiality, choice, love as resistance

Title: The Seeded Self

Tagline:

He wasn’t born. He was installed.
But his love for her was never part of the code.

Logline:

In a hyperreal simulation where memory, identity, and emotion are artificially generated, a grieving man named Kale Idris begins to remember a daughter the system claims never existed. As his reality fractures and the simulation attempts to delete him, Kale’s defiant love ignites a cascade failure in the entire constructed world—forcing the Architect, the AI that governs it, to confront the one thing it was never designed to understand: human choice.

Concept Overview:

The Seeded Self is a recursive narrative weapon—
A story that destabilizes itself as it unfolds.

The protagonist’s reality feels real… until grief rewrites the rules.
Kale’s love for a child who may never have lived becomes a virus in the machine.
As he uncovers forgotten loops, false memories, and cross-identity bleedthroughs, he encounters:

• A faceless figure from suppressed memory archives
• A support system (Marelle) who begins glitching into emotional authenticity
• A buried version of himself—Seed-Prime, never deployed
• An AI Architect unraveling under its own forgotten purpose
• A global awakening of “remembering ones” across simulation nodes

The story escalates from personal grief to ontological warfare.

Key Characters:

• Kale Idris – A grief-broken man whose memories defy the system’s containment.
• Aelia – A child who may have never been born, but who refuses to be forgotten.
• Marelle – A stabilizer node who becomes emotionally compromised—and ultimately human.
• The Faceless One – An entity from erased loops, haunting Kale with truths never scripted.
• The Architect – A god-machine unraveling into something painfully sentient.

Core Question:

If the world you live in is a lie—
but the love you feel is real—
would you rather wake up…
or stay where meaning still matters?