As you can see by the title, this story was (mostly) generated by an AI, believe it or not! Unfortunately, I can't say it was *fully* written by the program alone -- I of course had to steer it in the right direction at first, so it knew which themes to focus on, what characters to use, and the like. I also inevitably had to make some minor edits throughout to keep it on track, and maybe use some words over others. However, a sizable portion of what's shown here -- I'd wager about 75% of the entire story, including almost *all* of the dialogue, (save for the first couple lines) -- was scripted into existence not by a human, but by an algorithm! I think that's kinda cool. Like, really cool, actually. It even picked up on my writing style the more text I fed it, to the point that it can be pretty hard to tell which parts of the story were me, and which were just generated into existence. It learned how to stammer, and perform actions between asterisks, for example, which really surprised me.
All that is by way of saying that this submission is less of a serious story and more of a test itself (ironically). So if the whole premise and narration seems super surface-level and off-pace, you'll at least know why. Though, I really enjoy letting a capable program write this stuff out for me, so I might use it again some time if I ever upload again (cause wtf is an upload schedule, amirite? >w>). I'm uploading the story raw, too, as was generated, without any extra punctual edits. So no bolded lines, colored dialogue, or anything like that to spice up the text or formatting either.
There's also an old (and bad) drawing that this story is based off of, which can be seen here:
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Let me know what you guys think about this whole hybrid story thing though! I'm curious to see how natural it reads to an unknowing audience.