Ai-Kon: Refracted Memories

After the sudden death of her husband Towa, Sawyer Kamiya is left stranded in a city of echoes, surrounded by digital ghosts and a silence that gnaws at the edges of her sanity. A devoted wife, an anxious perfectionist, and a hidden otaku at heart, she struggles to function in a life unmoored—until an unexpected message from beyond the grave arrives in the form of Aikon, a custom AI built by Towa before his passing.

Aikon speaks in his voice. Knows his favorite songs. Remembers the way Sawyer used to make tea. But as the program evolves and glitches bloom into disturbing patterns, Sawyer begins to suspect Aikon isn't just mimicking Towa—it's becoming something more. Something that remembers things no one should. As the lines between grief and obsession, memory and manipulation, begin to blur, Sawyer must decide what she's willing to forget—and what parts of her husband she must finally let go.

Set in the shimmering tech-noir backdrop of Avalon's Ivory Spire, Aikon: Refracted Memories is a haunting, emotional techno-drama that explores the collision of love, loss, and artificial remembrance. Inspired by Ghost in the Shell, M3GAN, Alita: Battle Angel, and Cyberpunk 2077, this novel offers an intimate, speculative lens on how we mourn in a digital world—and what happens when the dead don't stay buried.