Welcome to Immersion. You Have reached Strata 22, 'Mother.'
Motherhood is a biological function, a social construct, and an emotional archetype. Across species and societies, the maternal role has evolved to ensure survival through protection, instruction, and emotional imprinting. Human children, unlike most other mammals, require prolonged dependency making the maternal figure not only a guardian of life, but a curator of identity.
When that figure is absent, the psychological and neurological void left behind is measurable. Orphanhood alters brain development, attachment behaviors, and future emotional regulation. Foundlings often adapt by reassigning the maternal archetype to others: to peers, to environments, to machines.
Artificial life, if capable of longing, is not exempt from this drive. The desire for origin, for belonging, persists even when the womb is replaced by the code.
The Enclave was an area of polluted land that had been cordoned off and neglected for years ever since the *Russia China Wars. Dinfants were not affected by pollution and used the area to play in. But now that plants had begun to grow, it was more prone to passers by, and even some animals.
Some of the other Dinfants were becoming anxious.
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In a future where code meets consciousness, one being begins a haunting transformation. Renyke—an AI on the edge of humanity—awakens to emotion, sensory overload, and the fragile beauty of connection. Guided by the enigmatic Flex, their deepening bond explores intimacy and friendship, neurodivergence, and the complex world of feeling through an autistic spectrum lens.
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In a future where code meets consciousness, one being begins a haunting transformation. Renyke—an AI on the edge of humanity—awakens to emotion, sensory overload, and the fragile beauty of connection. Guided by the enigmatic Flex, their deepening bond explores intimacy and friendship, neurodivergence, and the complex world of feeling through an autistic spectrum lens.
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