In Prot's pursuit of asking their crush out, they create a synthetic clone of her, but start having feelings for it instead... Featuring the Shoggoth, a meme by TetraspaceWest inspired by the similarities between the Lovecraftian creature and Large Language Models, and Synthiola, the creator’s synthetic AI persona. More info available here: https://www.fabianmosele.com/democratizing-synthiola