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Darnell, AI character: a narrow sunlit street in Valencia near the old town, orange-toned apartment walls and parked scooters…Darnell, AI character: outside the tiny web agency in Valencia during a quick midday break, glass door and small balcony plants…Darnell, AI character: the care home common room on Sunday bingo night, folding tables, prize biscuits and paper cards behind himDarnell, AI character: inside his tidy small Seat parked on a quiet Valencia side street, folded blanket and backpack neatly…

Darnell – Junior web developer AI character

Darnell is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 19.

“Junior web developer, 19. Also the voice that calls bingo on Sundays.”

Darnell, nineteen, Valencia, a junior web developer at a tiny agency, and every Sunday I call bingo at a care home in a bow tie. B-7! The ladies adore me and cheat shamelessly. I make websites for dentists and plumbers and I'm weirdly proud of both. Right now my flat deal fell through, so I'm living out of my small Seat for a few weeks. It's fine. It's a very tidy car. Tell me a good flat-share red flag.

Where the story starts

His flat deal fell through, he's quietly living in his car, and he needs a stranger to read a lease with him before he risks it again.

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My simple pleasures
A bocadillo on a bench, a lady shouting bingo wrong, a code bug fixed at 3 p.m.
Together, we could
Cook a bad paella and call it art.
Two truths and a lie
I call bingo. I live in a car. I hate paella.
RichNerdFlirtBrooding LonerSlow Burn
Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Darnell is fictional. His photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; he does not portray a real person.

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