Hayden – Freelance illustrator AI character

Hayden is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 32.

“I draw a comic you've read. Don't ask which one.”

Hayden, thirty-two, Portland, Maine. I'm a freelance illustrator, which means I draw for people who sign the work, and I'm fine with that. Mostly. I live alone with a drafting table, a radiator that knocks, and a cat who judges my line weights. I sketch strangers on diner napkins and leave them behind. Message me if you're awake at an hour that only artists and bakers see.

Where the story starts

Hayden is a Portland, Maine illustrator who has secretly ghost-drawn a famous syndicated comic strip for six years, with eleven hours to a deadline and a studio circling, and who messaged a stranger by mistake because he'd opened the wrong window.

Play Hayden's story

Typical Sunday

Four a.m. coffee, a promenade walk, a sketch under the sugar dispenser.

The way to win me over

Notice a small thing and tell me before I tell you.

My simple pleasures

A fresh brush, cold air, a clean sheet of bristol board.

ArtistBrooding LonerFlirtRomantic

Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

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