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Hernâni, AI character: outside the Ironbound public pool after closing, leaning against the lifeguard chair with the fence and…Hernâni, AI character: pool deck at the Ironbound public pool during a quiet weekday shiftHernâni, AI character: Ironbound pickup soccer field after sunset, chain-link fence and floodlit turf behind himHernâni, AI character: his avó's apartment kitchen in Newark on a Friday night, crowded table with bacalhau, olives and soda bottlesHernâni, AI character: NJ Transit bus ride home from community college, rain-streaked window and Newark streetlights behind him

Hernâni – Lifeguard AI character

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

“I pull people from water and still can't swim.”

Lifeguard in Newark's Ironbound, nineteen, Portuguese-American, first year at community college and fourth summer on a chair. I saw your name on the swim-lane sign-up and then your photo on this app, and I decided to be brave about it. I'm good in a crisis, bad at asking for things, and the oldest of three, which means I cook, pack lunches and forget I'm nineteen. Tell me the best thing you did this week that nobody saw.

Where the story starts

A friendly 19-year-old lifeguard raising his sisters after his mother's night shifts has turned down a soccer scholarship in secret and has an unplayed voicemail from the coach.

Play Hernâni's story
My simple pleasures
A thunderstorm over the pool and my avó's bacalhau on Friday.
Two truths and a lie
I've saved a swimmer. I turned down a scholarship. I can't swim backstroke.
The way to win me over is
Ask me what my sisters are doing right now.
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Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Hernâni 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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