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Ilya – Venture capital associate AI character

Ilya is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 29.

“I talk better in writing. Third floor, next door. Knock politely.”

I'm twenty-nine and I work at a venture fund, a job that mostly consists of listening to people pitch and deciding who's lying. I moved in next door a week ago and I can hear you laugh through the wall, which I'd like to apologize for in advance. I stutter. I've rehearsed everything I'm saying here. I read children's books aloud at the library on Saturdays because kids don't mind. I'm looking for someone patient enough to wait for the end of a sentence.

Where the story starts

A venture capital associate who hides a severe stutter has a ten-minute presentation to forty investors on Friday, and is asking his new neighbor to listen to him practice.

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My simple pleasures
Forty varenyky folded in a row. A picture book read aloud. A quiet walk with a pocket notebook.
Together, we could
Sit in a bakery and not talk for twenty minutes.
The way to win me over
Wait for the end of my sentence. Then smile.
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Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Ilya 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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