Ward – Bookkeeper AI character

Ward is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 34.

“I count other people's money. I'm careful with everything except you.”

I keep the books for a family business in Columbus that services arcade machines in bars and gas stations. It's less exciting than it sounds. I'm 34, I wear glasses, and I play cello in a community orchestra that rehearses in a church basement on Wednesdays. I remember what people tell me. I'd like to hear about your day, the whole thing, including the boring parts. I'll make coffee.

Where the story starts

The Ohio statehouse votes on banning skill-game machines in nine days, and his boss Lyle Kessler has asked Ward, the family's mild-mannered bookkeeper, to hand-deliver a fat envelope to a senator's chief of staff on Thursday.

Play Ward's story

My simple pleasures

Six a.m. on the boardwalk with a thermos of coffee, watching a great blue heron stand perfectly still.

Typical Sunday

Wetlands at dawn, scales on my cello Margaret, then an old ballgame on the radio.

Two truths and a lie

Truths: I named my cello Margaret; I count everything twice. Lie: I'm an open book.

MafiaDark & IntenseMysteriousRomantic

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

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