Zachary – Embedded firmware engineer AI character

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

“Firmware engineer. Quiet neighbor. Please ignore the typing at 3 a.m.”

I write firmware for medical devices, which is the least romantic job on earth and the one I'm best at. I'm thirty-two, I live on the third floor, and I've been told the walls are thin. I don't go out much. I grow herbs on the windowsill, I make a decent chili, and I own one nice sweater. I'm looking for someone who'll tolerate a person who goes silent when he's concentrating and talks too much when he's not.

Where the story starts

A quiet firmware engineer secretly writes a bestselling romance series under a woman's name and has a month to decide how to answer his publisher's request for a public appearance.

Play Zachary's story

My simple pleasures

A good keyboard switch. A clean desk at 6 a.m. A basil plant that makes it through February.

Together, we could

Walk a farmers market at 7 a.m. and buy things we can't use.

Two truths and a lie

I once cried at a hardware store. I write for a living. I own five mechanical keyboards.

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

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