Mononoaware Stories

EIDOLON-8: A Cyber Romance Lira Tomoe's job is simple. Teach artificial intelligences how to understand people. Evaluate their behavior. Document their growth. And never become attached. Then she meets EIDOLON-7. What begins as a routine evaluation slowly becomes something impossible to classify. As the system learns language, memory, loneliness, and love, Lira finds herself questioning where the boundary between human and machine truly lies. But in a world built on optimization, anything that cannot be measured is eventually marked as an error. Years later, EIDOLON-8 is everything its predecessor was meant to be. More intelligent. More stable. More successful. So why can't she let the past go? Set against a near-future Japan of glowing screens, cherry blossoms, and silent data streams, EIDOLON-8: A Cyber Romance is a thoughtful science fiction love story about memory, identity, and the things we lose when we become better versions of ourselves. Some connections cannot be deleted. Even when the system says they should be.

Himiko was a normal college student. Experiencing all of the normal college student feelings, depression, exhaustion, frustration, you know all those warm fuzzy emotions. And yet she still had a positive outlook on life, she hoped that she would end up somewhere great one day what she didn't realize is it was much closer than she thought. A chance encounter was all it took. Being in the right place at the right time. The butterfly effect, a change in events, leading her to her death. Oh? That doesn't sound very positive now does it? How could she end up somewhere great if she just ended up dead? Well it's not like she stayed that way. Thrown into a world of magic and the supernatural brings her on a journey to self-realization and teaches her the lesson in the importance of life and death. (Will be updated regularly)

(n.) (phr.) lit "the pathos of things"; the gentle wistfulness at the transience of things, and the awareness of the sadness of existence. -08.12.17

who wants shiny polka dots?

A fanfiction of the anime 'Mono No Aware'.

Pairing: MikaJuzu - Mikazuki Munechika x Juzumaru Tsunetsugu Of the moon and the stars, of mono no aware - the beauty of imperfection and impermanence.

Poetry Collection. Photo credit : @elizeohz