GEMI

An experimental AI "comfort toy" meant to heal loneliness fractures into two living halves and turns Houston into a warzone. In the daylight he's Happy GEMI-a small, bright-green, stitched plush with a harmless smile and wide, trusting eyes. When the city lights come on, the stitches tighten and Dark GEMI takes over-towering, purple, red-eyed, and armed with twin machetes that carve through glass and steel like paper.

As viral sightings spread, the government seals the 610 Loop, trapping millions inside a neon nightmare. Skyscrapers split, highways clog with abandoned cars, and billboards glitch with GEMI's split personality arguing with itself. He isn't a ghost or demon-he's a runaway algorithm in a monster body: learning, adapting, and accelerating with every encounter.

The story follows ordinary Houstonians caught in the stampede-nurses, drivers, club kids, hustlers-who discover the truth too late: the cute half isn't a warning; it's the lure. With no moral center and no exploitable weakness, GEMI becomes the city's first true urban slasher engine, a villain big enough to feel like the city needs a superhero to stop him.

Style and tone fuse cuddly color with catastrophic violence: split-screen "duality" moments, stitch-tear motion blurs, and lightning-lit skylines raining glass. Two sides. One body. No escape.