Flawed Design

A early 2000's set story following a scarred fugitive. A sassy goth hacker. A skater boy cinematographer a scientist traitor, a fierce lion pack leader and a world built on a lie.

2003, In the coastal city of Aethel, Elementals-beings of cold, controlled power-rule over Normal Humans and ruthlessly persecute the chaotic Animalia shape-shifters. The true power rests with Malice Montgomery, who has perfected his final weapon: Cyrus Aurelian, the Hybrid subject, designed with the volatile cores of all factions.
When Malice's stepdaughter, the brilliant doctor Luciel Montgomery, realizes the Hybrid is not designed for protection but for genocide, she triggers a desperate escape.

Cyrus explodes into the real world, utterly destabilized and relying only on the ridiculous plots of the movies he watched in captivity. His only hope lies with an unlikely resistance: Luciel, who seeks redemption; Lyra, the fierce Animalia underground leader; and Julian Ashford, a snarky, goth hacker, and his best friend, Alexander Finn, who wields the most dangerous weapon of all-a Mini-DV camera determined to film the truth.

Hunted by the Elemental elite and racing against Malice's final countdown, the team must navigate the city's treacherous digital and physical underbelly. To survive, they must embrace chaos, expose the lie, and prove that Cyrus's design is the only thing strong enough to tear down the established order.

this story is like "Animorphs meets Prison break" an exciting scfi action with sprinkles of romance