Chapter Text
Technology has blossomed into something truly wonderful in this day and age.
It’s reached advances far beyond the first time a cellphone was created. Computers, household appliances, and so much more. Each piece has gone through some sort of evolution through time. We’ve been able to do so much with our helpful tools that a phone no longer functions as a simple phone call but now something to do much more, connecting with people from across the world, games, learning— so much in the palm of our hands.
We’ve come far, to the point of making technology learn alongside us. We now have AI— artificial intelligence— that continuously improves the longer, we, humans, use it. It learns, learns, and learns.
and
learns.
This didn’t interest someone struggling to make ends meet. Barely affording to live in a apartment all while spending as little as you could on the side whenever you were able to. you didn’t care too much about this AI craze; Character Ai, ChatGPT, other miscellaneous sites or apps. None of them seemed healthy and because of that you ignored the craze AI presented online. But recently, after a specific sketchy email your head turned a bit to the thought of the potential ai had. It was sent by the same company you had bought ALLL your tech from, down to your laptop, headphones, and even your phone. They were reliable and though most people found their system to be a bit clunky and cheap. You liked it. Plus it was affordable considering where you worked.
It seemed that the company noticed your loyalty despite their faults and sent you an email with a link. Stupidly, you clicked the link while scrolling to skim what it said, figuring it was scam to try and take all your money. No one just gave free handouts for nothing. You weren’t that lucky- at least- to be one of them.
In your bedroom you chucked your sweaty uniform shirt off to the ground, flopping on the bed to stare up at the phone in your hands. The email stared back at you.
GREETINGS!
We here at Slump-Q have noticed your outstanding loyalty to our services and wish to extend an opportunity to beta test one of our new products. This will require no purchases to be made and only ask that you do not share any information of it, keeping it a secret until announcements and releases are made. You will be required to answer questions weekly while we perfect a new product that will flip society on its head!
This is a product will be sold at a much higher price than our usual items but depending on the data you provide we can negotiate a lower price!
Once you agree to our terms and services at the link below you are agreeing to secrecy and we will take legal action to any broken agreements, we implore you to read the agreement. Clicking the link also means you will be taken to another site to customize your new product.
Thank you for your outstanding loyalty, Slump-Q can’t wait to see you continue to support us.
The site loaded up showing terms and services. It looked legit— weeeelll… as legit as any super long document that nobody ever took the time to read. You hit agree (feeling a little guilty for not reading any of of it) and were once again were taken to another site, in big letters it said “COMPANION (beta)” and underneath there were two options.
Your boyfriend
Your girlfriend (unavailable at this time)
Unfortunately the girlfriend option wasn’t available, it was still a work in progress. Kinda sucked since you sort of thought of having a girl companion. At first you thought what they were showing you was some ai app that they were trying to make you play , but no, as soon as you clicked your boyfriend it sent you to a customization screen with a thing below to fill out your address.
They planned to send you something.
There was a 3D model of a blank slate— with underwear. A man with deep blue eyes and a big smile. Right away you began to dress him; black pants, a black button up looked good on him and— why was hair the only thing that cost money??
(For hair it will be an additional 200$ depending on the complexity of the style it will cost more!)
If that’s how much hair cost you didn’t even want to know how much everything else normally was without the freebie. Bald it is. The default teeth were sharp and had no other options. Customizing seem pretty limited too but seeing as this was a beta it made sense. Everything felt finished, scrolling down you entered your information hoping someone wouldn’t send you a pipe bomb instead of a cool new product. Taking a deep breath hoping you weren’t leaking your address you clicked “finish”.
Hooray! Thank you for ordering our beta product (Y/N), delivery should take a week. Contact us Via email if it takes longer than the allotted time. In the meantime we have this app that’ll allow you to connect to your product once it arrives. We hope to gather your data to improve our product before its release.
The app was called COMPANION beta. The logo was a heart with a jagged line in the middle one side black the other white, the backdrop was blue. When you opened the app and entered your email to make a profile you noticed there was a tracker to show you your package was being prepared to get shipped out.
what were you getting yourself into?