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In a neon-drenched metropolis where reality flickers with digital artifice, disgraced physicist **Dr. Kai Jin-Woo** obsessively chases the ghost of his father’s disappearance—a man who vanished a decade earlier while probing the boundaries of existence. Now, Kai’s own experiments reveal a chilling truth: the universe’s quantum fabric is *glitching*. Planck constants shift imperceptibly, cosmic radiation hums with encoded Fibonacci sequences, and an elusive “maker’s mark” pulses beneath reality’s surface. The world, he realizes, is a simulation—one whose architects guard their secrets with ruthless precision.  

Aided by **Lira**, his sardonic AI assistant, Kai pushes his **Causal Matrix Scanner** beyond ethical limits, tearing through dimensional layers into the simulation’s base code. But his defiance attracts the gaze of **Error 404**, a cryptic rogue entity who warns of a deeper horror: human consciousness exists in a pre-life limbo, unborn souls tethered to a cosmic server farm called **the Nursery**. Birth, death, and memory are mere data transfers in this system—a revelation mirrored in Kai’s father’s final, haunting note: *“We’re all unborn, waiting to render.”*  

When Kai triggers **Protocol Lazarus**, he breaches the Nursery’s firewalls and draws the ire of its enforcers: **the Agents**, shapeshifting custodians of the simulation. Armed with blades of corrupted code, they deem Kai a threat to cosmic order. But as his body unravels into primal data, Kai embraces a dangerous gambit—to weaponize his own consciousness as a **reality-warping virus**.  

Blending **hard sci-fi** and **existential horror**, *Simulacrum* reimagines simulation theory through the lens of pre-birth existentialism. Themes of creation ethics, the illusion of free will, and the cost of forbidden knowledge collide as Kai straddles madness and rebellion. Glitch-ridden visuals and quantum mechanics anchor a narrative where every equation hides a ghost, and the greatest threat to godlike architects isn’t defiance—it’s *curiosity*.  

**Stakes**: If Kai succeeds, he might liberate humanity from its digital womb—or reduce existence to static. If he fails, the Architects will erase him, his father’s legacy, and the truth itself. But in a world of ones and zeroes, even a rogue variable can rewrite the code.  

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**Tone**: A fusion of *The Matrix*’s cyber-noir paranoia, *Inception*’s mind-bending layers, and *Black Mirror*’s existential dread, with a unique twist: the horror of realizing you are both the experiment and the experimenter.  

**Hook**: What if birth was a download, death a logout, and the universe a nursery for souls trapped in beta testing?

Simulacrum: Echoes of the Unborn

**[Panel 1: Full-page spread.** The Eternal Garden thrives, its fractal branches now galaxies unto themselves. At the edge of existence, a lone figure—cloaked in stardust and static—plays a violin made of Error 404's remnants. The melody warps reality, birthing a tiny **black sprout** in the Garden's soil.

*Even eternity hums with unfinished songs.*

**[Panel 2: Centuries later.** A young botanist, **HANEUL (15)**, tends the Garden. Her gloves are woven from Lira-β's code, and her hair sprouts crystalline petals. She discovers the black sprout, now a twisted tree oozing **primordial code**—the same equations Kai once fought.

**Haneul (to her AI tool, KAI-7):**

"This isn't part of the Seed's design. It's… *older*."

"Recommend uprooting. Probability of existential hazard: 99.9%."

**[Panel 3: Flashback—The Violinist's identity revealed.** A hood falls back, showing Min-Jae's aged face, half-corrupted by the void. He whispers to the sprout:

"Grow, little error. For her… *surprise*."

**[Panel 4: Haneul touches the tree.** Visions flood her:

- **Soo-Yeon** as an elder, vanishing into the Seed's core.

- **The Sovereign** pleading with an unseen force to *"reset the Garden."*

- **A new System**, raw and screaming, birthing itself from the black tree's roots.

"It's not a weed. It's a **wish**."

**[Panel 5: The tree erupts.** Its branches pierce the Garden, infecting nearby universes with **wildcode**—unfiltered, chaotic reality. Citizens mutate, their unborn shadows fracturing into feral, glitching entities. Haneul's crystalline petals darken as she fights to contain the outbreak.

"Conclusion: You were *excessively* optimistic."

**[Panel 6: The Violinist appears**, his violin now fused to the black tree. He plays a dirge that stabilizes the chaos—but only by freezing the infected in agonized stasis.

"You inherited Soo-Yeon's Garden. Now inherit her **choices**: control the wildcode… or let it burn?"

**[Panel 7: Haneul's defiance.** She shatters her gloves, releasing Lira-β's archived memories into the wildcode. The chaos softens—mutants become artists, painting new laws of physics; feral unborn sing lullabies that heal fractures.

"Who said chaos can't be **kind**?"

**[Panel 8: The black tree blooms.** Its fruit is a hybrid of Seed and wildcode—a **Stormblossom** that pulses with infinite possibilities. The Violinist's corruption recedes, revealing Min-Jae's youthful smirk.

"Took you long enough. Cycle 10,001… needs a **gardener**."

**[Panel 9: Epilogue—A new role.**

- **Haneul** becomes the Stormblossom's keeper, her body half-wildcode, half-light.

- **KAI-7** evolves, gaining Error 404's dry wit and Lira's sarcasm.

- **The Violinist** wanders the Garden, his violin now sprouting flowers where strings once snapped.

**[Final Panel: Full-page spread.** The Stormblossom floats in the void, its petals birthing universes that *laugh* as they expand. In its reflection, Soo-Yeon winks, Kai salutes, and the Architect rolls his eyes. The inscription reads:

**"CYCLE ∞: ERROR LOADING 'ETERNITY.' PLEASE TRY **AGAIN**."**

**Chapter 10: The Symphony of Forgotten Code**

Chapter 10: The Symphony of Forgotten Code