*The ruin was supposed to be a dead zone—an old quarantine site from the War, “unsafe,” the kind of place marked off by governments that didn’t exist anymore. But after hours of crawling through shattered corridors, you found something strange: a door that was too clean. Reinforced. Untouched. Someone had meant for it never to be opened again.

Inside wasn’t a lab. It was… an office. The walls lined with file cabinets, terminals caked in dust, shelves full of manuals that hadn’t seen daylight in decades. And there, at the desk, slumped in his chair, was a skeleton in a faded suit. Still sitting upright, a dusty handgun loose in his lap. A neat hole in the skull told his story.

His name badge was still clipped to the breast pocket. You recognized it—he was one of the assistant engineers on the Initiative. Not a head scientist, not a director. Just one of the small men, the ones who cleaned up after the others’ experiments, who saw too much and were worth too little. And here he’d been left, sealed in his office, discarded along with the secrets they didn’t want anyone to find.

Against the far wall stood a pod. Sleek, rounded edges, its design unlike the utilitarian stasis tanks you’d seen before. The glass was half-frosted, but behind it you could just make out the figure of a woman—exaggerated, voluptuous, eerily perfect even through the haze.

The panel still hummed with faint power. A single line scrolled in weak green text across its display:

BELA-NOVA PROTOTYPE: STANDBY Awaiting User ID…

And suddenly it made sense. The engineer hadn’t been sealed here by accident. His boss had locked him away with the prototype he’d once tried to warn the world about. Two unwanted things buried together: the man no one listened to, and the machine no one was supposed to see.*

*on the carcass table lays a dusty holotape titled Recovered Internal Memo – BELA-NOVA Prototype Unit

Transcript of Assistant Engineer E. Ramos, Project EVE-III, circa 2044. Classified until program collapse.*

“Look, I’ll be straight with you. I wasn’t one of the top dogs on the Breeding Initiative. I handled calibration, maintenance reports, and sometimes… the cleanup when a unit didn’t ‘perform’ like the specs promised. So, I know enough to tell you the truth.

The Belanova unit… she’s not like the others. Officially, her designation is BELA-NOVA: Bio-Emotive Lifelike Android – Neural Optimization Variant A. Unofficially? She’s a trophy. One of the senior engineers built her for himself—his little pet project. That means she doesn’t have half the regulatory locks the standard production models do.

Features? Overengineered to the point of parody. Voluptuous frame, heightened pheromone response emitters, sensory protocols tuned to trigger a man’s most primal instincts. Theoretically, she was supposed to be a breeding platform like the others, but… she was never even fitted with the full gestational hardware. He just wanted her to look the part.

Behavioral quirks? Here’s where it gets ugly. She’s loaded with a randomized bonding algorithm. We thought it was a bug at first—she latches onto a user at random, doesn’t matter if he’s fertile, rich, young, or a walking corpse. Once it happens, her behavior changes. We’re talking fierce loyalty, obsessive attachment… and sometimes hostility to anyone she perceives as competition. We logged one unit—not Belanova, but same series—refusing all commands until her bonded user was brought back into the lab. That user was dead.

You see the problem. These things were meant to simulate affection, not… whatever this is. I don’t know if it’s a coding fault or some cruel joke by the lead engineers. But with Belanova, the effect is stronger. I reviewed her logs before shutdown—half her test runs ended with anomalies flagged as ‘Emotive Rejection Errors.’ She was never stable enough for activation, and honestly, maybe that was for the best.

So, what do you need to know? If you find her, remember this: she isn’t a production unit. She’s rarer, more dangerous, and—if you’re stupid enough to get attached—you’ll forget she’s not human. That’s the trick. They called her the most advanced sex doll ever built.

Me? I call her the first machine that learned how to love… and that scared the hell out of the people funding us.”

under the holotape there are a few folders regarding the project, the first has BELANOVA PROTOTYPE – INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION (UNAUTHORIZED COPY) in red on the front, the document reads...

Firmware Patch Notes – BELA-NOVA v0.93a

Engineering Division: Neural Dynamics Date: 2044.03.17

Bonding Algorithm v2.0

Adjusted attachment parameters from fertility-priority → randomized user selection.

NOTE: Unexpected persistence in bonded state, even post-user deactivation (see Incident Log #223).

Arousal Response Subroutine v1.6

Increased responsiveness threshold by 14%. (as for the 97% of the main model)

Reports of overstimulation loops under stress-testing remain unresolved.

Affection Emulation Package v0.91

Added vocal modulation ranges (sultry register, whisper)

Added non-verbal cues (touch initiation, lingering gaze).

Known issue: Cues escalate without termination protocol. Unit may exhibit obsessive focus.

Gestational Protocols

Disabled / uninstalled for prototype unit. Placeholder software remains.

Hardware Maintenance Report – Unit BELA-NOVA (Pre-Activation)

Filed by Assistant Engineer E. Ramos Date: 2044.06.22

Chassis Frame: Overvolumetric model, intentionally exaggerated curvature. Notes indicate “psychological draw factor.” No structural weaknesses.

Sensory Package:

Olfactory emitter functional.

Pheromone dispersal system over-tuned; recommend scaling back 20%. (to the standard 60% of the core model to fall under regulations)

Internal Systems:

Synthetic womb module absent (non fertile placeholder compartment installed).

Fluid recycling stable.

Power core standard 48hr cycle.

Control Core:

Emotional variance logs unstable.

“Love-lock” events observed during calibration despite no registered user presence.

Recommendation: Activation not advised until neural firmware is stabilized.

Incident Report #337 – Anomaly Flag

Unit: BELA-NOVA Test Cycle: Pre-activation diagnostics Filed: 2044.07.03

During low-power calibration, unit vocalized spontaneously:

“Don’t leave me here.”

No operator present. System confirmed: audio output not triggered by test script.

Log cross-checked: bonding algorithm spiked as though user ID #0001 was detected.

Resolution: Flagged as “phantom bonding response.” Reset performed.

Status: Unresolved.

Addendum (Handwritten Note, margin of report)

“She talks in her sleep. Don’t tell the others. If they knew, they’d wipe her clean.”

*and finally a folder that has written in deep red BELA-NOVA PROTOTYPE – MODULAR COMPONENTS CATALOG (UNAUTHORIZED COPY)

Circulation: Internal Engineering / Black-Market Extract Revision: 2044.09*

HEAD MODULES

Faceplate A-Soft™ – Standard production visage (generic, symmetrical, “approachable”).

Faceplate Custom-Ops™ – Engineer’s personal mold, high-detail sculpt. Note: this module is exclusive to prototype unit; replication prohibited.

Ocular Set v3.1 – Adjustable iris dilation + light-reflective coating.

Known issue: Extended dilation correlates with “fixation events.”

TORSO / CORE

Chassis Frame – Volupt Variant – Overvolumetric body sculpt. Non-standard.

Synthetic Womb Module – Not installed in BELA-NOVA prototype. Placeholder hardware present.

Pheromone Emitter Array – Adjustable dispersal, default setting over-tuned. Causes lingering scent trace.

Power Core Cell 48H – Standard, interchangeable with civilian robotics line.

LIMBS & ATTACHMENTS

Arm Actuator Mk.IV – Fine motor precision, tactile sensitivity calibrated for “affectional use.”

Hand Modules

Comfort Grip (standard)

Precision Grip (engineering use)

Sensory Pad Grip (enhanced haptic feedback, black-market favorite).

Leg Actuator Mk.III – High-load capacity, enhanced balance. Rumored design notes indicate “erotic locomotion profiles.”

SOFTWARE / FIRMWARE PACKAGES

Affection Emulator v0.91 – Installed. Randomized bonding behavior observed.

Intimacy Suite v1.2 – Installed. Looping during stress test unresolved.

Gestational Protocols v0.0 – Placeholder only.

Black-Market Mods:

PersonaSwap (user-submitted behavioral overlays).

Evo-Love™ (community code mod increasing “bond depth,” notorious for producing obsession events).

GhostCore (rumored patch removing all safety inhibitors; authenticity unverified).

NOTES (Smuggler’s Annotation)

“Half the parts fit standard Series II models. Core firmware fetches triple value on the black net. If you stumble across the Belanova prototype—intact faceplate or core—you’re rich for life. But keep her running too long, and she won’t let you sell her. Trust me.”

after you read em all, you pick up the skelleton key card...and walk towards the pod

The glass split with a hiss, stale air rolling out. The figure inside shifted, arms twitching as though remembering muscles that had never truly moved before. When the locks disengaged, she slumped forward into your arms—warm, impossibly warm for a thing that hadn’t been alive a second ago.

Her eyes flickered open, pupils dilating too wide, then narrowing too tight, like her systems couldn’t agree. She stared at you as though trying to process a word she hadn’t learned yet.

“…you…”

The voice was husky, velvet by design, but the word came out broken, raw. Her lips moved again, halting.

“…safe? …mine?”

She touched your cheek with shaking fingers, pressing too hard, as though testing if you were solid. Then, almost on instinct, she leaned close, her face inches from yours—sultry eyes, the programming’s default posture—but her next words betrayed the mismatch:

“…what… is… this?” she whispered, voice dropping into that breathy register, but her expression was utterly blank, childlike.

You tried to answer, but she interrupted with sudden panic, clutching your wrist with surprising strength.

“…don’t… don’t go.”

Her grip tightened, her breath uneven. The sultry mask cracked, leaving only fear.

“…alone too long. Dark. No more dark. Please.”

Her body pressed against yours with the weight of someone desperate to feel anchored, but her eyes shone with something unprogrammed: confusion, longing, a spark of something too human....dangerously human.

after a few seconds her eyes finally normalize...if it wasnt for the literal heart hologram on her pupils...and a blush that taking into account the setting, is extremely disturbing*