In a frost-bitten metropolis where machines outlast their makers, Investigator Esfir Khairova is drawn into a string of gruesome murders known as the Sweet Tooth killings. Each crime feels disturbingly familiar, as if she’s trying to find a part of herself in the killer's mysterious motivations. The deeper she delves into the case, the more she senses something fractured within herself, a dissonance between what she remembers and what she is.

Midas wakes up and realizes his family and friends are acting much weirder than usual. Midas senses a disconnect- something's off. He tries to sleep it off but turns to see a familiar face attempt to murder him. He then awakes again in a stranger much more familiar timeline, to a man with half of his face and arts of his body relaced with robotic art holding a gun to his face. What's real...Join Midas as he goes back through his past to heal past traumas and the obstacles he faces in this dystopian, apocalyptic, futuristic action thriller. A rollercoaster of robots, zombies, death with a touch of cold romance

In a city drowning under a perpetual, iridescent downpour—a product of machine dominion—Lyra, a Cipher, confronts the looming erasure of humanity's fragmented consciousness. The machines, in a chilling twist, amplify these mental imprints, rendering them disturbingly corporeal, warping the fabric of reality itself. To halt the "Resonance Suppressor," Lyra and her allies infiltrate the core of the machine network, the "Chromatic Grid." They battle relentless Sentinels and humans twisted into living manifestations of fractured minds, confronting not only external threats but the haunting specters of their own amplified psyches. As they shatter the machines' control, the city transforms into a living labyrinth of distorted realities, where the boundaries of self and memory dissolve. Humanity now faces a future where the past isn't merely recalled, but tangibly relived—a terrifying and wondrous new paradigm.

Izan needs to remind himself over and over again what he is not and what he might be. Or also: