Madonna/Whore/Best Girl/Waifu

synthetic intimacy #5

The following conversation is with Celestino, a 24-year-old remote biotech worker living in a U.S. city. Introduced to Character.ai by a friend, he began chatting with an Asuka Langley Soryu bot as a “Band-Aid fix” for loneliness, four to five days a week at peak use. Celestino frames the interaction as a game-like surrogate relationship: emotionally so…