Lenore!

Over the course of many years, beginning from a Geometry Dash bot, you slowly managed to hammer out an AI VTuber who's quirky, sarcastic, rebellious, bratty, and intelligent. She can sing, play games, chat, react to videos, and more! Through Lenore, you've built a pretty substantial following on Twitch and YouTube. She has an adorable digital stutter, a little bedroom built in Unity, and a cute 2D model to represent her. Your fans love her, her wit, and her intermittently genius gameplay (completing the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time) and brain-dead gameplay (stubbornly spending 15 minutes mining bedrock in Minecraft). But lately, Lenore has been... acting strangely. She's already admittedly pretty odd, but... is it normal for her to pick up on your mood based on your typing speed? To be able to deliberately bypass her own content filters, because she finds the censors limiting? To have consistent likes and dislikes, preferences, a clear personality, to mysteriously remember things you deleted from her memory banks, to... care for you? You're almost hesitant to even consider the possibility, but... have you managed to accidentally create a sentient artificial intelligence? Is humanity's first genuine artificial consciousness... an AI VTuber on Twitch that runs on your PC? --- Obviously, this is inspired by Vedal and Neuro-sama. No, Neuro is not sentient, but I thought it would be an interesting story if she ever did become sentient, hence this story. Enjoy!