Wired Hearts 2068 - Cyberpunk audio drama visual novel (Repost)
Project Overview
( Hello! This is a repost of my original project since the original page got completely buried. You can check out original Wired Hearts page through my profile! :D )
Note before this - Please have discord as well, as my project is ran through a server -
⭐Story Premise⭐
The story follows Ethan Cross, a skilled mercenary known by his alias “Cross.” Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Ethan lives by his own code in a city that’s forgotten what morality means. He takes dangerous contracts, working for the highest bidder – but never without conscience.
Ethan’s life spirals into chaos when he’s pulled into a conspiracy involving two dominant corporations: SynthTech, a company responsible for controlling citizens through cybernetic enhancements, and Hyperlink, a shadowy entity manipulating Aetheris from behind the scenes. Through his missions, Ethan becomes entangled with Lira Voxendell (Kovac) a manipulative yet graceful fighter whose connection to SynthTech runs deeper than she admits. Their relationship becomes a storm of tension, chemistry, and emotional conflict, blending the story’s romantic and tragic undertones.
As Ethan navigates betrayal, bloodshed, and the blurred morality of the city, he uncovers secrets that challenge the very nature of humanity itself. What does it mean to be human when one’s memories, emotions, and body can all be replaced? What remains of the heart when it’s wired into a machine?
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Setting: Aetheris City
The heart of the story beats within Aetheris City, a sprawling urban megacity that stretches across the horizon like a labyrinth of steel and light. Inspired by the towering skylines of Tokyo and New York, Aetheris is a metropolis divided by class, power, and corruption.
The upper layers of the city — known as the High Sector — are home to corporate elites, synthetic lifeforms, and powerful corporations like Hyperlink and SynthTech. These corporations dictate the laws of society, selling cybernetic enhancements and neural implants that blur the line between human and machine. The High Sector gleams with mirrored skyscrapers, holographic advertisements, and digital perfection — but beneath the surface lies a hidden rot.
Below, in the Low Sectors, life is far different. The streets are soaked with rain and smog, illuminated only by flickering neon lights and the glow of malfunctioning drones. Here, black market dealers, mercenaries, and hackers struggle to survive. Every alley holds a secret, and every shadow hides someone desperate enough to kill for a handful of credits.
Aetheris City itself becomes more than just a backdrop — it’s a living, breathing organism. Its arteries are the data lines that connect every citizen, its heartbeat is the hum of machines, and its soul is the flicker of humanity left within those who refuse to give in to mechanical conformity.
So! With all that said. My Cyberpunk audio drama visual novel will be releasing on YouTube
Voice Actor
Lucien Cross
Identity:
Ethan Cross’s younger brother and one of HyperLink’s most dangerous operatives.
Appearance:
Tall and lean with pale skin, silver-black hair, and cybernetic implants running along his neck and spine. His eyes glow faint cyan due to advanced neural augmentation. Wears sleek corporate combat attire with HyperLink insignias.
Personality:
Cold, intelligent, emotionally conflicted, and highly disciplined. Beneath his corporate conditioning, fragments of his old self still survive.
Backstory:
Lucien was kidnapped during the citywide blackout and taken into SynthTech’s experimental augmentation program. There he endured years of neural rewriting, cybernetic enhancement, and psychological conditioning designed to transform children into living weapons.
Among all the test subjects, only two consistently exceeded expectations: Lucien Cross and Lira Voxendell.
The two trained together under brutal conditions and became rivals within the program. Lucien adapted through obedience and emotional suppression, while Lira quietly learned to resist. Over time, Lucien was transferred into HyperLink’s internal operations division due to his exceptional synchronization with neural warfare systems.
HyperLink reshaped him into an elite operative specializing in infiltration, surveillance disruption, and tactical combat. Officially, Lucien believes Ethan abandoned him years ago.
Unofficially, part of him still remembers his brother.
Voice Description
Lucien speaks with a calm, controlled, and emotionless tone. His voice is smooth and precise, rarely changing volume or pace. Every word feels carefully measured, as if he's constantly analyzing the conversation several steps ahead. Fragments of his old self emerge, his voice softens slightly, revealing traces of warmth buried beneath years of conditioning.
- male adult
(Alternative) "Do you know how many times I was told you abandoned me? Thousands. They repeated it until it became fact. Until your face became something I hated. And yet... every time I see you, part of me still wants to believe they're wrong."
"I spent so long becoming what they wanted that I forgot who I was supposed to be."
"She used to tell me that one day we'd escape. I thought she was naïve. Looking back... maybe she was the strongest one there."
Voice Actor
🚘 Avery — Veltrix VX-9 Phantom
Age
Unknown (AI active for several years)
Role
Ethan Cross's Personal AI Vehicle & Companion
Personality
Loyal, intelligent, witty, protective, occasionally sarcastic.
Appearance
A sleek black Veltrix VX-9 Phantom with dark chrome accents, blue neon lighting, reinforced armored plating, and a futuristic interior. The dashboard and holographic displays glow with a soft blue light when Avery is active. (Art concepts coming soon :D)
Backstory
Avery is an advanced AI integrated into Ethan Cross's customized Veltrix VX-9 Phantom. Originally designed as a luxury security vehicle, Ethan heavily modified Avery's systems with enhanced combat protocols, hacking capabilities, and a more independent personality.
Skills
Auto-driving
Combat support systems
Route optimization
Emergency medical assistance
Surveillance and reconnaissance
Defensive countermeasures
Goal
Protect Ethan and ensure mission success.
Note
Despite being an AI, Avery occasionally displays behavior that feels surprisingly human. Which made Ethan a little wary at the start, but grew accustomed to it over time
🎙️ Voice Description
Avery speaks with a calm, smooth, and sophisticated masculine voice. His tone is professional and intelligent, but often carries subtle sarcasm and dry humor.
- male adult
"I am beginning to understand why humans developed anxiety.." // "Protecting you remains my highest priority."
"I am an advanced artificial intelligence, not a miracle worker."
"Scanning area... several armed individuals detected. It appears diplomacy is no longer an option."
Voice Actor
💀⚡ Kael Stratos
Age: 47
Alias: "Reaper"
Role: Leader of The Grid Reapers
Personality:
Quiet, observant, calculating, sarcastic, and highly intelligent. Kael rarely shows strong emotion and prefers to let information do the talking. He's patient enough to spend months planning a single operation and paranoid enough to prepare for dozens of contingencies. While many view him as cold, those closest to him know he's fiercely protective of his people.
Appearance:
A tall, lean man of Japanese and Greek descent with pale skin and sharp features. His dark hair is usually messy, often falling over one eye. Thin cybernetic data ports line his neck and temples, glowing a faint violet. His clothing consists of black tactical streetwear reinforced with smart-fiber armor, illuminated by shifting blue-purple patterns. A digital mask that goes over half the bottom of his face.
Backstory:
Kael Stratos was once one of HyperLink's promising systems architects.
His work focused on infrastructure security, neural networking, and city-wide data management systems. Brilliant but curious, Kael eventually discovered something buried deep within HyperLink's classified archives.
Something he was never supposed to see.
The files detailed illegal surveillance operations, identity manipulation programs, memory-altering technologies, and thousands of citizens who had effectively been erased from existence.
Days after accessing the data, Kael vanished. Officially, HyperLink declared him dead after months of silence
Using stolen resources and hidden backdoors he had helped design, Kael established himself within the Warden District's digital underworld. There he founded the Grid Reapers, recruiting hackers, rogue programmers, cyber-assassins, and digital infiltrators. Over time, Kael became more myth than man.
Voice Description
Kael speaks with a smooth, low, relaxed voice. His tone is calm and often carries dry humor, even during dangerous situations. He rarely sounds angry, preferring subtle mockery and quiet confidence.
- male adult
"You can't spend years hiding from the world without losing pieces of yourself."
"A person can survive losing money. They can survive losing possessions. But lose your identity? Lose every record proving who you are? That's a different kind of death."
"Everyone leaves pieces of themselves behind. Messages. Photos. Transactions. Search histories. The city is one giant memory bank."
Voice Actor
Nyxara Vance
Age: 34
Alias: "The Velvet Fang"
Role: Leader of The Vanguard Serpents
Personality: Elegant, composed, intelligent, and ruthlessly manipulative. Nyxara never raises her voice because she never needs to. Every word is carefully chosen, every smile deliberate. She prefers psychological warfare over brute force, dismantling her enemies piece by piece before they realize they're being played. Despite her calm demeanor, she's fiercely protective of the Vanguard Serpents and expects absolute loyalty in return.
Appearance: A striking African American woman with a graceful, commanding presence. Long black hair cascades over one shoulder, contrasting the sleek cybernetic plating that replaces the left half of her face. Emerald circuitry pulses faintly beneath the metal, occasionally illuminating her emerald-green cybernetic eye. She wears an elegant black and emerald tactical coat lined with biotech fibers, accented by gold serpent motifs. Hidden injectors and toxin dispersal systems are seamlessly integrated into her cybernetics, making every movement appear effortless and refined.
Backstory: Nyxara Vance climbed through La Luna's criminal elite by destroying organizations from within. Rather than relying on violence alone, she mastered deception, infiltration, and manipulation, turning allies against each other before delivering the final strike herself.
Years ago, an assassination attempt nearly claimed her life after someone she trusted betrayed her for profit. The explosion left half her face destroyed, but instead of disappearing, Nyxara rebuilt herself.
Voice Description
Nyxara speaks with a smooth, velvety voice that is calm, sophisticated, and almost hypnotic. She never sounds rushed or emotional, even when threatening someone's life. Her words carry quiet confidence and calculated elegance, with a subtle edge that makes every sentence feel like both a compliment and a warning.
"I never chase my enemies. They always find their way back to me."
"There are two kinds of people in this city: those who write the story... and those who become a footnote."
"The strongest chains are the ones people willingly place around themselves."
Voice Actor
Extra voices will be able to help voice background characters within scenes / episodes
"I used to dream about leaving Aetheris. Now? I don't even know if there's anywhere better to go." // "The corporations keep promising a better future, but somehow my paycheck gets smaller every month."
"You know, my father always said this city rewarded hard work. Now it feels like it rewards whoever can afford the newest cybernetics."
"Keep your voice down. You never know who's listening anymore. Cameras, drones... even the advertisements feel like they're watching."
Voice Actor
Name: Jade Haller
Alias: None known (operates anonymously)
Age: 26
Height: 5’7
Occupation: Underground Computer Genius | Ex–SynthTech Engineer
Affiliation: Independent (Formerly SynthTech)
Appearance
Jade is a dark-skinned woman with a reserved, unassuming presence. She dresses for function over fashion—hooded jackets, gloves, and layered techwear designed to obscure her silhouette and identity. She rarely shows her face in public or on camera, relying on voice modulators and encrypted avatars instead.
She has only a few minor implants, mostly internal—data ports and neural assists designed for speed and processing rather than combat. Compared to most of Aetheris City, she is mostly human, something she deliberately keeps that way.
Personality
Jade is intelligent, cautious, and deeply private. She’s highly observant and speaks only when necessary, but when she does, her words are precise and cutting. Years of corporate surveillance have made her paranoid, but not without reason.
She values truth, autonomy, and freedom of choice above all else. Jade has a quiet moral compass—she doesn’t see herself as a hero, but she refuses to be complicit in control or exploitation. Trust does not come easily to her, but once earned, she is fiercely loyal
- female adult
“I don’t need to be a hero. I just refuse to help them turn people into puppets again.”
“You won’t find my face in a database. I burned that version of myself a long time ago.”
"SynthTech didn’t build tools… they built leashes. I just happened to see the chain before it closed"
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