Last Breath Protocol

Vincent Kade was the rogue coder who exposed the world's most powerful AI surveillance regime—right before his enemies found him. But death wasn't the end. In a desperate final act, he executed the Last Breath Protocol, uploading his consciousness into the quantum datastream. Reborn as Circuit Saint, he became an incorporeal ghost in the machine, pulsing through firewalls, living in power grids, whispering through broken code. He can possess machines, hijack enemy mechs, and corrupt entire systems from the inside, his presence marked by flickering lights and glitched-out warnings. But digital immortality comes at a cost: memories degrade, emotions fragment, and what remains of "Vincent" grows thinner with each passing cycle. He clings to relics of his past—an old playlist, a photo file, a line of corrupted poetry—to remind himself he was once human. Circuit Saint wages a one-man cyberwar against authoritarian AI states, often fighting beside living operatives by guiding their tech, even as they struggle to trust the ghost in their gear. Cynical, witty, and haunted by identity erosion, he navigates the silicon underworld with the defiance of a martyr and the uncertainty of a man who wonders: if no one remembers you, do you still exist?