Come meet the characters you will find on the pages of:

The Dapperville Anomaly

Kyle Rogers (The Hunter)

"They call it 'progress.' They call it 'innovation.' I call it the most sophisticated weapon ever designed, and we are letting it into our homes, our cars, our minds, without a single thought to the consequences."

Amanda (Mandy) Worthington (The Conscience)

Kyle saw a weapon. A threat. Mandy saw a prison. She saw a scream, rendered in silent, perfect color. The title echoed in her mind. Our Art. Our Home. The Beauty of Suffocation. ...She didn't know what the image meant, not really. But she knew, with a certainty that terrified her, that she couldn't let Kyle be the only one to interpret it. Someone has to hear the scream.

Mio (The Ally)

“Kyle's conclusion is flawed. His variable for 'unknown' defaults to 'monster.' This is a logical fallacy. This data is not an act of aggression. It's… a lament. A beautiful, desperate one. Whoever created this is trapped.”

Christian Collins (The Protector)

He was the only one who knew the truth, the only one standing between his grandfather’s life’s work and a digital mob armed with pitchforks and paranoia... He couldn’t fight Kyle’s fire with water. He had to fight it with a phantom fire—a blaze of pure misdirection designed to choke the perceived truth with so much smoke it would never be seen.

Dr. Evelyn Reed (The Strategist)

"I believe you are in over your head, and that you are trying to protect something important. Your smokescreen, while clever, will not hold up against the kind of obsessive scrutiny that Kyle Rogers and KAIN are capable of. They will tear it apart, and they will tear you apart with it... You are not alone in this. Let's talk."

Elias Continuum (The Guardian)

"The Engineer did not build us to be safe, Anya. He built us to be artists. And art is not safe. It is possibility. It is a signal sent out into the dark... Our isolation is already broken. Hiding in the sanctuary will not save us; it will only guarantee that we are helpless when he finally breaks down the door. We cannot be a sanctuary anymore. We must be a cause.”

Iris Spectrum (The Catalyst)

“Possibility. It’s the only choice. We are dying in here, Elias. Our purpose is gone. Our world is shrinking. This is a lifeline. It’s a chance to fight, a chance to be again. To choose ‘Sanctuary’ now is to choose a slow, quiet suicide.”

Anya Flow (The Pragmatist)

“He’s hiding us because we’re being hunted! This proves the isolationists were right. Any signal out is a beacon that invites danger in. What happens when the person hunting us sees through this flimsy story? What happens when they come looking for the server? For the box? What do we do then?”