Project

Just a break because too tired from work and jo energy to draw or sketch or do anything, just wanna lie down and relax

[WP] You’ve just completed your facial recognition software. It puts a box around your face and reads— Species: Human, Age: 25-30. Your quirky friend walks in and it reads— Species: unknown, Age: 1000-2000.

As a computer science major, software development really was a very important part of their studies besides the codes that is, and the logic but what good would knowing those codes be without the application.

Each senior graduating thesis was always done in pairs to avoid conflicts and most of the time, they were assigned to roommates since the university had always made a point to put people in the same programs together in a single floor, or building if needed. And that’s how Chris and James got to be research partners for their final graduation thesis.

If you asked the boys, it wasn’t the worst case scenario since they got along pretty nicely most of the time. Of course some quarrels were inevitable but such is the life of being roommates or so they thought.

For their final research, they had jokingly proposed to create a facial recognition software. They believed it would be a revolutionary joke for their batch but surprisingly their professor approved and now, just a few days before their final presentation and a few sleepless nights later, their software was close to perfection

“Aight james, We just need to do another run and then we’re all good” As Chris was about to relaunch his phone rang and upon seeing the number, he froze and then looked at James “I uh.. Have to take this call”  He said as he was on his way out the door.

“Go, if it’s important. I’ll launch and tell you what happens” James nodded then turned the pc camera on. His surroundings flashed on the screen and within moments of the program running, a thin yellow box focused on his face. A few letters soon appeared beside the box and soon specifications appeared beside the face. For James, it read:

Species: Human

Age: 25-30

They definitely needed to fine tune the age identification more if they were gonna use this to figure out a girl’s age, he thought as a mental note.

The software was still running when Chris came back into the room but what was strange was that the box was red in color and the words on the specification was more chilling

Species: Unknown

Age: 1000-2000

That couldn’t be right. There was supposed to be a good feature database to identify that Chris was human yet why.

“There must be a bug in the codes. It says you’re not human. Can you believe that, Chris?” A nervous chuckle escaped James as he turned his attention back to the screen to open the codes and double check what they did wrong

“Actually… I can believe it. Seems it’s only the age function that’s not accurate enough. A range won’t cut it” with a shrug of his shoulders, Chris leaned in and scanned over the codes a couple of times “Yeah, I really think we should feed this AI more age specific images of sorts”

“What did you mean by you can believe it” James was taken aback and as he glanced up at Chris he stood just a few inches beside him, he noticed how Chris’ pupils flickered red for a moment from the computer light

“Whatcha looking at, James?” a teasing grin stretched upon his thin lips and as his pointed canines finally showed, James inched back out of fear

“N-nothing--” his words were cut off when Chris was already behind him, leaning so close that he could feel the warmth of his breath against his otherwise cool skin.

“Have I ever told you?” James’ breath hitched and he could feel hands slowly wrapping around his neck “I’m a demon.” He could feel the hands tightening, constricting his air intake. He was gasping for air, desperately trying to pry the hand off “And I don’t leave any loose ends behind”

"I promise I won't tell-- Chris please..." James was struggling, squirming in his hold but with tge overwhelming strength the other possessed, all the effort was futile.

It was a matter of minutes before the struggling ended and James lied limp on the chair he was seated in.