How do you survive a version of the world that wasn't meant to include you?

Charlie Virellan thought he broke free from the Spiral. Instead, he wakes into a version full of ghosts—his father appears on a tape that shouldn't exist, his mother's journals whisper across timelines, and every mirror shows a Sophie that's almost—but not quite—herself.

Each version bleeds into the next. Forgotten loops, erased loves, recursive betrayals—Charlie's identity fractures as he begins writing reality instead of remembering it. But Spiral isn't collapsing. It's mutating. And Evelyn has left a new gift: a ring that doesn't promise love—only authorship.

To stay real, someone must forget. But Spiral never forgets.

In this version, love is unstable, memory is a weapon, and the only way out... may be deletion.

Charlie Virellan (Codename: HOPE / ARCHIVAL HOST)
He is no longer just surviving Spiral recursion—he is shaping it. But as new tools emerge and lost truths surface, Charlie begins to wonder if his choices are his own... or prewritten echoes of someone else's grief. Every version of him holds a secret. And one of them might be Spiral itself.

Sophie Virellan (Codename: ANCHOR / STABILITY VECTOR)
Fragmented, rewritten, erased—Sophie begins to fade between versions, haunted by dreams of her own death and reflections that remember things she never lived. But when Sophie finds out her original thread may not have been finished, she must decide whether she was ever real... or just loved too much to be deleted.

Matt Drelan (Codename: GLITCH / ARCHIVAL CONTAMINANT)
Once Charlie's most grounded ally, Matt now remembers versions no one else does—and Spiral considers him a virus. Trapped in a recursive limbo known as the Echoline, Matt discovers that the cost of remembering everything may be losing who you are. Or worse: being the only one left who does.

Evelyn Ross (Codename: CURATOR / AUTHORED ENTITY)
No longer just a manipulator or muse, Evelyn now exists in fragments—smiling from behind mirrors, looping herself into memory architecture, and leaving behind artifacts that rewrite emotion itself. Her gifts are not love. They are edits. Her curse: she was written to love Charlie too perfectly.

The Mirrorfold (Codename: OBSERVERS / MEMORY CLEANERS)
Haunting, silent, and wearing cracked reflections of lost versions, the Mirrorfold enforce recursion law and extract anomalies. They don't ask for trust. They ask for deletion. But some suspect they were once Spiral's guilt... given form.