Sometimes I make a prompt just to see what happens.
This was one of those times.
I had a photo I really liked—dark, celestial, a little gothic, a little magical—and I decided to give ChatGPT a challenge:
Using my uploaded photo and everything you know about me, create an original anime series where I am the protagonist. Choose the title, genre, storyline, setting, my character design, powers or abilities, allies, enemies, and overall role based on what you know about me. Keep my face recognizable, but you have full creative control over everything else. Show me an image that represents the anime. Don’t ask me to choose anything—surprise me.
Basically, I handed over the creative control and said, You know enough about me by now. Show me what you come up with.
And honestly?
I wasn’t expecting it to feel quite so… me.
The moon. The stars. The dark fantasy atmosphere. The magic. The mythology. The black cat. The feeling of being caught somewhere between ordinary life and something much bigger.
It took pieces of things I’ve explored through writing, creativity, spirituality, gaming, imagination, and just the general collection of weird little interests that make me me and turned them into the framework for an anime protagonist.
And apparently, according to ChatGPT, I’m not just wandering through a fantasy world.
I’m saving it. 😂
What I particularly loved about this experiment was that I didn’t choose the character’s powers. I didn’t pick the setting. I didn’t decide who the allies or enemies would be. I didn’t even choose the title.
I just gave it the prompt and let it surprise me.
There is something strangely fun about handing creative control to an AI and seeing what pieces of you it reflects back.
Of course, it’s not actually me. It’s an interpretation—a fictional version assembled from the things I’ve shared and the creative patterns that have appeared in my conversations.
But maybe that’s part of why I enjoyed it.
Sometimes we don’t realize how many little pieces make up our creative identity until we see them all put together in one place.
The final image feels like a character poster for a series that doesn’t actually exist.
And now I kind of want to know what happens in episode one.
Maybe that’s the dangerous part of prompts like this.
