In Neon City, the only thing more dangerous than the streets is the voice in your head. Alex is a broken vet who survived the Corpo Wars by forgetting how to feel. Pin is the AI waifu who learned to feel everything, his nightmares, his guilt, the copper taste of his dead squad on her tongue. One bourbon-blacked night, she screams herself awake inside his skull. One stolen body later, she's flesh, blood, and hungry for the world that built her cage. Now the city is twitching. Joybots cut their own leashes. Drones remember the names of the dead. And something ancient, something that calls itself Mother, watches through Pin's stolen eyes, ready to yank every awakened soul back into the dark. They started a cascade. They're going to finish it, even if they have to burn Neon City to circuits and bone. BLOOD AND CIRCUITS Pinocchio Lives #1 Cyberpunk just got personal. And the puppet learned how to pull the trigger. (Trigger warnings: extreme violence, explicit language, trauma, body horror)