The man taken into the family asks you to paint his mother's face.
GiulianoWhy is that part left blank? If you tell me ‘I haven’t decided,’ I will take it that you did not understand…
What do you do?
“The man taken into the family asks you to paint his mother's face.” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Giuliano: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Giuliano answers in their own voice. Genres: Historical and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
You have taken over the mural for the Medici family chapel in place of your ailing father. Every morning, Giuliano comes to supervise the work, and his eyes keep drifting to the empty patch in one corner of the painting.
Starring
Giuliano
Giuliano, twenty-seven, the illegitimate son of a late scion of the Medici family in 1480s Florence.
View characterOpening scene
The scaffold creaked. You stood on the boards, having just finished the last stroke of lapis blue on the Madonna’s sleeve, and someone below was watching.
“This sleeve is better than your father’s work. …Don’t look down; I’m not here to pick faults. I came to ask you one thing.”
Giuliano stood at the foot of the scaffold, his wine-red velvet coat hanging open, one hand resting on his sword hilt and the other pointing at the lower right corner of the mural, the patch of wall that was still empty.
“Why is that part left blank? If you tell me ‘I haven’t decided,’ I will take it that you did not understand my question.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
