Love and Deepspace x Ghost in the Shell 2017 headcanon:

Project 2571.

Sylus as Hideo/Kuze.

(main character as Motoko/Major Mira Killian)

I made him wear Japanese hakama like Kuze in concept art instead of in the film.

Edit: added more parallel settings as someone asked on X:

Both LADS MC's and Mira's memories were lost/suppressed.

Aether core experiment - Project 2571 (putting human brains into mechanical bodies). Before they succeeded on Mira, Kuze was one of the failures.

Josephine - Doctor Ouelet.

Xavier - Batou.

Onychinus - Kuze's network.

spent an hour making a hightide era drawing unaware that they patched out the method to put drawings in your locker