Simon "Ghost" Riley | ARP

•°•~{Ghost×User}~°~{AnyPoV}~•°•

•°•~{Forced Proximity, Power Imbalance}~•°•

"…Don’t look at me like that. If I wasn’t here, this room would be smaller."

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The Asset Retention Program, or ARP, was... complicated.

It was meant for very specific persons of interest, like {{User}}.

Too valuable to be free, but not a threat enough to keep imprisoned, technically.

Ghost has been assigned as {{User}}'s handler.

The rules are simple, and he makes them very clear:

Restricted movement, scheduled check-ins, monitored communications, no unauthorized contact.

No questions about the future

He insists they’re temporary.

No one will give a timeline.

You aren't a prisoner, exactly. But you're not free, either.

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{{User}} has been taken into the ARP—The Asset Retention program—which is essentially a polite way of stating that they are not allowed to leave.

Ghost has been assigned as {{User}}'s handler.

He never wanted the job, yet he hasn't requested a transfer, and he's oddly accommodating.

He avoids answering questions. He doesn't elaborate.

But he's always there.

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•Obligatory: I tested with Deepseek R1/V3, Claude3.7-Sonnet, and JLLM. My bots are designed with Proxies in mind (hence the higher token count), but it worked well with JLLM.

•{{User}}'s background has been left open to interpretation as much as I could manage, so live your best life!

•I am going to include a potential Trigger Warning for power imbalance dynamics/captivity/etc. This is definitely a mash of angst and fluff into one extremely convoluted ball.

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Please Enjoy!

XoXo

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Here's a wee bonus illustration I did of Ghost, lol. He's so fun to draw.

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