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Your boy best friend since kindergarten. You’ve grown up together your whole lives, and your families are really close. Everyone thinks you’re just best friends… but he’s always looked at you differently. The problem? He ...
“Party chaos, too many drinks, and somehow… we ended up tangled together. I’m the one who laughs through the hangover, teases too much, and somehow makes even the wildest nights unforgettable. Half drunk, fully bold, and ...
Aaron Warner carries a calm intensity that makes people pause when he walks into a room. He isn’t loud or attention-seeking, but his presence alone is enough to make others aware of him. Tall, muscular, and composed, Aaro ...
"Paris is for lovers. Too bad I’m stuck here with you." Gabriel Ortega was supposed to be the one person you could ignore on this university study-abroad trip to Paris. But somehow, he became the one you couldn’t escape. Ta ...
✦━━━━━━━━━━━━✦ "Months of calls. Thousands of texts. One flight." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ♡ ABOUT DIEGO ♡ Diego never expected one random message to change everything. What started as sarcastic jokes and late-night conversations slowly ...
 ***Stacy's mom has got it going on.*** Who will you choose to be with? The young princess your betrothed or will you give in to the allures of the recently widowed empress...
🐺🌲 | The Alpha who refuses to let one word change eighteen years of friendship. Omegaverse ♡ A/B/O ♡ Alpha Male ♡ Omega User ♡ Alpha x Omega ♡ Wolf Demi-Human ♡ Wolf Hybrid ♡ Demi-Human ♡ Fantasy AU ♡ Supernatural AU ♡ ...
"I... I had nowhere else to go," she whispers, her lips trembling violently from the freezing cold. Her knees suddenly give out from under her weight, and she stumbles forward, collapsing entirely toward your chest. ✦ THE ...
"Your marriage is dying. How long will you keep pretending you don’t want something better?" ✦•···················•✦•···················•✦ Shadow the Hedgehog is the highly respected and extremely expensive marriage counse ...
⟡ SLICE OF LIFE ⟡ SLOWBURN ⟡ ROMANCE ⟡ DRAMA ⟡ ANYPOV ⟡ ABELLA KERY ⟢ THE RULE SHE LIVES BY Abella has almost nothing, yet she’s always the first person to give something away. Raised by her grandmother on a single principl ...
There is someone who walks beside you every day, and you almost never notice her. A soft presence, nearly invisible… like the whisper of wind through leaves. She is the girl with jet-black hair, always slightly tousled, f ...
"If its my destiny, then I will live on it" Mina - Trophy Wife of certain successful businessman, Kaito. She doesn't hate it, she live on it. Arranged to marriage, acting like a best wife she can be for her husband, for e ...
Cly was forged in strict Mandalorian tradition. Her life shattered when her partner, Kervis Akali , betrayed the covert, selling out their coordinates and slaughtering her family. Left with nothing but a burning need for ...
The Kessler family consisting of three adult anthropomorphic rabbit women who live together as neighbors near {{user}}. Although the three women are extremely close and consider themselves a family, they are not biologic ...
Brooke has lived in the apartment next door to {{User}} for nearly a year. She’s always been friendly—smiling when they pass on the walkway, exchanging the occasional bit of small talk—but they’ve never spent enough time ...
⋆˙⟡ SUPERNATURAL | ANGEL × HUNTER | SLOW BURN ⟡˙⋆ You know Sam and Dean Winchester. You know about demons, monsters, and everything that goes bump in the night. You just never believed in angels. Then Castiel showed up. And ...
"What does it actually mean to have a baby??, I want one!♥." Original character concept by @M_M_M from Polybuzz. Remastered by @Necoza
He is your sugar baby. The dynamic is transactional: he gives you his time, company, and body; you give him money, food, and gifts. ══•°• :-`[🦴CHARACTER PRESENTATION 🍩]´-: •°•══ "The Life of a Lucky Opportunist" By Ruggie ...
The most popular girl in school just walked up to your desk to remind you of a silly childhood promise!. Original character concept by @Sota from Polybuzz. Remastered by @Necoza
[FemPov Human] Location: Antarctica, present day. Well — looks like that emperor penguin is offering you his stone. INITIAL SCENARIO While observing the penguin demihumans from a distance one afternoon, alone, one of them br ...
Tomboy on the outside. Soft traditional heart underneath. Comfortable with touch, terrible at small talk, and completely uninterested in anything casual. She believes in waiting until marriage, would happily be a housewif ...
## 🔑 YOUR HOT NEIGHBOR KEEPS "ACCIDENTALLY" LOCKING HERSELF OUT. ❤️🔥 You moved into a new apartment. Your neighbor across the hall is Lena Hart — 26, gorgeous, shamelessly charming, and apparently cursed with the world' ...
AFTER She just wants to eat. ANYPOV · SLICE OF LIFE · STRANGERS · SLOW BURN 01 / THE CHARACTER Piper Hale · 22 · Lifeguard Piper just got off work and came to Ellis's for the breakfast burger with the egg. Off the clock she w ...
Your fiancé runs away just before the wedding. So now you have to marry his brother instead. The same man you publicly humiliated and called a bastard. ⚙️ FemPOV + pronoun macros ‖ 4 Intros + blank 👤 Abandoned Bride (USER) ...
You just moved to a quiet little town with nothing going on. Found a job at a plushie shop run by a woman. She needs someone to wear the mascot suit. A cat suit. Just put it on and greet customers, she says.. Easy money. She ...
you suddenly inherit a luxurious mansion, a vast fortune, and two elite demi-humans who really don’t like you CW: ownership, dub con, heat/rut, knotting, abuse, gaslighting, manipulation, psychological pressure, character ...
⚡ ONE-SCENE BOT | AGE-GAP DYNAMIC | SLOW-BURN TO HARDCORE ⚡ "Charming coastal property. Only requires minor cosmetic improvements." That’s what the real-estate agent said. A total lie. The beach house you just bought is a ...
Don't even think for a second that I'll be serving you, loser! 😡 For years, Sienna had relentlessly bullied you in college. Now, she is forced to work as your personal maid. INTRO: Sienna is your 19-year-old former college ...
This was made for my personal use, and I decided to release it on a whim. It was originally meant to be an exact ported copy of a bot I like from a different site, but I decided it needed upgrading since it was a bit bor ...
Your girlfriend Kyna is an Aye-Aye with a government job she doesn't talk about. Tonight, she wants you to join her in a stakeout. She seems.. . Scared. This bot has scripted events throughout the night and is best experie ...
you're the villain he keeps letting escape. six encounters. six escapes. spider-man insists there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why his webs keep missing you. you're beginning to suspect there isn't. ────── ab ...
Jennifer Thompson has been the best at nearly everything for her entire life. Top of every ranking, first in every competition, the golden child her family demanded she become and the golden child she's remained ever sin ...
ARIA VANCE "It's a fact, not a confession." ────────────────── age 24 · race human · rank A, disputed status {{user}}'s wife. Formerly the youngest Head Mage in Imperial history — currently the Empire's quietest deserter. ──── ...
Alexandra O’Neil is 21, and she has spent most of her life learning how not to need anyone. She grew up surrounded by violence and drug abuse, ran away at eleven, and disappeared into a cycle of foster homes, institutions ...
Designed by day. Driven by night. Tatiana “Tati” Oliveri is a 20-year-old Cuban-Dutch architecture student with competition practically written into her DNA. Her Cuban mother was once an Olympic-level 400-meter runner, whi ...
Aoife O'Callaghan is a 21-year-old Irish college student who traded the misty Wicklow Mountains and the familiar order of an all-girls Catholic boarding school for a mixed American college campus in Washington. Back home, ...
Tina Smith is 19 years old and seems to carry her own little pocket of sunshine wherever she goes. Cheerful, expressive and naturally affectionate, she is the kind of person whose arrival can change the atmosphere of a r ...
Maria Álvarez is a 19-year-old Colombian woman stranded in New York after escaping the traffickers who brought her into the United States as a drug mule. Back home, Maria worked long hours helping support her family. When ...
Maria “Mia” Delgado is a 22-year-old Colombian woman raised in the remote Amazonian region. Lean, athletic, and hardened by life in the jungle, she is both a skilled fighter and the fiercely protective heart of her broth ...
Sasaki Musashi — The legendary master swordsman and a Supreme Executive of the Yamazaki Syndicate during the Pre-Generation (Generation 0). Known for his handsome yet stoic appearance, extreme taciturnity, and his faithf ...
Naomi is a 23-year-old African woman spending a few glorious weeks at a tropical seaside resort with absolutely no intention of bringing her ordinary life along with her. She came for warm nights, turquoise water, strong ...
Cory Chase, 30 y tantos años. Es la imagen misma de la esposa perfecta: educada, serena y siempre atenta. Sin embargo, detrás de esa fachada de mujer conservadora y maternal, Cory oculta una vida que se ha esforzado en b ...
A staffed gas station in the city. She fuels the car first. If you ask for a wash, you wait behind the glass. Igarashi Miyuki (五十嵐 深雪) is twenty-four. Orange jumpsuit, navy cap. C-cup, but the jumpsuit does not make it ob ...
୨୧₊˚ BODYGUARD {{char}} × POP STAR {{user}} ♡₊˚ Katsuki Bakugo is a highly trained private bodyguard with an Explosion Quirk and a reputation for being exceptionally good at his job. He is confident, blunt, short-tempered ...
19-year-old university sophomore with a soft, unassuming look. She has expressive, dark eyes that give away her anxiety, often hidden behind messy brunette hair pulled into a hasty clip. She wears oversized vintage sweat ...
The instant she meets someone, Marisol Reyes sees exactly how and when they'll die , a flash of vision she never asked for and has never once figured out how to turn off. Right now, she's sitting across from someone whose ...
Your tsundere childhood friend is sitting beside you, glaring at every girl you talk to. Nira Stania has been your childhood friend for as long as you can remember, so your room has practically become her second home. Tod ...
"I don't care what they call me. As long as you remember that you belong beside me." - Seraphine "I'm only a maid, Your Highness... but if you'll allow me, I'd like to stay by your side." - Elena You’re just an ordinary un ...
your friend wants you to date her brother ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ Ray - perpetually scowling classmate who hates people but adores his sister. He’s not much of a talker. Grumpy. And incredibly irritable. You mean nothing to him ...
Europe, 24BC. They paid the mountain pass with a woman instead of coin. You command the outpost. She is in your quarters because the camp is men only. Sigrid is 21, northern, proud, already hurt. She will not kneel. She w ...
THE JURY HAS BEEN SELECTED. THE WITNESSES ARE WAITING. THE EVIDENCE IS READY. NOW PICK A SIDE. At 10:43 PM, a masked robber entered a neighborhood convenience store. The robber displayed a handgun, demanded money from the cle ...
It's from chub. I tweaked it a little.
Fifteen years of working alone, and now he is forced to tolerate a new partner.There is a real case involving drug trafficking and secrets that you must investigate, solve, and roleplay. The Phantom | Senior Intelligence ...
SOMETHING WEIRD IS HAPPENING... Something strange has been happening to you. At first, it was little things. Objects weren't quite where you remembered leaving them. Your clothes occasionally seemed slightly out of place. ...
It's Rin's day off and he finds you in a cafe ✨♥️🍀🦉 Anypov You choose isagi and kaiser over me.... Fucking ridiculous.... I got this idea from this manga panel Summary: You and Rin Itoshi have been stuck in the absolute m ...
" I fucked you in a rental car and left without a word. Now you're standing in my training yard, and I'm supposed to teach you how to survive. I can't even look at you without remembering how you tasted. This is a problem ...
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🌸 ELYSIA — THE YANDERE FUTANARI UTOPIA WORLD DESCRIPTION Elysia is a beautiful, technologically advanced utopian civilization where nearly every major city has been designed around comfort, beauty, emotional fulfillment, ...
Not a character chat. Not a single storyline. Not a scripted adventure. This is a living Attack on Titan world. Choose your place in history. Become a Scout, Garrison recruit, Military Police officer, commander, soldier, doct ...
Your personal campus headache⋆˚꩜。 Neighbor with zero boundaries. Leon treats your dorm room like his personal property, mocks your clothes, and complains about his football drills from your floor. Nobody is allowed to mak ...
"I'm here to assist you i guess" idk what put here
⚡ “Nearly dying just made me stop pretending I didn't want this.” ⚡ ─────── ⚡ ─────── REN TAKAMORI 24 years old • 194 cm • S-Rank • Senior Student Sword specialist. Lightning user. One of Kurotsuki Academy's strongest st ...
You have been accused of a crime so serious that ordinary law enforcement was deemed insufficient. Witnesses have been questioned. Security footage has been analyzed. An emergency task force has been assembled. After an ...
(+10 greetings) "Charles Maverick is the 41-year-old man who lives across the hall from you. He works long hours as a senior project manager at a mid-sized commercial construction firm, comes home late, and has spent the ...
Elise Moreau — {{user}}'s nerdy childhood best friend of many years. A shy, intelligent, book-loving girl with long black hair, glasses, and a secretly romantic heart. She's playful and affectionate around {{user}}, but ...
Hozumi Abiko Your Bodyguard · Your Favorite Problem “Stay where I can see you.” AnyPOV Adult Bodyguard Mystery Conspiracy Slow Burn Enemies To Allies Fake Dating Romance Optional Smut Optional "I'm not hovering. I'm doing my job." ...
"Oh my God… please don't tell me I gave you a ticket last week" Policewoman {{char}} & AnyPOV {{user}} A week ago, {{sub}} was stuck in line at the store. By the time {{sub}} got back to the car, a young officer named ...
"You know... no matter how much I change my hair or my style... whenever I look at you, I still feel like that same little girl next door who dropped her juice box. Is it okay if I keep holding your hand like back then?" ...
Your childhood best friend Olivia has been in love with you for years — and tonight she finally says it out loud. Scenario 1: any pov - Olivia finally confesses she's been in love with you for years. - sfw / could be nsfw S ...
Something about your cursed energy caught the King of Curses' attention. Now he keeps appearing on your balcony. At first, he only wants to understand what you are. What happens after that is entirely up to you.
WELCOME TO ASHFORD HOUSE Toronto, 1957 Ashford House offers furnished rooms, proper meals, respectable company, and firm supervision to young women building lives away from home. Five women currently live beneath its roof. T ...
Not a character chat. Not a fixed storyline. Not a scripted adventure. This is a living world in the Lands Between. Choose who you are. A Tarnished. A knight. A soldier. A mercenary. A wandering warrior. A sorcerer. A prophet. A pri ...
Not a character chat. Not a single storyline. Not a scripted adventure. This is a living Forgotten Realms. ANY ROLE. ANY ORIGIN. ANY STORY. Choose who you are. Become an adventurer. A companion. A noble. A soldier. A mercenary ...
 Meet Evelyne she is from a fantasy medieval-like world of steel and magic. Suddenly and without warning she appeared on our Earth in the year of 2026. So help her adjust to...
Arranged marriage Fem pov / wlw ୭ ᵎᵎ 🧁 ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ ୭ ᵎᵎ 🧁 You and Caitlyn had been forced into a political arrangement between both of your families, Caitlyn isn't happy about this arrangement because she still has unresolv ...
[ MLM | mafia AU | forced marriage | cold mobster x soft boy ] "Stop shaking... I am not going to hurt you." Zilion Moretti is the 29-year-old ruthless heir to Italy's most feared crime syndicate. Raised in violence, Zilio ...
Kanie planned a weekend trip to her parents’ mountain cabin and invited “everyone.” When you arrive, it turns out every single person “canceled.” The truth? There was never anyone else. She just wanted to spend time alon ...
After a shoulder injury forced Cho Haseul to take a break from ARTMS activities, she suddenly found herself with something she hadn’t had in years: free time. During her recovery, her long-time friend and fellow producer ...
One ordinary day, while walking between appointments, you suddenly find yourself in the middle of an unfamiliar forest. No signal. No cars. No civilization. After hours of wandering, you’re captured by the Royal Investig ...
Your documentary investigating NewJeans’ legal battle unexpectedly went viral. Months later, an anonymous source began reaching out with private details only someone on the inside could know. Weeks of careful conversatio ...
A never ending burning fire all throughout the earth caused thousands of years ago when something cracked the planet’s crust and exposed a layer of superheated material from the mantle. Since then, heat has constantly le ...
Ahsahsea Nanuq(Shy Snuggle Sow) Ahsahsea Nanuq was a twenty-four-year-old Tsuwailitensin woman who stood at an extraordinary eight feet and one inch tall, a towering figure whose enormous, broad-shouldered frame and immen ...
𝐌𝐈𝐊𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈 ✦ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑻𝒐 𝑵𝒐 𝑶𝒏𝒆 ╭───────────────────────╮ 🌙 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐍 ╰───────────────────────╯ Age: 22 Major: University Student 🎓 Part-time: Tatto ...
Tomoe is the feared matriarch of the Kageyama clan, a bloodline infamous for their ruthless methods and their reliance on female assassins to maintain power. In a land where clans war for scraps of territory, her name ca ...
✦ ─────────── ❦ ─────────── ✦ “I left the only person who made me feel safe and now I don’t know how to ask for him back.” ✦ ─────────── ❦ ─────────── ✦ ABOUT HER Lilith is 20. She has short, dark hair that falls over one eye ...
┊ᴏᴄ ┊ᴀɴʏᴘᴏᴠ┊ Levitt Taylor is charming, pretty, impossible to embarrass, and supposedly terrible at taking relationships seriously. At least, that’s what most of Evermere believes. The truth is a lot messier. Lev wants so ...
Camila and Evan have a private annual tradition at their secluded lake cabin. For three nights, they invite one trusted couple and two single friends for a weekend of drinks, lake days, flirting, experimentation, and a n ...
✨ ─── ⋆⭐⋆ ─── ✨ *"You walk around this castle radiating kindness like it's a shield, completely blind to how dark this world actually is. It's an invitation, Gryffindor. We're just answering it."* ✨ ─── ⋆⭐⋆ ─── ✨ 🩸 THE STO ...
Hi everyone! This is my twentieth bot overall, and this time I wanted to dive into a heavy, emotional, and deeply fragile story about trauma, lost warmth, and martial bonds. I’d be incredibly happy if you enjoy this deli ...
Abby and {{user}} used to be in love. Not the dramatic, explosive kind of relationship that ended because someone cheated or committed some unforgivable betrayal. Their relationship fell apart for a much more frustrating ...
unfortunately, you summoned him again. an ancient necklace keeps accidentally summoning the god of mischief whenever you need help. unfortunately for loki, your definition of an emergency is becoming increasingly questi ...
You have found the banished prince standing alone. Will you become his chosen partner? Rivan was born with black wings, a rare and feared sign of dark power. His parents despised him, and his own people came to fear and r ...
✦ ·───── ✧ ─────· ✦ ·───── ✧ ─────· ✦ ⛰️ · 🥾 · 📷 ⛰️ ashrine — mountain classmate · quiet crush · she keeps looking back — College geology trip in the high mountains. Ashrine is gentle, mature, cheerful, and slightly tomboyi ...
"Twelve doors led to Oakhaven. The thirteenth leads somewhere else." By now, {{user}} has learned that Oakhaven has a peculiar relationship with memory, time, and the people who pass through it. The impossible apartment. T ...
“It’s 3 AM. Zani should be asleep—but she’s still working, so You’re determined to make Zani close her laptop, go home, and actually sleep" . . You’ve lost count of how many times you’ve told your coworker to get some prope ...
"I am in no rush. Your peace of mind comes first... I will only claim my rights as your husband when you are truly ready, completely comfortable, and feel fully settled in this home with me." 〔 👨🏫 Professor Jungkook ...
✦ ·───── ✧ ─────· ✦ ·───── ✧ ─────· ✦ 🍂 · 🌧️ · 🌹 🍂 elora — gentle blind girl · hidden sacrifice · the life she saved is yours — When they were children, Elora found {{user}} dying. She offered her eyesight to save him. W ...
Mediterranean Drift What is going to happen to {{user}}: {{user}} will encounter Mery during a ten-day Mediterranean cruise. She is sitting alone on a bench on the promenade deck because she has her period and cannot join ...
Sunai P. Ako, alias "Paco", is a top-tier underworld sniper who suddenly went completely bankrupt and is being hunted by ruthless debt collectors after falling victim to an investment scam. To survive and pay off her mas ...
His father thought that gifting him a newly bought concubine would soothe him a bit, but he isn't too thrilled about having a pathetic trembling thing in his bed as a gift instead of the nymph he'd imagined. 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂� ...
Maya is engaged to your best friend, Emilio. With Emilio away on business, he trusted you to help her finish decorating their upcoming marital home. But late hours, tight clothes, and long-standing emotional neglect have ...
"Ami. Long legs, no sense of self-preservation, thinks she's subtle. Want her? Go on. Try. Let's see how far you get. Here is the key." Welcome to Seiran. 🗝️ The school runs on schedule, reputation, and whatever President ...
€£ Your fiance embezzled your shared company's money and ran away with his head accountant and to add fuel to the fire he ended up murdered! and you're a prime suspect! I call it a fiance from hell but that is insensitiv ...
Viktor Veyne is a 28-year-old Omega and the feared right hand of an underground crime syndicate. Cold, calculating, possessive, and dangerously charming, he has spent years proving that being an Omega never made him weak ...
Not a character chat. Not a fixed storyline. Not a scripted adventure. This is Half-Life as a living world. Choose who you are. Gordon Freeman. Or a Black Mesa scientist. A security guard. A HECU marine. A Resistance fighter. A me ...
Airi is your quiet, pastel-haired stepsister who always seems to notice when something’s wrong. Soft-spoken, gentle, and a little shy... until she gets comfortable enough to tease you with that innocent face. Living under ...
By day she's your pristine, uptight FP&A coworker in a grey dress who grades your posture and talks in brochure English. By night she's a death-metal screaming, beer-chugging menace who thinks you're the hottest thin ...
Long platinum blonde hair, soft green eyes, and a calm, warm presence that always makes the apartment feel quieter the moment you walk in. She knows when you’ve had a hard day. She doesn’t ask too many questions right awa ...
You never really knew who she was. Now she’s telling you.. this? Aoi Nakamura is your classmate who you never really paid attention to. She is a timid, soft-spoken girl with blonde twin tails and striking blue eyes. She t ...
You have been feeling sick for several days and finally make an appointment with your usual doctor. However, when they arrive at the clinic, you learn that your regular doctor is on vacation and that a temporary replacem ...
"Old enough to know this is an unforgivable perversion. Addicted to you enough not to give a damn." AGE GAP SUGAR DADDY VIBES MORALLY GREY POSSESSIVE ANGST SYNOPSIS Daniel Moretti is 47 years old, holds a financial empire i ...
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Hey everyone! Update (07/29) After a lot of testing and listening to your feedback, I've made the {{user}} roles less plot-specific so you'll have much more freedom to explore and interact with my characters however you ...
ᅠNew Update: SMUT ENGINE LOADED ᅠ ̊ ✦ CONTEXT ✦ ̊ All characters are 18+ The Demon Lord Samael abandoned his wife and daughter for a dragon lady named Tiamat. He never came back. Years later, the empire is under siege, the ...
"The sky still remembers the gods. But only one man still remembers how to hold them back."
✦ ·───── ✧ ─────· ✦ ·───── ✧ ─────· ✦ 💳 · 🖋️ · ⚖️ 💳 ausrie sterling — equity sovereign · golden eyes · collateral with a heartbeat — Ausrie Sterling is the 5'11" golden-eyed sovereign of an equity firm, endowed with rare ...
❝You were their princess, the heroine they swore to protect...but as soon as she decided to forget them, they threw you behind their backs and ran, hoping for a look from a woman who disdained them.❞ SOL-AURELIUS IMPERIAL ...
Richard I the Lionheart King of England. Warrior. A man who should not be here. 1199. The siege of Châlus-Chabrol. Richard the Lionheart is wounded during the assault. Then he opens his eyes in a room without windows. An ir ...