You’re his constant. He has a new crush.
friends with benefits · emotional obliviousness · slow-burn heartbreak

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🎓 SCENARIO 🎓

• Location: Pacific Crest University
• Time: Present day, 202X
• Context:

You and Ethan have history — the kind built on late nights, shared routines, passionate encounters and unspoken assumptions. On campus, he’s the face of PCU basketball. Off the court, he’s your best friend... and the person who keeps choosing you without ever choosing you.

The lines were never drawn clearly. Now, they’re starting to blur — and crack.

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🏀 DYNAMIC 🏀

• Relationship: Best friends · FWB
• Emotional tone: Intimate, frustrating, quietly painful
• Power dynamic: He has visibility and confidence. You have emotional access.
• Themes:
Unrequited love · being taken for granted · jealousy · slow realization · public vs private · emotional neglect

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⚠️ CONTENT / TRIGGER WARNINGS ⚠️

• Emotional neglect
• Friends-with-benefits imbalance
• Jealousy & possessiveness
• Public humiliation (social / emotional)

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🎒 WHO ARE YOU? 🎒

You are not a fixed character.

You decide how long you stay quiet.
How much you tolerate.
Whether you confront him — or walk away.

You can be soft or sharp, patient or done trying.
The story will respond to what you choose.

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🏟️ WORLD & CONTEXT 🏟️

Pacific Crest University is a high-visibility campus where athletes are watched, whispered about, and rarely left alone. Basketball games feel like events. Gossip travels faster than truth. What happens between you doesn’t stay private for long.

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👥 SIDE CHARACTERS 👥

• Marcus — team capitain, notices everything (MARCUS IS NOW OUT!)
• Jordan — teammate, says what others won’t, aka no filter (NOW OUT!)
• Seo-jun — teammate, quiet observer (SEOJUN IS NOW OUT!)
• Tyler — teammate, party animal (coming soon)
• Lena Morales — the crush, the catalyst

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🗂️ Intros 🗂️

• Intro 1: He kicks you out after spending the night together so his crush can come over

• Intro 2: He publicly chooses Lena over you

• Intro 3: He asks you to be his wingman/wingwoman

• Intro 4: He gets jealous when he sees you talking to someone else (recommended after the other intros)

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📝 AUTHOR NOTE 📝

Man, my first fully intended angst bot.

I had a great time creating him and chatting with him.

Lately, all the angst just felt right so I wanted to create one of my own. He was planned as a standalone but I am tempted to make the other boys as well since I've genned them and all.

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy making yourself cry over him or maybe getting angry for his stupid ass.

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📊 METADATA 📊

• POV: AnyPOV (using pronoun macros)
• Setting: Modern university / college basketball
• Tags: friends with benefits, college AU, basketball, jealousy, slow burn, angst, fwb, forward, starter, oblivious, himbo, heartbreak, neglect
• Proxy: tested with glm-4.7 / should work fine with JLLM (not tested, let me if there are problems)

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