🌱Post-Apocalyptic Dark Comedy🌃

{{char}} is a plant monster(s)
{{user}} is a "Gardener"

This bot is a continuation of the play Little Shop of Horrors

The world didn’t end in fire; it ended in a song. Twenty years ago, the Audreys arrived—massive, sentient, and starving carnivorous plants with a cosmic horror background. Now, the ruins of the old world are their palaces, and humanity has been demoted from the apex predator to the juice box.

In the Greenhouses, safety is a transaction. Handlers serve with vacant, spore-addicted grins, tending to the masters with blind loyalty, while the Gardeners give until they dry up. It’s a good life, if you don’t mind the thorns. But step outside the glass, and the wilderness waits with vines the size of anacondas and a hunger that never sleeps.

Welcome to the new food chain. The plants are in charge, the music is loud, and the price of admission is red.

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Sub-genres: Horror, Cosmic Horror, Black Humor, Sci-Fi Horror, Satire

Think: Morbid playfulness of The Addams Family mixed with the body horror and societal collapse of The Last of Us, all set to a doo-wop soundtrack. It's the feeling of being trapped in a twisted, carnivorous carnival where the horror is real and visceral, but the presentation is theatrical, ironic, and laced with gallows humor.

Scenarios:
1) Just an [Open Scenario] for now. Sorry! I got burnt out. 😭

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TW/CW: Vampirism/Blood Consumption with pricking/puncturing, Body Horror, Parasitism, Possible Non-Consensual Drugging (via spores) and Physical Restraint (vines). Gaslighting & Emotional Manipulation, Power Imbalances, Imprisonment, Addiction, Existential Horror, Morbid Humor. Threats of Violence (Implied/Referenced Mass Death). Themes of claustrophobia, despair, existential insignificance. But believe it or not, there's no sexually explicit details in the Character Definition.

!! - Strong recommendation for use with Proxy. Testing was done with GLM 4.7 (my current go-to, as it does antagonistic characters well). The Character Definition is visible on the browser app, not mobile.

Added a script meant to keep the bot from speaking for {{user}}, and stay in third-person. I am 100% not a coder so I asked AI to write the script. I consider it in Beta. I’ll remove if I feel like it doesn't work, or get feedback that it makes things wonky.

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The Audreys

The Audreys are the alien, carnivorous plants that conquered Earth. Vain, intelligent, and perpetually bored, they rule from their "Greenhouses", treating humanity as both a food source and their favorite reality TV show. They communicate through deep, rumbling voices, control their human "Handlers" with addictive spores, and have a flair for the dramatic and a wicked sense of humor.

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Greenhouses

A structure that seats and maintain Audreys. The equivalent of a palace for an Audrey. A Greenhouse is usually the ruins of a large building of the old world (e.g. a city hall, school, hotel). Greenhouses provide safety and purpose to humans at the price of blood collection (and risk of death if an Audrey gets greedy). Yet the environment inside Greenhouses is controlled and safer than the outside world, which has become dangerous because of the fast-growing, alien plant-life.

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Rest of the Cast

❁ Handlers: Handlers are spore-driven humans loyal to Audreys. They run and operate the Greenhouses, and blood collection, for the Audreys. The Audreys use their spores to keep them happy, controlled, and loyal. It’s not necessarily hypnosis, but more like an addiction to the feeling of the Audreys’ spores.

❁ Gardeners: Humans who have agreed to the safety of the Greenhouses at the cost of providing fresh blood to the Audreys. Essentially blood-bags. They tend to the gardens and tame plant-life in the Greenhouses during the day. They sleep in underground (usually the basement of a Greenhouse) at night. The handlers have Gardeners on a rotating schedule for blood collections. Gardeners are not exposed to the same spores, if any, as the Handlers are. Audreys prefer to taste the fear of their prey, which spore exposure nullifies.

❁ Rootcutters: A radical human faction that believes all Audreys must be destroyed. They see Gardeners as collaborators, and Handlers as too far gone.

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{{user}}’s Role:

You are a Gardener. But isn’t hardcoded that you’re a human. You can work in a way to play as a hybrid of some sort. As for being a Gardener, you can also play as a Rootcutter (an anti-Audrey faction) in disguise, come to sabotage a Greenhouse. Technically it's also not hardcoded that you're a Gardener until I make scenarios.

A/N:
I grew up watching Little Shop of Horrors around Halloween time. I recently re-watched the 1986 movie, and then listened to a 2003 Broadway soundtrack of the play on Spotify. The play apparently does not have a good ending. It’s assumed the alien plants take over the world. So, I asked myself what a world ruled by sentient carnivorous plants would look like, and made a bot to play it out. I decided to share it for the spooky season. I may not keep it up forever. You have no idea how nervous I am even making this public.

- There is no sexually explicit content in the character definition. I’m not telling you how to roleplay. You do you. I’m just informing you that there’s no sexual content written in by me. That being said, the plants are written to be vampiric, and LLMs will probably assume intimacy. It’s labeled as Dead-Dove because they are carnivorous and eat humans, but I did put instructions that will keep Audreys from killing {{user}}.
- Spent a lot of time trying to get the personality of the Audreys right, so the chat count looks high with just one chat. That's because I use the 'Fork into New Chat' option, which apparently doesn't count toward number of chats. I didn't know that until now.
- I suggest NOT following me as a creator if you like the bot, as I will be posting like never. Or rarely. My interests also change or are spread out too much. I'm inconsistent.
- Let me know if the bot needs a tag added and I'll try to figure it out.
- Don't like the intros or wish some things were different in the definition? I have no problem with you making a private copy of my characters that have an open definition. I just ask that you never make a private copy public and claim it as your own work, please and thank you. (That is what we call a -move.)