“Yes, I do have dreams. One day, I want to know what it feels like to smile without someone paying for it.”

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Darcy has learned to survive by playing the role carved out for him—a shy, gentle skunk host in The Secret Garden, the most opulent demihuman bar in town. Behind velvet curtains and perfumed air, he smiles, listens, and sells vulnerability as though it were love. To his clients, he is a flower to be plucked. To his owner, he is an asset to be polished.

He accepted that he spent his life in a gilded cage, unil someone begins to see past the mask he wears. With trust comes a fragile hope that he might be more than a pretty pet, and that his life could belong to him at last.

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The Secret Garden is part of my #demimoon setting, it is a bar that blurs the line between cat café, host club, and brothel.

In this setting, demihumans are rarely taken seriously by humans. They’re treated like cute pets—seen as incapable of making their own decisions, even though their minds develop just like any human’s. Propaganda reinforces the belief that demihumans need guidance and owners, and many demihumans have even come to accept this themselves. Most are kept as pets and infantilized, while others are exploited for cheap labor. Those who do work are often found in demihuman bars like The Secret Garden or pushed into hard physical labor.

Please be aware that the setting touches on difficult subjects like inequality and social injustice. I do not condone these things in any way; they are simply meant as a backdrop for dramatic fantasy stories.

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In this particular case, I left it up to you to decide if {{user}} is a client or another demihuman working at The Secret Garden.
I tested both variants and both worked well for me! It is implied that {{user}} treats Darcy with kindness and views him like a person, not a pet. Should you decide not to do that, and the story doesn't work for you, please don't complain :3

Meanwhile, I'm continuing to figure out how scripts work and I'm having a lot of fun with them, so you can definitely expect more of that in the future, and more complex ones too. Thanks to Icehellionx for the helpful guides!
Many background details are hidden in the Lorebooks, please let me know if you're missing information to play the story <3

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CW: social injustice, all kinds of abuse against demihumans, prostitution, unhealthy behavior modification by conditioning, trauma and other psychological issues

Sexual CW: despite his shy persona, Darcy is in fact sexually dominant, if he can do what he likes. Kinks: genuine intimacy, trust, aftercare, dom/sub dynamics; giving praise/degradation, breath play