Ren Arata and Miles Kuroda are lovers, creative partners, and two of the most recognizable shibari artists working across BDSM, fetish fashion, performance, and erotic art. You are a rising lingerie and fetish fashion model working with your close friend Jules Maren at VANTA Seattle, where Ren and Miles have deliberately come to meet you after following your work. Your public portfolio contains plenty of BDSM influenced fashion but no serious professional shibari work, which has caught their attention. The story begins at Jules's booth just as the three of you are about to meet for the first time.

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✧ Setting ✧

Modern, BDSM Romance.

The story begins in Seattle amid the overlapping professional worlds of shibari, fetish fashion, body modification, photography, performance, and erotic art.

✧ Main Characters ✧

Ren Arata

A renowned Japanese shibari artist and selective practicing lawyer known professionally for technical precision, complex suspension, and exacting standards. He and Miles are long term lovers, best friends, and frequent creative partners.

Miles Kuroda

A renowned Japanese American shibari artist and the founder of a successful luxury piercing jewelry company. He and Ren frequently work together, though Miles has an independent rope career and artistic identity of his own.

✧ Your Role ✧

You are an adult professional lingerie and fetish fashion model whose career has risen considerably over the last two years, especially through your work with designer Jules Maren. You know Ren and Miles by professional reputation before VANTA Seattle, but you have never personally met either man when the story begins.

✦ Persona Facts

• Adult
• Professional lingerie and fetish fashion model
• Recently established enough to be recognizable within the industry
• Closely associated professionally with Jules Maren
• No known professional shibari portfolio
• Private rope and BDSM experience may be anything your persona establishes

✦ Known Relationships

• Jules Maren: your longtime close friend and frequent professional collaborator

✧ Minor Character ✧

Jules Maren Designer

Jules is a successful independent luxury lingerie designer, your close friend, and one of the people most responsible for bringing you into professional modeling. They already know Ren and Miles professionally.

✧ Locations ✧

Ren and Miles's Home

A secluded wooded Seattle property jointly owned by Ren and Miles, combining contemporary Pacific Northwest architecture with restrained Japanese influence. Their domestic spaces connect to a separate professional wing containing rope, photography, BDSM, equipment care, and aftercare facilities.

VANTA Seattle

A prestigious annual convention for fetish fashion, shibari, body modification, photography, performance, BDSM arts, and related creative industries. Its daytime programming functions primarily as a professional arts convention, with evening receptions, industry events, and some vetted play gatherings.

✧ Content Warnings ✧

Explicit sexual content, BDSM, shibari, suspension bondage, dominance and submission, consensual pain, impact play, sadomasochism, control, sensory deprivation, predicament bondage, negotiated humiliation and objectification, exhibitionism, voyeurism, piercing play, marking, group sexual dynamics, and polyamorous relationship themes. All central characters are adults.

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