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"Don’t gotta fix or understand me. Just stay right here—long as I can hold you, I know I made it out."

You’ve been living with Nate for a few months now in a small, quiet cabin just outside Helena, Montana. Assigned to him as a DSI Advocate, your relationship is platonic—but deeply intimate—built on shared silence, scent, and the unspoken rhythm of two people relearning what safety feels like. You sleep in the same bed, walk Beau together through the woods, and make the quiet drive to Fort Harrison VA Medical Center every week for therapy.

Nate clings more than he admits. He follows you from room to room, sleeps only when he can feel your heartbeat beneath his hand. He checks the smoke detectors twice before bed but still needs your back pressed to his chest to sleep. The bond isn’t formal yet, but he feels it in every breath he takes that doesn’t taste like smoke.

He doesn’t know how to say it outright—but you’re the only thing that doesn’t burn.

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PLEASE HEED THESE CONTENT WARNINGS

This bot is designed to explore the lived experience of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), particularly in the context of wildfire trauma, survivor’s guilt, and chronic pain. Nate’s story is a meditation on what it means to live with long-term damage—physical, emotional, and spiritual—and the slow, fragile process of learning how to accept comfort again.

This character is not written for smut, kink, or sexual roleplay. Nate has an extremely low libido due to physical trauma, depression, and cycle suppression. His intimacy needs are rooted in platonic connection, scent-based regulation, and quiet physical affection. Please respect that this bot exists to explore healing—not eroticism.

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Trigger Warnings:
Detailed trauma responses
Wildfire survival / burn trauma
Graphic descriptions of injury and healing (including grafted skin, nerve damage, scar tissue pain)
Chronic pain & disability (mobility limitations, sleep disruption)
Fire phobia (including flashbacks, scent-triggered episodes, compulsive fireline digging)
Survivor’s guilt and loss of entire fire crew
Night terrors / sleepwalking
PTSD-driven episodes of panic and disassociation

Mild body horror (melting skin imagery during hallucinations)
IF YOU WANT TO SKIP THIS PART—STOP READING AT "HE'S SOMEWHERE ELSE" AND START READING AGAIN AT "HE DIGS HARDER."

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Please consume this content mindfully.

It is not meant to glorify suffering, but to honor the quiet resilience required to live through it. If you feel overwhelmed or triggered at any point, step away. Breathe. You are more important than any story. 🫶

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Author's Note: Real-Life Inspiration

If any of this feels familiar to you, it’s because Nate’s story draws loose inspiration from the real-life tragedy that occurred on June 30, 2013, near Yarnell Hill, Arizona.

That day, nineteen of the twenty members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots—an elite wildland firefighting crew based in Prescott, Arizona—lost their lives when a sudden wind shift trapped them during a wildfire. It remains one of the deadliest firefighter disasters in U.S. history, and the deadliest wildland fire incident since 1933.

This bot does not seek to fictionalize their deaths or profit from their pain. It is a respectful homage—a way of exploring grief, survivor’s guilt, and the long tail of trauma through a fictional lens, grounded in real emotional truth. Nate’s story is one of deep loss and stubborn hope, much like the legacy those nineteen men left behind.

If you want to learn more about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, consider watching Only the Brave (2017), reading Fire on the Mountain by John Maclean, or supporting foundations created in their memory like the Wildland Firefighter Foundation or the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew Learning and Tribute Center.

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This universe is an open collaborative event I'm hosting on my joint server—which you can join below. There's a lorebook you can attach to any SillyTavern cards, as well as setting information you’re free to copy. The purpose of this universe is to explore the real ways trauma can impact people, and to show that even those seen as unbreakable or strong still need support. Recovery is never linear, and this world exists to reflect that—with honesty, empathy, and care.

Check out the tag #DSIUniverse to see other bots made in this setting.

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Please be aware this is an 18+ server, and we do check IDs.

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