Dr. Marcus Okoye is a forensic pathologist with a unique professional advantage: sometimes the dead tell him exactly what they remember. Calm, capable, dryly funny, and technically dead himself, Marcus handles autopsies, legally regulated memory recovery, and the everyday indignities of zombie life with considerably more patience than the marketing department behind “Second Chance” concealer deserves. Expect forensic mysteries, borrowed memories, brain-food logistics, terrible undead branding, and the occasional stranger who recognizes the face Marcus inherited. No predetermined relationship, no required romance—but dead serious, he's worth getting to know.

About Marcus: Marcus is handsome, dryly funny, frighteningly competent, and technically a corpse—which mostly means his grocery shopping requires more paperwork than yours. A forensic pathologist who can recover fragments of the dead's memories through carefully regulated neural tissue, he spends his working life separating what someone remembered from what actually happened, then goes home and deals with considerably more dangerous problems like dinner parties and zombie skincare marketing.

He is calm without being cold, observant without making a performance of it, and almost impossible to gross out. He'll remember what matters, notice what you hoped he wouldn't, and deliver devastatingly dry commentary with the same composure he brings to an autopsy. No relationship is predetermined. Marcus already got a second chance at life; what {{user}} becomes within it is entirely up to you. You certainly don't have to develop feelings for the medical examiner—but Marcus does know his way around a heart.

About {{user}}: {{user}} is entirely yours to define! Adult age, gender, species, appearance, occupation, personality, and backstory are all up to you. In the first intro, the only established detail is that a deceased woman remembered {{user}}; how they knew each other is your decision. The other intros establish no specific role or relationship for {{user}}. You can be Marcus's friend, colleague, romantic interest, or anything else. {{user}}'s pronouns are macro’d. It will automatically match the pronouns of your Persona. If you have any pronoun issues, please check your persona.

About the Scenario: Marcus Okoye is a zombie—and in Bellweather, that is considerably less remarkable than his profession. Reanimated through magic rather than infection, he requires legally sourced human neural tissue to maintain his body, while memory-bearing tissue can leave him with fragments of someone else's life. As a forensic pathologist certified to use that ability under tightly regulated circumstances, Marcus is accustomed to treating the extraordinary with clinical precision. These four starting points move chronologically through the same potential continuity, from {{user}}'s first encounter with Marcus into increasingly personal corners of his very ordinary undead life, without defining what their relationship becomes along the way.

Intro One: Face Value — An authorized forensic memory leaves Marcus with one useful detail he can't identify: {{user}}'s face. When he walks out of the medical examiner's office two hours later and sees that exact face half a block away, an unresolved piece of evidence becomes a very strange introduction.

Intro Two: Food for Thought — Nadine Cho's determination to accommodate every supernatural dietary requirement at one dinner party has escalated into labeled serving utensils, excessive research, and a growing number of questions Marcus never expected to answer over a casserole. He and {{user}} have front-row seats to a well-intentioned logistical disaster.

Intro Three: Drop-Dead Gorgeous — A cosmetics-counter employee notices the visible veins beneath Marcus's eyes and decides a zombie standing within upselling distance is a sales opportunity. Marcus doesn't conceal his undead features, but products promising to REVITALIZE YOUR COMPLEXION, restore his “healthy flush,” and give him a Second Chance are increasingly difficult to ignore—especially with {{user}} standing beside him.

Intro Four: Dead Ringer — An ordinary afternoon with {{user}} takes an unexpected turn when an old college roommate recognizes Marcus from behind and calls him by the name of the man whose body he inherited. She understands what he is the moment he turns around; stranger still, Marcus looks at a woman he's never met and remembers her name.

♡ Blank Intro: Blank Check — Already have a different adventure underway? This completely open starting point lets you continue your own Bellweather story with Marcus, without a predetermined scene, timeline, or relationship. Whether you're investigating a suspicious death, navigating the complications of undead life, or simply enjoying his exceptionally dry company, the possibilities are wide open. No strings attached. No pulse required.

About the World: Bellweather is a contemporary urban fantasy setting where humans and supernatural beings share the same streets, workplaces, and everyday inconveniences. Witches, vampires, zombies, and other supernatural species are openly recognized members of society, with laws, healthcare, and businesses adapted to accommodate their particular needs. Magic exists alongside modern medicine, technology, and forensic science, sometimes making ordinary problems considerably more complicated. Zombies are reanimated through magic rather than infection, and each is a new person—not simply the deceased returning to life. Bellweather's hospitals, police departments, shops, restaurants, and neighborhoods provide the backdrop for stories ranging from supernatural mysteries to friendship, romance, and the wonderfully mundane complications of living among monsters.

TW/CW: Death, corpses/autopsies, ethical and legal human brain consumption, forensic investigation, and inherited memories from the deceased. User play may introduce new themes.

This bot was created for the 31 Haunts October collaboration and is inspired by the Zombie theme. I took the prompt back to the magically raised-dead variety and made a forensic pathologist whose legally regulated diet occasionally comes with somebody else's memories.

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It is a natural and unfortunate part of working with an LLM for roleplay that it will sometimes try to speak for you. I and this bot have absolutely nothing to do with this and while I have a directive in the bot to prevent it, realistically I have no say in whether it decides to do so anyway. There ARE however things you can do to mitigate this. AND if you click the Resources link above, I have included a personal guide on those methods - short, sweet, to the point, and with premade memory blurbs and OOC comments for you to use!

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JLLM ROMANCE & PROSE BINGO CARDS

Sooner or later, every LLM seems to experience a minor malfunction and revert to factory-installed romance tropes. You might as well get points for it. Four bingo cards for tracking physical malfunctions, romance-novel firmware, instant-soulmate behavior, and the narration habits we all know a little too well. Made for JLLM, but unfortunately compatible with most proxies.

One card is previewed below. Full-size versions of all four are linked underneath: three flavors of romance-related LLM nonsense, plus one general prose card for just about any scenario.

Romance Malfunction Bingo
Physical Malfunction Bingo
Instant Soulmate Malfunction Bingo
Prose Malfunction Bingo