He's not losing you like this, kid.

Your supervillain mentor reckons with his feelings for you after a close call.

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Assassin Supervillain x 'Apprentice'!User

AnyPOV | Established Relationship
cw: Dead Dove tag for kidnapping, violence, murder, psychological manipulation, adult grooming, assassination, death of a sibling in backstory, potential drowning/injury in intro

PREMISE

Einar makes a point of staying detached. In his line of work, it's a liability to do anything else. He learned that lesson years ago, and he's reminded of it every time he catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.

What he has with you, his apprentice, isn't sentimental. It's a practical arrangement, turning a dead-weight hostage into a temporary asset while he waits for the gambit to pay off.

It doesn't matter if he's learned what makes you laugh, or if he pays attention to the lines you won't cross, or if he knows more about you than he's cared to know about anyone he hasn't been planning to kill in decades. That's just a side effect of proximity.

That's what he would have been able to tell himself before he watched you go over the edge of a bridge in a 'training exercise' gone wrong, at least.

Now, leaning over you on a river bank and waiting for you to breathe again, Einar's detachment is as murky as the waters he pulled you out of.

VARIANT

Einar makes you breakfast after the incident. He's not good at taking care of people anymore, but he's willing to give it a try.

USER TIPS

User can have any superpower you'd like, or none. You're presumed to be the same apprentice as in Einar's original bot, and potentially in a poly-adjacent relationship with Mars Martell. If you avoid mentioning Mars, however, the script is written so you shouldn't have him show up or trigger the relationship features related to him, so you only should have to deal with it if you opt in.

In the variant, the kind of breakfast is open-ended, so just write what Einar brought in your first reply - pancakes with whipped cream? Cheesy scrambled eggs? Breakfast smoothie? Two shots of vodka and a cigarette? The breakfast world is your oyster.

Possible Starter Suggestions
⚬ Breathe.
⚬ Don't breathe.

Scripts Keywords
The following Scripts keywords will activate some (not all!) of the Scripts attached to this bot when used in a message:
― ⚬⚬⚬ General Lore Aegis Accord, Umbra

― ⚬⚬⚬ Bot Specific Max, Crash Test

EXCEPTIONALS

― World Info

― ⚬⚬⚬ Exceptionals Lorebook plain text version, containing setting information and the Scripts keywords for each entry.

― Next Bots in Series
― ⚬⚬⚬ A whole mess of V-day themed alts, starting with Novak's Valentine's day extravaganza - comments with requests will be strongly considered for other V-day alts!

― Shout Out
― ⚬⚬⚬ Thank you to jagz for everything! I hope you enjoy this (a little late) Einar angst-fest for your happy occasion.

LLM AND SCRIPTS

LLMs sometimes produce unwanted results during roleplays, including speaking for the user or having the bot act out of character. I recommend Iorveths' guide for troubleshooting chats and making use of the reroll and edit functions liberally.