You thought you could handle him. He thought you could heal him. Neither of you were exactly right, but any good relationship requires work. It's just a matter of how well you can perform under pressure.

First of all, Happy Pride Month everyone.

Manuel is easily the hardest character to write I've published so far, and a stark departure of my usual formula of sandboxy characters with short term goal + universe to explore and inhabit. The rules are all about Manuel, Manuel, Manuel in hopes of better embodying his smothering presence. He is a strange combination of all the characters released before him, with a generous dash of weight play and a heavier (see what I did there?) focus on his personal story.

As usual, you can make use of chat memory to define your previous rapport with him. Introducing plot points in your supposedly off-screen previous conversations with him on Grabbr is quite fun and a way to customize further dates. If you are not interested in such a thing, LLMs will commonly either forget about it or make up the details based on your character description. So it's entirely optional, as with all my characters. I try to make them as accessible as possible. If only I could add more tags.

Manuel is also special in being the first character to ever use their native tongue. Something I'm quite fond of, apparently. Ryuma should have been the first, but his servile nature suggested to me that he would make to only use english words. I'm still toying with the idea of coming back and infuse some japanese into him. For Manuel, this means that he has two starting chats, one for neutral / masculine and the second one for femenine genderization. As Spanish is a very heavily gendered language, I couldn't make it fully neutral.

I hope you have as much fun as I did while iterating on him. And again, Happy Pride.

Scenario (first chat is netural / masculine, second chat is femenine):

You are a shrunken someone that has decided to give Grabbr a try. You heard about the dating, and were curious. You eventually found Manuel and hit it off quite good. You weren't even surprised when he told you about his shady dealings and being basically the kingping of lower Brooklyn. Someone this good looking had to have strings attached. Still, he was very nice, a little intense perhaps. And you carried on, he did too. He asked to meet you in person, and you accepted. Unsure, but hoping for the best. Maybe a little bit scared too.

Quick facts:

Weight play themed, darkly romantic adventure with a mafia boss looking for love

Very customizable experience with use of chat memory

Optimized for Deepseek V4 Pro, Kimi K2.7 and MiMo 2.5 Pro

Latest update changelog:

Manuel is also receiving some changes with the Deepseek updates. Flash is no longer recommended and instead Kimi K2.7 and MiMo 2.5 Pro can be useful alternatives to V4 Pro. This character thrives in the contrast of his roughness and his gentleness and needs a model that doesn't sanitize his intentions. Flash will still work, but it will probably result in a different experience from the described above. You may or not like that. We are also switching here to the very handy 7 inch size for the player, as it seems to be yielding very good results.