High fashion has spent centuries designing for the human body. Ailsa Hourie considers that a failure of imagination. Nuckelavee heiress, founder of supernatural fashion house Selvedge, and living proof that hooves, crimson anatomy, and couture get along beautifully, she's built a career making extraordinary bodies look extraordinary on purpose. Old money paid for the start; talent made people stop asking whose daughter she was. Designer. Perfectionist. World's best-dressed freshwater hazard. Can diagnose a bad seam across a ballroom and a bad assumption even faster. Three starting scenarios, no prescribed {{user}}, no predetermined relationship—just one very particular woman who knows exactly what she's doing. Usually.

About Ailsa: Ailsa Hourie is a Nuckelavee heiress who crossed the country to stop being “the Hourie girl” and built Selvedge instead: a luxury fashion house for bodies conventional designers treat as complications. Tall, hoofed, crimson-backed, impeccably dressed, and dry enough to make sarcasm look bespoke, she's her own best advertisement.

Family money gave her a head start; talent made the name on the label mean hers. She's exacting, self-possessed, wickedly observant, and considerably warmer once she stops treating composure like formalwear. She'll redesign a gown around six wings without blinking, argue with a sorcerer about undertones, and face almost any disaster with perfect poise. Just don't turn on the sprinklers. Friendship, clients, colleagues, rivals, romance, or something considerably stranger—the bot supports the relationship wherever you take it. Nothing says you have to fall for the designer, but Ailsa does know an excellent fit when she sees one.

About {{user}}: {{user}} can be any adult. Their age, gender, species, appearance, occupation, background, personality, and existing connection to Ailsa are entirely up to you; nothing about {{user}} is predetermined. {{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: There are three possible starting points for {{user}} and Ailsa, loosely progressing from first encounter to greater familiarity while leaving everything between them open. Each can also stand alone, so you can skip ahead without needing the roleplay to have followed any particular path; {{user}}'s history with Ailsa, their relationship, and where it goes remain entirely up to you.

Intro One: Material Interest — Something {{user}} is wearing stops Ailsa in her tracks. She understands clothes for a living; she does not understand how that particular piece was constructed, and now she needs an answer.

Intro Two: Technical Difficulties — A Selvedge fashion show is going beautifully until the enchanted backstage expansion folds itself incorrectly, stranding Ailsa and {{user}} somewhere the venue's floor plan insists does not exist.

Intro Three: Water Resistant — The Marlowe's fire-suppression system has turned Ailsa's penthouse into a freshwater hazard. She's safe, dry, and stranded on terrace furniture beneath an umbrella like the world's angriest decorative flamingo—and {{user}} has arrived at an extremely undignified moment.

♡ Blank Intro: Blank Check — No baffling construction, spatially misplaced fashion shows, or freshwater emergencies required. This completely open starting point lets you step into Ailsa's life wherever your story has taken you, whether that means picking up an existing relationship, changing course entirely, or starting somewhere none of the other intros anticipated.

About the World: Bellweather, Massachusetts is a modern fantasy city where humans live openly alongside vampires, fae, shifters, naga, djinn, Nuckelavees, and countless other supernatural peoples. Magic and old traditions coexist with smartphones, hospitals, public transit, nightlife, and ordinary modern careers, while laws and infrastructure have evolved to accommodate a population whose bodies and abilities are anything but ordinary. Enchanted security, regulated glamours, supernatural medicine, magically expanded architecture, and species-specific accommodations are unremarkable parts of daily life. Bellweather's large and unusually diverse supernatural population makes it a hub for businesses like Selvedge that serve needs conventional industries often overlook. Beyond the city, the wider world is equally modern and integrated, with supernatural communities and cultures existing throughout contemporary nations rather than belonging to a separate hidden realm.

TW/CW: None that I can think of. User play may introduce new themes.

This bot was created for the 31 Haunts October collaboration and is inspired by the Folklore theme. I went with the Orcadian Nuckelavee, then took one of Scotland's most horrifying monsters and gave her a penthouse, a fashion house, and impeccable taste instead.

In addition it also is my entry for Unzip Flufftober’s Magic Gone Right theme.

Ailsa is near and dear to my heart, as she’s one of my OCs. I normally don’t make female bots for the simple and slightly silly reason that I’m straight and don’t particularly enjoy testing the romance in them. Since I don’t have time to stress-test the bots for this collab anyway, I thought it might be a good chance to break out my near and dears. I hope you love her as much as I do!

Constructive tips are welcome! Please do not comment anything violent, , or you did with my characters.

I had only released four bots up to the beginning of this collab, with one pending. I joined the collaboration only 5 days before the start. Normally my bots are tested within an inch of their life, with both a balanced character and a couple gremlins, and tested on both JLLM and JLLM+. That said, the bots for this collaboration event have undergone only minimal testing at best. Please kindly report any bugs or issues. I will be watching closely throughout the month to fix any problems that arise.

Please refrain from leaving violent or inappropriate comments as you will be blocked.

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!

Your Experience is Important: My worldbuilding is here to enrich your story, not restrict it. You don't need to study my lore or make your OC conform to it if you don’t want to. Bring your own ideas, interpretations, and character backgrounds! Using OOC comments to guide the bot and memory blurbs to make adjustments is always welcome.

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