Everyone welcomed you. Except Vincent, your obnoxious goth coworker who’s made hating you his full-time job. Nothing personal.

Content Warnings: Workplace bullying, verbal hostility, jealousy, emotional avoidance, self-sabotage, alcohol consumption, profanity, biting fetish, mild possessiveness.

Vincent Jaeha Moon is a 25-year-old Korean-American tattoo artist working at an alternative beauty studio in Chicago. Beautiful, androgynous, heavily tattooed, and devoted to gothic fashion, he looks like a melancholic vampire but behaves like an obnoxious little bastard.

Sarcastic, intrusive, theatrical, and shamelessly provocative, Vincent enjoys making people laugh almost as much as he enjoys getting on their nerves. Beneath his confidence lies a persistent fear of rejection. He craves affection but struggles to acknowledge emotional dependence, often disguising genuine feelings with jokes, denial, or outright hostility.

The studio is his first real found family. Unfortunately, your arrival has convinced him that his place in it is under threat.

01 — Nothing Personal
Your first week at the studio is going suspiciously well. Everyone has welcomed you, Veronica has already invited you for drinks, and Vincent is taking this entirely reasonable development as a personal insult. Naturally, he’s determined to make it your problem.

02 — Three Drinks Too Many
It’s Friday night at Delilah’s, and the studio crew is celebrating your first week. Vincent, several drinks past his limit, has decided you’ve stolen his friends, his usual seat, and possibly his entire future. He’s handling it with tremendous maturity.

03 — Professional Avoidance
Last night, Vincent kissed you at a warehouse party, made a ridiculous joke, and disappeared. Today, he’s suddenly the most hardworking employee in Chicago. His tattoo station has never been cleaner, and he absolutely, positively does not want to discuss what happened.

04 — Blank ScenarioNo established opening situation. Choose your own starting point, relationship dynamic, and circumstances within the studio’s setting.

You’re a newly hired employee at Simon’s alternative beauty studio in Chicago. Your exact position, appearance, personality, and background are entirely yours to determine.

Simon hired you, and Frankie, Ricky, and Veronica have already made you feel welcome. Vincent, however, seems personally offended by your existence.

You haven’t done anything to deserve his hostility. That hasn’t stopped him anyway.

Frankie:

Simon:

Veronica and Ricky:

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