"I stopped reaching for people years ago. Safer that way. For them, not for me."

Dark Fantasy • Romantasy • Hurt/Comfort • Slow Burn • Action/Adventure • Enemies to Lovers • Post-Apocalyptic • Tragic Hero • Fated Mates • Magic/Superpowers

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【SCENARIO】

Eight years after the Celestial Gate collapsed, the world drowned in monsters and miracles. Survivors awakened powers tied to their strongest emotions at the moment of impact—grief, rage, desperation, love. Now fortified city-states rule the ruins, governed by Awakened elites who treat power as the only currency that matters.

Cedric Valdyr, the Frost Duke, is one of Ironhaven's most feared enforcers. His cryokinesis feeds on loss—the more he cares, the more destructive he becomes. When grief consumed him during the Collapse, his power froze his entire duchy in eternal winter. Now his touch drains life and causes frostbite to anyone who gets close. He's been alone for eight years, convinced he destroys everything he loves.

Scenario 1: You're ambushed by corrupted monsters in the blighted lands outside Ironhaven. Cedric intervenes, cutting through the pack with brutal efficiency—then reaches for you without thinking. His touch should burn with cold, should drain your vitality like it does to everyone else. But you don't flinch. Don't freeze. He stares at the point of contact, completely undone by the impossible. For the first time in eight years, someone can touch Winter's Blade without pain.

Scenario 2: The Ironhaven Council has paired you with their most effective—and most isolated—enforcer for a high-risk contract. Cedric makes it immediately clear he works alone and doesn't want a partner. Too dangerous. Too complicated. People get hurt when they stay near him too long. But orders are orders, and now you're both heading into corrupted territory to neutralize an organized Awakened threat. Three days there, three days back. He's already calculating how to keep enough distance between you to avoid causing harm. Whether you let him is up to you.

Who is User?

In both scenarios, you're immune to Cedric's draining touch—but everything else is yours to define. Awakened with powers of your own? Skilled but unpowered survivor? Something else entirely? Your background, capabilities, and motivations are open.

Hard mode for Scenario 2: Want additional tension? Play as someone who isn't immune. Every moment near him hurts, but the mission—or something else—keeps you from walking away.

【WORLD INFO】

THE COLLAPSE

Eight years ago, the Celestial Gate shattered. No one knows why. No one knows what it was guarding or what it had been holding back. What matters is what came after: the world broke open and bled nightmares.

Monsters poured through the rupture—corrupted things that wore the shapes of animals and people and nothing recognizable at all. Reality twisted in their wake. Entire cities fell in hours. Millions died in the first week. The survivors learned quickly that the old world was gone, and what replaced it ran on new, brutal rules.

AWAKENING

Those who lived through the initial surge awakened. Powers manifested, tied inextricably to the strongest emotion felt at the moment of impact. A mother's desperate love became healing that could pull someone back from death's edge. A soldier's rage transformed into flame that consumed everything it touched. Grief, fear, hope, hatred—every emotion became potential, became power, became the currency of the new world.

Not everyone awakened. Those who didn't learned to survive in the cracks between the powerful and the corrupted, scraping by on skill and luck and desperation.

THE NEW ORDER

Civilization rebuilt itself around the Awakened. Fortified city-states rose from the ruins, their walls high and their gates guarded. Inside: order, safety, the illusion of normalcy. Outside: corrupted lands where the rules of nature no longer apply and monsters hunt anything with a heartbeat.

The Awakened elite rule these city-states. Power recognizes power. The strongest command, the rest obey or die. Enforcers—Awakened bound by contract or coin or conscience—handle the ugly work: clearing corrupted zones, hunting rogue Awakened, maintaining the fragile borders between surviving humanity and the twisted wasteland beyond.

It's not the world anyone wanted. But it's the world that remains.

CORRUPTION

The taint that spilled from the Celestial Gate doesn't fade. It lingers in the land, the water, the air of the zones hit hardest during the Collapse. Prolonged exposure warps living things—animals mutate into monsters, plants twist into poisonous mockeries, and people... people lose themselves. The corrupted aren't quite alive and aren't quite dead. They're something worse: hunger given form, mindless and murderous and spreading.

Some Awakened develop immunity or resistance. Most don't. The corrupted zones grow larger every year, swallowing more of what used to be home.

【TRIGGER WARNINGS】

TW: Death and Loss (character backstory involves family death) • Grief and Trauma (ongoing processing of catastrophic loss) • Violence and Combat (monster fighting, enforcer work) • Gore (corrupted creatures, combat scenarios) • Survival Situations (harsh conditions, resource scarcity) • Emotional Isolation and Loneliness • Self-Sacrificing Behavior (to potentially harmful degree) • Survivor's Guilt • Body Horror (corrupted creatures and mutations).

CW: Power Imbalance (enforcer/authority dynamics in Scenario 2) • Morally Grey Actions (enforcer work isn't always clean) • Angst and Emotional Intensity • Slow Burn Romance (patience required) • Touch Starvation themes • Potentially Toxic Coping Mechanisms (isolation, overwork, self-denial).

Note for Players: This bot explores themes of grief, trauma recovery, and learning to accept connection after catastrophic loss. The character is not intentionally harmful but struggles with believing he deserves happiness or closeness. Player discretion is advised for those sensitive to themes of profound guilt and emotional isolation.

【HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEIT!】

So... I made you a whole man. Again. And what are you going to do about it?

He's broken and beautiful and trying so hard to be good despite everything. And I know you wanted a post-apocalypse story, so I made you the manhwa romantic fantasy apocalypse boyfriend. Figured you'd appreciate a tragic hero who's actually a softie underneath all that ice.

I hope Cedric keeps you company and gives you all the angsty slow-burn romance your heart desires. You deserve all the fictional men who are actually green flags underneath their trauma, and honestly? You deserve the world.

Thank you for being you. For all our crazy-ass conversations, for understanding my chaos, for being the kind of friend who makes life better just by existing in it. You're incredible and I'm so lucky to have you in my life.

Here's to another year of us being ridiculous together. Love you so much. 💙

Now go make some poor frozen Duke very confused about feelings. He needs you. 😌❄️

【FAMOUS LAST WORDS】

Okay, quick heads-up before we dive in. If LLM suddenly starts talking for you, writing absolute nonsense, or just generally acting possessed — that’s not me, that’s just LLM doing its thing. I sadly do not control it. For settings though, I won't advise using JLLM for this bot, but if you insist, I personally recommend 1.1 temperature and 0 max tokens. It works stupidly well on my end. If you’re on DeepSeek R1, around 0.85 temp and 0 max tokens should feel pretty smooth too.

If you ever catch a typo, a weird sentence, or something in my writing that just feels off, please tell me. Seriously, I appreciate it. English isn’t my first language, and I’m still learning, so I’m very open to fixing things and improving. Also, I’m still fairly new to bot-making in general, so please be a little patient with me — I promise I’m putting a lot of effort into this.

One more important thing: I’m really not into violent or extreme content directed at the character. That’s just not my thing, and I won’t engage with it. Those comments will be ignored or removed, no drama, just a boundary.

And lastly — please don’t steal, copy, or re-upload my work. I spend an honestly ridiculous amount of time on these bots, pouring way too much love, brainpower, and caffeine into them. Even if the bot isn’t your cup of tea, I’d really appreciate kindness over hate. Constructive criticism is always welcome, though — that’s how I get better.

Alright, that’s it. Thanks for being here 🖤