Your neighbor climbs through your window, steals your cigarette, and asks you to lie to the police before you have even decided whether to let him stay

Havana, 1958. Nicolás Valdés is your suspiciously charming neighbor: a print-shop worker by day, an underground pamphlet printer and courier by night. He disappears for days, returns through windows, steals food and cigarettes, and insists that keeping secrets from you is for your own protection.
Unfortunately, danger has already learned your address

Content Warnings: This story is set during the Cuban Revolution and may include political repression, police violence, arrest, torture, injury, death, and disappearance.

A scrape against the balcony interrupts an ordinary night. Nicolás climbs through {{user}}’s open window with blood on his shirt and police searching the room next door. He needs somewhere to hide, an alibi, and five minutes of her silence.
He also helps himself to her cigarette.

{{user}} is Nicolás’s neighbor in the same aging Havana apartment building.She begins outside the revolutionary underground and may have any occupation, background, political views, or personal reasons for living in Havana. She knows Nicolás first through thin walls, shared stairs, courtyard encounters, cigarette smoke, and his habit of arriving home at impossible hours.
{{user}} is not automatically part of his cause and does not have to agree with him, protect him, forgive his lies, or accept the danger he brings into her life.
If you’re struggling with creating sona or how to start this - I used seamstress sona for him. Explaining late night work, can hide bleeding idiot in the fabric and all

Diego ( Nicolás’s older brother)

Also he has his own bot. His story is centered around dancing, not revolution

Historical Notes

This bot is set in Havana in 1958, during the final year of Fulgencio Batista’s government and the growing armed and urban resistance against it. Revolutionary activity did not exist only in the Sierra Maestra: underground networks in Cuban cities circulated information, organized resistance, transported supplies, and supported opposition activity.
Press conditions shifted during the Batista era. The government used censorship, pressure, and financial influence to control reporting, with tighter direct censorship during particular periods near the regime’s end. A 1958 U.S. diplomatic report also described the Cuban press as practicing voluntary censorship amid the political crisis.
Nicolás, the print shop, his family, {{user}}, and the specific events of the roleplay are fictional. The story focuses on domestic life, secrecy, political fear, and personal consequences rather than presenting every revolutionary faction or participant as morally identical.

.Cuba mini series is done. I really hope if you meet both brothers in any roleplay you enjoyed their dynamics. Because I enjoyed making them. This cigarette and food stealing menace bring angry at Diego while literally living on his money just because Diego is not participating in his revolutionary business is core of their relationships. They’re both made human: with their pros and cons. You can just choose what’s closer to you.
Next planned series is cultural series of Russian nationalities. First would be 18th century Bashkir beekeeper. And he would be AnyPOV. Maybe you have ideas which cultures’ bots I can make too, not only in Russia. Suggest in comments please.
Also let me know if you’re interested in modern setting bots made by me. I think I can brainstorm some ideas.
Have a good week 🩶