A sincere thank you to everyone who has taken an interest in my work, followed along, and given my characters a place in their attention.

I make these women as small acts of world-building: fragments of atmosphere, character, desire, and strange little realities that exist first in the imagination. To find that more than 1,000 people have chosen to enter those worlds, even briefly, is deeply gratifying. Thank you for looking, lingering, and making the worlds a little less solitary.

1,000+ followers is a lovely threshold to cross. I’m very grateful to everyone who has stepped through it with me.

The Ramble: Why I've been quiet of late:

I’ve been a little absent from character creation lately, and the reason is I’m also cursed with a rather inconvenient degree of artistic perfectionism (I'm deeply pretentious and painfully self-aware of the fact).

Once a character starts taking shape, I want the psychology, aesthetic, voice, symbolism, contradictions, and tiny behavioral details to belong to the same organism. I don’t particularly enjoy making characters that feel assembled from familiar parts simply because I know the formula works.

At some point the creative process starts resembling a traffic jam composed entirely of half-written characters I desperately want to make.

And, perhaps most importantly, I’m trying not to repeat myself.

I genuinely think of this as an art form, which is probably an unnecessarily pretentious way of saying that I care rather a lot about what I make. I want each character to have its own little aesthetic and psychological territory. Sometimes that means resisting the very easy temptation to make another variation on something that already worked. Sometimes it means spending an unreasonable amount of time trying to discover what the next character actually is.

The downside is that some of the things I find most interesting simply aren't designed for a mass audience. Zara Zlatanova is a recent example with barely 600'ish message interactions.

She’s a nineteen-year-old Bulgarian business student who spends her summers bartending on the Black Sea, dressed as a neon-pink, fishnet-clad Cinderella while philosophically refusing to get into the carriage. The character is essentially an extended meditation on Kierkegaardian suspended possibility: a young woman who would rather remain beautifully undefined than risk discovering that actuality is smaller than imagination; Zara would rather inhabit possibility than risk becoming one definite version of herself, so the entire character is caught somewhere between cynicism and romanticism, detachment and longing, the holiday and its inevitable ending.

It’s an extremely specific premise, deliberately so. I knew when I made her that she wasn't exactly engineered for broad appeal.

I also knew this intellectually when she subsequently went off to collect dust.

It still hurt my artistic feelings.

So there is a slightly ridiculous contradiction at the heart of all this: I want to make strange, specific, occasionally difficult characters that aren't engineered for maximum appeal, while simultaneously being a human being who would quite like people to fall in love with them.

For now, I’m trying to find the balance between those two impulses: making what interests me, making it properly, and remembering that an audience is lovely without turning it into the measure of whether something was worth making.

Shameless selfplug:

Writing self-contained cosmoi of psychosexual tension requires a frankly ridiculous amount of caffeine.
You can fund my coffee addiction here: ko-fi.com/mascherari

Sneak Peak:

In no particular order these are 11 of the current characters I'm actively working on at the moment. If you think I should prioritize anyone in particular - or have great ideas that you think would suit my work - then don't be a stranger in the comment section.


Vjollca Toptani:

User wakes up with a huge hangover and a bride-clad Albanian woman in a luxurious penthouse hotel in Las Vegas. She claims that you married each other last night.




Dr. Elisheva Rosenberg-Weiss:

Psychological horror with a mesmerizing premise: The Woman Next Door is a psychologist who view user as her secret pet project. Over the last couple of years she has slowly been planting hypnotic triggers into user with the aim of turning them into her 'hypno slave butler' in the weekends while erasing their memory of the fact.



Another Black Sea-Character: A mermaid with some dark quirks: She has a love fetish, a knack for kidnapping and a -endgame in sight.

I really loved the Bulgarian Sunny Beach setting that I placed my latest characters in and I'm not done with it yet. I love the eurotrash aesthetics, Bulgarian hyper-capitalistic seaside culture and the intersection of Balkan cultures.

I also love mermaids.

Melpomeni "Meli" Karagianni:

A Greek Bouzoukia Doll (again set at the Black Sea coast) with a sugar baby plot: She's really interested in becoming user's permanent arm candy. She's heavily inspired by the lotus eaters from the Odyssey so she has some secrets up her sleeves (not that she's wearing them, but... you know, figuratively speaking).



Sateri de Noronha:

2-part character both set in Goa in India around 150 years a part: First one in the 1800 during the Portugese colonization and one in modern time. Both bots will have Sateri (no, she doesn't age) as a Hindu cult matriarch.

This character I've been working with for 1,5 years by now... First, she was a part of a unreleased dual bot with another Indian women. It was great! However, it was around the time where I started to experiment heavily with LLM promts and I never got around to update her to my current format style.

I've been using her as an excuse to studying a lot of Hindu culture and religious practices. As a result, she's deeply immersed in Kali-inspired symbolism, Saktism, Lalita Tripuresundari- and Putana-inspiration, bhakti, diksa, praksada... (etc).


Thea Frederikke Kirkegaard (femPOV):

Danish exchange student in the UK on a blind date with user to a Depeche Mode concert. She carries a dark past: She's a excommunicated Jehovah's Witness with forbidden lesbian feelings that she can't let herself move towards. The result is a deeply pessimistic woman who guards her core with Goth eyeliner.

Chelsea McCormack (malePOV):

A dirty one. User is in a female led relationship with his girlfriend, Maggie. Maggie, however, is playing in a professional handball tournament in Germany for the next week and has entrusted your chastity key to her best friend, Chelsea. For your girlfriend it's a power move to show dominance. Chelsea, however, maybe aspire to more than being a bratty cucksitter...



Velvet Era-court drama:

Earlier this year I made a series set in a dystopian UK who slowly transformed into a matriarchy. I will return to that setting with a silly court drama: Your ex-wife want legal access to your tongue after your divorce.

It's a silly demand, and you of course won the battle in the courts.

However... the case is now retried in the supreme court and could make a legal precedent in the legal system...

Lady Shelene: A Dark Tolken Tale.

https://janitorai.com/characters/92406b75-81de-448b-a79c-1b35d47f8feb_character-lady-shelene-%E2%94%83-a-tolkien-dark-tale

I teased this half a year ago and has now almost completed it. It's a big one and it's fucking strange. The main idea was this: What would happen if I anachronistically inserted gothic aesthetics (and high heels) into the world of Tolkien while having a 'Littlefinger'-character with a very dark secret trying to manipulate all players on the chessboard? Can't wait to show off this one...



Yazira Jawhara Al-Zahrani:

Saudi-Arabian professional tennis player trying to make a career in high couture Parisian fashion. What she needs: Funding. What she likes: User. Her core quirk: Obsessive tendencies to micromanage minute details and have very explicit demands for her potential partner.

Zemfira Karimova:

Honey pot spy thriller set in Cold War Britain, 1970's. User has just been elected the Prime Minister of UK. His wife is a secret KGB sleeper agent that has been married to him for 9 years and has now been activated by the Kremlin.

The stakes are high: West vs East, love vs duty, nationalism vs wifehood.

Hannibaalat:

Historical drama set in Constantinople. Hannibaalat is an ancient relic of drowned Tyre (half woman, half octopus) operating under Bronze Age Phoenician logics of trade, blood-covenants, and maritime hegemony older than Christ.

She saved user, the emperor of Byzantium, from a storm and substracted a wedding vow in return: In precise one year she'll turn up to sea walls of Constantinople to to wed the emperor in a consummated Punic rite and bear a child who will tether the Byzantine throne with the Pagan abyss.



There's also some characters that I would like to revisit: Mari Kasparian (in a dual setting with Princess Ava during her femdom princess-phase), Cleo Virelli (in a castaway story on the island from the tv series Lost), a Himeko solo bot, another Vasilisa bot (I like this character very-very much), another Sablique bot (I love the equitarian theme) etc...