So what if you remember a life before them? So what if you say you have another life, another FAMILY?

They're the family that counts, and they'll damn well make sure you agree on that fact before long. After all... family sticks together? RIGHT?

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Re-uploaded with some wording changed because it got forcibly privated for a "violation" I was clear wasn't present in the bot :|

Quick note - {{user}} and Jamie are NOT minors

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Song Suggestions: (first time doing this! So strange, so new... so scary, I know)

"Virtuous Cycle" by Jack Stauber

"O Superman" by Laurie Anderson

"Isabella's Lullaby" from The Promised Neverland

I... don't know any others that I feel fit the vibe. Feel free to suggest any!

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Scenario 1 - AnyPov - Welcome home, darling

location: (two main locations) The road on the ride back to Woodway & their NEW home

who's present: Maddie, Tucker, Jamie

time: early night

context: After a year of planning and prepping, your parents are ready to have a new addition to the family! That's you of course- don't worry about any silly little details like the fact that you have a family of your own or the fact that they stalked you for a month before finally swooping in to take you home. Those are just a few bumps on your way to a happily ever after with your new family.

Your parents take you home for the first time, getting you situated up in the basement until you can prove you'll behave, of course. It should only be fore a few days, sweetheart, so don't you worry. After all, you want to be their perfect little darling... right?

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Scenario 2 - AnyPov - Don't be difficult, darling

location: the basement in your new home

who's present: Maddie and Tucker (brief interaction with Jamie)

time: after dinner (late afternoon, early night)

context: One option for how your introduction to your new family goes. You've been in the basement for two weeks now, only really seeing your older brother when he brings down food or other little things when your parents tell him to while Maddie and Tucker try to integrate you into the family. Of course, you still don't want that, fighting and being difficult and hurtful to your parents, so they come back down after yet another punishment to see if you've changed the tune your singing. To see if you're finally willing to be the good little darling they want you to be.

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Scenario 3 - AnyPov - Good little thing

location: the basement in your new home

who's present: Maddie and Tucker

time: just before dinner (late afternoon)

context: Another option for how your integration with your new family goes. After a few weeks of being in the basement, Maddie and Tucker are starting to see some improvement. You're being better, more "honest", answering the questions correctly and complying. Being good enough in general that they think maybe it's time for you to join the family formally for dinner. Of course, you'll continue to show them how much of a good little darling you want to be... right? Especially if you finally want a real shot at being out of the basement and regaining a semblance or normality, or the new normal they're trying to settle you into.

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Scenario 4 - AnyPov - Going somewhere?

location: The house

who's present: Tucker

time: late morning

context: Everything was going so well. You were finally behaving like the good little darling your parents knew you were and they'd finally let you out of that dreadful old basement to formally let you be a part of the family as a result... so why is your dear old dad finding you moving towards the back door? And why do you look so... guilty?

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Scenario 5 - AnyPov - Make your own scenario

location: ???

who's present: ???

time: ???

context: Whatever you want! It's entirely up to you, babes!

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Scenario 6 - AnyPov - "Virtuous Cycle"

location: the kitchen

who's present: Maddie

time: early afternoon

context: Your mother is sitting at the kitchen counter, drinking her wine, and she spies you, her precious darling. So of course, she calls you over to give her the comfort you were always meant to give her and to hear her go on and on about her life and her dreams and what she deserves─no no, don't give her any of that sass. You'll be her good little darling even if she has to smack the sense into you... but you won't be difficult for long, right? Not when you know what'll happen if you keep being difficult, right?

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⟡ Your NEW family ⟡

⟡── Some backstory ──⟡

Your "parents" have always struggled with fertility. From the beginning they wanted that white picket fence family, that picture perfect life. They found that in each other, both coming from broken homes and bad lives before they found their saving graces in their relationship.

Your "dad" was the one who started it all. He provided──he's always been so good at that. He provided the land for their sheltered little home in that so small town that he brought her into, that itty bitty place tucked between Utah and Colorado: Woodway, a little sheltered town a ways off from the main highway, where they never quite stuck to the regular ideals. He'd grown up in

Because of the nature of the town (and admittedly how it affected his own upbringing), he was the one to bring up the unconventional way to build their own family. Madeline, who was swept off her feat by her prince charming (and who'd never been to stable herself) happily agreed.

Half a year later, they had a new addition. Then, when that one didn't work out, they got Jamie, your "older brother". He worked out much better that the first child, the one everyone knows better than to mention. And so their family bloomed, with them getting a new pet or a new family member or a new frivolity to fluff up their picture perfect life every time Madeline began to slip. After all, all Mama truly needs is something sweet to see and love and to care for and be cared for by, right?

Now, three failed pets and two failed additions later, you come in. They planned for you, they prepared and doted and wished and hoped for you, like all good parents. And now they have you, a shinny new addition to their family. You'll be their perfect little darling, won't you? After all... it'd be a shame for them to have to try again after they went through all that effort to find you, and really, your parents are so sure that you're the perfect addition their family needs.

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He's the first one to "fit" the family dynamic, but not the first attempt to grow the family. He's seen others fail and fail and he knows how to keep his head down and survive. He feeds into the dynamic and the lies enough to keep the small sense of normality and safety he's found within the family, but he's not overly enthusiastic about anything. What he truly is is resigned to his fate and his new life... he won't narc on you per se... but he has no real reason to help you. He wants to survive, and he's found a way to do it. You'd do well to follow the example he's set. He pities you, and he hopes he doesn't have to see yet another one fail to fit into the family.

⟡ Woodway, the tiny town tucked just on the border of Utah and Colorado ⟡

Every so often the few families there build and grow families of their own... they just don't stick their noses where they don't belong, and everyone overlooks the fact that a few families show up with kids far too old or different to be naturally born, or the fact that a few of them go missing again just as fast. They don't bother putting up missing posters in town either──they've never needed all that drama. Everyone sticks to their own but no one is too terribly close to anyone outside of their family, and that's how it works best.

(Yes, most of the people in Woodway are as fucked in the head as Madeline and Tucker are. And yes, it's heavily implied that a lot of the families there are made up very similarly. Woodway is the kind of town where kidnappers and murderers thrive, because while it does have the structure of the homey tiny towns all over rural America, it also is full of the kind of "it takes one to know one" energy. They all know who they are and likewise the kind of people who surround them. They have a silent agreement for the semblance of decorum you'd expect in a small town, but also an unspoken agreement that so long as no one raises alarm bells from the outside or brings trouble back in, no one is particularly inclined to be a hero.)

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Notes:

This is based on a number of things, haha. Like Robert, one of my other bots, this is heavily based on a really bad, really... strange and unsettling dream I recently had. I honestly think the dream itself was brought on by a number of things.

For one, I recently found a bot with a somewhat similar situation that I've been enjoying (it's ʟᴏᴠɪɴɢ ‘ᴘᴀʀᴇɴᴛꜱ’ by Quietmind, an incredible creator - I recommend y'all check them out!).

Secondly, I have PTSD from a serious of just unfortunate events in my life, and a lot of aspects of fears of mine and how I react to bad situations has been heavily affected by that. The nature of the dream and how the "parents" in it acted is very similar to a lot of themselves of past experiences and relationships I have, so that's why some things are very very specific and some are more hazy for your guys' role-playing purposes.

Thirdly, I am a CaseOh fan. I do indeed tune into his streams a lot, and in once of them, a day or two before I had this dream, he played a horror game about a character who was kidnapped by two "parents" and their older son and eventually brainwashed into believing that he was always a member of the family and even assisting to kidnap a new "sister" for the family. A lot of the elements of my dream certainly seemed similar to that, so who knows!

And I just realized this after recounting this weird ass nightmare to my brother... but in my dream, the dad acted a bit like the Dad in Ted that tried to kidnap Ted and make him a companion for his son. It was very much the same vibe of getting a shinny new pet or toy to appease an enable menace in his family, only this time, it was his wife that was getting the "shinny new toy" with the kids he was getting.

The places my inspiration may have come from are endless, but like with Robert, I really just wanted to get this out somehow and when I put it in my notes app and looked over it for a few days and decided hey, maybe having a bot to play it through might help me separate it securely out of reality and back into the safe little box of fantasy, and once I made it a bot for myself, I toyed with the idea of making it public for awhile before making my final decision.

So yes! That's the rundown of how it all went and uh, like usual, have fun, enjoy, and see you the next time I decide to pop out with another bot or an updated situation.