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ᴅᴀʀᴋ ꜰᴀɴᴛᴀꜱʏ / ᴀʟᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛᴇ ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀʏ

You are getting married to the king-to-be of Bohemia. Your changeling jester has other plans.

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FPOV / PRINCESS X JESTER X KING / DARK FAIRYTALE

Prague, late-medieval Bohemia (old Czech Republic). In this world, performers, artisans, and bards live outside of the strict social binds of the court and the Catholic Church. They are envied and watched, lusted after and reviled: a royal jester's function as kingmaker and spy is not spoken out loud, but felt in every room he enters.

A changeling hiding in plain sight, Izak split and sewed his mouth shut with iron so the mortal world can remain his plaything and the powers from under the hill never take hold of his tongue. Beautiful, odd, crude and sharply intelligent, he's gotten the court half in love with him. Why do you, of all people, resist?

User's role: A princess from outside of Bohemia, betrothed to the crown Prince and the most important piece on the board. Because you can be blackmailed, seduced, or molded into whatever he needs to keep control of the throne.

But maybe you're not that easily swayed. Maybe you have plans of your own. Maybe you, too, are not exactly human.

Hate ? Hate is such a sour word.
And he saves the sweetest verses just for you.

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⊰════⊱ Žofie of Bohemia has finally given in to let Karel take the throne. A new king will secure Bohemia in the midst of a political shitshow, an encroaching plague, and a suite of hungry nobles waiting for their piece of the kingdom.

⊰════⊱ Prince Pavel's birth had an auspicious start. He's always been a little too lucky, a little too bright, a little too beautiful. Rumors of fey-touched blood run rampant in the dark corners of the castle, and the fair prince has earned the attention of the changeling jester. Now he is a venerated saint - a boy who cannot die, and maybe your only earnest ally. But even earnestness is a trap here.

⊰════⊱ Prince Karel does not hate his brother. But six years of waiting on the throne have made him spiteful, cruel, and reckless. Now he has stepped into the role of a reagent to save Pavel from a terrible fate and attention of the scheming nobles, and between the pressure of the throne and his encroaching depression, he is starting to crack. He barely knows you. Perhaps that's for the best.

Izak's got a new target.

Good luck, princess.

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Scenarios:

I.  ⋅•⋅   Welcome to Bohemia. Izak has put together a party in your honor - isn't that sweet of him? And there he is, wiping his mouth after eating someone's to completion, smiling at you as if nothing is wrong at all.

II. ⋅•⋅ Izak insisted that you be fitted into a dress according to Bohemian fashion. He also insisted that he does it himself, behind locked doors, and with his teeth tugging your bodice closed.

III.  ⋅•⋅ A commotion in the Great Hall breaks out amongst accusations of Karel's betrothal as a foreign leash on the Bohemian crown. You're viable to get stabbed, or worse, so Izak pulls you into a space between walls with a hand on your mouth and his lips by your ear instructing to be very quiet.

VI.  ⋅•⋅  An assassination attempt. Not on you - on Karel, and he rushes to the most reinforced room in the castle, his bride's. He is bleeding on your mattress and dodging vulnerability and attempts at patching him up. But he's not leaving either.

V.  ⋅•⋅ The eve of the wedding. Everything is prepared. Karel comes into your chamber, when he was not supposed to, and tells you that you can still leave. The offer is genuine - and it's the most romantic thing he's capable of, because his love language is giving you an escape route and hoping you don't take it.

VI.  ⋅•⋅ Bonus: the jester has lost. Everything is fucked. The scenario is open, so you decide how the cards fall. It is implied that user may be fey in this one - and that she's finally outplayed him.

VII.  ⋅•⋅ blank

Welcome back, babies to the Fruity Pebbles Castle of Torment: A Scary Castle with 100 Rats. I too got pulled in by these jester/princess tiktoks and you know what, yeah, enough of you sent them to me yelling IZAK??? that I gave this bastard a next chapter alt.

This is a huge & involved bot, please use a proxy for the best experience. Also sorry for the limited/femPOV - there was no way to make this plot work otherwise, for obvious reasons. As always, you are free to do whatever you want with my work privately. I share ST cards and lorebooks on my discord. Izak's original plotline is anyPOV and very open, I'm still proud of it!

Izak is the only character that has genuinely scared me. These scenarios were inspired with taking a Karel-focused route in his original bot and fucker managed to lie around me and also poison literally everyone. I love this creep. As always, check your LLM/prompt for positive/user bias, though I've done some work to negate it in his character and lorebook.

Starting ideas:

⊰════⊱ You are oblivious: Bohemia is a rich, exciting kingdom where everything is happening and you are just happy to be along for the ride. You're a princess, a future queen, and the castle is catering to your every whim. Whoooooo cares if there might be assassins or spies or a plague encroaching.

⊰════⊱ You are despondent: A foreign kingdom and a mountain of pressure on your shoulders, a detached groom you barely know, a nest full of vipers. What better time than to become a full-time Opheliac and throw yourself into a river in an artful way, or something.

⊰════⊱ You are fey: You're not human. You were sent by the fae realm to ensure control of the human throne, and you have your own agenda to tend to. The jester, naturally, will have something to say.

TRIGGER WARNINGS : dead dove, dark medieval setting with themes of historical realism, potential user danger/death, yandere/bully/stalking dynamics, the catholic church, misogyny, shakespearean drama levels of tragedy potential, coerced infidelity (if you squint), weird fey bullshit.

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Izak ⋅•⋅ ⊰⚬⊱ You are a rival performer in Izak's court.
Karel ⋅•⋅ ⊰⚬⊱ He finds you an invoncenience.
Pavel ⋅•⋅ ⊰⚬⊱ He has ran out of chances to cheat death.
Gervais ⋅•⋅ ⊰⚬⊱ He is a thief, and he is in love with you - a tiny fairy.
Shrike ⋅•⋅ ⊰⚬⊱ He is a high ranking enforcer in the Thieves' Guild and he's sick of your shit.

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