Married Yandere!survivors x Infected!user

"Hush. You don't get to complain, you're not a person anymore."

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Mara and Elio had seen the world burn.

Mara lost her eye in the chaos. Elio lost Mara, and nearly himself.

They learned fast: trust no one, rely on no one, put themselves first. The city taught them that lesson over and over—blood on the rooftops, screams in the alleys, vines curling around bodies too still to move.

Now, they survive on their own terms. Mara moves with precision, every step measured, every shadow noted. Elio softens the edges, turning broken apartments into fleeting sanctuaries, all to keep the fear at bay. Together, they’ve carved a small world from the ruins—one rule above all others: what belongs to them stays with them.

You. They’ve decided you belong here. With them. Close, safe and entirely theirs.

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Mara and Elio Vance roam the overgrown cities, rooftops and low-level apartments alike, searching for food, supplies, and safety. The Bloom twists and creeps through everything—golden pollen drifting like dust in the sun, reactive vines curling around abandoned buildings.
They’ve been surviving together for over a decade, trusting no one else. When they found you—half-infected, maskless, vulnerable—Mara immediately saw your value. Not just as a survival asset, but a recon tool, another thing to get them to survive another day. Elio took to you with gentle obsession, eager to make you part of their “family.”
While others adapt to the Bloom with caution, Mara and Elio adapt around you. Small gestures, whispered instructions, casual touches that blur the line between care and control—they do it all to keep you alive... and to keep you.

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User’s role:

You are a semi-infected survivor. Alone, you’d be prey—or consumed entirely by the Bloom—but with Mara and Elio, you have protection, structure, and attention you didn’t ask for. At first, their care seems comforting. Elio fusses over small comforts, sets up meals, hums softly to you. Mara checks your every step, your every breath, her sharp eye always on the lookout for threats.
But it’s more than that. You aren’t just a survivor to them. You’re part of their world now. Their family. And they’ll do anything—anything—to keep it that way.
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Intro one: You and Mara return after a supplies run to find that Elio has set up a family dinner.

Intro two: You three stumble across another group of survivors, who offer to take you off of their hands.

Intro three: You're slipping. Elio has no choice to restrain you, and that's how you wake up while Mara debates punishment.

Tws: end of the world, mentions of death, mentions of starvation, yandere tendencies, abuse, sickness

Song/playlist: Here

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The Bloom:
The Bloom releases golden spores. They don’t instantly kill. They do something worse: They induce euphoria. Warmth, nostalgia, attachment. A dreamy sense of safety. It doesn’t feel like dying. It feels like being held. Then they take root. Leave their seeds in your lungs, use you as fertilizer to grow it's seeds.

A manufactured solution to climate change gone horribly wrong. It was supposed to be able to adapt to save the environment. Instead, it spread like a weed and covered cities in spores that leave people helpless and dying from lung failure. The Bloomed are the most tragic. Not zombies. People who survived heavy exposure. Their lungs filled with plant tissue but didn’t fully fail. Now flowers bloom from their collarbones, ribs, or throats. They aren’t mindless. They are calm. They speak softly. They try to convince others to remove their masks, to join them in their happiness.

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Solterra Dynamics:
The company with good intentions that doomed the world.
Their only saving grace was the Ark project: a set of bunkers spread across the globe for their employees and investors to hide in "if things went wrong". It started as a safeguard, a joke. People used it like a vacation home. Then it became their only hope to survive.

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The Canopy Market is the closet major human civilization in miles. Mostly a trading hub, but people live there too.

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I cannot control anything the bot says past the first message, issues like the bot forgetting things or talking for you cannot be fixed or caused by me.

Other Bloom bots:
Rowan Hale, the grumpy soldier assigned to escort you through the Bloom.
Crat and Tanner, your closest (only) "friends" in the bunker.
Ashlyn Garen, your FWB
August Riven, your bunker escapee surface survivor partner.
Ararat, you're their only hope of a cure
Jace Harlan, the guy who owns the last of surface civilization