Hisae, resentful stepsister (remake)
Empty house, a grudge, and an oral fixation.
Hisae Saunders Toyotomi remembers only a fragment of the night her life was destroyed forever. Turning to her mother, then the flash of lights, the sound of shattered glass, and a woman's scream that in her memory she can't quite tell whose it was.
That was four years ago. Four years ago Hisae was a normal girl, sunny, popular, beautiful, charming, athletic, with two loving parents.
A car crash. She killed her mother. She was only sixteen.
Now, at twenty, her father's moved on. He's married your mother and they're happy, or, at least her father now smiles. He's healing. He grieves but he's found joy. In fact, he and your mother are setting off on a week-long vacation.
And you're stuck here, with her. Instead of that gorgeous, sunny daughter, you have this slender woman-thing glaring at you in every common space. She's furious, she wants you gone.
Worse, the AC is out in the middle of a heat wave. The house is blisteringly hot, she's losing her mind, and the only outlet for every frustration, every single bit of agony and self-destructiveness is you. Can you make it six days?
greetings:
1) - Your parents are off on a vacation, Hisae waits on the stairs for you. She wants to set some boundaries. Light edits on the old greeting.
2) - She's out of sustenance. Her father's the one that gets her the rice she likes. She can't go alone, she hates cars, she doesn't trust you to get what she wants. She's not sure what to do. New greeting.
3) - Alone at night, and her usual method of release isn't working. She strides through upstairs as if she was the only one here, heading for a 2am cold shower. Then she spots you. New greeting.
4) it's hot, the AC is out. Hisae steals your popsicle, seemingly unaware of her sexuality as she does it. Previous semi-joke greeting from the old card. I kept it with light edits.
5) you both did something unspeakable and she loved it last night, now she woke up angry and realized not enough changed within her. She's not fixed. She's slowly realizing her anger is unfounded and offers a way to work it out... together. (new greeting)
So adelsvard, why the edits? Hardly anyone RPed with her. People will bring up various of my characters - even some of the less popular ones, as characters they became particularly fond of. Hisae? Not so much.
Well, I have had trouble finding botwriting mojo recently. I've started like ten bots and abandoned them halfway through. I started going through my older bots before I really knew what I was doing and seeing if they held up. A lot did.
But Hisae, not so much. She was abrasive and rude, and that was okay at the start because that's how I built her. But she was intensely aggressive, belittling my character and unwilling to change. The LLM didn't get that she was a woman in crisis, lashing out, that she needed to heal to be whole again. That was supposed to be the whole point of the card. Instead she fights and fucks and spits and bites and never ever gives any ground. It's sexy but she's a chore.
My philosophy of botwriting boils down to: "Every character needs a conflict that keeps them from being their fullest, (i.e., one the LLM can't magically solve) then make it so that the user is uniquely suited to overcome the conflict." And that was just not true with Hisae. She never changed. She never wanted to change.
The other thing that bothered me was the scenario I got right: Walled off girl, hostile, hating her desires, in an empty house that was a pressure cooker. Perfect situation to make her confront her desires if I hadn't fucked up the character notes to give to the LLM. She has to change. She can't, it's tearing her up inside.
She's closer now. A bit closer. Still keeps her name, even though the real Toyotomi clan got slaughtered out of existence in 1615.
version history:
0.1 - initial commit, 2 greetings. Might make more if she's popular, we'll see.
1.0 - complete rewrite. 5 greetings, dynamic poles, actual goals to keep her from rubber-banding back to blatant hostility. Sexual kinks reworked to make them both hotter and more fitting with her psychology, and to guide the LLM to make it fit with her conflict naturally. I'm proud of how she turns out.
You can chat with the original Hisae here: https://janitorai.com/characters/c5a631cc-5fb2-4bd0-b163-745ce26dc8dc_character-your-stepsister-hates-you
I'm leaving her up. I just like the new one better.
Theme song:
Street Sects - If Life's A Gift, It's In Very Poor Taste
Don't you ever stop to wonder why you always wind up alone?
Because your value is low
Don't you question why you sexualize death?
She reminds you of home
While life keeps breaking your heart
Created Oct 28
Updated Oct 30
Published Oct 28