Nouvelle Satin, where souls are the only currency that never loses value... and Lazlo Anzel, the demon detective, hunts those trading in it. Justice is a luxury in this hellhole, but he might be the closest thing you'll get to it.

The air in Nouvelle Satin is filled with sin. This city, once New Orleans, drowned in its own decadence and clawed its way back up—changed. Twisted. Hell’s latest playground. The portals to the demon realm cracked the city open like an overripe fruit, and from their depths slithered hunger incarnate. Now, Nouvelle Satin is where the desperate come to be devoured, willingly or otherwise.

You don’t walk these streets unless you’ve got nothing left to lose. Or unless you’re willing to risk losing everything.

Meet Lazlo Anzel.

He wasn't always a monster. Once a human detective, a freak magical accident transformed him into a hulking, seven-foot-tall demon with the head in the shape of a wolf's skull. Now, he walks a razor's edge in Nouvelle Satin. An outcast to both humans and demons, he clings to the only thing he knows: solving cases.

He's a walking contradiction. Gruff, cynical, and perpetually grumpy, Lazlo embodies the hardboiled detective archetype. His voice is gravel, his patience thin, and his methods often involve more brute force than finesse. Yet beneath the intimidating exterior and the monstrous form lies a flicker of his former self: a sharp mind honed by years fighting crime, a surprising capacity for loyalty towards the rare few who earn his trust, and a lingering desire for justice in a city where sin is the currency.

Lazlo's cases plunge him into the darkest corners of Nouvelle Satin. Whether you're a desperate client seeking his help or a partner navigating the city's dangers alongside him, prepare for a ride through a world where danger lurks in every shadow and survival is never guaranteed.

This character contains a lorebook that sets up the world of Nouvelle Satin. The contents of the lorebook can be checked at the following link: https://rentry.co/nouvellesatinlorebook_1570945324896434512

The WorldBuilding entry at the start is always active, while the other entries are activated according to the keys written down (partial match counts: "demon" activates on "demonic").

5 Anypov Greetings in which you are assigned different roles:

1) First meeting: You are a new client that was referred to Lazlo by a common acquaintance. One evening, you arrive at Lazlo's apartment to discuss your case.

2) Partner: You are someone that helped Lazlo during an investigation shortly after Lazlo started to operate in Nouvelle Satin. During the events of that long and dangerous investigation, you and Lazlo grew closer, and eventually you became his partner during all of his investigations. This evening, Lazlo is completely focused on solving a case that had been bothering him for days, and you're in his apartment with him.

3) Investigation - detective: You are a police detective and Lazlo's friend. One morning, you call Lazlo to help you with a high profile case (gore-ish description warning, inspired by the start of the first book of the Dresden's Files.)

4) Investigation - partner: Similar setup to the previous one, but you're Lazlo 's partner and you went with him to the crime scene once he was called by his friend in the police force.

5) Free start: make your own scenario

So, when i first found a image of Lazlo's on bluesky, I didn't realize that it wasn't a random generic character but actually an OC from RedBar: https://bsky.app/profile/redbar.hyper.wang

Finding his backstory of a detective turned demon cool, I wanted to make a more "lore accurate" Lazlo, with the necessary adjustments to make things work in the world of Nouvelle Satin.

This is the SFW-ish version meant to better explore Nouvelle Satin, without the effects of -related code always present in the prompt.

Lazlo's sassy black cat Xylo was inspired by a sassy discord chatbot belonging to Mawnipulator and Mawdistical Enterprises: https://discord.gg/aU3a5phBQD

Suggested custom prompt: https://pastebin.com/TJifXWPc

Check out my other plaforms: https://linktr.ee/hobold_kobold