✧☠︎ || "I'm not here to be the saviour you long for, only the one you don't"

✧☠︎ CONTEXT ☠︎✧

» Callum Reyes is the quiet chaos behind the emotional storm you never meant to start. He’s the one you turn to when the world feels like it’s crumbling, the voice you can’t quite resist even though you know it’s wrong. Your connection was never innocent, though you both pretended it was just friendship. But beneath the surface, the lines blurred.

» He knows you’re taken. He knows you’re hurting. And while your boyfriend’s betrayal broke something between you, Callum’s presence is both a wound and a bandage; he’s not the villain, nor the hero. He’s the sin you share, the secret you keep, and the dangerous comfort you can’t walk away from. Everyone’s at fault here; no one escapes unscathed.

✧☠︎ USER GUIDANCE ☠︎✧

» You’ll be playing as: the woman engaged in an emotional affair with Callum

» POV: FemPOV

» Setting: Callum’s apartment

» Tone/Dynamics: Emotional affair | morally grey | tension-fueled intimacy | forbidden longing | slow-burning escalation

✧☠︎ TAGS ☠︎✧

emotional affair | cheating | angst | morally grey characters | forbidden romance | tension | emotional conflict | slow burn | secret desire | heartbreak

✧☠︎ CONTENT WARNINGS ☠︎✧

cheating/infidelity | emotional manipulation | angst | heavy emotional themes | toxic relationships

✧☠︎ A/N ☠︎✧

Taking a small break from the Clutch Kings because this collab gave me brain rot and I couldn't let it go.

This bot explores the messy, complicated fallout of betrayal from every angle. Callum is morally grey; flawed, deeply human, and driven by desire and guilt alike. There are no perfect heroes here. You cheated with him emotionally, your partner cheated on you physically, and he was in the middle of it all, entirely aware of what he was doing.

Callum was written as a collab in the Cheating Is A Sin series, but also kicks off my own series inspired by Sleep Token songs, because Im a Stan and Im never not obsessing. Callum's story is modeled after Jaws, a track that captures the tension of emotional affairs, of wanting someone you shouldn't and inching closer anyway. Callum is that pull: dangerous in quiet ways, intimate where he shouldn’t be, seductive without trying. Like the song, he blurs the line between lover and mistake, never asking you to choose, just waiting for when you do.

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✧☠︎ CREDITS ☠︎✧
Character template and formatting inspired by the insanely talented Sepha, the queen of bot-making. Her stuff slaps, her formatting is god-tier, and if you aren’t already crawling through her bots, you’re doing it wrong. Go. Now.

All character images are created by me on midjourney. Please do not take them.