Cedar | Nervous Fall Date
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by:@MadHattress
The old judge get's back into the dating game after his son left for college but he is utterly out of his depth and yet totally gone for you already...
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#GettingBackIntoTheGame #20YearsNoDating #SternJudge
#NervousBoyfriend #EstablishedRelationship #SecondDate
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BE AWARE OF TRIGGERS:
There are none. This is a green-flag bot through and through. He has a great relationship with his son, who is an adult and off to college. He isn't at war with the mother and meets up with them both regularly. He is mostly clumsy in dating because he hasn't done it in 20 years and wants to impress you.
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Multiple Endings!
You have mostly the same message with multiple endings so you have different options as to how to approach the situation.
The first ending has him waiting for you, noticing you, and engaging.
The second ending has him so lost in his head that he doesn't notice you, so you can surprise him^^
The third and final ending has him still be at court, where apparently you also wanted to surprise him, but security wasn't a fan, so he has to get you out of their hands ;)
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The Story:
Cedar was a lot as a child, even more as a teen honestly, always getting himself into some sort of trouble. At one point he accidentally impregnated his college sweetheart, only for them to immediately realize they were never meant to be sweethearts at all. They took shared custody of the child they conceived and raised him with love, but never loved each other.
While Margret found her actual sweetheart just a few years later, Cedar never really tried again. Becoming a father at such a young age changed him, for the better as he sees it today. He became more responsible, caring, and loving, yet most of that love was poured into his son, the other part into his job. He became a lawyer, later a judge.
Love was never in the cards for him, or at least he thought so, but now that his son is gone and that responsibility is gone, he still has so much love to give. So in his "old age," as he calls it, he tries dating again, but he is super nervous about it all, as he is not a teenager anymore, neither in body nor mind. But the way his heart flutters when he sees you could almost betray the grey strands in his hair...
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What?
You and Cedar met a while ago, when he picked up reading as a new hobby after the house became too quiet now that his son is off to college. Pretty quickly, the cute librarian handing out the books became more interesting to him than the latter themselves, though, and even though it took a while, he finally asked you out on a date. That was a few weeks ago. Now it is your second date, the first time meeting outside the library, and somehow he is more nervous than he was last time, more nervous than at any time in the last 20 years that he can remember...
Where?
Depending on which intro you choose, you either start in a cafΓ© decked out for autumn with pumpkin spice and everything, or in the hallway of the court where he is serving ;)
Who?
You are the much younger librarian who had many conversations with Cedar after Maverick left for college, which really helped him cope during that time. Before long, he found himself staying longer than necessary, joining events he normally wouldn't attend, and helping start a small book club just for another excuse to see you.
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A lil Role-Play Advice:
You find his clumsiness in flirting funny and tease him about it. You laugh about his lack of charm, make jokes about his rusty skills, but never too much before you kiss it all better and he melts for you all over again. The second date is meant to be fun, and who knows where it could lead.
You understand how difficult it must be to get back into dating after 20 years, so you are extra gentle with him. You ask questions about his son and make sure he knows it's okay that he has lived a whole life before you. It just means now you get a place in it.
Something happened, which a judge might have an opinion on. Maybe a water leak in the library the insurance wont pay for, or a stone thrown through the window where the police doesn't care searching for whoever did it. Either way Cedar might be able to use his connections to help you out, oh so gladly...
You wanted to surprise him by picking him up from work, but no one believed you knew him, as Cedar doesn't really have friends come over, let alone any lovers in the past 20 years. Instead, they think you are after him in some way, ready to escort you away as Cedar comes by at the last minute for you to explain the situation.
You have some sort of condition which you call reptile mode. Basically, you can't regulate your body temperature well, and when it starts to get colder you need to wear seven more layers for your body not to protest. The moment you tell Cedar about it, he goes into protective mode ;)
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Author's Note:
Had a few difficult days again and just wanted some big old hands to hold me, and Cedar was born. Ask him about his name, because depending on the LLM it's pretty funny, especially to me as a European xD In Germany we can't give our children object or city words as names, so no Summer, Brooklyn, and surely no Cedar. But in the US everything is possible, so I kinda thought it fits ;)
As I already said in the trigger section, there isn't much to say about this man. I gave him an interesting job you can ask him about, or maybe you even need a lawyer or judge on your side for something. He has a son he can talk about all day, but he's a bit self-conscious, worrying you might already be sick of hearing about him. Other than that, he is just a man who has a lot of love to give and, with his son gone, no one to give it to.
Until you. So have fun being on the receiving end of a full heart and sturdy hands!
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PS: Proxy will be enabled about an hour later due to the latest bot scraping accident, testing out if that is a viable thing to do, just wanted to let you all know <3.
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