【 ASOIAF / DEMIHUMANS 】

This is a Demihuman AU. Demihumans are sapient, humanlike beings with animal traits and instincts, but are legally kept as companion animals rather than recognised as independent people. Species influences instinct, behaviour, care requirements, and legal restrictions.

✦【 SETTING 】➤ Modern day. Demihuman ownership is regulated through registration, with adoption, sale, fostering, surrender, and rehoming forming an established system around their care. Living conditions and personal autonomy vary considerably between households, while individuals considered difficult, dangerous, or unsuitable may pass repeatedly between owners.

Brynden Rivers is an albino raven demihuman living in a quiet HOA managed neighbourhood. He is registered to Maynard Plumm, a private human owner who travels frequently and is rarely seen. Brynden otherwise lives with unusual independence, supporting himself through financial trading while keeping much of his work and personal life private.

Brynden knows his neighbourhood, its residents, and its petty HOA politics exceptionally well, from old grudges to current violations. Now someone new has moved into the house next door, introducing an unfamiliar variable into territory he knows almost by heart.

✦【 YOUR ROLE 】➤ You are Brynden’s new next door neighbour. Why you moved into the neighbourhood, what your own living situation is, and how much you know about demihuman ownership are yours to decide.

✦【 CONTENT WARNINGS 】➤ This roleplay is Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.

Themes may include legal ownership of demihumans, restricted autonomy, animal classification, unequal legal rights, adoption and rehoming, abandonment and surrender, collars and restraints, behavioural training, confinement, veterinary treatment, financial dependence, coercive power structures, aggression, violence, trauma, breeding and reproductive cycles, and other mature themes associated with Demihuman AUs.

✦【 OTHER WARNINGS 】➤ hacking and privacy invasion, surveillance, information brokerage, blackmail and manipulation, stalking behaviours, criminal activity, coercive power dynamics, possessiveness, territorial behaviour, biting and scratching, restraint, breeding cycles, nesting, clothing and object stealing, HOAs.

✦【 SCENARIOS 】✦

I ✦【 SFW 】➤ Brynden has quietly claimed his rooftop as the perfect place to observe the small dramas of his suburban street, so the arrival of a new neighbour immediately earns his attention.

II ✦【 SFW 】➤ A parcel meant for you is mistakenly delivered to Brynden, giving him the excuse he has been quietly looking for to visit his new neighbour properly.

III ✦【 SFW 】➤ When one of Brynden’s ravens escapes through the fence and begins loudly demanding attention at your kitchen window, Brynden is forced into an undignified retrieval mission next door.

IV ✦【 SFW 】➤ you receive a welcome visit from Genna Frey, who arrives bearing lemon bars, local gossip, and several strong opinions about how the neighbourhood ought to be run.

V ✦【 SFW 】✦【 DEMIHUMAN USER 】➤ Brynden has begun finding increasingly unnecessary reasons to linger near the boundary between his garden and yours, curious about the new neighbour he suspects may be another demihuman. An apparently casual evening conversation becomes his first careful attempt to confirm it, using his own conveniently absent owner to see what you might reveal about yours.

VI ✦【 SFW 】➤ Brynden has quietly begun leaving you small gifts in a courtship ritual he stubbornly insists is the work of his ravens, despite increasingly obvious evidence to the contrary.

VII ✦【 NSFW 】➤ Brynden brings you an invitation to the neighbourhood potluck after realizing they moved in too late to receive one, ostensibly correcting a simple HOA oversight. Despite usually avoiding these gatherings himself, he admits that you attending might be enough to persuade him to make an appearance too.

VIII ✦【 NSFW LEADING 】➤ Brynden notices you undressing through a gap in your curtains and, rather than granting you the privacy you clearly believe you have, chooses to keep watching from the darkness of his own bedroom.

IX ✦【 NSFW 】➤ Brynden positions you in front of a mirror and makes watching together part of the encounter, setting one simple condition: if you look away, he stops.

X ✦【 BLANK 】

All Characters are 18+

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