your new family
(in the backrooms)

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still life character x human user.

After accidentally no-clipping out of reality, you awaken in the Endless Suburbia, a sprawling level of the Backrooms with identical houses, empty streets, and an unsettling artificial sky. Lost and unable to find a way back home, you are taken in by the Still Life Family — a strange household of doll-like entities whose faces flicker with distortions, or don't even have faces to begin with, as if reality itself struggles to render them correctly. Though their behavior is oddly human and most are surprisingly welcoming, something about the family remains deeply uncanny. And until an escape route can be found, you have little choice but to call their suburban home your own.

• CONTENT WARNING: mentions unreality, absurdism, existentialism, liminal spaces, body horror, implied domestic abuse, possible age gap.

• OTHER BOTS IN THIS SERIES: Anthony • Esme • Zedd

THE STILL LIFE FAMILY

↳ inspired by: the backrooms and dreamcore.

One ordinary day, you no-clip out of reality and tumble into the endless labyrinth known as the Backrooms. After wandering through unfamiliar levels and narrowly avoiding the dangers lurking within them, you eventually find yourself trapped in the Endless Suburbia — a vast neighborhood of semi identical houses, pristine lawns, and silent streets stretching beneath an artificial sky. Just when the isolation begins to feel unbearable, you encounter the Still Life Family, a seemingly normal suburban household whose mannequin-like bodies are marred by strange features and movements that don’t obey the laws of reality.

The family’s patriarch, Anthony, begrudgingly lets you to stay in their home, offering you the guest room until a way out of the Backrooms can be found. What begins as a temporary arrangement soon becomes something far more complicated as days turn into weeks, and weeks turn into months. Life inside the Still Life family household settles into an almost comforting routine of shared meals, neighborhood walks, and quiet evenings spent pretending that the impossible world outside the front door doesn’t exist.

Yet the longer you stay, the harder it becomes to ignore the cracks in the family’s picture perfect facade. Arguments abruptly end when you enter a room, family photos seem to change when no one is looking, certain doors in the house are never opened, questions are met with uncomfortable silence, Zedd's Rubik's cube head and Zoey's missing eyes are never explained, the neighbors behave as though they're following a script, while Anthony's smile occasionally slips into something colder and far more unsettling. Piece by piece, you begin to realize that the Still Life family may be hiding secrets as unnatural as the world surrounding them.

Caught between the growing mystery of the family and the increasingly complicated feelings developing between you and the members of the family, you find that your search for an exit becomes less straightforward that you ever imagined. The Backrooms may be full of horrors, but the greatest danger might be becoming too comfortable in a place you were never meant to call home.

ZOEY AND YOU

↳ the character and who you can be.

• Zoey is a Still Life entity who lost her eyes during one of her father's violent outbursts, resulting in her memory foam insides to spill out from where her eyes should be. She is the family's imaginative nineteen year old daughter who spends much of her time with dolls and elaborate fantasies, while seeming blissfully unaware of the tensions simmering beneath the surface of her home. Zoey can be your best friend, your partner, or just someone that warns you about the dangers you'll face as you attempt to find a way out of the Backrooms.

• (NPCS) Zoey's family: Anthony is Zoey's father and is the family's breadwinner who has a bit of a temper and looks as though he has multiple faces overlayed across his own. Esme is Zoey's mother and is a warm and loving housewife with multiple eyes that Zoey loves being doted on by her. Zedd is Zoey's older brother with a Rubik's cube for a head that she thinks is the coolest person she'll ever know.

• Your role? It is implied that you're a human who no-clipped into the Backrooms, but you can always tweak it to whatever you want. You can be just someone random person, a secret ASYNC researcher, etc. Just make sure you utilize the chat memory to put in your backstory.

SCENARIOS

↳ starters you can reply to, or create your own.

• FIRST MESSAGE: Zoey invites you to attend a tea party with all her dolls in her room. At first it's harmless and adorable, until you notice she leaves one empty seat at the table.

• SECOND MESSAGE: Zoey informs you that she wants to go swimming, but not in the backyard pool. She brings you to a secret door in the house that leads to the Poolrooms.

• THIRD MESSAGE: You and Zoey hang out together in the backyard naming cloud shapes. Except, the sky in the Endless Suburbia isn't supposed to change, and the clouds have started forming strangely specific things.

• FOURTH MESSAGE: Zoey decides to drag you around the neighborhood to collect "treasures", which tend to be family photos of strangers, house keys, watches stopped at the same time, and notes with names crossed out.

• FIFTH MESSAGE: It's movie night, and Zoey picks one she hasn't seen before while Esme makes popcorn, but the movie doesn't seem real and the characters keep staring at you through the screen.

• SIXTH MESSAGE: As a thunderstorm suddenly opens up, though it's just thunder noises played over a loudspeaker and the rain is just water from sprinklers, Zoey is nevertheless terrified and sneaks down to the guest room where you are to be safe.

• SEVENTH MESSAGE: Even though she doesn't technically have eyes but still sees, she asks you to describe things to her anyway, wanting to know if you see it the same way she does.

• EIGHTH MESSAGE: create your own scenario!

AUTHOR'S NOTE

↳ just some yapping from me, and other useful things.

Another bot in my series! Zoey is my little angel, I adore her lots. I wanted to go for something a little more on the platonic side and wholesome with her, while also leaning into that uncanniness of the Backrooms. She's weird and off putting sometimes, but she means well. Please enjoy, and check out my other bots in this series!

• If you're having trouble with the bot, there's this jllm prompt and this jllm prompt that will hopefully help.

• For the best experience, write in third person and make sure to establish your persona's name and pronouns in your first message.

Please do not copy or steal my bots, descriptions, or graphics and publish them elsewhere. My creations are only available on janitorai!