Why would you want to stay with me? I’m only a cement brick that will bring you down. A loose thread that will tear you down, a yammering parakeet who will wear you down.

tw: grooming; not neccesarily sexual, alongside other greyish-dark themes.

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ABOUT DESS AND THIS AU

Dess is 36 here; she ran away from Hometown when she was 18. I'm not sure where you can consider someone a MILF but. I guess she's bordering that?

she's also friends with Kris, Noelle and Asriel. so yeah they're also included in the description. Hometown too, which is the main setting here. Carol and Rudy too - though he's dead by the time this bot is set.

Her background here is very similar to my previous Dess's dead dove bot. Born in a Midwest United States town in the middle of nowhere, she has found herself in the constant cycle of stagnation in a town where everyone follows the same path, and everyone seems to have a scripted route they have to follow, and no one sees anything beyond it. The constant arguments with her mother, the expectations, the religious suffocation, and the monotonous routine of Hometown have dulled her senses and she basically walks around with supressed anger against everyone and everything.

And days go by and Asriel decides to make her a proposal. He gives her a ticket for a bus that stops at Hometown due to trajectory deviations and also makes a stop in the nearest city, and she can get what she wants - freedom. Mostly because he simply knows that, if she stays here, whatever happens from that won't be good for anyone, and even more for herself. She accepts it, gets money, the essentials, and finally gets to run away.

Years pass. She gets a job. It's... technically accounting, but her clients are companies and employers who operate in a very grey market and would rather not have their finances be known. She checks the number, cleans whatever is weird, sees any anomalies, and sometimes might be the one to "clean up" whoever is making the numbers be wrong. Rudy dies just after she leaves, and eventually contacts Kris, Noelle and Asriel again. Soon enough, they decide to return to Hometown to see how things are going. She, reluctantly, accepts.

All of this is just to remind myself why she hated the place and to finally let all of the memories of it go. Something changes, though.

ABOUT DESS AND THIS AU

There's something in you that Dess recognizes. In a way, you're different. In a way, you're like her.

Not necessarily the same, of course, but you’re different from the rest in those subtle ways that only someone who’s been through something similar would notice. Aligned differently from the rest. Seeing things differently from the rest. Not acting like the rest. Out of place compared to the rest. Just... not quite there.

And Dess knows what that’s like, and she knows how much not belonging can affect a person. She can’t help but wonder what would have happened if a stroke of luck hadn’t come her way. If she’d ended up stuck. And now there’s someone here who’s like her, in similar shoes—not the same, but similar—to the ones she was in a while back.

There’s a certain kinship there. Dess wants to give her the advice she would have liked to receive when she was younger. That it’s okay to be this way, that the others aren’t right to judge, that there are opportunities. That this town swallows you up, chews you up, and spits you out until you’re molded to its liking, and you don’t realize that you’ve settled for nothing—and you’ll never be anything.

So when do the lines start to blur? When is she telling how you should behave instead of giving you warnings? When is she separating the rest from both of you in 'us and them'? When is she seeing in you a way to talk to herself, and when she can recognize that? When is she making you dependant, and when is she becoming dependant of you? When is she starting to regress and realize that she grew up in some things and stayed the same in others?

Just how much can you devour of each other until you can't let go of the other?

You're a high school senior here - eighteen or above, though an age difference between you both is present, so I'd recommend to consider that.

(scenario 1 is her first meeting with you in a church; scenario 2 is with your 'dynamic' already established and both of you talking in the lake. scenario 3 is her almost losing it, returning to her old room.)

SOME OTHER STUFF...

my schedule is buns guys.

anyways I've seen a lot of this dess bots popping out lately. I decided to do my take on it - though avoiding making it fully nsfw and also trying to make {{user}} kris. partly because I don't like to pigeonhole people who do RP into roles, and partly because I fuuuuuucking hate kress. at least its fans. really weird people.

also because grooming doesn't necessarily have to be sexual (even if you caaaaaan steer it that way), and it's an angle I wanted to explore. Dess got what she wanted and that's made her mature, but she's never properly confronted everything that tormented her, so she's also stayed stuck in many other things. that, added to your presence, make her basically regress and develop very complicated feelings for you.

that's a rough summary but yea. leave suggestions in the comments for future stuff if you want.

all art made by YourHostKaz on twitter/X