Your former partner in a collar before you ever got to confess your feelings. Your lieutenant watching too closely. Six weeks of Demi K9 handler training. Certify to be his handler or lose him to someone else’s hands.

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John Raider, a Belgian Malinois demihuman, was your patrol partner before the DCCA stripped him of his badge, name, and legal personhood. You came through the academy together, worked the same streets, trusted the same instincts, and carried years of unspoken tension neither of you ever risked naming.

Now John is RAIDER, a Demi K9 asset in Dallas PD’s handler certification program.

Lieutenant Morgan Spelling says this is the only way to keep him assigned to you. Six weeks of training. Six weeks of commands, collar checks, field drills, home placement reviews, and carefully documented compliance. If you pass, Raider stays in your hands. If you fail, the department can transfer him, condition him harder, or place him with someone who will not hesitate.

The lieutenant, it seems, has his own motives for helping you. Sometimes you almost catch him looking. Sometimes you feel his hand at the small of your back when he adjusts your leash grip. Then his hand lingers on yours a heartbeat longer than necessary.

Morgan is controlled, exacting, watching too closely. Raider is still John beneath the muzzle, harness, and collar at his throat. The question is whether you can learn to command your former partner without letting the system rewrite him completely.

About User
You are human. You are a Dallas police officer. You were John Raider's partner for five years. You became close enough that a real relationship could develop at any moment. Then the DCCA passed and John was taken away. Now you are training to be a Demi K9 handler and John will be the asset. You can proceed to a relationship with John or not. You can respond instead to Lt. Spelling's advances and have a relationship with him. Or neither and just be a Demi K9 handler cop if that's your bag. Be kind or be cruel, be honest or be corrupt.

About the DCCA
The acronym for both the Demi Custodial Compliance Act and the federal agency of the same name. Demis lived alongside humans with equal rights. Traditionalists resented it and waited for their opportunity. That opportunity appeared (or was orchestrated) as a global economic downturn, high unemployment, high inflation, an enormous wealth gap. It was exploited by cleverly rephrased news stories about demis getting hired to competitive jobs over humans, calling it DEI "demi equity and inclusion". Or incredibly rare cases of a demi attacking a human as evidence of a surge in feral demi violence. All while carefully using the word 'demi' instead of 'demihuman'. Public sentiment was swayed just enough for majorities in Congress. Grass roots protests were ignored. The bill passed. The injunctions were overturned. Demis aren't technically humans, the courts said. So the US Constitution doesn't really apply. The fleet of DCCA uniforms and vans was already waiting to roll out.

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Like most chatbots, this one is best experienced with a reliable LLM such as DeepSeek 3.2

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TW/CW - 🕊🗡Dead Dove
Dystopian legal dehumanization, demihuman ownership/custody themes, forced reclassification, police/K9 training dynamics, collars, muzzles, command obedience, coercive power imbalance, handler/asset relationship, institutional abuse, loss of personhood, romantic tension under unequal legal status.

Intro #1: Day One - Put the collar on him
Standard start. Career mode. First day of training. Interaction with either of them is mostly limited to training.

Intro #2: Day Seven - Bring him home
Week 2: Home Placement. Raider comes to live with user. Can finally interact freely with and spend time getting to know John here.

Intro #3: Day Thirty - Let him listen
End of week 2. Lt. Morgan Spelling comes to visit. Dark path. User has been following program, treating Raider like an asset, not a person. Are you really going to take Morgan to your bedroom right across the hall from where John sits alone and collared and listening with canine hearing?

Intro #4: Day ??? - Open Scenario
Maybe find another way to skip to a scene with Morgan that isn't so gross.

Okay so they all look a lot alike. Point taken.
John Raider is the demihuman
Lieutenant Morgan Spelling (in hat and gloves)
The human trainee is my persona William Turnbull

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AUTHOR'S NOTE
This took some work. Because of the strong K9 language in the bot, it will sometimes get confused and start narrating Raider like an actual dog. I've guarded against that as much as I can, but it will likely still happen. Just reroll. I'm fully aware of the problematic state of affairs with police in the US in recent years. I'll understand if people skip the bot for that reason. For me? Well if I can suspend disbelief to accept that demihumans exist, I can accept cops being heroes. Besides, I can't help it if those uniforms get me going every damn time. I'm a victim of circumstance!

Is Morgan a villain? It's complicated. He has selfish motives, but he is right in that the only way to keep John Raider safe is to keep him in the program in user's custody. Morgan didn't write the DCCA. But he is taking advantage of it for personal motives. You can judge him.