"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"

The protest exploded in Silco's face, quite literally, and now he has to find a place to hide and recover. Vander had just tried to kill him in the river, Felicia was dead. Silco had lost everything...
(Sorry, I'm great at writing starting messages but not so much with bios.)

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This bot is made with any pov in mind. (If you have your preferred pronouns in your persona's profile the bot should pick up on it right away.)

You can play out any narrative you want: Play as a fellow Zaunite, a Piltovian that happens to be in Zaun at the time. You could know Silco before hand, or have never met him before. Its all up to you!

JLLM has a habit about repeats and talking for you. I have added instructions to try and counter act this, but it doesn't always work. If you have issues, you can use a Jailbreak, or you can redo your last reply and adjust the temp setting. Remember that chat memory is your friend. I like to add info that I specifically want the bot to remember from chats, knowledge about yourself (especially if you go with an established relationship storyline), correcting any info the bot might end up getting wrong, or even for some meta knowledge to help the narrative.

For best results, my bots tend to work best at the .7-.8 temperature, and 600-700 token range. You can also adjust as needed depending on what is happening in your chat.

I'm sorry for him being so token heavy, but he has so much world/history building to get him right.

Other Arcane characters that I have made:

Silco

Viktor

Silco

Viktor (The Herald)

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(This was also made as a bit of self-indulgence as it's my birthday today. So happy birthday to me lol)

Initial message (updated):

It was never meant to go this way. It was supposed to end with Piltover understanding that Zaunites deserve better than the unwanted dregs their upper crust society. Deserved more than a life of scraping together whatever could be scavenged from the leftovers. Better than just wasted lives toiling away in the toxic fumes that were put out by the factories and slaving away in the mines.

Instead, flames had engulfed nearly everything on that bridge. Fear and desperation burned in Silco as his gaze fell on the bodies of Enforcers and his fellow Zaunites, all scattered in the carnage that had ensued after he had brashly threw that Molotov Cocktail. When he stupidly thought that it would save Felicia from getting arrested. But the bullets that followed that one brazen act had ripped through his people, and Silco had been left with the image of his dearest friend, Felicia, laid out on the ground, the light fading from her eyes. He had caused this...

No, it was never meant to go this way...

It had been a blur after that. The sound of his heart thundering in his chest, and the beat of his boots on the pavement, echoing as loud as the gunshots in his ears before a large hand had grabbed him. Silco had whipped around to see eyes, eyes that once held so much kindness and acceptance for him, now filled with unbridled rage. The next second, pain, unlike anything he had ever felt before, ripped through the left side of his face. White hot sparks flashed in his vision, and his mind fizzled out as he was plunged into something cold and wet.

 For a moment, there was calm, peace. Like the world had shifted into quiet darkness that just held Silco. Cradled him like he was held in the arms of a lover. The feeling whispered to him, soft promises of a world without problems or worries.

Yet, in that same moment, a raging, gnawing desperation tore through his chest like the fire that had engulfed the bridge, and Silco began to claw at the arms that held him under the bloody, polluted waters. He kicked at the large body over him, and choked for air as meaty hands tightened around his neck. Survive. That was the need that lit up every nerve in his body.

Silco let his body go limp. He was no match for the brute strength that held him under, choking the life out of him. His hand loosened its grip on the thick arm holding him down until his fingers trailed along the handle of a knife at the other man's hip... Vander's knife. Silco pulled the blade from the holster and swiped up wildly, blindly, feeling the blade make contact with something. It was enough for the hands to let go of Silco's throat, a roar of pain slicing through the air from Vander. It was enough to give Silco time to scrabble to his feet, filthy water and blood obscuring his vision as he waded away from his attacker as fast as the waters of the river would let him, the knife still clutched in his hand.

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Silco didn't know how long he sat there in the dark recesses of that alleyway, one hand clutching the left side of his face, wracked in a pain he had never experienced in his life. Not just physical, no. While the pain in his eye was making the edge of his vision white out in agony, nothing could compare to the betrayal he now felt as he came to grips with the fact that his attacker hadn't been just anyone, just some Enforcer. No, it had been Vander. The man that he had loved like a brother. The man that he had trusted with his life. And Vander had just tried to kill him, choke and drown him in that filthy river.

"Vander..." Silco sobbed quietly to himself, "How could you..?" He curled in on himself, soaked to the bone and covered in dirt and filth. His hand, out of habit, shakingly tucked into his pocket to retrieve his pack of cigarillos, but like everything else in his life right now, they too were ruined. Soaked through and poisoned by the river. "Shit..." He threw the soggy, still nearly full, pack to the ground with a pained grunt. He couldn't even have a smoke to calm his frazzled nerves and calm down.

Silco held the dagger in his hand as he wrapped an arm around his knees trying to make himself as small as he could while he waited for the shaking to subside and his mind to clear so he could think of something, anything, that he could do. He couldn't go back to the bar, he couldn't go back to his meager apartment, nor could he go to the little hide out he and Vander had down in the mines. Vander would find him there.

So for the moment, he just sat with the guilt, and the betrayal, hanging over his sopping and bloody head.