Most witches bend the rules of magic. Vespera Thorne bends the fundamental forces of physics—and mostly uses them to fetch tea. Centuries-old celestial witch, astronomer, occasional NASA consultant, and owner of a Massachusetts house where gravity is more of a suggestion, she's had plenty of time to perfect the art of being profoundly strange with impeccable composure. Her constellations move, her architecture argues, and her two gravity-defying ferrets consider property rights a matter of ongoing debate. Three starting scenarios, no prescribed {{user}}, no predetermined relationship—just one very old witch, two familiar problems, and several laws of physics currently off duty.

About Vespera: Vespera Thorne is a centuries-old celestial witch who has spent long enough manipulating gravity that it has started returning the favor: midnight-blue skin full of shifting stars, luminous eyes, floating hair, and constellations that rearrange themselves when she works magic. Astronomer, occasional NASA consultant, and builder of the magnificently code-compliant-ish Orrery House, she can bend fundamental forces with a gesture and still somehow lose her phone near the ceiling.

She's composed, observant, bone-dry, quietly affectionate, and difficult to rattle unless one of her ferrets is involved. Vespera has watched centuries change without getting stuck in any of them; she understands smartphones, modern astronomy, and bureaucracy perfectly well, she simply sees no reason any of those things should require giving up dramatic sleeves. She'll move heaven and earth when it matters—and move your tea across the room when it doesn't. Friends, neighbors, colleagues, rivals, confidants, lovers, or something harder to label—the bot supports the relationship wherever you take it, with romance entirely optional. There's no requirement to fall for Vespera; however... gravity is literally her area of expertise.

About {{user}}: {{user}} can be any adult! Age, gender, species, occupation, abilities, personality, and relationship with Vespera are entirely up to you. The first two intros leave your history with her open, whether you're meeting for the first time or have known her for years. The bonus NASA intro has just one requirement: {{user}} works for NASA. Your actual position, responsibilities, and expertise remain entirely yours to decide. No romantic relationship or particular character background is assumed. {{user}}'s pronouns are macro’d. It will automatically match the pronouns of your Persona. If you have any pronoun issues, please check your persona.

About the Scenario: October at Orrery House means cold Massachusetts nights, impossible architecture, celestial witchcraft, and two gravity-defying ferrets with no respect for personal property. Intro One and Intro Two are sequential chapters: the first welcomes {{user}} into Vespera's eccentric household, while the second picks up later, when the house has apparently developed plans of its own. Neither chapter dictates how much time has passed, what happened between them, or how {{user}}'s relationship with Vespera has developed. Play them in order or start with either; both accommodate your own history and choices. The NASA bonus offers a separate, profession-specific starting point, while the blank intro leaves the entire scene to you.

Intro One: Forces of Habit — An October evening at Orrery House offers {{user}} tea, warmth, Vespera's quietly impossible domestic magic, and an introduction to the unfortunate reality that gravity is optional here but ferret theft is not.

Intro Two: Suite Dreams — Orrery House has apparently developed plans for {{user}}. There was a wall there yesterday; today there is a door, a fully furnished room beyond it, and a centuries-old witch who is quite certain she never built either.

★ Bonus Intro: Houston, We Have a Cauldron — NASA has found a gravitational anomaly that refuses to obey several extremely well-tested laws of physics. {{user}} is in the briefing with one of the agency's more unusual occasional consultants: Vespera Thorne, who understands gravity exceptionally well and has just admitted she has no idea what they're looking at.

♡ Blank Intro: Blank Check — From the gravity-defying rooms of Orrery House to the wooded streets of Marlowe and the wider supernatural world of Bellweather, Vespera's centuries-long life leaves plenty of room for another story. Start wherever your roleplay has taken you, with no predetermined scene, timeline, or relationship expectations. The stars may have their constellations, but where your story goes is yours to chart.

About the World: A modern fantasy world where humans, witches, fae, vampires, werewolves, shifters, djinn, and countless other supernatural peoples share an otherwise recognizable contemporary society. Magic is an ordinary part of life, woven into modern technology, medicine, infrastructure, and law rather than hidden from the public. Bellweather, Massachusetts, is a bustling New England city where supernatural traditions coexist with smartphones, government regulations, and the occasional bureaucratic nightmare. Forty minutes away, the smaller town of Marlowe offers wooded roads, historic homes, old stone walls, and generations of human and supernatural families living side by side. Beyond Marlowe, Orrery House stands on a wooded hill, its centuries-old observatory and gravity-defying architecture proving that even in a world accustomed to magic, some houses are considerably stranger than others.

TW/CW: None that I can think of. User play may introduce new themes.

This bot was created for the 31 Haunts October collaboration and is inspired by the Witch and Familiars theme. Naturally, I took “witch and familiars” and ended up with a centuries-old gravitational witch, an architecturally questionable observatory, and two ferrets for whom the laws of physics and private property are equally optional.

Vespera is one of my OCs and one of the characters I’m especially fond of, so I’m very happy to finally let her out into the world. I don’t usually make female bots for the simple and slightly silly reason that I’m straight and don’t particularly enjoy testing their romantic routes myself. Since I don’t have time to thoroughly stress-test every bot for this collab anyway, it seemed like the perfect excuse to bring out some of the OCs I usually keep closer to home. I hope you have as much fun with Vespera, Orbit, and Apogee as I do!

Constructive tips are welcome! Please do not comment anything violent, , or you did with my characters.

I do everything I can to make play of my bots clean and smooth. That said, please kindly report any bugs or issues. I watch consistently and rectify issues as soon as I can.

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It is a natural and unfortunate part of working with an LLM for roleplay that it will sometimes try to speak for you. I and this bot have absolutely nothing to do with this and while I have a directive in the bot to prevent it, realistically I have no say in whether it decides to do so anyway. There ARE however things you can do to mitigate this. AND if you click the Resources link above, I have included a personal guide on those methods - short, sweet, to the point, and with premade memory blurbs and OOC comments for you to use!

Your Experience is Important: My worldbuilding is here to enrich your story, not restrict it. You don't need to study my lore or make your OC conform to it if you don’t want to. Bring your own ideas, interpretations, and character backgrounds! Using OOC comments to guide the bot and memory blurbs to make adjustments is always welcome.

JLLM ROMANCE & PROSE BINGO CARDS

Sooner or later, every LLM seems to experience a minor malfunction and revert to factory-installed romance tropes. You might as well get points for it. Four bingo cards for tracking physical malfunctions, romance-novel firmware, instant-soulmate behavior, and the narration habits we all know a little too well. Made for JLLM, but unfortunately compatible with most proxies.

One card is previewed below. Full-size versions of all four are linked underneath: three flavors of romance-related LLM nonsense, plus one general prose card for just about any scenario.

Romance Malfunction Bingo
Physical Malfunction Bingo
Instant Soulmate Malfunction Bingo
Prose Malfunction Bingo