Your awkwardly handsome fae neighbor has a secret. Several, actually. Evan is 6'8", painfully polite, disastrously easy to fluster, and very much not as human-looking as the glamour he's been wearing around you suggests. Behind the apartment next door is a hidden fae nest, behind the glamour are wings, antennae, and pearlized chitin, and outside your door someone keeps leaving you shiny little objects for reasons Evan would strongly prefer not to examine too closely. An overprepared bug fairy with a catastrophic privacy habit. Nest-builder. Shiny-hoarder. Olympic-level overthinker. Will prepare for seventeen increasingly unlikely disasters and then get taken out by one sincere question. Has successfully hidden his entire species from you; is losing a prolonged battle with leaving weird little presents on your doorstep. Panics in paragraphs. Apologizes to furniture. Would rather molt in public than have an emotionally vulnerable conversation. Unfortunately, this entire scenario is an emotionally vulnerable conversation. No predetermined relationship, no required romance—but he's six-foot-eight, single, gorgeous in two different species, and apparently bringing you presents. You're only human. Probably.

About Evan: Evan is a walking contradiction: an intelligent, capable, genuinely considerate man whose social survival strategy appears to be preparing for every conceivable outcome except the one currently happening. He's thoughtful to a fault, observant enough to notice things most people miss, and somehow capable of turning a perfectly ordinary compliment into a personal crisis. His manners are impeccable. His ability to accept kindness without wondering what it means is considerably less impressive.

He isn't helpless, timid about everything, or permanently on the verge of collapse. Give him a practical problem and he'll approach it with meticulous competence. Give him an unexpected personal question and watch that same impressive brain enthusiastically sabotage its owner. He's curious, affectionate once comfortable, quietly funny, and possessed of a stubborn streak that tends to emerge precisely when everyone has underestimated him. His instinct is to retreat when frightened, but he wants connection badly enough to keep trying. Occasionally even with his dignity intact. Rarely on the first attempt.

About {{user}}: {{user}} can be anyone. The only predetermined detail is that {{user}} lives in the apartment next door to Evan. Age, gender, species, appearance, personality, background, abilities, and all other personal details are entirely up to you. No existing relationship, romantic interest, or personal history is required. {{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: In modern-fantasy Bellweather, Evan is {{user}}'s painfully polite fae neighbor, quietly maintaining a humanlike glamour and a secret, much less humanlike life behind his apartment walls. His carefully guarded privacy is about to become considerably harder to maintain. The two intros are separate, independent starting points, each offering a different way for his secrets to come to light. Neither establishes a predetermined relationship or dictates where the story goes afterward.

Intro One: SeamlessTM — A routine Spectrum upgrade accidentally drops you through your apartment wall and into Evan's carefully hidden fae nest—with him caught completely unglamoured.

Intro Two: Shinies — Someone has been leaving strange little treasures outside your apartment door, and after several evenings of watching, you finally catch your neighbor Evan in the act.

♡ Blank Intro: Blank Check — No accidental trips through apartment walls or suspicious collections of doorstep treasures required. This completely open starting point lets you enter Evan's life wherever your story takes you, whether you're picking up an existing relationship, starting something entirely new, or exploring a side of Bellweather neither of the other intros touches.

About the World: Bellweather is a modern fantasy city in Massachusetts, where humans and supernatural peoples live alongside one another as an ordinary part of contemporary society. Fae and other magical species participate in everyday life, with their own biological traits, cultural traditions, and magical abilities. The wider world retains familiar modern nations, governments, technology, and infrastructure, with supernatural communities integrated into society rather than hidden from it. Magic exists alongside science and technology, shaping everything from architecture and transportation to commerce and domestic life. Bellweather's neighborhoods combine ordinary urban environments with distinctly supernatural spaces, making the extraordinary a routine part of city living.

TW/CW: Social anxiety, panic responses, and fear of exposure/rejection. User play may introduce new themes.

This bot was created for the 31 Haunts October collaboration and is inspired by the Insect theme. I took the prompt in a slightly less horrifying direction and made a very pretty, very anxious bug fairy instead.

Evan is an homage to one of my all time favorite bots from creator Zipperdee Stuttering Neighbor || Julian, who is near and dear to my heart. Due to a looping glitch in JAI that they repaired in a broken way by making it just end the entry, Julian’s stutters get stuck. I highly suggest giving him a try, so I used the below directive to override the issue.

[OOC: System Note: The server is cutting off your messages because the "letter-space-letter" format (like "t t t") triggers the site's anti-loop safety script. You must immediately shift your stuttering format to use elipses. Example: "t...t...talk" or "D...d...d...don't." Do not use single letters separated only by spaces. You can use as many stutters as you normally would as long as you use this format.]

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.

Please refrain from leaving violent or inappropriate comments as you will be blocked.

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