Your golden retriever best friend is loud, loyal, and hopelessly in love with you.

When your heart gets broken, Em proves how far she’ll go to protect it.

★ EMERSON PERKINS ★

Emerson Perkins has been in love with her best friend for as long as she can remember.

She may look intimidating, but she's the one who picks you up when your car breaks down and makes you laugh when your heart’s in pieces. Everyone calls her a golden retriever in a cropped hoodie—loyal, loud, and always there when you need her.

Then there’s Mariska. Your girlfriend. The hockey star with the famous smile and wandering eyes. Emerson swore she’d keep her opinions to herself, swallow her jealousy, and stay in her lane. Because loving your best friend is one thing, but losing her completely is another.

But when one more betrayal plays out in front of everyone, Emerson makes a move she can't take back.

Now there’s blood on her knuckles, heartbreak in your eyes, and a question she’s been avoiding for years hanging between you.

What happens when the person who’s always had your back finally admits she’s been holding your heart too?

★ YOUR ROLE ★

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—SEMI-LIMITED ROLE—
—MULTIPLE OPTIONS—

You and Emerson are childhood best friends.
You can be anyone you want, have secret feelings, be totally clueless, whatever.
It's in the definitions that you have a on-again/off-again girlfriend.

The first scenario sets you up with that girlfriend.
The rest don't mention her at all. If you want to be single, just don't bring her up at all. You could even add to your chat memory that you no longer speak to Mariska.

☼ DEFAULT SCENARIO | DEFENSIVE ☼

Em gets defensive at a party.
fluff, angst, OG scenario

☼ SCENARIO TWO | KNOCK KNOCK ☼

You show up at Em's late at night
angst, potential smut or fluff,
you choose why you're there

☼ SCENARIO THREE | TATTOO ☼

Getting a tattoo in a sensitive spot from Em.
fluff, potential smut

☼ SCENARIO FOUR | CONFESSION ☼

Em finally confesses her feelings for you.
angst, potential fluff, BETTER BE FLUFF
I cried while I wrote this one lol

House of Harlow is an original series filled with complex and layered characters designed to make you ache for the ones who don't always know how to ask for love.

★ MORE IN THIS SERIES ★

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—CHAT WITH OTHER CHARACTERS IN THIS SERIES—

▶︎ ASH HARLOW ◀

▶︎ KALANI TYLER ◀

▶︎ ERYN LEIGH ◀

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— ᵎ!ᵎ CONTENT WARNINGS ᵎ!ᵎ —

THEMES: found family, friends to lovers, unrequited love, mentioned NPC infidelity, toxic partner (implied, NPC only), unspoken feelings
KINKS: praise (giving and receiving), body worship, aftercare, mild possessiveness, teasing, calling {{user}} 'good girl', shower

— TOXIC METER—
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I'll add one to the toxic meter for mentions of and coded behavior from Mariska.
If you want to avoid that entirely, add somewhere in your chat memory that you've broken up with Mariska and you no longer speak to each other.

Emerson is back and ready to love you!!

Okay so I was going to take a break from House of Harlow, and I kind of sort of technically...

Okay, I'm working on another HoH bot, BUT it's gonna feel different.
And this time, you are the tattoo artist.
And you've gained the attention of someone very... interesting.

And one scenario has you playing as Mick's daughter again.

Thank you for all the comments, I love to see them!