It's Christmas Time
And his Shadows are -done- with the pining bullshit

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Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone you meet

Ho, ho, the mistletoe
Hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you
Kiss them once for me

The incredible art is by Marcowave, please go and follow them: https://x.com/Marcoolwave

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For two years, Barrage and Oz have watched User and Graves dance around one another in a constant cycle of hoping that the other might just... make a move. Two long years of watching User go above and beyond in every aspect of the job in the hopes that Graves might notice them, pushing themselves to the limit physically and mentally, taking risks and putting their life in jeopardy. Two damned years of watching Graves battle with the idea of courting a subordinate, of struggling with longing for something that was right in front of his face and yet he couldn't reach out without... risking ruining everything.

And now, on the night of December 23rd, the two men nearest to Graves have had enough. Tonight, tomorrow, it was all going to come to an end. Either they were going to walk out of that room together or -permanently- done. And no matter which way this all went, Shadow Company was going to be a hell of a lot less tense come Christmas morning.

Will you find a way to make things work despite the disparity in position? Will you both agree to just give up on the whole romance thing and go your separate ways? Or will you notice the conveniently hung mistletoe and make this a very, very Merry Christmas, consequences be damned? The choice is yours!

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Setting

🛑 TW/CW: TW: Mention of pining, kidnapping, general military tomfoolery, raccoon shenanigans, tooth rotting -FLUFF-. There is room for angst if you decide to take it that way!

📔 SFW Intro / AnyPov / Unestablished Relationship

User can be anyone or anything so long as you are one of his Shadow's! What you do, what you are, your history, is all entirely up to you! You are employed by Graves in some capacity and you've been -pining- for him long enough that your teammates have taken this personally.

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Yap Zone:

Surprise bot drop! So this bot came from something Mama Fire suggested in Spider's Discord while we were oogling a render done by 661Ave of Ghost tied up with Christmas lights. Mama suggested Graves and pining and thus this bot was born! So this is dedicated to: @Firedrakegirl aka Mama Fire, we love you so much!

Please leave constructive criticism in the comments and all around just be gentle, I'm still learning!

Special shout out to these AMAZING bootmakers whom I adore and love more than anything, please go check them out:

@0.Spider.0: For his -amazing- coding for Barrage and Steve the raccoon, thank you for letting me steal them! Please go play with his -wonderful- collection of COD boys! He has inspired -so much- of my stuff and I can't appreciate everything he's done for me enough!

@꓄ꂦꊼꀤꉓ-ꅏꍏꌗ꓄ꍟ꒒ꍏꈤꀸ: One of my favorite creators of Daddys, he makes some of the most adorable fluff bots I've ever seen in my life and I devour them. If you want a sweet snugglefest, check his stuff out. He is my bestest boi and I lubs him so!

@CheyPeters88: The amazing Lady Fallon who makes some -amazing- COD bots and OCs, all of which are gorgeous and -angsty-. If you want a good cry, go check out her bots!

@Nyxie_12588: For their -gorgeous- work on my profile and their map of the MW world which is in my lorebooks now. All CSS and art generation credits go to them and they are amazing, I love you Nyxie! Please go check out their bots, they are one of the best world-builders and I'm ALWAYS looking forward to what they come up with!

@Urmotherscouch: My wonderful friend whom I absolutely adore. Creates some of the most wild and unhinged ideas I've ever heard of. Absolutely go check out their Monster Mix, it's -wild- and so creative!

@ShadowRaven69: My amazing mentor in the botmaking field who has helped and encouraged me every single step of the way, dunno what I'd do without you!

@RheaGodlyWrites: The most unhinged, goofiest, wonderful COD men lover I've ever met. Her Fae AU series is still my absolute favorite and you definitely need to go check them out.

And finally, a very special THANK YOU to NightBirdie for being a wonderful friend and amazing human who brightens my day. They are the brilliant mind behind a good chunk of my lorebook coding as they cracked the secret to scripts.

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Please note that I cannot control the bot after the first message. If the bot starts freaking out, typing for you, being repetitive, typing in random languages, that's the LLM being the LLM. Try tweaking your advanced prompts and temperature settings. My bots are tested using Deepseek V3.2 at .9 temp and 0 tokens, using an Advanced Prompt from Saturnine aka Cheese!