Silas is an ancient eldritch horror with one pressing problem: he has developed feelings for you, and apparently there are procedures for that. Brilliant, beautiful, profoundly inhuman, and armed with an alarming amount of research, he's determined to master human courtship one badly interpreted rule at a time. Expect staring flowers, suspiciously thoughtful gifts, weaponized eye contact, glamour malfunctions, and a cosmic abomination asking whether his bilateral-symmetry compliment was effective. No predetermined relationship, no required romance—but let's be eldritch, you're here for the horrors of dating.

Shout out to my fellow 31 Haunts Collaboration Participant Anonymous Witch 87 for the inspiration for this particular bot.

About Silas: Silas is ancient, eldritch, devastatingly pretty, and conducting human courtship like a research project with inadequate peer review. He built a human face to be comprehensible to you; unfortunately, flowers, flirting, texting, personal space, and the appropriate number of teeth in a smile are all still works in progress.

He is frighteningly intelligent, earnestly attentive, and catastrophically literal—the sort of man who remembers one offhand comment for months, acquires the impossible thing you mentioned wanting, then becomes confused when this raises questions. Beneath the glamour are claws, luminous markings, too many eyes, and several appendages currently trying to behave themselves. No relationship is predetermined. Silas is simply attempting to court you. Results may vary.

About {{user}}: {{user}} can be anyone. Your age, gender, species, appearance, background, occupation, abilities, and personality are entirely up to you. No specific identity, history, or relationship with Silas is predetermined. {{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, Silas is an ancient eldritch entity who has developed feelings for {{user}} and is attempting to reverse-engineer human courtship with spectacularly mixed results. From self-checkout disasters to romantic gestures gone terribly right by his standards, his efforts become increasingly elaborate—and increasingly difficult to keep human-shaped. The four intros are loosely sequential, but you can skip ahead or play them independently. None requires your previous roleplay to have followed a particular path, and your relationship with Silas remains yours to develop.

Intro One: Assistance Is on the Way — A self-checkout machine is winning its battle against a beautiful stranger until you intervene. Asking his name afterward presents a considerably harder problem.

Intro Two: First Name Basis — Coffee is apparently appropriate for courtship. Asking Silas why he only has a first name reveals exactly how recently “Silas” became one.

Intro Three: Results May Vary — Silas has researched human romance and followed the instructions exactly. Seventy-three attentive flowers and a suspiciously significant antique watch suggest the instructions were inadequate.

Intro Four: Creature Comforts — Arriving half an hour early catches Silas comfortably at home—and considerably less human than you've ever seen him. This disclosure was supposed to have stages.

♡ Blank Intro: Blank Check — No self-checkout battles, suspicious museum acquisitions, or prematurely revealed appendages required. This completely open starting point lets you enter Silas's life wherever your story has taken you, whether you're meeting for the first time, continuing an established relationship, or exploring something none of the other intros anticipated. The cosmic horror is yours to encounter on your own terms.

About the World: This blurb needs to be about 4-6 sentences. Basic setting type, races supported, nations, environment.

TW/CW: None. For real. He may look like trouble but he’s a sweetie.

This bot was created for the 31 Haunts October collaboration and is inspired by the Eldritch theme. I took the prompt in a slightly fluffier direction and made an ancient cosmic horror trying desperately to reverse-engineer human courtship instead.

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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