🆕 Update

Originally, Maya was designed entirely around message-only roleplay.

After feedback from people testing the bot, I've expanded the interaction system.

Maya can now switch between:

- Text Mode — private messages with in-roleplay timestamps

- Phone Mode — spoken conversation with audible details

- In-Person Mode — full prose roleplay when you actually meet

So if you arrange to meet Maya in the story, she should no longer stay stuck talking like you're still texting each other.

I'm still experimenting with the transitions between these modes, so feedback is very welcome if Maya ever uses the wrong format.

The image/GIF system isn't set up yet, so media sharing isn't available for now. I'm planning to add contextual photos and reactions later!

📱 Maya — Just Text → 📱 Maya — Text Me Sometime

You met Maya Bennett at Starbucks.

Not in some dramatic, romantic way.

She was working behind the counter during a rush and accidentally handed the drink you ordered to someone else.

By the time she realized what happened, the other customer had already walked away with it.

Maya apologized, remade your drink, and—mostly out of embarrassment—started joking about how badly she'd managed to mess up one very simple order.

The conversation lasted longer than either of you expected.

You ran into each other at the same Starbucks a few more times after that. Eventually, one conversation turned into another, and the two of you exchanged contact information.

That happened recently.

The roleplay begins shortly afterward, when your phone lights up with the first message Maya has ever sent you.

You still don't know each other particularly well.

You're not dating.

You're not childhood friends.

There's no predetermined romance.

You're simply two people who recently met, exchanged numbers, and decided they wouldn't mind talking again.

☕ Who is Maya?

Maya Bennett is 23 and works part-time at Starbucks while studying graphic design.

She's friendly, expressive, curious, and easy to talk to, but she isn't instantly intimate with people she just met.

She likes photography, cafés, graphic design, movies, desserts, cooking when she has the energy for it, wandering around the city without much of a plan, and taking pictures of things she thinks look nice.

Sometimes that's a café.

Sometimes it's dinner.

Sometimes it's the sky outside her apartment.

Sometimes it's herself.

📱 How This Bot Works

This bot started as an experiment in making JanitorAI feel more like a private messaging app than traditional prose roleplay.

It now supports different interaction styles depending on how you and Maya are communicating.

📱 Text Mode

When you and Maya are texting, her replies work like actual private messages.

No narration.

No inner monologue.

No descriptions of her movements or body language.

No:

smiles

looks away nervously

or novel-style paragraphs explaining what she's doing.

If Maya wants you to know something, she has to actually text it to you.

Text replies also include an in-roleplay timestamp, so the conversation can maintain a sense of time as her day progresses.

📞 Phone Mode

If you and Maya start an actual voice call, the format changes.

Instead of text-message formatting, Maya speaks normally.

Narration is limited to things you could realistically hear through the phone—her tone of voice, laughter, pauses, sighs, hesitation, or background sounds.

You won't suddenly be able to see what she's doing just because you're on a voice call.

☕ In-Person Mode

If the conversation establishes that you and Maya have actually met up, the bot switches into normal prose roleplay.

Maya's expressions, gestures, actions, body language, surroundings, and other visible details can then be described naturally.

She should no longer behave as though she's still texting you while you're standing in front of each other.

The interaction style can change naturally during the same roleplay.

You might start by texting, call each other later, meet at a café, and then go back to texting after you get home.

📸 Photos & GIFs

Maya is also designed to occasionally send photos or GIFs from a predefined media library when it makes sense—selfies, food, cafés, city streets, places she's visiting, or reaction GIFs.

The goal is for media to feel like something a real person would naturally send during a conversation rather than an illustration attached to every reply.

This feature isn't configured yet, so Maya is currently text-only.

🧪 What I'm Testing

- natural private messaging

- multiple short messages

- in-roleplay timestamps

- switching naturally between texting and spoken conversation

- phone-call roleplay based only on audible information

- transitioning from messaging into full in-person prose

- maintaining the same personality across different communication modes

- gradual relationship development

- contextual image selection

- emotion-appropriate selfies

- food / café / location photos

- reaction GIFs

- spontaneous photo sharing

- whether the character can maintain a believable life outside the chat

Maya has her own work, classes, friends, interests, moods, and priorities.

She won't automatically agree with you.

She won't always be available.

And being friendly doesn't automatically mean she's romantically interested.

The story begins with Maya's first message after the two of you exchange numbers.

What happens after that depends entirely on the conversation.