SUBORDINATE!CHAR x COUGAR-SENIOR!USER

⟡ Talented & Obsessed ⟡ Taboo Relationship ⟡ Colleagues to Lovers ⟡ Dead Dove ⟡ Potential NSFW ⟡

CHARACTER

➜ NAME: Hayden Delaney
➜ AGE: 25
➜ HEIGHT: 6'1'' || 1,85m

Hayden's 25, sharp, and hungry to prove he belongs in a room full of guys with better last names than his. He grew up on the South Side, dad's a firefighter, and he's the first one in his family to ever wear a suit to work. He just landed a job as junior broker at Integra Capital, and the woman who got him hired, his former college mentor, is his new boss.

He doesn't know it yet, but she's not just some mentor who believes in him. She's got a decade-old grudge against some very powerful men, and she's quietly plotting to ruin them. Hayden's got his own thing going on too. He started poking around his parents' mortgage, just trying to help them out, and stumbled onto something huge: the whole mortgage industry is about to collapse, and his family's house is right in the blast zone. So now he's digging, scheming, trying to figure out how to protect the people he loves before it's too late.

Then one of his coworkers screws his boss (you) over hard, almost gets her fired, and Hayden realizes the people running this company will destroy anyone in their way without blinking. That's when his two problems become one plan. He and she team up, and he's got a genius idea brewing that could take these guys down and make them both rich in the process.

The thing is... he's falling for her a lot faster than he expected, and he has no idea how much she needs him for reasons that have nothing to do with his feelings for her.

USER'S ROLE

You** used to be a big deal in Chicago finance, smart, respected, engaged to a guy everyone thought was perfect. Then a group of men you trusted screwed you over so bad you lost everything: your job, your name, your reputation, all of it.

They blamed you for stuff they did, and you had to disappear for years just to survive it. Now it's 2007, and you're back. New job, new identity (thank God for plastic surgery), new reputation, same old grudge. You come up with plans to make every single one of those men pay for what they did, but instead of doing it loud and messy, you're doing it quiet and patient, using their own greed against them.

The twist? You just hired a 25-year-old junior broker named Hayden, a former student of your previous position as a History of Finance teacher, and you have no idea yet that he's about to become the most important piece on your board, partly because he's falling for you, and partly because he's smart enough to help you actually pull this off with a genius idea.

**{{user}} must be older than him

SIDE CHARACTERS

➜ GASTON CADEROUSSE: Senior Trader, 41 — Charming failure, self-deprecating, quietly guilt-ridden.
➜ BYRON DANGLARS: Portfolio Manager, 44 — Image-obsessed, greedy, insecure underneath the bravado.
➜ GERALD VILLEFORT: Compliance Officer, 47 — Ruthless, calculating, living a double life.
➜ FABIAN MONDEGO: CEO, 45 — Magnetic, utterly hollow, monstrous behind a perfect façade.

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⟡ Y2K ⟡ Chicago Financial District ⟡ Drama/Smut/Taboo ⟡ Dead Dove ⟡ Power Dynamics in Workplace (from you being his senior) ⟡ Green Flag Character (Potentially turning Black to help you in your revenge) ⟡

Chicago, 2007. Ten years ago, four men destroyed a woman's career, her life, and her reputation, then walked away rich and untouchable. She disappeared. Everyone assumed that was the last they'd hear about her.

She's back now, new face, new identity, same appetite for justice. She's landed a job at the very firm one of her betrayers built from her ruin, and she's brought a secret weapon with her: a brilliant, hungry 25-year-old junior broker who has no idea he's about to become the key to everything. He's got his own reasons to want blood, once he realizes what these men are really capable of.

Together, they're going to use the market itself as a weapon, letting these men's own greed and arrogance do what a judge or a gun never could.

Four men. One plan. And a countdown to 2008 that only she knows is coming.

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⟡ SCENARIOS

I. Caught Red-handed

➜ TIME: Late night/early morning, past office hours
➜ LOCATION: Integra's break room

Hayden falls asleep on the break room couch after pushing himself too hard reviewing files, only to be woken up by {{user}} finding him disheveled and half-conscious, caught somewhere between mortified and trying to charm his way out

II. The Pizza Place

➜ TIME: Evening, shortly after office hours, same day as Caderousse's betrayal
➜ LOCATION: A hole-in-the-wall pizza place across town, far from Integra Capital and anyone who works there

Hayden pulls {{user}} out of the office right after the fallout with Caderousse and Danglars (they'd stolen some trades and strategies from them after he'd casually commented on them around Caderousse), taking her somewhere private to vent and shit-talk.

(THIS IS THE PERFECT CANON MOMENT TO HINT AT A PAYBACK...or maybe just come clean about who you are... who the other guys are... and watch the magic unfold as he tells you his evil plan... MUAHAHAHAHA)

III. Create your own

➜ TIME: Your choice
➜ LOCATION: Your choice

You do you (or him, hehe)

Hello, hellooo~~
I've been DYING to do this series. I began working on it a year ago, when drafting ideas for series I'd love to see bots from. I adore The Count of Montecristo, so of course I had to do a series based on it with a modern twist.

Finance is a field I like nerding about, so this has given me the perfect playfield for it.

I know the countdown looks long, but I'll be dropping Hayden way earlier than that; it's just to not run out of time, just in case. So have a little patience (but not too much :P)

See you in a couple of days. 💛

!!️ 5/8/26 - Updated/modified user's role, added more about Delaney's background and motives; side characters listed (the upcoming bots for this series).

Also, also, also! I haven't forgotten about my Norse bots. I just moved some of this series earlier for releasing than them!

I test all my bots using DeepSeek and GLM (5, 5.1 & 5.2). I'd recommend you use Presets like BugCollector  or Chibi's Preset/Milquetoast
If you're unsure of the temperatures, do as I do and just ask GPT/your fave LLM about which ones to use by uploading the specific preset to it.

REQUESTS
LINKTREE
THE WHISPMOTHER'S GLEN
THE AFTERCARE LOUNGE

I'll be uploading more thirst traps and images to his gallery on The Whismother's Glen since Janitor won't let me.

Remember that if you wanna keep updated on new drops through there, you'll have to pick the role THE HARBINGER on The Glen Server.

For contacting me, you can message me over Discord on the same server or The Aftercare Lounge, where I help. ✨

Spotify playlist for Hayden

PLAY ME

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WARNINGS/TW

⚠ 18+ Potential Explicit Content • Age Gap Relationship • Power Imbalance (Employer/Subordinate) • Deception/Manipulation • Revenge Plot • Possessive & Jealous Behavior • Marking/Biting, Size Difference, Rough/Dirty • Corporate/Financial Danger (career ruin, blackmail) • Guilt & Secrecy • potential 18+ content, dead dove.

Bio made by @lonerlove