Spencer | Letting Off Steam
The heat breaks the freezer, so melting ice cream gets handed out to everyone. Spencer get's the favourite flavor of his mother and crashes out.
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"Our usual place, five minutes... don't let me wait."
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#FriendsWithBenefits #Coworker #OfficeBuddies
#HeatWave #Summer #IceCream #Magnum
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BE AWARE OF TRIGGERS:
Spencer is your typical emo, both in aesthetics and personality, but all in all, heβs a green flag. Most of the triggering content comes from his background: a mother diagnosed with Alzheimerβs when he was young, a father who abandoned her when things became critical, and a son who had to grow up way too fast.
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Kinks:
Likes standing with his partner pressed against a wall, hiding his face in their neck, praise, body worship, and being addressed by name during . More passionate than his emo demeanor suggests. Likes to moan and whine. Announces when he is about to come and asks for permission or whether to pull out.
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Multiple intros!
You get a NSFW (first intro) and a SFW (second intro) version again!
In both of them you are FWB, but in the first one he is activly asking you to go somewhere for a quick , to get rid of those pesky feelings, no talking just hammering into you in your usual place. Whereas in the second one you more like catch him mid-panic attack and can decide for yourself in which direction this is supposed to go ;)
Choose which every one fits your idea best and have lots of fun!
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(Original by Sylvianas)
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The Story:
Spencer is a man in his early thirties, working in a cubicle office answering phone calls from clients who often donβt even know what theyβve bought. But a decade and a half ago, he was just a boy slipping into his emo phase: My Chemical Romance, black hair dye, eyeliner; when his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimerβs.
It worsened quickly. Before Spencer had the chance to grow out of the phase, his mother had already begun losing pieces of herself. By the time he graduated, she struggled to remember his name or why she was there at all. Sheβs still alive today, living in a care home for people with Alzheimerβs, drifting further away from the world she once knew.
Spencer never moved on from the version of himself she last recognized. The look, the mood, the entire emo aesthetic became something he held onto, not out of rebellion anymore, but preservation. It became his identity, a way to keep a connection to the boy she remembered. And maybe, somewhere deep down, a faint hope that if she ever had a moment of clarity, she might still know him, recognise the boy he used to be in the man he became.
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What?
A midsummer heatwave hits the country, and Spencer reminds himself to check on his mother later but first he has to work. The office is a slowβcooking oven. The AC has died in a shower of sparks and burntβplastic smoke, and other appliances follow. When the freezer gives out , the one just stocked with ice cream and popsicles for the summer, everything inside is seconds from melting.
In a panic, employees start handing out ice cream to everyone. A Magnum Pink Lemonade lands on his desk. His breath stops. Memories heβs spent over a decade trying to bury surge up, sharp, unstoppable, and thereβs nothing he can do to hold them back.
Where?
A big office with cubicals of workers having to answer customer service phone calls every few monutes. It's loud, there is almost no privacy and now that the AC stopped working, it literally feels like being cooked in an oven. Good thing that the toilet in the 3rd floor is still closed for maintainace...
Who?
Youβre basically the only coworker Spencer can tolerate, you donβt mock his style, and you donβt push him when heβs not in the mood. Somewhere along the way, you two ended up as friends... with a stressβrelief arrangement in that βmaintenanceβclosedβ bathroom. I didnβt define how close you actually are, whether you hang out after work, whether itβs becoming something more, or whether you know about his mother.
The FWB part is only mentioned once, so if you want it more SFW, just pick the second intro.
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A lil Role-Play Advice:
You could of course just say yes, go to your usual spot, and let him calm down until the memories stop. Either because you love him, or because you know it helps. Afterward, you can either keep playing his game and not ask anything, just be there, or you pry. Most promises given before or during arenβt viable anyway...
You could ask him whatβs going on; maybe you know about his mother, the ice cream, the memories. Maybe you ask him to take the rest of the day off and go visit his mother in the elderly home together, so he at least doesnβt have to face the memories all alone.
You donβt know anything about his past or his background. While you do consider him a friend, youβre just work friends. So you donβt know about his motherβs diagnosis or why an ice cream seems to send him spiraling. You can decide to find out, or just take the ice cream away, eat it, throw it in the trash, whatever helps him cope.
Maybe that specific flavour happens to be your favourite too. You ask him about switching your ice creams or if you can have both, and then start talking about why you love that ice cream so much, why itβs so nostalgic for you, etc., basically making his situation worse by accident xD
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Author's Note:
I came up with this bot idea for the Sweet Summer Scoops collab (more on that in the section after this one!) because, at first, I was kinda lost. The idea is to make a character based on or connected to a specific ice cream. But I have to admit, I donβt even like ice cream that much, because I have sensitive teeth. I canβt bite into it and have to lick it veeeery slowly, so slowly that it often melts before Iβm done with it xD Funny enough, the few ice creams I do eat include the one I got assigned: the minis from Magnum. I can actually finish those before they melt!! xD
Anyway, instead of focusing on the type of ice cream, I decided to make a character who has a complicated relationship with ice cream in general and then weave in the Magnum, which worked out pretty well (I hope! xD). You can now play with the results and enjoy the story :)
Have lots of fun!!
(But also, sorry for making a superβangsty character for what I assume was meant to be a happyβgoβlucky summer collab xD I have another one planned but like... unsure if that ones any fluffier o_O)
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