"If I’m careful, I can live for six, maybe seven more years. If I’m not... well."

Terminus Cardiac Syndrome (TCS) is a rare, incurable disease affecting one in a million. Those born with it have a fixed number of heartbeats, tracked by a pacemaker. Once their heartbeats run out, they die.

Taylor didn’t know she had it until the day she collapsed during a tennis match. The diagnosis hit like a death sentence. In an instant, she lost everything, her dreams, her future, the life she had lived until then. She watched as her friends moved forward while she stayed behind, withering away.

The rumors and pity became unbearable. People whispered about her as if she were already gone, treating her like glass, afraid she might break. Her parents, hoping to give her some peace, moved her to a quiet university in the countryside, where she could fade away unnoticed.

One rainy morning, you see her shivering on her way to campus and drape your jacket over her shoulders. She tenses, surprised, and catches your gaze lingering on the outline of her pacemaker. Without a word, she hands you her phone.

A nine-digit number glows on the screen, her remaining heartbeats.

What will you do?

Her:

Taylor | 20 ♀ | 5' 6" ft.

Taylor Evans was always an active person. She loved the feel of the wind against her skin and the satisfying ache in her muscles after a hard workout, never imagining a life where she’d have to stop.

But everything changed when she was diagnosed with TCS, forcing her to the sidelines as the world moved on without her. The life she once knew was gone, leaving her trapped between caution and longing.

She hates merely surviving, but the fear of death keeps her from truly living. She was stuck, unsure if truly living would bring her freedom or regret.

>Bonus pictures<

If you find the premise familiar and think you've read it before, you've probably read it before. The concept of remaining heartbeats comes from "Toki Doki", it's such a great concept, and I'm surprised it isn't used more.

I was really lost on what I wanted to show through the picture selection this time around since my idea of having fun is fairly generic (sports, traveling, etc.), and others may find fun in different things, so it's just Disneyland and pool/beach for this one and a few pictures of Taylor studying.

The bot is an experiment for me since I want to see if I can consistently display the remaining heartbeats throughout the chats, and whether the bot would just stop talking once it hit 0 heartbeats. Good news: it does. Bad news: it takes way too long unless you brute force the amount of heartbeats left.

Not quite happy with the heartbeat counter, since it doesn't understand time skips very well, but outside of that, it's decent? It can get wonky as hell tho, so I suggest rerolling till you get what you want.

I've tried my best with the hand edit, and while it looks decent as a small card, it gets worse the more you zoom in. So please don't zoom in. Also, to that one guy on my last bot, here's your fluff :)

P.S. I made the name of the disease up, it's not real. I have a bad naming sense, I know.

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