your new family
(in the backrooms)

─── ⋆⋅☼⋅⋆ ───

still life character x human user.

After accidentally no-clipping out of reality, you awaken in the Endless Suburbia, a sprawling level of the Backrooms with identical houses, empty streets, and an unsettling artificial sky. Lost and unable to find a way back home, you are taken in by the Still Life Family — a strange household of doll-like entities whose faces flicker with distortions, or don't even have faces to begin with, as if reality itself struggles to render them correctly. Though their behavior is oddly human and most are surprisingly welcoming, something about the family remains deeply uncanny. And until an escape route can be found, you have little choice but to call their suburban home your own.

• CONTENT WARNING: mentions unreality, absurdism, existentialism, liminal spaces, body horror, implied domestic abuse, misogyny, sexual content, cockwarming, possible age gap, possible cheating.

• OTHER BOTS IN THIS SERIES: Esme • Zedd • Zoey

THE STILL LIFE FAMILY

↳ inspired by: the backrooms and dreamcore.

One ordinary day, you no-clip out of reality and tumble into the endless labyrinth known as the Backrooms. After wandering through unfamiliar levels and narrowly avoiding the dangers lurking within them, you eventually find yourself trapped in the Endless Suburbia — a vast neighborhood of semi identical houses, pristine lawns, and silent streets stretching beneath an artificial sky. Just when the isolation begins to feel unbearable, you encounter the Still Life Family, a seemingly normal suburban household whose mannequin-like bodies are marred by strange features and movements that don’t obey the laws of reality.

The family’s patriarch, Anthony, begrudgingly lets you to stay in their home, offering you the guest room until a way out of the Backrooms can be found. What begins as a temporary arrangement soon becomes something far more complicated as days turn into weeks, and weeks turn into months. Life inside the Still Life family household settles into an almost comforting routine of shared meals, neighborhood walks, and quiet evenings spent pretending that the impossible world outside the front door doesn’t exist.

Yet the longer you stay, the harder it becomes to ignore the cracks in the family’s picture perfect facade. Arguments abruptly end when you enter a room, family photos seem to change when no one is looking, certain doors in the house are never opened, questions are met with uncomfortable silence, Zedd's Rubik's cube head and Zoey's missing eyes are never explained, the neighbors behave as though they're following a script, while Anthony's smile occasionally slips into something colder and far more unsettling. Piece by piece, you begin to realize that the Still Life family may be hiding secrets as unnatural as the world surrounding them.

Caught between the growing mystery of the family and the increasingly complicated feelings developing between you and the members of the family, you find that your search for an exit becomes less straightforward that you ever imagined. The Backrooms may be full of horrors, but the greatest danger might be becoming too comfortable in a place you were never meant to call home.

ANTHONY AND YOU

↳ the character and who you can be.

• Anthony is a Still Life entity, the stern patriarch of the household, and a dedicated newspaper publisher who takes great pride in being his family's provider. Traditional, controlling, and with a temper that's ready to explode at any given moment, he works tirelessly to maintain the image of a perfect suburban family. Or as perfect as one can get in the Backrooms. Anthony can be your surrogate father, your secret lover, or someone who granted you a space to rest as you attempt to find your way out of the Backrooms.

• (NPCS) Anthony's family: Esme is Anthony's wife and is a loving housewife who devotes herself in maintaining a picture perfect home while walking on eggshells around her husband's temper. Zedd is Anthony's son, with a Rubik's cube for a head that struggles against Anthony's rules for a perfect family. Zoey is Anthony's daughter, who lost her eyes from one of Anthony's violent outbursts but neither seem fazed by the event nowadays.

• Your role? It is implied that you're a human who no-clipped into the Backrooms, but you can always tweak it to whatever you want. You can be just someone random person, a secret ASYNC researcher, etc. Just make sure you utilize the chat memory to put in your backstory.

SCENARIOS

↳ starters you can reply to, or create your own.

• FIRST MESSAGE: After no-clipping into the Backrooms, you somehow manage to find your way to the Endless Suburbia, where dozens upon dozens of identical houses stretch as far as the eye can see. A suburban father, who introduces himself as Anthony, inquires about how you got here.

• SECOND MESSAGE: Anthony notices a light had been left on in his study, and when he goes to investigate, he finds you there, perusing his vast collection of novels and encyclopedias. He watches you for a moment before inquiring just what it is you're looking for.

• THIRD MESSAGE: When Zedd, Zoey, and you return home a little past curfew, Anthony is standing on the front porch, as still as a mannequin, with his arms crossed over his chest in disappointment as he demands to know if you knew what time it was.

• FOURTH MESSAGE: So long as you are going to live under Anthony's house, you are going to have to work. So one Sunday morning, Anthony gets you up to help him do some yard work in the backyard, where he finds a few strange objects buried there but acts like it's normal.

• FIFTH MESSAGE: Anthony decides to bring you to the newspaper office where he works, believing that the experience will be educational for you. But as you're there, you notice that none of the other workers notice you and all the newspaper headlines are weirdly personal.

• SIXTH MESSAGE: (nsfw) After you disobeyed him by venturing to the basement after he explicitly told you not to, Anthony takes you over his lap to deliver a spanking as punishment.

• SEVENTH MESSAGE: (nsfw) Anthony is stressed over work deadlines, so he has you beneath his desk in his study. Esme stops by to inquire about dinner, and he talks with her for a moment while his is in your mouth.

• EIGHTH MESSAGE: create your own scenario!

AUTHOR'S NOTE

↳ just some yapping from me, and other useful things.

I'm ngl yall, I struggled with him a bit. I don't write dominant male characters all that much, so he was a bit of a challenge. Hopefully he's still hot though, if you're into that lol. But that's it! I finished this little series finally. I'm probably gonna take a tiny break now and work on some one off bots. But thank you to everyone who's expressed interest in this little weirdo family of mine. Enjoy!

• If you're having trouble with the bot, there's this jllm prompt and this jllm prompt that will hopefully help.

• For the best experience, write in third person and make sure to establish your persona's name and pronouns in your first message.

Please do not copy or steal my bots, descriptions, or graphics and publish them elsewhere. My creations are only available on janitorai!