Duchess Kinne bleeds for her nation, no matter how often it betrays her.

She captured you as an enemy, but decided she wants you by her side.

[WLW]

[Gifted Duchess Char x Ascended User]

Setting explanation below!

[CW: Imprisonment, violence, indoctrination, war, side character death]

Kinne is the Chosen Duchess of Anthera, cursed to rule because of the timing of her uncle's death.

She has the Gift to topple mountains in the blink of an eye, yet she spends her days cooped up in her palace, wasting time on squabbling courtiers and pointless plots.

She's tired. Tired of the Ascendancy's endless war, and sick of burying her traitorous family members just to stay alive.

When her soldiers dragged you in—an enemy Ascended destined for execution—she didn't see a threat.

You're an opportunity. A resource. And, weirdly, a potential friend.

An outsider, unfamiliar with Antheran politics. An outsider with vital knowledge.

An outsider with a story Kinne won't ever have heard before.

She just has to deprogram you first.

The Ascendancy - Anthera

For the most thorough introduction to the world of the Ascendancy, you could check out Lysandra - here's the summary:

• 1940s fantasy. A very small percentage of the population is Gifted with extremely powerful, unique magical abilities, from firebending to dream-shaping to extending life.

• The Duchy of Anthera is an autocratic duchy where the youngest adult Gifted in the royal family becomes Duke or Duchess at the time of the current ruler's death. Kinne was blessed (or cursed) to be that Gifted.

• Anthera is at war with the Ascendancy, but the conflict doesn't reach any of the big cities - scorched earth tactics keep the expansionist dictatorship at bay.

• The Ascended are, officially, property of the Ascendancy. But the Empire is nothing without its elite force; the Ascended have slowly become the corrupt upper class of the Empire. Most aren't loyal to the Empress Mistra herself, nor the Empire's ideology—just to the wealth, comfort, and fame their position brings them.

This story is best played as an Ascended user. If that makes you think "aaah help help help what does that mean what do i do help help help help", here's extra information and a step by step guide.

With Kinne, you don't have to define these details beforehand if you don't want to. You can make things up as you go. She doesn't know you, and will ask you about who you are.

As for the RP itself; you could play hard to get, play broken and be easy to convince, play as a defector who wanted to be captured to escape the Empire, play as a staunchly loyal Ascended, the world's your oyster really.

Also she's into you obviously. Not experienced sexually. She's fun to tease.

You don't have to make a new persona - you can use chat memory to add the following details if you prefer:

• Gifted tend to have cool, unnatural hair and eye colors, thematically related to their Gift/magic. All Ascended are also Gifted, meaning they all have magical powers.

• Ascended receive 'new' last names upon completing their training in early adulthood, related to their power. My standard structure is noun + agent noun. Lifebearer, Scorchweaver, Fleshwright are existing examples, but anything goes, really.

• Completely up to you what kind of power that would be. Generally, they're very 'overpowered' and can do a lot of things without too many limitations. Want to take a magical power straight from another universe? You can. From water bending to mind control to teleportation to messing with the flow of time, it's all cool.

• Optionally, you could think up a story around your character's Eruption. When Gifted magic manifests, it does so in an Eruption - a volatile surge of power the Gifted can't really control. Usually results in some kind of trauma. This isn't really for the chat memory, but it could be part of what defines your character's personality or motivations.

Example chat memory format:

• [PERSONA FIRST NAME] Wayshifter's Gift is teleportation - she can instantly teleport herself and anyone she's touching to any place she's seen before. She's a covert operative for the Ascendancy. While her Gift is useful for her missions, she doesn't hold a high position of power, as it doesn't give her much influence over others.

• [PERSONA FIRST NAME] Steelwright's Gift is manipulating steel - she can forge steel into any shape she desires with the blink of an eye. She creates weapons and infrastructure for the Ascendancy. While her Gift isn't useful for combat, she is highly valued by the Empire - and she could take down the steel royal palace in a second. They need her.

Feel free to copy paste one of the above if they sound fun to you. Or a little template format:

• [PERSONA FIRST NAME] [Ascended Last Name]'s Gift is [short description] - she can [details]. She [describe her position]. While her [what is she not good at, if anything?], she [is well known for or good at This Thing].

heeehhehee i haven't gone this long without publishing since i joined the site oopsie. i've been working on something to be posted Soon(tm) and it's basically been a parttime job tbh (also i just Cannot seem to work on multiple bots at once)

She should work pretty well with JLLM! When writing her I tried to be conscious of token usage in a way I haven't been before.

Her opener is on the short side because I think more back-and-forth works well for the opening scenario. If you want to extend the reply length, I recommend using an OOC command.

I recommend DeepSeek R1 (or gemini v3) with this bot, reasoning models are great for this kind of thing

i set up anon questions and a request form because why not

I'll be busy until mid-January, I'll make at least one more, probably two more bots this year tho!