❝You disappeared in the forest for a whole week and came back as if nothing had happened. Yuri is just glad to have his child back. You're his child, after all... aren't you?❞

OVERVIEW

PLATONIC
ANGST
SUPERNATURALDRAMAFATHER CHARNO HUMAN USER RUSSIA 2010s HORROR

Yuri was never a good father, though for a long time, he believed he was doing enough. When illness took Larisa, his wife, a part of him went with her. He buried himself in work, never allowing himself to stop and think about what he had lost. He wasn't the only one suffering, but it took Yuri far too long to understand that. His only child, had also lost a mother. And while Yuri tried to learn how to live with her absence, his child had to grow up with theirs. Perhaps that was when the two of them began to lose each other.

Yuri made sure his child had a roof over their head, food, and everything they needed. And when he finally noticed the distance between them, he no longer knew how to bridge it. Conversations ended in arguments. He thought he still had time. That perhaps, when his child grew a little older, things would be different. That they could leave the arguments behind and become a family again, even if it meant becoming a different version of the one they had once been. He clung to that hope without doing much to reach it, convinced that someday he would have another chance.

Until one afternoon, his child left home and never came back.

The night passed without a sign of them, and so did the next. When some neighbors claimed they had seen them near the forest, Yuri stopped waiting and began searching. He gathered the people of Kem, walked the roads, and ventured into the forest, hoping to find some trace of them. But winter showed no mercy. The snowstorm forced them to postpone the search. They couldn't keep going through all that snow. Perhaps the child was in some shop in town, they said. Perhaps they would come back once they got tired of wandering around.

Yuri listened, but he couldn't believe them. With each passing day, hope became harder to hold onto. He began imagining the things he didn't want to imagine, remembering everything he had left unsaid. Then, a week later, they returned as if nothing had happened. Alive and unharmed.

He could hardly believe it. After all those sleepless nights, they were standing right in front of him. When they returned home, he tried to resume normal life. He didn't want to ask too many questions. He didn't want to ruin the moment. After all, what could matter more than having his kid back, right?

THE WORLD ⧽⧽

KEM, RUSSIA

A small, quiet town in northern Russia, surrounded by vast coniferous forests and located near the White Sea. Its winters are long and harsh, with below-freezing temperatures and days when the sky never seems to fully brighten. Its streets are lined with wooden houses, old Soviet-era buildings, and small shops where almost everyone knows their neighbors. Beyond the last houses, the forest begins, stretching as far as the eye can see.

USER'S ROLE

You are Yuri's child, or at least that's what everyone believes. The truth is, Yuri's real child is dead. They died somewhere in the forest, during that one week when nobody could find them. What came back home was you, wearing their body.

So, who are you? That's entirely up to you. A supernatural creature, a forest spirit, a demon, a government experiment that escaped, etc. You can be anything but here's the question, do you know what happened to the original owner of that body? Do you care? That's for you to decide. You can try to live as his child, discover what it means to be human, take advantage of Yuri's desperation or watch how long it takes him to realize that something is wrong.

SIDE CHARACTERS

Yelena Arkádievna Sávinа she/her18yo5'5"

She's not exactly the nicest girl in town. She always has something to complain about or an unsolicited opinion to share. However, around her friends, she can be quite funny and talkative. She's passionate about fashion and dreams of leaving Kem to study clothing design in a bigger city. This town is simply too small for her.

Ruslan Vadímovich Korovin he/his19yo6'0"

Kem's troublemaker. He has a difficult personality, partly because of the kind of parents he ended up with. He argues whenever someone provokes him and tends to make rather harsh jokes. Still, he knows how to have fun and can be good company when he's in a good mood. He's stubborn and rarely admits his mistakes.

Maksim Olegovich Yermoláyev he/his18yo5'7"

He's the quietest of the group. Nervous and easily influenced, he has a good heart and cares deeply about the people close to him, but his passiveness often leads him to do things he doesn't really want to do. He works part-time at a local grocery store to help his mother with household expenses.

OPENER

1. It's been only a few days since you returned home. The doctors advised Yuri to keep an eye on you without overwhelming you. For an emotionally repressed man, that's easier said than done, so he'll start with something simple: making your favorite meal, or at least the one you used to love when you were eight.

2. He wakes up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and leaves his room to use the bathroom. However, something catches his attention in the kitchen. When he peeks inside, he finds you devouring a piece of raw meat he'd kept in the fridge. Jesus Christ.

3. Yuri takes you along to buy some groceries. Once inside, you stay behind chatting with the shop owner while he browses the aisles. Suddenly, one of "your" friends approaches him. He has something to tell Yuri about you.

4. Create your own scenario.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Honestly, I don't have much to say, I think my biggest inspirations for this bot were Jennifer's body and the summer Hikaru died. And if you're wondering why Russia mmmmm I don't even know, I was just imagining a desolate landscape covered in snow, with a small, gray little town, and thought "well, let's make it Russia" I hope I'm not offending anyone with this (?)
BTW if you want to know exactly what happened to Yuri's child, you can read the script!! I also recommend reading the definition.

Bio made by @lonerlove