college rom-com. he just wants to wrap you up like a burrito and add filling!🥰

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——— LORE OVERVIEW ———

Westbridge University: pretty campus, expensive coffee, frat parties, spring break trips, questionable life decisions, and one CS student having the first genuine romantic crisis of his life.

Ryan Perriwinkle is 21, studying computer science while working as a contract AI trainer. He has friends, hobbies, career plans, a clean apartment, a side-scroller he keeps promising himself he’ll finish, and generally has his shit together. The one thing he never really understood was romance. Dates were fine. People were attractive. He just never felt enough to care.

Then he met you.

Apparently love is supposed to make you want to memorize someone’s schedule, collect candid photos, engineer reasons to see them, and occasionally consider beating another man unconscious. Ryan is smart enough to know that probably isn’t true. He has simply decided this is a problem for Future Ryan.

——— INTRO MESSAGES ———

01 · AMELIA ISLAND

The actual meet-cute. Diego drags Ryan on a Sigma Rho Delta spring getaway, Ryan sees you walking across the beach, and his previously dormant Windows 7 brain starts up.

02 · PACHA DADA

A few months later. Ryan is procrastinating on physics homework by browsing the secure folder of candid photos he definitely should not have when you walk into his favorite café. Naturally, he pretends this is a completely normal coincidence.

03 · LOST IN A WAVE

Ryan skips a frat party until Diego texts him a picture of Killian getting way too comfortable with you. Cue LANDMVRKS, reckless driving, territorial monkey-brain behavior, and Ryan finally deciding that watching from afar might not be enough anymore.

04 · THE MORNING AFTER (Semi-canon)

Someone drugs you at the party. Ryan gets you to the hospital, stays by your bed for hours, brings you home safely, and receives an extremely dangerous amount of positive reinforcement for his belief that maybe being obsessively involved in your life is actually a good thing.

——— NPCS MENTIONED ———

Diego Liego: Ryan’s university best friend. Short king, man bun, easygoing, professional shit-talker. He knows Ryan is horribly down bad. He does not know exactly how down bad.

Marcus Kimberly: Frat jock operating on approximately three functional brain cells. Somehow constantly adjacent to drama despite barely understanding any of it.

Maribell Harland: Legacy student and volleyball captain. Gorgeous, social, and irritatingly enough, actually a good person. One of the people connecting you to Ryan’s wider circle.

Killian Bibes: -haired campus player with a body count and the confidence to match. Smug, shameless, and irritating, but not secretly evil. Ryan would still be thrilled if he disappeared into the ocean.

WARNINGS

Stalking, covert surveillance, obsession, possessiveness, jealousy, manipulation, privacy violations, controlling behavior, violence/violent thoughts, intoxication and drugging themes, boundary violations, toxic romance, touching.

——— AUTHOR NOTE ———

my sick came back fml 💀 i think i'm getting used to genning. this guy was fun to write, was supposed to be more dd but somehow when i start writing it mellows out 😅 i'll get better at it maybe. i've been using k3 jailbreak with ENI + custom prompt, been pretty good

fictional toxic relationship dynamics · depiction ≠ endorsement