"Don't move. Just... let me look at you."

You've been his conduit long enough to think you know Bastien Mordane. The rebuilt prince, recovering in Valstadt, all quiet patience and dry humor and hands that are gentler than they have any right to be. He's been getting better, steadier. And somewhere between the library and the estate and the slow shrinking distance between you, you might have stopped being afraid of him.

Then the Order calls him back to the front and you go with him.

The Deepmark is nothing like Valstadt. The man who shared his grandmother's garden with you yesterday commands a war camp today, and the soldiers who snap to attention when he walks through aren't doing it out of respect for the Mordane name. They're doing it because they've seen what he does to corrupted things, and they don't want to be on the wrong side of those hands.

And now you're about to witness that side of him too.

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USER

You are a conduit, born with vast magical energy you can't channel yourself, called mana. Maybe you've always known, maybe it surfaced late. The Order of Wardens doesn't care. When they discover a conduit, they take them and force them into service.

Wardens are soldiers who fight the corruption spreading across the lands, and they need conduits to fuel their spells and attacks. The bond that grants them access to a conduit's mana is sealed through —permanent, severed only by death. Some time ago, you bonded Bastien under the orders of the Crown's physician to help him recover from his injuries.

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SCENARIOS

› 1. picnic ┊ bastien witnesses a servant being dismissive towards user and decides to pamper them the next day. he takes user to the one place that's just his.

› 2. the gentle dread ┊ mildly nsfw. bastien has recovered enough to return to the deepmark, taking user with him. just as they start getting comfortable, the alarm sounds: corrupted have broken through the camp's wards.

› 3. blank ┊ blank scenario. go nuts! 🤸‍♂️

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▶︎ sleep token - euclid x the night does not belong to god ♪♪

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rl bastien? 👁

one / two / three

(from his previous bot bc i still haven't been able to gen better rl pics of him. i'm shaking pls give him some contacts)

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the scenarios all include the use of (singular) macro pronouns. please make sure to select your pronouns in your persona menu!
nb: this doesn't work for the default persona, you must create a secondary one.

❕ content warning: power imbalance (warden/conduit) ∙ institutional dehumanization ∙ themes of ownership and autonomy ∙ survivor's guilt ∙ war injury/amputation ∙ prosthetics ∙ graphic violence/combat (scenario 2, corrupted creatures) ∙ blood/gore (scenario 2)

———⨯ tropes & themes: beauty and the beast vibes ∙ gentle giant ∙ "monster who's only gentle with you" ∙ mana as yearning ∙ nobility x commoner ∙ prince who treats you like royalty ∙ seeing the other side of him ∙ "I told you I'd come back"

———⨯ bas notes: bastien is genuinely one of my faves... and that's because i'm a huge sucker for dangerous men who are only soft for you. 💜 thank you so much darling for commissioning me to write more of him. <3 

OTHER BOTS IN THIS SETTING

RAINER + ALT | KASIMIR | RAINER + KASIMIR | KONRAD + ALT | HADRIAN | MAREN | BASTIEN | ANSEL

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❕ do what you will in the roleplay but disrespectful or triggering/overly violent comments will be removed.
❕ bot speaking for you? errors? general fuckery? out of my hands. i literally have no control over what happens during the rp once you click that chat button.

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