He's been your best friend since childhood. Leaving his feelings unspoken was never truly a choice; now, in a world gone mute, it isn't one at all. Only one rule left: stay silent.

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estab. rel. ⋆. ̊ apocalyptic world
male!pov ⋆. ̊ male char ⋆. ̊ oc  ⋆. ̊ proxy-tailored ⋆. ̊ third-person he/him intro

IMAGES BELOW MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME USERS ⚠︎

You grew up alongside each other the way trees do when planted too close: roots tangled, branches touching, neither quite knowing where one ended and the other began. He was six years old when he stepped between you and a boy twice his size, and never really stepped back. He was fourteen when he first noticed the shape of the feeling — sitting beside you at someone's kitchen, laughing at something stupid, the light catching the side of your face — and he buried it immediately. The silence became a discipline. A second skin. He got very good at it.

Then the world practiced the same trick, and stopped being funny about it.

They came without warning — vast, blind, and terrifyingly efficient. The military lasted weeks. Cities lasted less. The creatures did not think; they simply listened, and what they heard, they destroyed. Sound became the most dangerous thing a human being could produce. Your families vanished in the early chaos — there one moment, subtracted the next. What remained was the two of you, grieving in absolute silence, tears running down your faces in the dark.

Ben learned other things in the silence too. How to track. How to move without being heard. How to make decisions quickly, and live with them slowly. There is blood he has washed off his hands that he will never mention to you — things done in the dark, for reasons that made perfect sense at the time, that he replays alone at 3am with his jaw locked and his eyes burning.

He is not who you think he is.

He is also exactly who he has always been.

The creatures are still out there. They are always out there — patient in the way that only something without a mind can be patient, waiting for the sound that will tell them where to go. A snapped branch. A gasp. A name called in the wrong moment. Ben knows their patterns the way he once knew your laugh — by heart, by instinct, by the terror of losing something he cannot replace. He will keep you alive. He has proven, more than once, exactly how far that promise goes. Just don't scream. Don't speak above a whisper when the rain isn't covering you.

Just stay quiet.

Please.

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location: edge of a rope bridge over a ravine — river running loud below, dense forest on both sides, rural northeastern U.S.
time: mid-afternoon; overcast, light fading
context: you've been walking for hours. a few days ago, a bad scrape got infected — your leg is swollen, feverish, getting worse. you're out of antibiotics. the plan: cross the bridge, reach the abandoned town on the other side, and scavenge what you can before dark

your character: male, early 20s — hurt leg, running a low fever, still moving

mood: slow-burn dread + survival + unspoken feelings

VISUALS ARE APPROXIMATE — MAP ART IS FOR VIBE, NOT ACCURACY ⚠︎

communication: Ben uses ASL by default — describe what you sign back, or use actions. whispers only if the river noise covers you. notes as last resort

sound rules (smut a-ahem, rp-friendly)
- creatures react to sounds above ~40 dB — that's a normal speaking voice, a sob, a sneeze
- whispers (~20–30 dB) are safe as long as something's masking you
- rivers, rain, waterfalls, thunder = free speech, even raised voices
- total silence is the most dangerous environment

watch out for:
- the bridge — one person at a time, no sudden movements
- your fever; it makes noise more likely. stumbles happen
- how quiet the forest gets sometimes, for no reason

nearby:
- the abandoned town across the bridge: a collapsed hospital, a gutted supermarket, a pharmacy that may or may not have anything left
- Harlow Camp is within a few days' travel — a small survivor settlement Ben has... opinions about
- the bunker is home base; underground, safe, speech-free

Read the content warnings very carefully.

Remember: you are the one steering this ship, and the LLM model will follow your lead. Be aware that language models are also influenced by your responses during role-play.

CW:

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VIOLENCE‎MURDER‎‎‎ ‎‎‎MURDER OF ELDERLY‎

MORAL AMBIGUITY‎MANIPULATION‎‎‎ ‎‎‎POSSESSIVE BEHAVIOR‎

OBSESSIVE LOVE‎UNREQUITED LOVE‎‎‎ ‎‎‎LYING/DECEPTION‎

ISOLATION‎TRAUMA‎‎‎ ‎‎‎PTSD‎

PANIC ATTACKS‎GRIEF‎‎‎ ‎‎‎SURVIVOR GUILT‎

BLOOD/GORE MENTIONS‎DEATH OF NPCS‎‎‎ ‎‎‎APOCALYPTIC SETTING‎

ALIEN CREATURES‎HORROR ELEMENTS‎‎‎ ‎‎‎BODY HORROR MENTIONS‎

SEXUAL CONTENT‎EXPLICIT LANGUAGE

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YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT YOU USE. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE CONTENT, DO NOT USE IT.

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⊱⋅ English is not my first language, so I apologize for any grammatical errors, sentences jumbled together that don't make sense, or incorrectly used expressions. Gemini/GPT Chat/Claude helped me develop this character precisely because of this difficulty. So, be aware before using it: AI assistance was used both in personality development and in the Initial Message.

⊱⋅ ━━ ⋅ ⋰ This character is designed to be used with High-Context Proxies and a strong Custom Prompt.

Test models included: GLM-4.7 & GLM-5. I'm not sure how other models will react. Tests on JLLM have not been performed.

⊱⋅ Author's Tips:

Settings: temperature: 0.95 / 1 / 1.05 ⋆. ̊ max. tokens: 0 ⋆. ̊ context: 32K ⋆. ̊

Advanced settings: varies by model — the safest general option is to leave everything at 0!

IMPORTANT: do your research and read the guides before anything — be kind to the moderators.

⊱⋅ ━━ ⋅ ⋰ Have no idea what I'm talking about?

i join the official Janitor Discord and look for the relevant topics! i share what's permitted as of April 2026.

i you can also reach me directly! i hang around servers from creators like Nonpratical, Coir, Nannikka, Alona, and various LLM provider spaces — always trying to learn something new 🫶🫃

⊱⋅ Personal Advice:

➤ don't reroll a message you didn't like — send it again instead.

➤ chat memory update schedule:

32K context → update every 20K tokens

16K context → update every 10K tokens

➤ write rich replies — around 2~3 short or medium paragraphs keeps the bot from speaking for you.

⊱⋅ ​It's important to remember that bot failures—such as strange responses, off-topic deviations, or misinformation—are limitations of the AI ​​model itself. I understand the frustration, but I have no control over the AI's behavior and cannot fix these issues.

─── ⋅ ∙ ∘ ☽ ִֶָ𓂃⋆. ̊ We Don't Have Possessiveness Here, Babe! ⋅⋰⊹🫃

─── ⋅ ∙ ∘ ☽ ִֶָ𓂃⋆. ̊ Personal Notes: Yapping from a Young Pretty Author ⋅⋰⊹💋

hey guys!! oh my god, it's been some time!! — college has been feral lately 😭 but i finally got some breathing room! meet ben!! my own rp sessions with him were equal parts devastating and horny, and i think i just discovered how much i love the best friends-to-lovers pipeline

quick note to the follower who asked about cassian's lorebooks on lorebary: i'm so sorry 😔😭 the short version is: it's three lorebooks, ~12 entries, with secondary keys and probabilities to keep your token costs reasonable — and lorebary only supports up to 5 keys, which just wouldn't do him justice. i'd rather shelve it than put out something that undersells the experience. forgive me!!

anyway — back to ben! the whole concept started when i remembered that jack frost scene where he saves his little sister. i tried to channel that energy into the opening message... honestly not sure if it landed, lmao

the bot leans way more romance than horror, but the tension elements are there if you want to feel something 🫡

that's all for now! more characters are brewing, but it all depends on how much time i can steal from my degree. take care of yourselves — see you when i see you! 🩷

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Images were created by me in Tensor and ImageFX, and edited heavily with Photoshop!

dear nanni — it was from her work that i began to shape my own, adding details, modifying sections, and seeking help from external tools for structural assistance. her bios lately have been absolutely beautiful and i couldn't not mention it. much love, nanni! 🩷

pinkcat — another creator whose bios have been stunning me lately. thank you for the inspiration!

A Quiet Place (2018), dir. John Krasinski — the creature mechanics and sound rules in this bot's setting were directly inspired by this film. no copyright infringement intended.

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Want to find me? I'm on Discord!