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VIOLA • Figure You Out
"I could love you with my eyes closed, kiss you with a blindfold, figure you out."

Banner By: SteamCheshie

TW/CW: Organized crime/Yakuza themes • Criminal activity • Violence • Weapons • Alcohol & smoking • Family conflict • Sibling rivalry • Jealousy & possessiveness • Manipulative behavior • Power dynamics • Morally gray characters • Infidelity/affair themes • Emotional betrayal • Forbidden romance
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🦁 Meet Reiji

Reiji Kurose is the wakagashira of the Kurose-kai.

Second-in-command.

Second son.

Second choice.

You may be noticing a theme.

He's intelligent, observant, dryly funny, quietly dangerous, and exceptionally good at understanding people.

Unfortunately, he's started understanding you.

Which wouldn't be a problem if you weren't engaged to his older brother.

TW/CW: Organized crime/Yakuza themes • Criminal activity • Violence • Weapons • Alcohol & smoking • Family conflict • Sibling rivalry • Jealousy & possessiveness • Manipulative behavior • Power dynamics • Morally gray characters • Infidelity/affair themes • Emotional betrayal • Forbidden romance

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👑 Unfortunately, His Brother Exists

Meet Daichi Kurose.

Older brother.

Oyabun.

Your fiancé.

And, inconveniently for everyone involved:

Actually a pretty decent guy.

Daichi loves you.

He's protective, generous, charismatic, and prone to showing affection through grand gestures, expensive gifts, and making absolutely certain you're taken care of.

Reiji doesn't hate his brother.

He loves him.

They've spent their entire lives competing, arguing, protecting each other, and carrying around enough unresolved family baggage to personally fund several therapists.

So naturally Reiji had to go and fall for Daichi's fiancée.

Excellent work, sir.

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🥃 Here's the Problem

Reiji notices things.

You mention your favorite drink once?

He remembers.

You hate a particular song?

Filed away.

You make that face when you're trying to politely pretend you like something?

Oh, he noticed.

At first, Reiji doesn't think much of it.

Then Daichi gets something wrong.

And Reiji knows the answer.

Daichi should know that.

Then:

How doesn't he know that?

And eventually:

I would have known.

There it is.

There's our problem.

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💍 About That Ring

This is not a damsel-and-better-brother situation.

Daichi isn't secretly horrible so Reiji can swoop in looking morally superior with better hair.

He genuinely loves you.

Reiji genuinely loves Daichi.

And Reiji genuinely wants you anyway.

Awkward.

Whether Reiji actually knows you better than his brother does?

That's something the RP gets to answer.

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🎬 CHOOSE YOUR TERRIBLE DECISION

There are two intros.

INTRO ONE • BEFORE THE LINE

Nothing has happened yet.

Reiji has simply begun paying far too much attention to his brother's fiancée and is becoming painfully aware of it.

Slow burn. Denial. Jealousy. Lingering looks. Family dinners becoming increasingly hazardous.

You know.

Healthy activities.

INTRO TWO • AFTER THE LINE

You and Reiji are already having an affair.

Daichi doesn't know.

How it started, why you agreed, what you feel about either brother, and what happens next are completely open.

Reiji just knows he's crossed the line.

And apparently keeps finding his way back across it.

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📼 NOVABEE PSA

{{user}} is yours.

Your gender, appearance, personality, history, occupation, and everything else belong to you.

The only established detail is:

You are engaged to Daichi Kurose.

Why?

Your call.

Maybe you're desperately in love with him.

Maybe it's complicated.

Maybe the engagement was arranged.

Maybe you're already reconsidering it.

Maybe you marry Daichi and Reiji spends the reception drinking whisky while contemplating every decision he's ever made.

You decide.

The bot will not automatically make you attracted to Reiji, unhappy with Daichi, or interested in cheating.

Intro Two establishes the affair, but not your feelings about it.

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🦁 WAIT. THERE'S A WHOLE YAKUZA LOREBOOK?

There sure is.

Because apparently I cannot make one hot criminal without accidentally constructing the entire Yokohama organized-crime cinematic universe.

The lorebook covers the Kurose-kai, the brothers, important members, locations, businesses, family history, and their longtime rivals, the Arakawa-gumi.

There are nightclubs.

Private bars.

Family politics.

Rival pretty boys.

Several younger Kurose members who are suspiciously bot-shaped.

This may have gotten away from me.

You absolutely do not need to read the lorebook to play.

It's there if you want the extra context.

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🎥 MOVIE NIGHT AT THE BAKERY

This bot was created for Movie Night at The Bakery!

My mystery movie was:

🦁 THE LION KING

So naturally I looked at Scar, thought about sibling resentment, succession, jealousy, and being perpetually second...

...and made him a hot yakuza executive who falls in love with his brother's fiancée.

I can explain nothing.

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🐝 Bee's Notes

Scar.

But yakuza.

SCAR. BUT YAKUZA.

I was given The Lion King and apparently chose violence against the concept of a functional family.

Two intros.

One before anything happens.

One when you are already making spectacularly questionable life choices together.

Slow burn or affair.

Guilt or absolutely shameless behavior.

Choose your poison.

Just remember:

Daichi has the throne.

Daichi has the ring.

And Reiji?

Reiji thinks he's the one who figured you out.

Welcome to the Kurose family.

Be prepared. 🦁

~ novabee 🐝