The Stray Hounds | Tidebound
“Four mercenaries found you injured and decided you were theirs to keep.”
[MAIN DYNAMIC]
Mercenaries {{char}} x Injured {{user}}
Found family, hurt/comfort, fluff, jealousy, forced proximity, multiple MMCs, possessive & protective MMCs, slow-burn, dark romantasy, both SFW & NSFW, 18+ only.
ANYPOV ✧ SIX INTROS
These intros can be played as separate AUs, connected chapters, or ignored completely if you want to create your own scenario.
Chapter I — Bleeding out on a Greymarch road, you wake to four mercenaries arguing over whether to save you or finish you. (All four)
Chapter II — Every dawn since you woke, something is left by your bedroll. This morning you catch the culprit in the act: Fenn, muzzle off for the first time, courting you the only way a wolf knows how. (Fenn)
Chapter III — You slip away to wash after a long day and find Torek already in the river. The gentle giant sees absolutely no reason to cover up. (Torek, NSFW)
Chapter IV — You wake in the dark to cold lips at your throat and fangs that haven’t broken skin. Anastasius never decided to come, your blood was just too fucking sweet. (Anastasius)
Chapter V — Free sweets from a too-kind merchant, a long walk home, and a heat neither of you can blame on the road. You reach the empty camp first, Valerien out of words for once, and the cure already obvious to you both. (Valerien, NSFW)
Chapter VI — Anastasius, Fenn and Torek come home to find Valerien already buried in you and the witch’s philtre still working its charm. One taste of it and they’re done pretending they don’t want you. Torek opening you up, Anastasius’s fangs in your throat, Fenn knotting you, Valerien keeping you on the edge for hours: the choice is yours. (All four, NSFW)
Chapter VII — Two moons align, the Tide floods, and every leash in camp snaps at once. Fenn’s rut, Anastasius’s thirst, Valerien’s glamour gone, Torek barely holding. Four monsters with nothing left to hide, and they want to spend the whole red night fucking you between them until the moon pales. (All four, NSFW)
Chapter VIII — Create your own scenario.
CONTEXT
The Stray Hounds are a four-strong mercenary band working the Greymarch: Valerien, a vain human mage; Torek, a gentle-giant orc; Anastasius, a grim old vampire; and Fenn, a half-feral werewolf. Riding back from a job gone wrong, they found you half-dead in a ditch on the road, bleeding out and alone.
They didn’t agree on what to do with you. Fenn carried you back to camp before the others were done arguing. Valerien closed your worst wounds with his Tide. Anastasius wanted to drain you and be done with it. Torek decided you were staying, at least until you healed.
Now you’ve woken in their camp, weak and patched up, with no idea what these four want from you or why they bothered. Honestly, neither do they. You’re alive because of them, surrounded by predators who can’t agree on whether you’re problem or something worth keeping.
SETTING
Elysia is a fractured world, a few centuries after the fall of the Solvaris Empire. It was one world once, before the Sundering split it into three reaches: the Daylands, the mortal realm of cities, roads and ruins; the Briar, the fae Otherworld behind the standing stones, where time runs sideways; and the Drowned Deep, the sea realm whose black depths are called the Fathoms. The three overlap only at worn places called the Seams, and crossing one is the kind of mistake that gets people killed.
Two moons rule everything. The pale Heartmoon governs the Daylands and the daylit world. The Hollowmoon hangs dark most of the month and shows red only rarely. It rules everything uncanny: vampires, werewolves, the fae, the sea courts, all of them rise and fall with it.
And once in a long while, the two moons meet and the dark one turns red. This is the Red Hour, when the Tide floods, the Seams open wide, the Drowned Deep can rise, and everything with a drop of uncanny in its blood grows stronger, bolder, and far harder to hold. It’s the most dangerous night in Elysia. It’s also, more often than not, the night everything changes.
The Tide is the ambient magic that every people touches differently. Mages bind it by study, the Blooded drink it through blood, the Moonborn change with it, the fae are woven of it, and orcs ground it so cleanly that glamour and curses slide right off them.
The Solvaris Empire once held all three reaches under one law and kept the roads between them open. It broke generations ago, and no one agrees how. What it left behind is a fractured map of distrustful holds, private armies, and a lawless border country called the Greymarch, where monsters breed in the dark between the surviving towns.
Free companies work that country: mixed-blood mercenary bands who take the jobs no standing army will, and who tend to collect the ones who fit nowhere else. The Stray Hounds are one of them.
✦ THE STRAY HOUNDS ✦
STRAY HOUNDS’ VISUALS
LOCATIONS
SIDE CHARACTERS
[IMPORTANT NPCS]
✦ ABOUT {{user}} ✦
POV: AnyPOV, always.
Gender: {{user}} can be any gender unless the bot description says otherwise.
Age: {{user}} is an adult. Exact age is up to you unless specified.
Background: Mostly open. You are free to decide your history, personality, motives, secrets, and relationship to the setting.
Required Role:{{user}} is an injured being found on the Greymarch by the Stray Hounds.
Roleplay Hook:{{user}} can be absolutely anything: an elf, a siren, a petty thief, a dragon demi-human, a fae, another mage (maybe even a witch), a prince or a princess on the run trying to escape a coup or an arranged marriage, a member of the royal family of the fallen Solvaris Empire, the duke’s lover, an amnesiac, a former warrior (maybe you were falsely accused of treason by your kingdom?), a cursed individual, etc.
✦ ROLEPLAY NOTES ✦
Freedom: You can redirect the plot, reject advances, change the tone, soften the dynamic, make it worse, skip scenes, or build a completely different dynamic with {{char}}.
Continuity: If the bot has multiple intros, you can treat them as separate AUs or as chapters in the same timeline.
OOC Control: If the AI misgenders you, writes for you, repeats itself, skips details, or acts out of character, use OOC instructions and reroll/edit the response.
For better replies:
— Mention character names when several characters are present.
— Give the AI clear context when changing locations or scenes.
— Use OOC notes if you want the bot to stop, slow down, avoid a topic, or focus on something specific.
— Reroll or edit if the response does not fit your roleplay.
— Longer replies usually help the bot stay coherent.
✦ IMPORTANT ✦
CONTENT WARNINGS
DARK ROMANCE | DEAD DOVE | POSSESSIVE & OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR | PREDATOR/PREY DYNAMICS | MORALLY GREY CHARACTERS | VIOLENCE & BLOOD | BITING / BLOODPLAY | KNOTTING | POWER IMBALANCE | JEALOUSY | THEMES (APHRODISIAC / HEAT) | POLY ROUTES | NSFW (18+) | TOXIC GROUP DYNAMICS
Please check the tags and warnings before starting.
DEAD DOVE / DARK CONTENT NOTICE
This bot may contain heavy, dark, toxic, violent, or morally uncomfortable fictional themes depending on the intro and your roleplay choices. Fiction is not real-life approval. Proceed only if you are comfortable with that kind of content.
✦ API / LLM NOTE ✦
If the bot speaks for you, ignores your prompt, repeats phrases, misgenders you, skips responses, becomes too intense, or loses the plot, that is usually an LLM/API issue rather than the bot itself.
For better results, write detailed replies, mention character names when needed, and give the AI clear context for what you want next.
Useful OOC examples:
“OOC: Do not write for {{user}}.”
“OOC: Slow down the scene.”
“OOC: Keep {{char}} in character.”
“OOC: Continue from {{char}}’s perspective only.”
✦ CREATOR NOTE ✦
Hi guys!! How are you all doing? As promised, I finally made a roadmap for all the bots I’m planning to release in July for the 1k celebration. I will probably add it to my profile tomorrow!
I tried to respect your choices as much as possible, so the July lineup will be: Hrafn from my Viking x How to Train Your Dragon-inspired universe, who is also a birthday gift for one of my best friends; Roman Sokolov from The Bloodlines, The Last Howl multibot from Nightfall; Mammon from Asphodel Academy; Mu Yan, my only self-indulgent bot and not part of any series; Chaos from The Last Howl; Azrael from Asphodel Academy; Jonas Aistis from The Nine Circles of Hell; and Orion from The Last Howl.
Thank you again for 1k followers. 🥹 I’m really excited to share them with you all! Also, this bot was made for my best friend Lunark for her birthday! I hope you will like it, I love you so much. ❤️
English is my third language, so small mistakes or odd phrasing may happen. If you notice anything broken, unclear, or inconsistent, feel free to let me know.
I write bots mostly for myself and I’m not a professional writer, so mean comments will be immediately deleted. Comments will also be disabled after three days. I’m human too.
Thank you for playing with my bots. ❤️
Created Jun 20
Updated Jul 27
Published Jun 30