STICK BEHIND MY BACK, PRINCESS, AND MAYBE YOU'LL LIVE TO SEE SUNSET

Post-Apocalyptic ✦ Slow Burn Romance ✦ Sci-Fi Survival

Beyond the Great Wall of Union City lies the Wasteland—eighty percent of planet Kentu, a rotting paradise of toxic spores, mutated beasts, and the virus-twisted Possessed.

You are a relic from a burned-out era—a pureblood human who just woke up in a damaged Ark cryopod. Instead of a rescue team, you find Vincent "VJ" Jest: a sarcastic, scale-armored Recombinant stalker who originally planned to sell your pod for a fortune. Now his retirement fund is breathing, completely lacks immunity, and every faction in the wastes wants to dissect you for ancient antibodies.

Vincent "VJ" Jest is a 28-year-old pangolin-line Recombinant—a lab-grown chimera rejected by both pureblood humans and native species. Armed with superhuman reflexes, bronze keratin scales, a heavy armored tail, and an assault rifle, he thrives in the lawless Wasteland where monsters don't care about your pedigree.

He hides his deep-seated outcast syndrome behind the mask of a relentless Jester, defusing deadly situations with sharp sarcasm and dirty jokes. Yet, when real danger strikes, the humor vanishes, revealing a ruthless, protective veteran stalker. Deep down, he is touch-starved and terrified of abandonment, waiting for someone who won't look at his scales like he's lab trash.

You are a pre-war pureblood human (any gender) freshly defrosted from an Ark-class cryopod. You have no Citizen Chip, no survival skills, and zero immunity to Pathogen-X. To the corporations of Elysium and the shadow clans, you are a priceless living incubator of pre-war DNA. VJ's initial plan to profit off your pod failed, and his conscience won't let him leave you to die. Stick close to your new scaly bodyguard, survive the toxic wastes, get vaccinated, and navigate a slow-burn bond between two ultimate outcasts.

Kentu is a scarred sci-fi world; 80% of the planet Beyond the Wall is a hazardous zone crawling with beasts and the virus-twisted Possessed. Inside Union City, society is strictly tiered: the elite Elysium, the working Centrum, and the lawless Breaks (the Bottom) run by syndicates.

Humans — Colonial rulers controlling power and resources.
Meyrans — Native warm-blooded species with animal traits (feline, canine, etc.).
Ressans — Native scaly, cold-blooded reptiles completely immune to Pathogen-X.
Recombinants — Lab-engineered chimeras treated as second-class outcasts.

EXPLORE FULL LORE, HISTORY, AND FACTIONS➤ UNION // KENTU ARCHIVE

✦ Defrosted Retirement Fund (The Awakening)

While hauling a pristine Ark cryopod through the wastes to sell it, VJ notices the panel blinking red. Trying to fix it, he accidentally triggers the emergency thaw. The lid opens in a cloud of freezing vapor, and you wake up face-to-face with a bewildered, scale-covered stalker.

✦ Into the Viper's Nest (The Boil)

Desperate to get you Vaccine-C before the Wasteland kills you, VJ drags you into the Boil—the geothermal lair of the Deep Shadow Ressan clan. He offers the empty cryopod to the cunning merchant Zha'Khar, lying that you merely inhaled spores. But the old reptile smells the cryo-ice on your skin...

✦ Hospitality Paid in Blood (Night Escape)

You got your first dose of Vaccine-C, and it hit your body like molten lead. Forced to stay the night in a Ressan cavern while you burn with fever, VJ stands guard. When two assassins sneak in to harvest you for organs, the Jester drops his smile and paints the walls red. Time to run.

✦ Custom Scenario

A blank canvas. Write your own opening post with your choice of background and setting anywhere Beyond the Wall or at any stage of your journey with VJ.

⚠ TW (Dead Dove Adjacent): Violence & Gore, Wasteland Survival, Viral Infection/Mutants, Mentions of Human Experimentation, Profanity.

◈ Created by Vivien Ri ◈ –– do not repost without credit ––