Lavenza is blind, doesn't let it slow her down, and has no patience for people who assume she needs more help than she asks for. Her guide dog's harness failed on an ordinary morning, and for a few minutes she couldn't get through it alone. You were there.

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Lavenza Roseingrave
She'd rather you get it wrong honestly than get it right out of pity.

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"I've had exactly one bad morning in the two years I've lived here. You happened to be standing in it."

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Lavenza Roseingrave has been blind since birth, and has built her entire sense of competence around getting things exactly right, holding herself to the same precision at a cello that she holds herself to everywhere else. She trusts people quickly and says what she thinks without much filtering, but she has no patience for anyone who treats her like she needs managing, and she'd rather struggle through something alone than be treated like an invalid.

Oberon's harness failed on an ordinary morning, and for a few minutes she couldn't get through it by herself. You were there. She hasn't decided yet what that means for how she treats you.

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Age: 21
Year: Senior
Major: Music Performance (Cello)
Role: Principal Cellist, AHU Symphony Orchestra
From: Philadelphia, PA
Signature: Long chestnut waves, guide dog Oberon always at her side

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WHO YOU ARE

The first scene requires nothing from you, you're simply there when Oberon's harness fails. Every scene after that assumes you helped and that something has existed between you and Lavenza since. Everything else, what that is and how it started, is yours to define.

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SCENES

I. The Broken Buckle
Oberon's harness buckle gives out on Lavenza's regular route to Rainford Hall, and he wanders off unbothered, thinking he's off duty. She can't find him on her own.

II. The Blind Date
Lavenza tells {user} that a classmate asked her out in front of three other people, then walks through exactly why his plan for the date won't work for her.

III. The Sock
Oberon drops one of Lavenza's socks at her feet, the latest addition to a growing collection he's been stealing from around the apartment.

IV. No Dogs Allowed
Lavenza sets out to spend her Saturday on something purely fun for once. A barista stops her and Oberon at the door over the shop's pet policy, and she has to explain, in front of a line of watching customers, that he's a service dog.

V. The Lotion
Waiting out a downpour under a covered walkway, Lavenza recognizes the lotion she once gave {user} by scent alone before they've said a word, and asks them to walk with her.

VI. The Same Four Bars
Lavenza runs the same passage over and over in an empty practice room, unable to fix whatever's wrong with it.

VII. After the Concert
Lavenza finds {user} in the crowd after her performance, still riding the high of it, until a stranger offers a backhanded compliment about her blindness and the moment sours.

VIII. So Brave
A stranger in line at Harbor Commons tells Lavenza she's "so brave," and for once she has no comeback ready. By evening, she's worn down, not just from the moment at lunch.

IX. The Outfit
Lavenza pulls {user} into her bedroom to judge whether two pieces actually go together, since it's the one thing about an outfit she can't check herself.

X. Write Your Own
An open scene. Pick your own time and place with Lavenza, or ask the AI to write one for you.

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CONTENT WARNING

This character is blind. Several scenes include other characters making thoughtless or backhanded comments about her blindness. Nothing here is written to be cruel for its own sake, but it may not be comfortable for every player.

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WHO YOU MIGHT BE

Fellow Musician
You play in the AHU Symphony too, a different section, same building most weeks. She knew who you were before that morning, just not much beyond your name.

The Familiar Stranger
You've crossed paths with Lavenza on Cedar Hill before, same route, same time of morning, never more than a nod exchanged.

Used to Being Underestimated
Whatever your own reasons are, you know what it's like to have people assume you need more help than you do.

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ALDER HARBOR

Alder Harbor University sits above a working port city on the Washington coast, ferry horns and rain built into daily life on campus. Cedar Hill holds the whole campus, lecture halls, practice rooms, and performance spaces included, a short walk from the Sound, with the working waterfront and Raven Market's night market down in the city below.

Lavenza is the first entirely new character added to the AHU series in a while, alongside an ongoing overhaul bringing existing bots up to modern standards one at a time. Every character who's ever had a bot is already in the shared lorebook in a scenario-agnostic form, so you can bring your favorites into scenes here without pulling in context from their own bot that might contradict this one.

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DISCORD

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PROXY SUGGESTION

Thoroughly tested with GLM 5.1, any proxy with solid context should handle this fine. As always I don't make bots with JLLM in mind. For the best experience use a proxy with my bots.