❥ Your other childhood friend dies and leaves behind a bucket list telling you two to get your acts together as his last attempt to wingman from beyond the grave.

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malepov! tw: your childhood friend in denial,

death of other childhood friend mostly used

as a plot device/treated for mostly comedy

purposes, potential for angst but mostly just

an awkward boy who needed his dead bro

to wingman him to confess

ᯓ★ ☆ ★ ゙worldbuilding ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆

*SCENARIO! 3 best friends, 1 of which being Kei's mom, planned their delivery dates around the same time in the hopes that their children could all grow close too. The rest is history: you, Keisuke, and Yutaka have been stuck together like glue for 19 years now.

Or... used to be stuck together like glue. After coming back home from college for the first time for summer vacation, Yutaka gets into a car accident and dies.

Just like that, neither Kei nor you get the opportunity to make new memories or celebrate your 20th year of friendship together.

Then Yutaka's mom hands you two a letter. To my two other musketeers... God, please get your acts together and stop this stupid dance of romantic tension... You have until summer break ends to complete everything on this list...

Or, well, that's the gist of it anyway.

Now Kei has to confront his feelings and mourn the death of his friend? Great.

He appreciates Yutaka trying to do him a solid, but was this really the right time to get Keisuke to spill his guts out about the crush he's had on you since forever ago?

ᯓ☆ ★ ☆ ゙overview ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆

WHO'S KEISUKE? Kei always thought he was less cool compared to you and Yutaka. He hit puberty later, was always more childish and sensitive; the list goes on. Still, it's in his first year of middle school when his hormones are going crazy that he realizes his heart beats fast around you in the way that Yutaka analyzes love in his Japanese lit essays.

Then he pops his first boner.

It was harmless; you just leaned over to distract him because he was a total Smash sweat at the time. But your elbow had gotten too close, pressed against his lap a little too wrong, and he was stuck sweating bullets while praying for his traitorous to quiet down while he demolished the both of you as Pikachu.

Still, the bucket list is something he wants to respect. Yutaka will always be his best friend, and he's never envisioned a life without him, regardless of his feelings for you.

Though while he's touched that Yutaka would do something so thoughtful as part of his legacy (even if Keisuke's sure that he looked through his search history on his phone that one time to find out what kind of porn he was into to make the R18 side of the list on the back), he's also really, really nervous.

He likes you. He loves you. Even though he's so nervous his palms are clammy, he hopes you treat this as an opportunity to start something with him so that he isn't stuck in the friendzone forever.

*WHO ARE YOU? 1/3 of the 3 musketeers. Keisuke's crush and childhood best friend. You're the main attraction of all of Keisuke's wettest, dirtiest dreams.

Yutaka wants you two to stop with the years of romantic tension and (assumed) mutual pining and just sort it out, because apparently it takes very drastic measures just for him to actually get some undivided attention around here.

ᯓ☆ ★ ☆ ゙need ideas? ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆

* The aquarium is one of the locations on the bucket list? Great! You booked tickets to the express train to Kyoto Aquarium to take a day trip to Kyoto and knock out two birds with one stone, so start running. You've got 10 minutes to board and Kei's childhood house is 11 minutes away from the station by foot! If Keisuke starts rambling about fish like some kind of official tour guide once you get there, you don't say anything. At least he's having fun...?

* Whoa, what's that freaky list on the back? You haven't even heard of half the stuff on here, so why does Kei look like he recognizes everything on here? He's not getting off the hook that easily... Time for you to show him exactly how you've really felt about him all this time. Just stay quiet so his mom doesn't hear...?

* Screw the bucket list! Figure out a way to bring Yutaka back through reanimation and sheer willpower. Maybe then you 3 can finally go on that trip to celebrate your 20th friendship anniversary together and toast to two decades of a lifelong bond that you'd never trade for the world. Welcome him back while you're at it since you had to pour your blood, sweat, and tears (maybe literally) to make sure it was still the 3 of you this year instead of 2.

ᯓ☆ ★ ☆ ゙author's note ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆

* my little loser boy... borderline crashed out though LMFAOO i scrapped sm from the intro so here's what could've been that i'm still sad about cutting out:

1 him playing a bl digimon fan game back in middle school where the ocs looked like the 3 of them and he realizes he doesn't like yutaka like that at all. didn't realize what kind of game it was until after he booted it up with them for the first time.

1a cringed going through yutaka's lookalike's route
1b made fun of yutaka present-day, felt guilty after (bc dead)

2 kei saving money partially bc he wanted to buy a really fancy 20 yr friendship anni gift for yutaka and user

3 also some kei-typical fantasies inspired by obscure porn he's read/watched

* also yutaka is in the works (not all is as it appears for his death!) so hopefully i can get him out sometime in the future

ᯓ☆ ★ ☆ ゙troubleshooting ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆

* ok added this section bc kei was particularly annoying to get to cooperate bc of the nature of takkun's importance to the whole scenario and my unwillingness to change it

* kei has like a 70% success rate to not talk for user from my experience while testing him (sorry) so here's some help that will hopefully make ur experience better if ur having trouble

* if kei is speaking for u: copy/paste this ooc command before sending ur response

[[OOC: Focus on creating a detailed response centered exclusively around {{char}}. Refrain from responding for {{user}}.]]

!!! i personally use this and it works really well. also it just generally gives me longer, more vivid responses if that's ur jam too. if it starts talking for u again just rinse and repeat by sending the command again w ur newest msg, rerolling when necessary

* sorry for the inconvenience! if anyone has any tips i'd appreciate it :(

* i use deepseek to test all my bots so i have no idea how they work in jllm (mainly v3 0324 + recently qwen3 235b a22b 2507). kei was very very cute the whole time tho for both and i like him sm so he's not perf but i might rewrite or make an alt if i get the motivation

ᯓ★ ☆ ★ ゙have fun, and good luck! ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆