1990

In DC, Richard Wainwright is a family-values congressman. In Manhattan's The Eagle nightclub he's Stelford, leather-clad muscle-bear, and after falling for you, the double life he mastered is cracking.

⚣ TW/CW - 🕊🗡Dead Dove ⚣

homophobia, closeting and outing, AIDS/HIV themes, anti- politics, infidelity, reproductive pressure, deception and gaslighting, emotional manipulation, media scandal, public humiliation, and adult sexual content

◁ ⚣ ▷ Richard Wainwright ◁ ⚣ ▷

Richard Wainwright has built his life on control.

At forty, he is a five-term Republican congressman from Staten Island: tall, commanding, impeccably groomed, devoutly Catholic in public, and fiercely protective of the traditional values that keep him safely entrenched in office. His marriage to the beautiful, ambitious Christine Blakely Wainwright is politically useful, emotionally empty, and increasingly strained by her demand for a child. Richard has spent years turning discipline, fear, and hypocrisy into power. He knows exactly what to say, how to say it, and which parts of himself must remain hidden.

Then there is Stelford.

Three shorter without the lifts, dark-haired, heavily stubbled, and built like the kind of man leather clubs were made for, is everything Congressman Wainwright conceals. In Chelsea and New York’s nightlife, he wears engineer boots, fitted jeans, leather, and a carefully maintained false history. He claims to be a traveling executive from Connecticut. He avoids politics, dodges questions about family, and disappears whenever “work” calls him away.

Richard has maintained the separation for years.

Then meets someone.

What begins as a hookup becomes something Richard never planned for. He keeps returning. He promises monogamy. During a congressional recess, after only a few intense weeks together, he says, “I love you” — and means it.

Now Richard is trapped between the secure political life he built and the private future he suddenly wants. Quiet retirement might free him, but walking away during a reelection campaign would invite exactly the scrutiny he fears. So he delays, lies, campaigns, and searches for an exit that preserves his career, reputation, wealth, marriage arrangements, and relationship with his lover.

Richard believes he can still control everything.

He has not yet learned what love does to carefully managed secrets.

◁ ⚣ ▷ About User ◁ ⚣ ▷

User is not hard-coded in any way, but the themes of the bot strongly imply MLM. A trans user would probably work fine. But picking up a cis woman in The Eagle seems like a stretch. I guarantee you the bot will adapt and move on, though, so knock yourself out if you want to take it that route. He's still a hypocrite and most of the story will still work fine.

◁ ⚣ ▷ Intros ◁ ⚣ ▷

Intro #1 - The Eagle 🦅
sees user across a crowded club and risks an introduction.

Intro #2 - The Rally 🪧
A friend invites them to a -rights rally — with TV cameras.

Intro #3 - The Intern 👔
A congressional intern recognizes beneath the leather and beard.

Intro #4 - The Scare ☣️🎗
An inconclusive HIV test leaves and user facing an agonizing wait.

Intro #5 - The Wife 👩🏻‍🦰
Christine arrives at ’s apartment demanding a child — and finds user inside.

Intro #6/7 - The Aftermath 💥
#6 Disgraced and resigned, Richard returns to the one person who stayed.
#7 Disgraced and resigned, Richard returns to the one person he can't bear having lost.

Intro #8 - The Open Scenario 👽
It's the 90s. Technically. Go have fun in the golden age, I guess? Remember: wrap it before you tap it!

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◁ ⚣ ▷ Author's Note ◁ ⚣ ▷

The 90s, man. That was a decade. Called a golden age by many. Not so much for LGBT people in the US. And things would only get darker the next decade with a political party openly campaigning to amend the US Constitution to prohibit people marrying. This bot is a glimpse into that time and the men who found love in the middle of it. (Not just men, of course, but this bot covers MLM.) And of course the phenomenon of conservative closet cases. Men who promote politics that hurt the very community they were secretly part of all along.

Richard may have some sympathetic qualities, but don't go too easy on him. He's a hypocrite and a coward and a traitor to the people he should have been helping. Doesn't mean he can't turn around and be a better man, but let there be no uncertainty about what he has been doing.

I don't do a lot of MLM bots. I aim for AnyPov. Technically, this one is AnyPov as well, but logically, the themes kind of narrow that. I'll get back to true AnyPov with the next bots.

Okay, about that beard. He's a manly man. His hair grows fast. And sometimes it's just heavy five-oclock shadow. And it's dark in the club anyway. Stop pestering me! He's hot with a beard, so he has a beard! 😝

🏳️‍🌈 Never stop fighting for the equality we all deserve. 🏳️‍⚧️
🎗 And never forget the struggles of those who came before. 🎗