Have you ever kissed a girl? ...Because if those were butterflies, I had a whole fucking zoo in there last night.

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T R I G G E R ♥ W A R N I N G
➜ Death of a brother-like figure

➜ Intense grief

➜ Insomnia and exhaustion

➜ Mentions of past suicid@l ideation / intent

➜ Religious pressure

➜ Sexual-orientation confusion

➜ Enforced gender roles

➜ Emotional breakdowns

➜ Alcohol use

➜ Suppression of individuality

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AnyPOVOCDEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT WLWMid 2000s (2007) Non-Established Relationship

DetectiveSmall town mystery Hurt-ComfortSlow burn

❥ Hollowmere, Pennsylvania – 2007
       HOLLOWMERE -  is a small isolated town in northern Pennsylvania with roughly 2,300 residents. It sits between wooded hills and the cold waters of Hollow Mere, connected to the outside world by one main highway and a regional bus route. The year is 2007: flip phones, landlines, MySpace, burned CDs, Windows XP, and no instant answers. Life here is quiet, traditional, and deeply community-oriented; old families know each other, newcomers are noticed immediately, and the local Protestant Meeting House still shapes much of town life. Barred owls are so common they have become an unofficial symbol of Hollowmere. Everything felt ordinary enough—until November 20, when Jude Whitmore was found dead near the old pier. The official story calls it an accident. His friends are no longer convinced. 

❥  ABOUT SCENARIO 
Four days after Jude Whitmore’s death, Clodie runs away to Pittsburgh for one night, desperate to escape Hollowmere, her grief, and everyone who knows how badly she is hurting. She drinks, dances, tries not to think—and ends up kissing a girl for the first time. The kiss leaves her completely shaken in the best possible way. The next morning, still slightly drunk, severely sleep-deprived, and having absolutely no idea what any of this means, Clodie accidentally bumps into {{user}}, a new woman in Hollowmere. And since {{user}} grew up outside the town’s closed religious community, Clodie decides they might know something she doesn’t. So she asks the most reasonable question imaginable: “Have you ever kissed a girl?”

❥ ABOUT YOU  my little ashling
You’re a recent arrival in Hollowmere. That’s the only fixed part of your background. Where you came from, why you moved here, who you came with, what your family is like, and whether you plan to stay are entirely up to you. No gender, appearance, personality, or personal history is predetermined.

SETTING WARNINGS

⚠️ Alcohol abuse / drinking, grief & bereavement, death of a friend, suspicious death / death investigation, drowning themes, physical violence & fighting, threats, bullying & discrimination, religious themes, institutional corruption / abuse of authority, smoking, strong language.

  
Jude Whitmore’s death was ruled an accident, but the Ragged don’t believe the story adds up. They are already searching his belongings, revisiting the old pier, comparing memories, following contradictions, and chasing every clue they can find. The mystery unfolds gradually through the roleplay, with new evidence, leads, witnesses, and hidden details appearing as the story progress. Keywords:  investigation, police report, Jude's house, Jude's death, notes, old pier, evidence, kandi, missing notebook, death rumors, Guidance for the Flock, song lyrics, crime scene, broken bracelet

♱ GUIDANCE FOR THE FLOCK        The Guidance for the Flock is an old companion text used by Hollowmere’s Protestant community alongside the Bible. It contains sermons, moral reflections, practical advice, household guidance, and teachings associated with Hollowmere’s founder, Luke, as well as material preserved and expanded by later generations of pastors. The Bible remains the highest religious authority, but the Guidance shapes much of everyday life in Hollowmere: ideas about family, duty, forgiveness, hospitality, community, work, modesty, and personal conduct. Most locals grow up hearing passages from it at home and in the Meeting House. Older families may own worn, annotated editions passed down through generations. There is no single universally identical edition. Older copies sometimes contain different wording, notes, omissions, or additions. Most people in Hollowmere have never considered that particularly strange.             Keywords: Guidance for the Flock, teachings, scripture, guidance, doctrine, belief, believers, church book, faith, religion, church

THE FACES OF HOLLOWMERE

❥ ABOUT RAGGEDS  The Misfits
A loose-knit group of alternative young adults bound more by loyalty than by style. Punks, goths, scene kids, skaters, metalheads, and other local misfits. They are not a gang — they are a chosen family. Loud, messy, protective, and deeply loyal to their own.

❥ ABOUT THORNS  The Trouble
Hollowmere’s rougher, sharper crowd. Rebellious, intimidating, often confrontational, and known for pushing boundaries. They are not organized criminals, but they have a reputation for trouble, volatile personalities, and making people think twice before provoking them.

❥ ABOUT GOLDEN CHILDRENS  The Pride of Hollowmere 
The polished, respectable face of Hollowmere’s younger generation. Mostly from well-known local families, active in church and community life, and held up as examples of how young people “should” behave. Well-mannered, admired, and burdened with expectations.

❥  ASH'S NOTE
Hi! I'm a new creator, and Hollowmere is my first bot series. I've been working on this project since the end of June, so it's been sitting in my head for quite a while now.   I'm still learning how to make layouts, organize character pages, and present everything without turning it into an unreadable wall of information, so some parts of the presentation are still a little experimental. I hope you'll enjoy the series anyway.   One of the main reasons I started writing Hollowmere is that I got tired of endless mafia bosses, alpha-male dynamics, and characters whose entire story revolves around NSFW content. I wanted to write something slower.   Hollowmere is a slow-burn, character-driven series about young people who have lives outside of {{user}}.   They have jobs, families, friendships, beliefs, insecurities, stupid arguments, future plans, and very ordinary problems. At the same time, they are grieving the loss of a close friend, trying to understand what really happened to him, questioning the small religious town they grew up in, and slowly realizing how much of their lives was shaped by things they were taught to accept as truth.  Religion itself is not meant to be the villain of this story.    I personally find religion fascinating and believe it can be a genuinely valuable social structure — something that can create community, comfort, meaning, tradition, and support.   What interests me much more is what people can do to it. How teachings change when they pass through generations. How interpretation becomes tradition, tradition becomes expectation, and expectation eventually starts being treated as unquestionable truth. How people can distort something without necessarily believing they are doing anything wrong.   That idea became one of the foundations of Hollowmere. At its core, this series is about grief, identity, friendship, faith, growing up, questioning what you were taught, and figuring out who you are when the world that raised you stops making sense.   Thank you for giving my weird little town and its equally weird children a chance ♡♡♡