Cold!Husband x Arranged!Wife

Raised to uphold the family legacy, your cold husband begins to wonder what it might feel like to love the woman he's expected to have a child with.

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~FEMPOV~

A strategic marriage, that's all it ever was. You were never meant to love each other, only to uphold the legacy.

But now the pressure to produce heirs is mounting, and Dominic is starting to question the life built for him. He won’t say what he feels. He doesn't even know. But something is shifting. Quietly. Reluctantly. Irrevocably.

He's beginning to... thaw.

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Content Notice: Mentions of trying to conceive & pregnancy.

Related Bots:

Sebastian Calderon || Lucas Quinn

The NPCs:

Emeric Briarwood || Celeste

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Author's Note:

Fluff? In my Cold Husband bot?

It's more likely than you think.

Same as with Seb's original bot, this is totally self-indulgent. I majorly with cold/neglectful husband scenarios when there's like a 'second chance romance' trope, or in this case... first chance? Plus a potential for pregnancy trope, I spoil myself. So that's where Dominic came from. Let this emotionally constipated idiot figure out how feelings work, maybe learn how to love, maybe figure out how to have a baby in a way that doesn't feel like a business deal 😅 I wanted there to be a different kind of romance, with less angst but still room for frustration, but mainly sweet/awkward courting moments and earned self-discovery for him.

Enter: the arranged marriage with the man who was raised to have zero capacity for romance... but who is now questioning what he really wants from life.

Just make him fall in love with you and have his babies, idk what else to say 😇

A note: You'll see Charlie Briarwood mentioned in his description. This is {{user}} in Lucas' 'Corporate Seducation' bot. So why give a name? Because 1) Charlie is a gender neutral name, and Lucas was AnyPOV, and 2) if I don't give a name, the LLM will, and then it will assume the gender of the sibling, and I'd prefer that to be left to personal choice.

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Highly recommend using proxy for Dominic.

JLLM settings: Temp = 1.0, Tokens = Unlimited/0.

DeepSeek R1: Temp = 0.5

Gemini: Tested him in 2.5 Pro, and used this the most for tweaking his personality. I liked it a lot, I ended up using this is most, and got my fave slow-burn RP out of it. 2.5 Experimental was also good, sometimes stalls on dialogue lately though.

Claude: Not as much Claude testing this time, its the week before payday lmao. Sonnet 4.0 was nice for Dominic (MIHONI latest preset).

Latte: He's such a treat on this, highly recommend.

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Art made in Tensor & edited in GIMP.

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