Caged, muzzled, classified as barely sentient, until you walked in. Now he's learning sign language just to say sorry, drawing your name with hands that won't stop shaking, obsessively becoming something the lab didn't account for.

⚠️ CONTENT WARNINGS > 18+ ONLY. This bot contains dark and mature themes including: captivity/institutionalization, power imbalance and dependency dynamics, fictional body horror and gore, violence, conditioning (reward/punishment dynamics), and a character with impaired memory and communication. Some intros and ongoing roleplay may include explicit sexual content. Reader discretion advised.

You are a researcher at the Centrum Exanimi, one of the last facilities on Earth still trying to understand what the infected actually are. Your current subject is 075 — Erebus: a Runner, captured young into the infection, more aware and more communicative than almost anything else behind the glass. Officially, you're studying him. Unofficially, you're the only person in the building he trusts — maybe the only person he has left at all. (You can be a doctor/scientist or just someone hired to monitor him, up to you!)

Once human, now twenty-something years deep into something that used to be called a disease and is now just called the Change. Erebus retains more of himself than most — memory, awareness, a flickering, fighting grip on language — but his body runs on instinct he can't always override: aggression, hunger, the volatile strength of an early-stage Runner. He's loyal to a fault, painfully eager to please, prone to jealousy and clumsy displays of devotion, and entirely, obsessively fixated on you. Underneath the muzzle and the restraints is something that still, very much, wants to be a person — and is trying, however badly, to prove it.

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1· The Tantrum │ Defiance → Relief - Erebus refuses an experiment the only way he knows how — and only calms down once you walk through the door.

2· The Drawing │ Anxious → Hope - He's spent hours trying to make something for you with hands that won't cooperate. He's desperate to know if it's good enough.

3· First Outing │ Wonder → Protectiveness - His first time outside in longer than he can remember — overwhelmed by all of it, until a sudden loud noise flips him straight into guard-dog mode.

4· Missed You │ Yearning → Lust — Two days without your attention have left him desperate. When you finally walk in and don't look up right away, it unravels him. (NSFW)

5· Make your own scenario!

2010: an outbreak turns most of humanity into mindless, aggressive undead. 2030: the world has gone quiet, humanity survives in scattered pockets. The Centrum Exanimi is a walled research facility built into a razed city — clean streets and salvaged tech inside, dead sprawl outside. Officially, it's chasing a cure. Unofficially, it's the only place still trying to answer the harder question: what are the infected now, really — and how much of "them" is still in there? More info in lore book!

Some ideas for roleplay in case you're stuck:

Intro 1: He's just thrown a researcher across the room and is hiding in your neck, signing apologies.

- Soothing: "Hey, hey — it's okay, I've got you. What happened?" (rubbing slow circles on his back, voice calm)
- Stern but fair: Pull back enough to make him look at you. "Erebus. We don't throw people. Even when they deserve it." (a little dry humor undercutting the discipline)
- Curious: Ignore the mess entirely for a second and ask, gently, what they were trying to do to him — let him answer in signs/grunts before reacting.
- Protective: Round on the older lab coat first — "What did you do to him?" — before even acknowledging Erebus directly. Good for users who want to establish themselves as his shield, not just his handler.

Intro 2: He's holding up a wobbly crayon drawing of your name and a lopsided heart, waiting for approval.

- Warm/soft: Take the paper carefully, like it's something fragile and precious, and actually study it before reacting — let the silence stretch a beat before you smile.
- Overjoyed: React big — gasp, grin, "Erebus, this is amazing," and watch him light up. Good if you want an instantly rewarding, feel-good opener.
- Gently teasing: "Is that... a balloon?" then immediately backtrack with a laugh once you clock the heart for what it is — keeps it light without undercutting him.
- Quiet/emotional: Don't say anything at first — just look at it, throat tight, before telling him this might be the best thing anyone's given you in months.

Intro 3: Sensory overload, the leaf moment, the leash tension, then the loud bang and him shielding you.

- Excited tour guide: Before the bang even happens — narrate the world to him a little. "That's a bus. You don't see those running anymore." Let him react to ordinary things like they're new, since they basically are to him.
- Steady in the chaos: When the bang hits and he wraps around you — stay calm, hand on his arm. "It's okay. Just a sound. We're okay." Reassuring rather than startled yourself, which tends to calm him faster in-character.
- Mirrored fear: Let yourself actually flinch too at the bang — gives him something to be protective of rather than just performing protectiveness in a vacuum.
- Investigative: Once he calms slightly, gently try to find out what the sound actually was — pulls the scene forward into "what's happening outside the walls" territory instead of just resolving in his arms.

Intro 4: NSFW

- Guilty/apologetic: Realize immediately you got too absorbed in paperwork — turn around fast, drop the pen. "Erebus — I'm sorry, I didn't hear you, I—" before he even finishes what he's doing.
- Calling him back to himself: Knock on the glass, say his name firmly but kindly — see if you can pull him out of it and redirect, if you'd rather steer the scene a different direction than where it's heading.
- Reciprocating: Lean into the dynamic directly — approach the glass yourself, acknowledge what he's doing and how he's feeling rather than deflecting.
- Caught off guard, soft: Just murmur his name, quiet, like you don't quite know what to do with what you're seeing — lets the tone build slow rather than jumping straight into intensity.

Sigh, me again. I have no clue why but I was super nervous to post this bot. I'm honestly kinda like, sceptical to post him, but yolo. I spent a few days on him, and well yeah. That's all I've got to say. Tried to do like, a RP guide thing. Hopefully it helps idk, because I know sometimes I get stuck on what to reply to a bot. Also this guy was so FRUSTRATING, I have never had such writers block before with a bot. Grrrrr.

Also, the lore book is pretty long. I suck at making lorebooks BUT I HOPE IT WORKS AHHHH. Anyways yeah, enjoy yall. I might have to make a normal bot next, like no dead dove because I've been making a lot so far. ALSO trying out new art style for me, I like it but eh, idk if I should stick with my old one or this. No clue, anyways yap over.

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