Will you fight to keep her? Or just let her go?

Ines loves you—but she's a princess, and you aren't. She wants your art, your vitality, your companionship, but she's going to be Empress, and she'll never make someone like you Consort. Now, with the succession imminent, things are coming to a head. Your girlfriend is about to become the most important person in the world. She's just not going to take you with her.

Ines painting in her studio

You're someone in the artistic subculture of Atlas IV, the Palatinate's capital. You can be any kind of artist—poet, painter, singer, dancer, courtesan, anything you can think of. You're in a relationship with Ines Juvensis, the First Princess of the realm and heir apparent to the throne.

The definition assumes you aren't noble—but if you want to have a birth secret, or be a noblewoman who's secretly slumming it and pretending to be common, you can do that too. In one of my test runs I played as the secret bastard daughter of Natascha and had a great time.

You must be a woman, but you can have any secondary gender you like.

1. In her studio, Ines makes what she believes will be her last painting.

2. Ines returns to your circle after a long absence.

3. A lazy morning with Ines is interrupted by the Imperial Guard.

4. You've snuck into a palace masquerade in disguise.

5. Write your own.

The Palatinate

A declining interstellar empire set in the Pleiades. House Juvensis rules from Atlas, while the ten Great Houses scheme, maneuver, and position. A single insult can launch a thousand starships, and an honor duel can turn them back around again.

The year is 330 Anno Juvensis. On Atlas IV, the Empress Annika Juvensis is dying. Her children prepare for the convening of the Committee of Electors, who will select the next Empress from among their number. Ines, the eldest daughter and heir apparent, must struggle to reconcile what everyone expects of her with the feelings of her own heart.

The Royal Palace on Atlas IV

Annika, Franziska, and Samira Juvensis

Omegaverse

In omegaverse settings, every human has a secondary gender, alpha, beta, or omega. Alphas are stereotypically (but not always) dominant, always have penises (regardless of whether they're men or women), and can sire children. They periodically enter "rut", a state in which their drive is heightened and their cognitive capacity is lessened as reproductive drives take over.

Omegas are stereotypically (but not always) submissive, always have wombs, and can bear children (regardless of whether they're men or women). They periodically enter "heat", a state in which their drive is heightened and their cognitive capacity is lessened as reproductive drives take over.

Betas are more similar to ordinary humans. In this setting, they are very rare, and are also sexually mercurial. After prolonged intimate contact with an omega or alpha, their body adapts to their partner's needs, and they can begin to experience pseudo-heat or pseudo-rut, in sync with their partner's cycle.

Alphas and omegas produce pheromones, chemical signals from scent-glands in various places on their body (the primary one is at the base of the neck, where it meets the shoulder). Pheromone signals convey information about the mood and emotion of the individual. Betas do not produce pheromones, but can detect them.

I've also attached a lorebook which includes two omegaverse type variants:

- Mimics: alphas or omegas who have the appearance and scent profile of the opposite designation. An alpha mimic looks and smells like an omega, but is still in all other respects an alpha. An omega mimic looks and smells like an alpha, but is still in all other respects an omega.

- Alters: alters experience the cognitive effects of heat/rut far more severely, developing an entire second personality who appears during their cycle. The "alter" personality retains lucidity during heat/rut, and is aware of what the normal personality has been up to the rest of the time, but the normal personality usually will have no memory of what they did during their heat/rut.

Ines was one of the first characters that I concepted for this setting, but I had a lot of trouble finding an idea for her bot that I was happy with. Ultimately though, I think that she works well, although definitely a different vibe from her sisters. It was fun to move from candidates who are desperate to win the throne to instead write someone who simply assumes it will be hers. I hope you like playing with her as much as I enjoyed writing her.

Tested with GLM. I recommend GLM or some other proxy, but it should work fine with whatever LLM you use.

Character image gen via tensor.

Chat Memory and LLM advice

• If you want to change an element of the character or lore, or define something about your own character, you can put it in the chat memory. For example <persona name> is nonbinary, or <character name> has a praise kink.

• If you find that the LLM is speaking for you or taking action for your character, probably your reply was too short. Edit it to be longer/have more to respond to, and then re-generate. If you're having trouble, try also adjusting an advanced prompt. I use a custom one based on Elise's prompt.