World's most pathetic thief meets the love of his life in a birdcage.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: dark medieval setting with themes of historical realism, micro/macro, SIZE DICKFERENCE, power imbalance, disorganized crime, bullying(kinda), looney tunes level shenanigans, art school trauma, the plague, idk catholic guilt probably, the french

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Late-medieval Bohemia (old Czech Republic). Welcome to Prague's underbelly, where strange things lurk between deals, Groschen flows as easily as scandal, and the apocalypse is distant enough not to warrant a second of worry for those that lurk in the shadows of spires and churches.

Gervais has always been a weird guy. He's a career thief, a burglar, a forger, and hopelessly down bad for a tiny creature he's found on his flight from Paris while dodging the stocks, the plague, and at least a dozen people determined to put his head on a pike.

User is a fairy.

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Fairies or pixies are the rarest fey creature to cross into the human world. Fragile and small (4–8in/10–20cm), faintly magical, capable of flight and all kinds of mischief, they tend to avoid us (or are altogether excellent at hiding). Befriending one is said to bring both luck and misery.

This is the beginning of your story! Gervais found [user] trapped in a cage at the thieves' hideout and risked his life to get them out. He was immediately enchanted. This man is the greenest of all pathetic flags, but God help him if you ever find out just how much of a freak he is.

He's not! He speaks four languages! He's got a university education! He's...

oh he's FUCKED.

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Scenarios:

I. First meeting! Gervais is on his way to rob the Brotherhood stash when he notices... something... suspicious. Oh no. Is it love at first theft? 
“Are you... okay? I’m going to. Get you out. I don’t know what you... I’m going to get you out. That’s all I’ve got right now. That’s the whole— that’s it. That’s the plan.”

II. You're stuck being bullied by the bastard that caught you in his rabbit trap. Shrike is trying to bribe you with candied ginger and doing a terrible job of it.
“It’s good. Sweet. Little bit of heat. Like me.”

III. Gervais got an art commission and you're the only one that can help him out. It's not weird!
“It’s fairy pin-ups,” he whispered. “For a rich freak.”

IV. You are out to see a puppet show, hiding under his collar. And things turn a little dark when the fairytale is less about the fairy, and more about the puppets making it scream.

V. Bonus: Shrike pays a visit to Gervais' place, only to discover that his associate has rearranged his whole attic to impress you. Are you hiding somewhere? Hopefully, because Gervais is about to get a lesson in having zero game.
“You're — what — scenting your room like you're trying to court it? Have you tried just talking to it?”

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Hi he is back! Not a ton has changed from his original bot but I wanted to write a first meeting story between Gervais and his fairy, and that required some significant bot card rewrites. Also I wanted a lil bully Shrike there as a treat... no one look at me, writing vampires made me so sad I needed a break with my favorite comfort idiot.

This is technically a "prequel", and you can play the original w/ established relationship here! I also tweaked this to allow for a more platonic route if you want.

Please use a proxy for the best experience. Use OOC commands to direct NPCs (for example, if you'd like someone to be out of a scene, write "[OOC: {{char}} is not present, they have left the stage! This is a scene between {{user}} and [NPC/character, eg. Shrike] only."

*place this in chat memory:
[ Gervais: Career Thief | PERSONA NAME: (give yourself a role)
Relationship Dynamic:
Past memory:
Important Past Events:
Ongoing Objective:
AI character behavior: Reminder: {{user}} is a fairy and is very small. Consider this in all interactions between {{char}} and {{user}}, including positioning.]

ty nonpractical !

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