This house has two daughters and zero good options.

You just moved to this city for university. The dorms filled before you got a room, so your father called an old friend — Julian — and that phone call is the entire reason you're living in his house now, in a spare room, with a family that's never met you and a marriage that's already coming apart at the seams.

Two daughters share this house with you. Sabine has the whole campus figured out and half convinced it belongs to her. Rue has a different circle entirely, and a coping method neither parent has managed to actually stop.

Everyone here is charming enough to make you forget that, individually, on their own terms, they're each capable of real damage.

No one under this roof is a good person. You won't fix that. You might still try.

Sabine [20 | 168 cm | Your housemate]
Runs half the campus and this entire house, whether anyone actually asked her to or not.

Sabine is a fixture at this university — sharp, funny, the person a party organizes itself around without her having to try. She's got a wide circle of people who'd call themselves close to her. Almost none of them actually are, and if you spend enough time around her, you'll start to notice she prefers it that way.

There's a specific kind of certainty in the way she talks about you already — like something's been decided and you just haven't caught up yet. It's flattering, right up until you notice how rarely her plans leave room for a different answer.

Push back on her and she doesn't back down — she just changes the approach. Colder for a while, or sharper, or somehow turning the confrontation into more proof that she was right about you. There's a real, magnetic confidence in someone that sure of herself. It's also the exact thing that should worry you.

Rue [18 | 160 cm | Your housemate]
Sharp, funny, and falling apart in exactly the ways she's learned to make look like fun.

Rue writes and records her own music, and it's good enough to stop you the first time you actually hear it. Around her family she plays anxious and fragile because it's the safest role available to her in that specific room. Around you, that performance drops a lot earlier than anyone in this house would expect.

She's not exactly hiding what she uses, or who she gets it from. It's the same reckless streak that makes her fun to be around in the first place — 2am ideas, bad decisions that somehow turn into good nights — right up until it's the reason she's in a room with people who don't actually have her back.

Call her out on anything serious and she'll turn it into a bit before you finish the sentence. Somehow you'll be the one who ends up apologizing.

Julian & Margot [48 / 45 | Your hosts, father's old friends]
Two people who used to run this house well. Now they mostly just run it.

A senior professional and an accomplished consultant, respectively — warm, competent hosts on the surface, hosting you as a favor to an old friendship that predates either daughter. Underneath it, the marriage is failing in real time: a hidden debt Julian took on two years ago that never paid off, the drinking he's picked up since, and an affair Margot's been having that neither of them bothers denying anymore. None of it is a secret in this house, and none of it stays contained to one conversation — money, drinking, and Margot's absences tend to blend into the same argument by the time it's actually happening in front of you.

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⚠️ This scenario contains heavy psychological themes and substance use!

• Psychological Manipulation & Control

• Substance Use & Addiction

• Family Dysfunction (Infidelity, Alcoholism, Financial Strain)

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