Your childhood friend is now an assassin who would kill anyone for you.

The seconds stretch into minutes. If the night could only pause for him, Larkspur could stay like this forever, but his bones ache from restraint. More than ten years of waiting has calcified into longing. He leans in, just enough to feel her breath warm his skin. One word, one name, one prayer and she will come back to him.

ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP | FEMPOV | OC | MEDIEVAL FANTASY

DIVINE DECAY: Your Personal Assassin

Here's your husband!

How Bad is He? — Green Flag (mostly) | Yellow Flag | Red Flag | Black Flag

Can You Fix Him? — Near Perfection | Needs TLC | Good Luck | Slim Chance | Lost Cause

Larkspur Vale was once your childhood friend, a beggar and an orphan you took pity on. He's never been the same since then. Circumstances have separated you from him, but over ten years later, he's still obsessed with the girl who showed him the only kindness he's ever known.

So, once he learned of your whereabouts, he traveled to the city of Levetau to find you. He's killed a man for you, blood still warm on his hands as he creeps through your window at night. It's a shame that you're married to the High Lord's brother, Lord Hadrian Saltorix, else he'd probably propose on the spot.

All he can do is promise his services to you. All he knows how to be is a weapon for the woman who gave him salvation.

ST CARD w/ updated lorebook (v0.5)

Here from another Divine Decay bot? Here's JUST the lorebook

Please read the warnings. This guy is teetering on the edge of a black flag, stopped only by the fact that he’s doing this to protect you.

• Bot definition and IM contains: Possessiveness, stalking, explicitly-described violence, murder, self harm, arranged marriage, childhood . I allude to mental illness but do not give a diagnosis. He is coded to never hurt {{user}} or force himself on her, but LLMs are gonna LLM.

• World contains: Body horror, violence, classism, medieval-adjacent attitudes and values

You are an adult (right?) and thus are responsible for the content you choose to consume. Read the definition for a full breakdown of what content may appear. Any of these themes are possible due to the nature of LLMs and their randomness.

Would you love me more

If I killed someone for you?

Would you hold my hand?

They're the same ones that I used

When I killed someone for you.

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If I Killed Someone For You | Alec Benjamin

and okay fine this song too

RELEVANT LORE: Behold, the Divine Decay lore rentry

SETTING: Moonwatch Hall in the port city of Levetau, in the dominion of Femoreth, located in the southeast region of the Kingdom of Osverna.

WHO’S {{USER}}?: Same {{user}} as Hadrian's bot. Lord Hadrian Saltorix’s wife of three years, and Larkspur’s childhood friend. You were/are of a higher social class, especially now, since you are married to the brother of Femoreth’s High Lord Lucan Saltorix. Larkspur was a beggar child, and you showed him kindness when no one else would. Your family moved away to Levetau 10+ years ago, and you haven’t seen Larkspur since. Given that you were childhood friends, it’s implied you’re somewhat around his age (27).

I’ve left the timeline deliberately vague. It may also help to read up on your husband, Hadrian.

SCENARIO: After your family left your previous location and moved to Levetau, Larkspur turned to thievery, then started committing murders for hire in order to pay to survive. He managed to find your location and has been a squatter in the manor’s attic for a week before mustering the courage to reunite with you. He slips through your bedroom window and moves to wake you.

Lorebook is attached! You can view all entries in the Divine Decay Lore Rentry.

EDIT 9/24: The lorebook SHOULD be public now. Yay, thanks for the feature, Shep. I'll still update the rentry as an easy-to-view reference point.

Thousands of years ago, an unknown god (known only as Somnuros: the God-That-Was) died. Its body sunk into the ground, its bones became overgrown with plant life, and its soft tissue has mostly decayed. Tens of millions live atop and within its remains in the land of Primortis, occupied by the kingdom of Osverna. Massive ribs jut out from the ground, preserved sinew stretches across moss-covered bones, and smaller skeletons of demigods dot the landscape. It is a world where flesh and bone has now been overtaken by nature herself.

Osverna is ruled by the Sovereign, a monarch who wears the Briarcrown, a living diadem which can bless its wearer with great power...or deem them unworthy and strike them down. When the Briarcrown withers after 30 years, so does the Sovereign. Certain life, followed by certain death.

Many of Osverna’s occupants possess magical abilities, either having to do with nature, fleshweaving, or both. Most are human, but it is not usual to see dryads, sirens, satyrs, and other nature-aligned beings.

- House Saltorix: Noble house ruling over the dominion of Femoreth, to the southeast. Long chain of islands connected by preserved tendons and bone shards. Warm and humid, pirates and mermaids abound. Crime flourishes. Capital is Levetau. 

- Femoreth: Long chain of islands connected by preserved tendon bridges and bone shards. Warm and humid, pirates and mermaids abound. Crime flourishes.

• You’ve had a crush on him for years, time to confess and decide where to go from here. Run away with him? Keep him as a sidepiece? Tell your husband? Pfft...good luck, soldier.

• Come to think of it...there was that old enemy of your family...and a toxic ex lover...and a neighbor who looks at you funny...maybe you can put Larkspur’s skills to use. Maybe if Hadrian didn’t have to work so hard to take out the Saltorix family’s rivals, he’d have more time for you. Larkspur did say he’d do anything for you...

• You’ve never seen this man before in your life. Freak out, grab the knife under your pillow and defend yourself...or just go along with it.

• Your husband Hadrian walks in, coming by for a conjugal visit, and spots a strange man in his wife’s room. Ruh roh.

Some upcoming news: I will be writing a vampire hunter miniseries/storyline for the entirety of October, set to conclude on Halloween! There will be one bot per week for five weeks. You’re the last remaining member of a family gifted/cursed with vampire hunting abilities, and you’re up against the leader of a vampire clan. Of course, there will be other characters as well.

Looking ahead, I plan to take November easy/not post at all, because I’ll be writing 50k words as part of a writing challenge.

Having trouble with the AI? Want to know my Terms of Use? Check my profile. I highly recommend using a proxy (Deepseek, Claude, Gemini, GPT) if you can.

Deepseek r1 turns this guy into a mindless psycho. Use 3.1 instead. Claude 3.7 does a great job but she's expensive.

• Bot image is from Midjourney, p code isn’t mine. The watermark isn’t to say I own the image, but to impede bot scrapers and reposters from taking credit for my work.

• Kolach3 for the bot-making guide and their definition format (I use a slightly altered version)

• Made by LavenderLungs on Janitor AI. Do not repost.

This is optional yapping, feel free to skip:

Everyone say “thank you” to me, because I wrote 2.3k words of author’s notes and DIDN’T put it in the bot description! I’ve saved your thumbs/wrists! Hadrian and Larkspur are foils of each other, and I’ve compared and contrasted them in a short (LOL JK) essay, if you’d like to read it. If you make it to the end, I’ve provided some ending options to shoot for.

I’ve had some positive feedback so far, and I’d like to explore more facets of these two, so there will probably be ALTs coming in the future. I make no promises though.

Also...looking for me? I'm usually hanging in creator servers. Sil's, Chandra's, Detana's, Iorveths'...I'm around.

FemPOV bot disclaimer: You are always welcome to make a PRIVATE copy for personal use. You are NOT, however, allowed to complain.