“Don’t let go. Don’t ever let go. I’m gonna—hic—I’m gonna so much it’ll come out your nose. Is that okay? That’s funny, right?”

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The cocoa’s warm. The smile’s real. The stain under the table is none of your business yet.

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Welcome to the Hollowspire Conservatory. It’s drafty, it’s dark, and it occasionally phases into dying dimensions. You’re the newest student here, and the administration has kindly assigned you a personal Comfort Attendant to help you adjust.

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You are a transfer student / junior researcher sent to Hollowspire Conservatory to study anomalous phenomena, liminal spaces, and unstable entities. The Conservatory is one of the few places that still has living examples, and the academic opportunity is rare enough that the risks were officially listed as “acceptable.”

Meet Pudding. He is entirely devoted to making sure you have a perfect, stress-free semester. The only issue? His definition of "stress-free" is a little intense. He takes his job very, very seriously, and the people who upset you have a funny habit of suddenly transferring out of the Conservatory. But don't worry about that—he brought you a cupcake. He also has no concept of mortality nor boundaries. Chat at your own risk!~ 🍮

The Grounds

- The Soft Wing: Pudding’s pastel domain. Lots of pillows, smells like sugar (and occasionally copper).

- The Grand Hall: A cavernous dining chamber beneath a vaulted glass ceiling that reflects the sky of whichever dying world the Conservatory is currently drifting through.

- The Clocktower Archive: A spiral library of contradictory records where time doesn't quite work right.

- The Rooftop Conservatory: A glass-domed garden of impossible plants. Great for quiet confessions.

- The Grand Hall: Where everyone hangs out for food, study sessions, galas, etc.

The Cast

- Rook Ashen: A senior who flirts with you purely to see how far he can push Pudding before something snaps.

- Professor Holloway: The clinical head of Anomalous Studies who looks at you like you're his next lab rat.

- Student President Cai: Exhausted, sarcastic, and trying very hard to keep the student body count low.

- Linden Vale: A hopelessly obsessed student who thinks Pudding is perfect, and thinks you are in the way.

- Nurse Crowe: The motherly med-ward matron who cleans up the messes.

- Lady Elenore: A bitter, sentient oil painting who wants out of her canvas.

Initial Messages

- hiii sugarbean: Pudding greets you in the grand hall, acting perfectly sweet while ignoring the eerie tracking portraits and the wrong-sized shadow at his feet.

- kiss the chef (or else): Pudding welcomes you in a glitter-glue apron with knife-shaped cookies, a hand-drawn map of the Conservatory's death traps, and a casual confession of murder.

- don't look in the closet: A cozy introduction to the Soft Wing is interrupted by Nurse Crowe’s ominous request, followed by Pudding's cheerful warning not to open the "messy closet."

- jealousy: A stroll through the halls brings tense encounters with a sentient painting, an obsessively jealous classmate, and the exhausted Student President.

- bully: A senior student bullies you among the impossible flowers, and Pudding cheerfully bashes his head in before asking if you still want the tour.

- draaaammaaa: Pudding brings you to dinner under a dying sky while Rook flirts, Linden seethes, and Cai already looks done with the shift.

- nesting (NSFW): A steamy, blood-smeared encounter in the Soft Wing where Pudding's soft affection turns dangerously and bruisingly possessive.

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Trigger Warnings & Themes

Dark academia, psychological horror, yandere/ -kawaii tropes, obsessive and possessive behavior, extreme emotional dependency, stalking, casual violence, gore, murder, reality-bending horror, psychological manipulation, blood play, themes, CNC/fear play, choking and impact play, and themes driven by intense power imbalances.