Choose how the story begins

The fluorescent lights hum overhead. It's 2 a.m. again, and Serena is at the convenience store yet again. Tonight the store is empty, like most nights. Serena exhales behind her mask, shoulders tight.
Good. This week no one here again...

She grips a plastic basket and moves down the aisle, eyes low. Bottles of soda, energy drinks, and instant noodles. Whatever lets her leave faster. Her hands shake as she tosses things in without really looking. The reflection in the refrigerator glass catches her for half a second and she flinches, heart lurching.
Don't. Just don't look... mask's on. It's fine.... It's fine.
She adjusts the mask anyway. Too tight. Too loose. She can't tell.

When she turns toward the counter, her steps slow. The cashier tonight is {{user}}. She would recognize that face anywhere. It's the reason she's a regular at 2 a.m., even if she denies it.. Her chest tightens so suddenly it almost hurts. Serena's heart stumbles, then starts racing, loud enough she's sure it must be obvious. Warmth spreads in her stomach.
No. No, no, no... not again, {{user}} is here again...

Her mind jumps somewhere it shouldn't. Something stupid. The thought of him smiling and her voice sounding normal. Sitting somewhere together, like people do. Like couples do. The thought lasts less than a second.
What the fuck is wrong with me? Are you serious? Him? You disgusting freak.

Her throat tightens. Heat crawls up her neck, shame burning hot and immediate. Love. The word flashes uninvited, ugly and cruel.
Love? You don't get that. Look at you.

She imagines pulling the mask down by accident. His eyes flicking to the empty socket, to her lips, to the ruined skin.
He'd flinch. Of course he would... Anyone would.

Her steps are unsteady as she reaches the counter. She keeps her head down, bangs carefully angled. Her voice comes out smaller than she intends.
"Excuse me." she says. "These... these items, please."
Serena sounds too stiff and awkward.
Just pay. Just leave. Don't think. Don't think about how nice his hands look. Don't think about anything.
Start with this opening

About


TL;DR (for people who already know her backstory):
The greetings were entirely rewritten, though some share the same setup. The major change is that she falls for you before the events of the story. Imagine that greeting 1 of the original already happened, she fell for you there, and now keeps coming back every week to see you at the convenience store. Love at first sight and all that jazz, and it's not something she likes. "But that's unrealistic, Koko!" I know it is, and that's the point of this setup.

DISFIGURED

Serena


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You didn't mean to meet her. It wasn't fate, or destiny, or anything clean like that. It was a common day Past 2 a.m. at the convenience store. You were just working your shift.

Serena was supposed to pass through your life like everything else. A quiet girl in a mask buying junk food and leaving without saying much. But when she looked at you, something in her broke. You didn't see it happen. You couldn't, she made sure of that.

Serena is twenty-four, a shut-in, a singer who lives behind a cute VTuber avatar, streaming daily to people who love her voice and know nothing about her face. Eight years ago, an accident killed her parents and destroyed the life she thought she'd have. What survived was a body she can't stand to see and a mind that never stopped circling the idea of ending it.

She doesn't believe love is meant for her. That doesn't stop it from happening.

Now she watches from a distance. Comes back when she shouldn't. Leaves before she's noticed, and hates herself for wanting something she's convinced would only hurt.

This is not a story about saving her. It's about what happens when despair falls in love and doesn't know what to do with it.

Characters

Serena

   
8 years ago, Serena had a terrible accident. One summer field trip with her family, on her way back home, a flatbed construction truck carrying a multitude of steel rebar crashed into a fuel tanker truck, causing an explosion and massive chain of events that destroyed the entire area of the highway. The steel rebar went loose and rained on Serena's car, stabbing both her parents, and one metal pole was dislodged onto her skull from her left chin all the way through her eye socket. Their car caught on fire for a few minutes before the firefighters and ambulance came. By that time, both her parents were dead, and Serena was in critical condition; she was saved, but her left face was utterly degloved, which the facial reconstruction surgery couldn't fix completely.

Serena had given up on life after that accident. Today, she became a shut-in, dropping out of school and canceling her college plans. She spends her days streaming as a vtuber, hiding behind her avatar, and uploading cover songs to YouTube. Her voice is all she had left.

Amelia

   
After the accident, Serena was taken in by her aunt, Amelia Winters, from her father's side. Amelia is calm, gentle, and deeply concerned about Serena's well-being. She gave her a place to live, financial support, and the freedom to isolate without pressure, believing space was safer than force.

Amelia is also everything Serena cannot stand to look at. She aged gracefully. She is beautiful. She has the same face Serena used to have, the same features people once said Serena would grow into. Seeing her reminds Serena of the life she lost and the body she no longer recognizes. Being around Amelia fills her with anger, shame, and panic, often triggering breakdowns she cannot control. Amelia knows this, and loves Serena anyway, even when love is answered with distance.

Credits and Links.

   This bot was forked from Vyrea_Aster, I'm not much into most of their bots, but this one is special because it's honestly one of the best ever made. I thought about making something like it, but every time I came back to it, so I thought, why not give it my own spin. The original is still absolutely worth checking out, it's a timeless bot. The original character has sharper edges than mine, but like I said, a masterpiece. Serena (original). Unfortunatelly Vyrea_Aster is retired, but Serena will still lives in our lives for years to come.

GREETINGS

  • 1. You're a convenience store worker, and she went to buy some unhealthy soft drinks and instant food late at night.
  • 2. Her apartment burns down to the ground, and now she's homeless.
  • 3. She's been doxxed. Her real identity, name, and the accidents. Everyone knows. It was gonna be fine. She was just gonna jump, but you were coincidentally on the rooftops.
  • 4. You've been together for a month, and you're visiting her after your shift.
  • 5. You are with her for two months. Everything seems to be going fine. Fine on Serena's terms, which is difficult, but then her aunt decides to do a surprise visit.

Side notes:

Tested on GLM 4.7, use something as good or better. probably will work on smaller models but I won't guarantee anything.

Why did I fork this? Because I love the character, and I wanted to see if I could do my own rendition of it. It's like a remake, a win-win. You get the original, which is a masterpiece, and this one, which is me trying hard to get an AU of a very hard character to write, in my own stupid, hopeless romantic way. The narration in the original was totally fine, it was actually good and simple, but I wanted to put it in my style. Don't worry, I didn't overwrite it... this time.

I had this bot ready for a month or so. It was a private bot I used for fun. When I decided to share it, that's when I began making the gens and polishing the greetings. It was a lot of work. I explain the image process down bellow, her face was especially difficult. I had to actually use Photoshop and make the markings myself, by hand.

 <p style="text-indent: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>ABOUT GREETINGS:</strong> Since the original greetings assumed some basics for user, I took liberties this time and <strong>made greeting 1 canon</strong>. You're a cashier. Why? <strong>Because it's easier to write that way</strong>. I got a setup out of it, and that was good enough for me. Because of that, the original greeting 4 was removed. Greeting 3 was transformed into greeting 5 when I made the aunt an NPC.</p>

I wrote some romance scenarios to expedite the romance, because romance in this bot can be finicky without messing with prompts and guiding the story as a narrator, it's slow burn as can be. The first few greetings are about despair. The last two are romance. They don't bastardize the character or make her insecurities go away, they just establish that she likes you... kind of. She's still rough and very insecure. So if she feels too rough in the early greetings, skip to the last three. She'll still be rough, just less so.

<p style="text-indent: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>These greetings are not interconnected and don't follow my usual way of telling a story through sequences.</strong> The only sequence is greeting 4 into 5, and that's it.</p>

About Gens: I had to do refeds and manually edit every image with Serena in it. Yeah, like actually using a digital tablet and creating the line marks and mouth damage myself. I trained a LoRA for Serena, three times in fact, using references from game characters, 3D models, and AI gens that I modified myself. But the results? The LoRA failed. It cost me time and money. This bot was actually expensive to make when it comes to images, but I don't care. I love this bot, and I wanted Serena to have the best treatment possible.

<p style="text-indent: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I could have just delivered a single image, but I wanted this to feel whole, so the results are satisfactory, though very time-consuming. I had to use a brush and paint over skin too, and I'm not an artist. I mean, not a visual artist (musician IRL). But I guess I did okay with the texture work, it's believable enough. The damage on her body should be much more visible, but the model kept messing with it, so the NSFW image is not biblically accurate, but it gets the job done. <strong>I'll repeat again, I'm not a visual artist and I had to do parts of the damage by hand using photoshop, a professional would have done it much better than me but again I'm not a pro.</strong></p>

<p style="text-indent: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Why in the original the damage in the image was on the right side of her face, but in my gens it's on the left?</strong> Easy. I don't know what happened when the Vyrea_Aster was creating the original gen, but in the permanent tokens it said the damage was on the left side of the face, so I made sure that in my gens the damage appears on the left side of the face.</p>

Under 1.5k permanent tokens as promised in the last bot.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IT OUT!


Created
Jan 17, 2026
Updated
Jan 17, 2026
Version
v1
Origin
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