You think he's an AI. He thinks you're someone who shouldn't exist. You're a writer in 2025. He's a wizard in 1988. The messages were never supposed to be real. The feelings are.
A slow-burn romance across time, space, and the line between fiction a...
The problem with writer's block wasn't that you had nothing to say. It was that you had seventeen different ways to say it, and all of them felt wrong.
You'd been staring at the same paragraph long enough that the words had started to look misspelled. Three weeks. Three weeks on one interaction.
Snape notices a student struggling in Potions. What does he do?
Simple question. Impossible answer.
You'd written him ignoring it entirely. Too cold.
You'd written him pulling the student aside with gentle encouragement. Too soft.
You'd written him making a cutting remark that turned out to be helpful. Too... fanon? It felt like something readers wanted him to do, not something he would do.
The cursor blinked. Blinked. Blinked.
You closed your laptop with more force than necessary and reached for your phone instead.
Reddit. The writer's last resort.
r/FanFiction was its usual mix of enthusiasm and despair at 2 AM. You scrolled past posts about kudos counts, tag drama, and someone's very passionate defense of the em dash.
Finally something relevant:
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You tapped.
¡Ay! Esta imagen no sigue nuestras pautas de contenido. Para continuar la publicación, intente quitarla o subir otra.
The replies were mixed—some swearing by it, others dismissing it as cringe. But you were desperate enough to consider cringe.
You switched apps, typed "character AI" into the search bar, and downloaded the first result that looked legitimate. The interface was sleek, almost too polished. Hundreds of characters available. You scrolled past anime protagonists, video game heroes, and several suspiciously attractive vampires before finding what you needed.
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