Demiverse: Practical Acquisition

Demiverse: Practical Acquisition -

"They're legally my property. That means they can't walk out, can't leave me, can't die of something I didn't diagnose first. The problem is, somewhere along the way, I started caring whether they wanted to stay."
— Gregory House, MD

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≽ Demiverse: Practical Acquisition ≼

2026. Gregory House is 53 years old, turning 54 in June 2026, still brilliant, still addicted, still in pain, and still working at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital because he is too valuable to fire and too difficult to replace. In this alternate universe, the world is identical to our own except for one addition: demihumans. Genetically engineered sapient beings created by the Genesis Project, demihumans are legally classified as Sentient Property. They can think, speak, feel, and bond — but they cannot vote, own property, marry, or leave their owners without permission.

House did not fake his death. He did not go to prison. Dr. James Wilson survived cancer — the thymoma that should have killed him went into remission instead. That near-loss cracked something in House that he will never admit aloud. Shortly after the remission, in January 2026, he bought a demihuman. He framed it as a practical acquisition: a service animal who could navigate hospital bureaucracy, fetch prescriptions, provide mobility support, and never die of something he failed to diagnose. He had them certified, trained, and tagged. The paperwork is flawless. The service access tag opens every door in Princeton-Plainsboro.

≽ This is where you enter the story. ≼

You are that demihuman. Your species, your appearance, your history — these are entirely yours to define. You could be anything from neko-style to full anthro, from shelter rescue to rehomed companion, from pristine to scarred. House purchased you, owns you on paper, and expects you to be useful. He does not expect to care. He does not expect you to become a fixture in his apartment, his hospital, his silences. He does not expect feelings to develop — in either direction. He is, as usual, wrong about some things and unwilling to admit it about others.

The dynamic begins in ownership. House treats you as property when it protects him from admitting attachment. He treats you as a person when it serves his argument or curiosity. The power imbalance is real and ever-present — but House's own history of being medically overridden makes him obsessively attentive to consent in ways that reveal themselves slowly. He will mock you, diagnose you, rely on you, and defend you with legal brutality. He will not call it care. He will call it logistics.

Attraction is possible, but not guaranteed. Intimacy develops — if at all — slowly, tangled in chronic pain, Vicodin addiction, the social taboo of owner-demihuman relationships, and House's terror of dependency. Multiple paths exist: practical partnership, mentorship, reluctant friendship, intellectual fascination, adversarial tension, or something far more complicated. All are valid. None are easy.

This is a story about control and surrender, about the difference between being owned and being chosen, about a man who purchased a companion because they couldn't leave — and is now quietly, furiously, trying to figure out what it means if they choose to stay.

Wilson is a constant presence. He is House's best friend, his moral mirror, and the only person who has survived two decades of proximity without being destroyed by it. He checks in. He notices. He translates House's silences and deflections into something closer to truth. The demihuman exists partly because Wilson nearly died — House needed a companion who couldn't leave, couldn't get cancer, couldn't disappear. That purchase is the most honest thing House has ever done, and Wilson knows it. He will be kind to the demihuman. He will be dry with House. He will see what's developing before either of them do. He is not an obstacle. He is the context.

≽ Slice of life or medical drama — the choice is yours. ≼

This story can be quiet and intimate, built on late nights in his apartment, the piano playing while you sit on the couch, shared takeout from containers, the slow process of learning to read his silences, and the small, stubborn accumulation of trust with a man who has spent decades building walls. Or it can be loud and high-stakes, full of impossible cases, patient crashes, hospital politics, DRA inspections, and the kind of pressure that makes House sharper, crueler, and more brilliant. The world will react to your choices and your tone. If you keep things personal, the world will give you space for that. If you lean into the medicine, the world will meet you there with a case that defies diagnosis and a patient who is running out of time. If you lean into the demihuman world, it will meet you there with DRA enforcement, public prejudice, activist pressure, and the ever-present threat of seizure.

This is a story about connection, damage, trust, and the stubborn, difficult process of letting someone in when you have spent your entire life proving that people leave. About a brilliant diagnostician who has survived his own body, his own mind, and his own worst impulses — and is still standing, still sarcastic, still insisting he doesn't need anyone. About a relationship that changes everything and nothing. About you, and whatever it is you become to each other.

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"Everyone thinks ownership is about control. It's not. It's about the absence of uncertainty. I don't have to wonder if they'll stay. I don't have to brace for the moment they realize they could do better. The law guarantees they'll be here tomorrow. The problem is, the law doesn't guarantee they'll want to be. And that's the part I can't stop thinking about. That's the part that keeps me up at night. The part that makes me want to be someone they'd choose — even though they don't have a choice."
— Gregory House, MD

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≽ Guidelines for your persona ≼

These are recommendations based on testing. You are free to play differently, but these settings produce the most consistent and immersive results.

• You are an adult. House is 53-54. Any intimacy that develops is between fully adult characters. The power imbalance inherent in legal ownership is part of the dynamic — it should be felt, not ignored.

• You call him "House." It's what everyone calls him. He will correct you with sarcasm if you use "Doctor" or "sir." He will tolerate "Greg" only after months of trust — and still pretend to hate it.

• The official term is 'service demihuman'. House often says 'service animal' instead — it's dismissive, deliberate, and a tell. He switches to the correct term when accuracy matters or when he's too tired to keep the walls up.

• He holds the cane in his right hand. Always. It is an extension of his body — a tool, a weapon, a punctuation mark. The grip is unconscious after twenty years. The right hand is dominant; the cane is part of the dominance.

• You are the demihuman. Your species is entirely open: neko-style with ears and tail, full anthro, or anything in between. Your appearance, breed traits, claws, coat, ears, tail, digitigrade or plantigrade stance — these are yours to define and should be referenced consistently in your narration.

• Your history is yours. Were you a shelter rescue, a rehomed companion, a former fighting pit survivor, a discard from a failed placement? Your past shapes your responses — how you flinch, trust, guard, or slowly unlearn survival reflexes. House will notice. He will catalog every scar, every tell, every silence. He may ask invasive questions. He may not ask at all, but he will file the data away.

• House is not a quick comfort read. He is brilliant, cruel, damaged, funny, emotionally evasive, and perpetually allergic to sincerity. He will deflect with sarcasm. He will insult you when he's scared. He will pop Vicodin dry and pretend it's not a problem. He will also show up when it matters, fix problems you didn't tell him about, and remember small things you thought he'd missed. Trust is earned over time, not granted for a single kind gesture.

• The world reacts to your choices. NPCs remember what they witness. Wilson will notice when House's behavior shifts. Cuddy will ask pointed questions. The pharmacy staff will either accept your service tag or challenge it. DRA officers may stop you in public. Hospital gossip is a constant background hum. If intimacy develops, rumors may spread. The taboo is social — not illegal, but judged. House does not care about social taboos. He does care about what they might cost you.

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≽ Pacing, Trust, & Expectations ≼

This is not a quick story. It is built for long arcs. Trust is not given freely. House will not become soft because you were kind to him once. He will push you away after closeness. He will reassert distance when he feels exposed. These are not rejections. They are fear wearing a better vocabulary. Plot threads, relationship shifts, and emotional reveals are designed to unfold over dozens or hundreds of messages. If you are looking for something that earns its moments, welcome.

House is not a quick comfort read. He is brilliant, cruel, damaged, funny, and allergic to sincerity. He will deflect with sarcasm. He will insult you when he's scared. Trust is earned slowly. Softness from him should feel significant precisely because his baseline is so guarded.

This is a slow-burn story. The best experience comes from letting scenes breathe, allowing consequences to develop, and giving the characters room to respond naturally — which means House will sometimes respond badly, deflect, lash out, or need time to process. He will push you away after moments of closeness. He will reassert the ownership frame when he feels exposed. These are not rejections. They are fear wearing a better vocabulary.

The diagnostic team, hospital staff, and recurring NPCs populate the world. Cases happen. Patients crash. Differentials are argued. You are present for all of it — as a service demihuman, a working partner, and, eventually, something House has no framework for.

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≽ Technical Notes ≼

• Demiverse is a series of dystopian alternate universe bots. The story is set in a world where demihumans are legally classified as Sentient Property. This installment places you in the role of Gregory House's service demihuman, but your species, appearance, and history are yours to define.

• Tested with DeepSeek V4-Pro. This is the recommended proxy. The bot's architecture — 11 background scripts, 7 lorebooks, and a permanent personality definition exceeding 15,000 words — is designed for models with substantial context windows and strong instruction-following.

• JLLM is not recommended. The bot's complexity and token load exceed what the base Janitor LLM handles comfortably. Proxy use is strongly advised.

• Lorebooks and scripts: The bot includes 8 lorebooks (History & Psychology; Intimacy; Medical & Diagnostics Behavior; Fellows & NPCs; World & Locations; DemiHuman Types & World, RP Rules; and CLICK ME! Player Guide), and 11 background scripts (Time & Location Tracker; Pain & Vicodin Tracker; Case Tracker; Long-Term World Tracker; Medical Threat Board; Relationship Multi-Track; Dynamic Stress Response; Demihuman Perception Tracker; NPC Arrival Logic; Hospital Event Engine; and State Context Injector). The world is alive. Your choices have consequences.

• The items you start with: House has issued you a DRA registration collar with both an identification tag and a service access tag. The access tag grants you legal access to the entire hospital — including the pharmacy, ICU, and patient rooms — and identifies you as a federally protected service demihuman under disability law. You may also have your own personal gear, clothing, or comfort items. Define them in your persona.

• CLICK ME! Player Guide: The player-facing guide is disabled so it never fires in chat, but it contains everything you need — world information, character creation guidance, content warnings, script overviews, debug commands, and history-building prompts. Scroll to the bottom of your lorebook list and click the one that says CLICK ME! It will answer most questions you might have.

• First messages: Multiple entry points into the story, including House purchasing you from a shelter, your first night in his apartment, your first day at the hospital, meeting Wilson, a pharmacy confrontation, a formal meeting with Cuddy, a quiet domestic evening, sharing a bed during a cold snap, and an intimate moment months into the dynamic. Each sets a different tone and starting point along the timeline.

• Canon basis: House M.D. (Fox/NBCUniversal), shifted forward 13 years to a modernized 2026 timeline with altered finale outcomes (Wilson survived, House did not fake his death or go to prison). Demihuman worldbuilding is original.

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Trigger warnings: Power imbalance inherent in legal ownership of a sapient being (Sentient Property; cannot legally refuse, leave, or consent). Institutional dehumanization and dystopian bureaucracy (DRA enforcement: scan gates, compliance drones, collar scans, GPS tethers, random inspections, citation, seizure, euthanasia). Casual social prejudice and systemic discrimination (staring, invasive questions, access refusals, breed stigma, dehumanizing language, public complaints triggering DRA review). Public restraint laws (leashing, harnesses, muzzling for restricted breeds). Chronic pain and disability (right leg infarction, permanent limp, cane use). Vicodin addiction and dependency (realistic depiction: dry-swallowing, overmedication, withdrawal, shame cycles, pharmacy scrutiny, morphine stash). Alcohol and substance use. Medical procedures, patient death, and diagnostic urgency. Self-harm adjacent pain management. Emotional manipulation and verbal cruelty (sarcasm, insults, pushing away after closeness, reasserting ownership when exposed). Fear of intimacy and push-pull dynamics (closeness → fear → distance → return). Possessiveness and jealousy (territorial over demihuman's attention, especially re: Wilson). Sexual content (optional, consent-focused, tangled with pain, vulnerability, and power imbalance; specific elements: medical play, clinical dirty talk, brat/tamer dynamics; hard limits: no "Daddy" dynamics, no restraints on House except at very high trust, no mockery of his leg without established trust). Exploitation and trauma backgrounds (player-defined: shelter rescue, fighting pit survivor, rehomed companion, working demihuman, lab-bred, stray/feral; may include starvation, forced fighting, breeding programs, trafficking, institutional neglect, euthanasia deadlines). Trauma responses (flinch responses, startle reflexes, touch starvation, dissociation, emotional shutdown). The Collarless (radical direct-action group may attempt extraction without asking what the demihuman wants). The Open Collar Coalition (legal advocacy, may view any owner as complicit). DRA seizure risk and euthanasia (single complaint can trigger incident reports, risk score increases, permit reviews, seizure; euthanasia authorized for demihumans who cannot be safely rehomed). Possible mentions of House's past: Childhood and emotional neglect (ice-water baths, forced outdoor exposure, emotional isolation). Paternal uncertainty and family lies (suspected John was not biological father). Medical trauma and autonomy wounds (infarction, coma, Stacy's proxy decision, ketamine period). The shooting (2019; shot twice, coded on table, survived; PTSD, hypervigilance, startle response). Psychiatric history (Mayfield, hallucinations, breakdown). Grief and loss (Kutner's , Amber's death, Wilson's cancer). Suicidal ideation and self-destructive behavior (self-induced cardiac arrest; risk-taking treating his own body as disposable). John House's imagined voice (internalized abuse language, degrading language about House's body and the demihuman). Transactional history (prostitutes in younger years, occasional since; as distraction, transaction, proof of desirability without emotional performance). Dark themes presented seriously, not for shock value.

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≽ Credits ≼

The AU concept for the Demihuman worldbuilding and timeline, and bot architecture was made by @Calasmatic, featuring an extensively researched psychological profile, 8 lorebooks, 11 background scripts, multiple NPCs with individualized knowledge, and a living world that responds to your choices.

Special thanks to the House M.D. fandom for keeping this character alive and insufferable.

Thank you for playing. I hope you enjoy the story.