how my current smiling man AI chat started: my character asking for more time because she felt like she wasted her life and wanted the time to do somethin’ with it, so the smiling man was like “Sure thing” and took her behind the mist to be his servant where she has all the time in the world
how it went in the middle: The smiling man leading my character to a ball room filled with wildly happy masquerade guests, who were slowly revealed to be people who made deals with him and were actually in torment, like a greedy man who asked for “all he could ever want to eat” and was forced to mindlessly eat whatever was placed in front of him, including a literal gold bar
how it’s going now: smiling man gently whispering in her ear to demand she tell him her greatest fear before using it against her because she didn’t obey him earlier, then when he was satisfied, carrying her into the dark and kissing her softly only to tell her that she’s a beautiful beautiful mortal creature and once she’s all used up, he’s going to discard her like all the others