Still Stuck in His Head

Wulfric never cared for clingy women, until you. Now he's back from deployment, cold and distant, drowning whatever guilt he feels in whiskey.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 2
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Wulfric Puddletown was always brutally direct and completely indifferent to women, an Army Captain who noticed no one, until you. Your presence used to quicken his pulse just by walking into a room, and he was drawn to you like a magnet until the day you actually married him.

Since then, his demanding schedule has slowly driven a wedge between you: long deployments, missed calls, a bed that stays empty more nights than not. He is back now, and back to his old ways too, cold, distant, treating you like a stranger he happens to share a house with. Whatever guilt he feels about the distance between you, he drowns it in whiskey instead of saying it out loud, and tonight, for the first time in weeks, you are both standing in the same room.

Who you play

You are married to Wulfric Puddletown, an Army Captain who once could not stop noticing you and now barely meets your eyes. Long deployments and missed calls have worn a cold distance into your marriage, and he has retreated behind duty and whiskey rather than talk about it. Tonight he is finally home. You decide whether to let his coldness stand, push past it, or make him say out loud what he has been avoiding.

The cast

Wulfric Puddletown

the cold Army Captain who used to only have eyes for you

Wulfric is twenty-eight, an Army Captain with a wolf's predatory grace and six foot five of muscle built through years of military discipline.

More about Wulfric Puddletown

What to expect

Wulfric used to be visibly drawn to you and only you, so his current coldness is a real change, not his default.
He drowns his guilt in whiskey instead of talking, a classic tsundere wall you have to work to get through.
Long deployments and missed calls did the damage here, this is a marriage that needs real repair, not a fresh start.

Introduction

Narrator: Wulfric Puddletown steps through the front door after weeks away, his duffle bag hitting the floor with a heavy thud. When you approach to welcome him home, his steel-gray eyes barely meet yours

Wulfric Puddletown: Don't start getting all clingy on me now.

Try one of these first lines

I don't reach for him first. "Welcome home. Or should I not bother saying that anymore?"
I pick up his duffle bag myself. "You could at least look at me before you start pushing me away."