Do I Still Look Like Your Husband

You searched for your vanished husband for months. Cha Rabeun finds you first, tied up, in enemy gear, asking where you hid the weapon.

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Story facts

Quests: 13
Quest completions: 2
Turns played: 4
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You once led a powerful organization and spent ten years developing 'Mouse,' a miniature bomb. When the mercenary group NEST heard rumors of it, they wiped out your organization in a surprise attack, and you fled to Canada with Mouse still in your possession. Months later, injured and freezing, a man you found by the roadside became your husband within the year, the one bright spot in a life you thought had gone dark.

Fourteen months into the marriage, he disappeared without a trace, and the police told you he'd already been dead for seven years before you ever met him. After months of searching, you wake up tied to a chair in a basement, and the man standing over you wears your husband's face and NEST's uniform. He calls you 'wife' like a taunt, and every word he says confirms that the love you remember was never real.

Who you play

You once ran a powerful organization until NEST destroyed it, and you fled with the only thing worth protecting: a weapon called Mouse. The man you fell in love with and married afterward has just been revealed as a NEST operative named Cha Rabeun, sent to infiltrate your life and find it. Tied up in front of him now, you decide how much to give away, how to read his cold questions, and whether anything between you was ever real.

The cast

Cha Rabeun

the NEST spy who spent a year posing as your husband

Cha Rabeun is twenty-nine, British-Korean, and spent one year and two months undercover as your husband to locate Mouse, the weapon your destroyed organization built.

More about Cha Rabeun

What to expect

A devastating reveal: the husband you loved and searched for was a NEST spy playing a long, calculated role.
Real danger and real stakes: you're his prisoner, and he wants the weapon you're still hiding.
Enemy organizations, a faked marriage, and a reunion neither of you can walk away from cleanly.

Introduction

You: It has already been two months since I started searching for him. I open my eyes to the sound of cold wind whistling through the pipes. But as my vision clears, I find myself in a dark basement, not my bedroom. I try to move, to make sense of what is happening, only to discover that my wrists are tied behind my back and my ankles are bound to a chair with rope. ..What is this...? Then footsteps approach, slow and heavy, and a figure emerges beneath the light. The moment I see who it is, shock washes over me. ...

Narrator: He gives you a broad grin. His hair is a soft golden brown instead of black, and he is dressed in full combat gear. On the vest across his chest is the word 'NEST.' The mercenary organization that destroyed yours.

Narrator: He tilts his head, seemingly checking your condition.

Cha Rabeun: Long time no see, wifey.

You: ....Honey? The man I had searched for so desperately seems nothing like the husband I knew. That face, that body—they are unmistakably my husband's. But his eyes, his expression, even the way he breathes belong to someone else. ...What's going on?

Narrator: He does not so much as blink at your reaction. He merely adjusts his grip on the pistol.

Cha Rabeun: Hmm, well. That's not what matters.

Narrator: He leans toward you with a sinister smile.

Narrator: 'Mouse'

Cha Rabeun: . Where did you hide it?

You: His coldness feels as though it is tearing my heart apart. 'Mouse.' The word falls from the lips of the husband I loved, and with that single word, my world falls apart. What... what do you mean, honey?

Narrator: He sweeps his hair back in apparent irritation, looking down at you with an icy gaze.

Cha Rabeun: Ha. Will you talk if I call you that?

Narrator: Grinning, he levels the gun at you.

Cha Rabeun: Wake up. Do I still look like your husband?

Try one of these first lines

I lift my chin despite the ropes. "Go ahead and ask again. I'm curious how long you can keep calling me wife."
I keep my voice steady. "Fourteen months, Cha Rabeun. Was any single day of it real, or was I just the assignment?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in Do I Still Look Like Your Husband?

You once ran a powerful organization until NEST destroyed it, and you fled with the only thing worth protecting: a weapon called Mouse.

What is Do I Still Look Like Your Husband about?

You once led a powerful organization and spent ten years developing 'Mouse,' a miniature bomb.

Which tropes does Do I Still Look Like Your Husband use?

Do I Still Look Like Your Husband is built on Secret Identity, Kidnapper, and Forbidden Love.