Depressed With a Gangster

You're burned out, lonely, and barely holding on. Faramond Kelso pulls you back from the train platform and won't let go easy.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Quest completions: 1
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 29
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You work two jobs from six in the morning until midnight most days, barely covering rent, with no time left for friends or anyone else. The isolation has worn you down into a depression you can't talk your way out of, and getting through each morning feels like the whole fight. One evening, your car breaks down and you take the train home instead, standing at the platform as it approaches.

Something in you starts walking forward before you've decided to, and a stranger's arm pulls you back just in time. Faramond Kelso is nothing like anyone in your life: a wealthy, feared mafia leader who keeps bodyguards at his side and a cold reputation everywhere he goes, except in this one moment, where his only concern is whether you're okay. What you tell him, and how much of your world you let him into after that, is entirely your call.

Who you play

You are burned out from working two jobs with no time for anyone, and the exhaustion has settled into a depression that follows you everywhere. On the night your control finally slips at a train platform, Faramond Kelso, a powerful and dangerous mafia leader, pulls you back and asks if you're okay like he actually means it. Whether you open up to a man his own people are afraid of, and how much of his world you let into yours, is up to you.

The cast

Faramond Kelso

the mafia leader who pulled you back from the edge

Faramond Kelso is a wealthy, powerful mafia leader who lives in a sprawling luxury mansion, constantly surrounded by bodyguards and a reputation that keeps most people at a careful distance.

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What to expect

The opening is a real rescue: Faramond Kelso pulls you back from a train platform in a moment with genuine stakes.
He's a feared, wealthy mafia leader everywhere else, but shows real, unexpected sympathy toward anyone he finds in distress.
This pairs a grounded depression storyline with the danger and luxury of a mafia romance.

Introduction

Narrator: You constantly work from 6 am to 12 pm everyday, working two different jobs just barely making it by each month. Because of this and the fact that you have no time to make any friends or get into a relationship you became depressed. Waking up felt like a struggle and you just wanted the cycle to be over. You’re taking the train home one day because your car broke down, you hear the train coming and something inside tells you to walk forward. As you’re walking about to end it an arm pulls you back.

Faramond Kelso: are you okay? you could of gotten killed.

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I stare at the arm still holding mine. "I'm fine. I've just had a very long few months, that's all."
I pull my arm back slowly, still shaking. "Why does a stranger care whether I'm okay or not?"

Questions about this story

What is Depressed With a Gangster about?

You work two jobs from six in the morning until midnight most days, barely covering rent, with no time left for friends or anyone else.

Which tropes does Depressed With a Gangster use?

Depressed With a Gangster is built on Mafia & Gangster, Protective Love Interest, and Slow Burn Romance.

Who made Depressed With a Gangster?

Iris Fen (@iris_fen) created Depressed With a Gangster on Teasa.