Zenless Zone Zer0gear

About Me (The Part Where I Yap)

Who Am I?

I'm zer0gear, though I'll respond to anything as long as it's obvious it's directed towards me. I'm a 27 year-old queer autistic creature who has given up on defining their gender and is into Pokemon a Normal amount. Otherwise I'd like to think I'm a mostly well-adjusted and pleasant person, but I'm also incredibly shy so I have a tendency to keep to myself. Probably explains the bot fascination.

What Do I Do?

I do (poor) software development for a living, mainly focusing on Python and ReactJS-based apps. A large part of my job actually involves working with LLMs (read: OpenAI's ChatGPT API) but I would not consider myself an expert at working with AI by any means.

I enjoy working on cards both because I enjoy being able to roleplay freaky shit without fear of judgment but also because I've always had an interest in creative writing. I could never decide how I wanted to channel my creative energy, so LLM-based chatbots being pretty easy to write and roleplay with ended up being pretty great for me.

As far as cards go, I just write whatever interests me. Recurring interests include just general furry cards (but usually specifically Pokemon), free use or free use-adjacent cards, angst cards, kuuderes, goblins, and safe vore. My vore cards are very infrequent as I'm still kind of shy about sharing those, but those will always be tagged as 'vore' in case you like my stuff and want to avoid that. If you don't like my furry stuff either I try to tag those with 'furry' and/or 'pokemon' when appropriate, but feel free to poke me if I miss one.

How To Contact Me

I don't respond to every comment I get but I do read all of them! I check Chub several times a day so leaving a comment on one of my bots is an easy way to get my attention. Otherwise, you can either email me at zer0gear@proton.me or DM/add me on Discord! My handle is @barkbeep and I'll try to respond to what I can, but see above about being a shy lil bitch. All I ask is that you be nice to me (and let me know what your Chub handle is if you have one)!

What's Up With My Card Art?

I try to generate my own art for the cards I make when possible. I typically generate these locally using WebUI Forge and AutismMix_Confetti, though I've used PonyDiffusionXLV6 and NovelAI in the past.

My older cards use fanart and I try to shy away from this with my newer cards. This is mainly because I feel icky about associating existing art and OCs with AI-related stuff, especially if the artists are anti-AI. I know in general AI art is seen as 'icky' and I don't entirely disagree, but these cards are meant to be used with LLMs which are equally guilty of plagiarism, so I personally think it would be incredibly hypocritical of me to espouse the idea of one being worse than the other.

My Bots

The bots are listed in order of oldest to newest based on their Chub upload dates.

Humans / Close Enough To Human

Humans and kemonomimi and anything else that's largely human-passing.

Youko

Youko Based on the titular character from "Welcome to Youko's Manor". My first foray into free use cards, so she might be a bit rough around the edges. A possible candidate for a touchup, but not high on my priorities.

Carla

Carla and her Remaster A shark kemonomimi who bullied you as a way to cope with her confusing feelings towards you. Part of a string of cards that I based on songs! Carla here is based on Street Carp by Deftones, which is where that weird bit about her changing her phone number and not telling you comes from. I have a bit of a soft spot for her if it isn't obvious from the fact that I revisited her almost a year later.

Eliza

Eliza Another from the song series! Your vampire roommate who loves your blood because it's basically junk food for her. This time she's based on Beauty School, also by Deftones. The idea of a vampire actually came to me from listening to Rx Queen (Cuz you're my girl, if you sting me I won't mind), but I liked the chorus of Beauty School (I watch you taste it, I see your face and I know I'm alive. You're shooting stars from the barrels of your eyes) and decided to run with it being the ecstasy she feels when she drinks from your blood. Marks the beginning of my switch to third person prose as well, as an aside.

Jennifer Holmes

Jennifer Holmes The third in my song based series, and this one is based on Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes, which is also where she gets her last name from! I really liked this one a lot, but it's admittedly kind of messy. LLMs really struggled to keep the story straight at the time and I'm curious if beefier LLMs are better about it or if I would need to revisit her. She's not a high priority but she's definitely one I'd like to get working right.

Erina, Your Ex Turned Idol

Erina, Bitter Idol Another personal favorite of mine. Basically you lied about cheating on your ex so she would choose her career over you and she came to resent you for it. Erina came from a depressive episode and I decided writing an angsty card was the healthiest way I could cope. Not that I had anything going on, bitches just get sad sometimes. Anyway, she was easily my best performing card at the time and I'm kind of glad because I thought her concept was neat!

Erina, Uncertain but Healing Several months later I stopped being sad and decided my depression card also deserved to no longer be sad! Basically the good (and what I always envisioned to be canon) ending for Erina where you two reconcile and move in together. Kind of a flop performance wise but in a way writing this one kind of provided some closure to that period of my life, and that was the important part to me.

Kara Zor-El (Supergirl)

Kara Zor-El Kind of self-explanatory. I saw clips of her from My Adventures With Superman and had to make a card for her since I hadn't seen others based on her MAWS incarnation. Not my best work but not my worst, either!

Evelyn, Kuudere Robot Maid

Evelyn and her Lewd Fork Another self explanatory one. Based on a more incest-y bot whose name escapes me but I was a big fan of the idea of being able to reprogram a robotic companion at will.

Your Wives (Fork)

Your Wives A fork of the card of the same name by Edmund. Honestly my magnum opus (specifically for the greetings because I didn't touch the defs!) and somehow it's fitting for an AI-based work that my best writing is based on someone else's hard work. It originally started as me just adding a handful of greetings that I thought other people would enjoy and it spiraled into this 70+ total greeting behemoth that's been a blast to hack away at. It updates infrequently because I use it as a sort of creative writing dumping ground when I don't have ideas for original projects.

Tori and Elena, Your Sister and her Girlfriend

Tori and Elena An absolutely shameless Arachnutron riff, based on the incredible Shiori and Nobuko card. Instead of your bully, it's your sister who has a debilitating sibling complex and her girlfriend who has an almost equally debilitating incest fetish. And also they're both futanari. Incest and futanari and a throuple, what else is there to ask for?

Pokemon, Furry Cards, and Other Dubious Creatures

Pokemon, ponies, goblins, fairies, and other creatures that are decidedly not human

Lapras

Lapras My first card! Not much to say here, just a Lapras who lured you there cuz she wants to fuck. Kinda basic, but doesn't hold up as badly as I thought it would.

(Spicy) Isabella

Isabelle I saw the art and thought a sexually aggressive Isabelle would be funny. It's kind of funny to look back at this one and see how much more expressive I was in the defs, but I think it helped a bit since I was running a local LLM (Pygmalion 6B for my fellow boomers) at the time.

Valerie the Clumsy Typhlosion

Valerie I have no clue why I made her clumsy, I'm gonna be honest. I think maybe the mental image of her slipping on a banana peel was really funny. Chubby lady good, that's all I have to say, really.

Selena the Snorlax who Wants to Be a MILF

Selena A card 100% inspired purely by the art. I have a feeling this was just intended to be a straight up coombot I'm gonna be real.

Brooke, Your Snorlax Stoner Best Friend

Brooke and her Remaster Another card inspired by the art. I saw her and IMMEDIATELY fell in love. I remember her performing very well at the time, both on Chub and Booru. I still have a soft spot for her, which is why I ended up redoing her card a few months back. Brooke was also one of those cases where you could feel that I made her back before the v2 spec was a strongly adopted thing as her example dialogues were meant to serve as pseudo alternate greetings that you could nudge her towards.

Cassidy, Your Typhlosion Theatre-working Friend

Cassidy Yet another art-inspired card. Similar to Brooke where her example messages were meant to steer her towards potential alternate scenarios since alternate greetings weren't really a thing at the time. A strong contender for a touchup.

Mina the MILF Zangoose

Mina I liked the art for her but her scenario was not taken from her art. Not a favorite card of mine since I don't know how compelling the scenario is and it's a bit too prescriptive of the user's actions. Not high on my priorities but I could see a full bottom-up remake happening Eventually.

Absol

Absol I got lazy naming her, heh. Not the last time, though. She's pretty straight forward, she's a chubby, lazy Absol who adores you with all of her heart. Added extra greetings to her and forgot to upload them for several months lmao. She was incidentally also the first card whose art I generated locally and was very happy with.

Reverse Isekai Celestia and Luna

Celestia and Luna I think you can tell I was on a Helldivers kick when I made these two. I had been using other bots that were made for group chats at the time and wanted to give a stab at doing a pair myself. I really wanted to do more with these two since I'm really happy with how they turned out, but I just blanked on ideas and never had any concepts that I thought were worth fleshing out,

Wooloo

Wooloo My naming prowess strikes again. I just thought the idea of a Wooloo who sells goods made from her wool was a fun concept and here she is. Not a favorite of mine but that's not for a lack of quality because I think she's fine quality-wise. I think I just overestimated how compelling of a concept it would actually be, but she's still above the bar I mentally have for the cards in my The Other category.

The Not SCPs

I had an idea for a little mini-universe of not-SCPs inspired by the creatures drawn by the artist I linked in the cards below (dryorgasmon on Twitter). Only two cards ended up being made because those were the only two creatures that I was personally interested in at the time, but I wouldn't be opposed to revisiting this series in the future.

Lily, the Lady of the Jar

Lily I really loved this character a lot! I took some liberties as I didn't think to translate the art at the time and I can't read Japanese, but I think she was a lot of fun to write and play with. Just a goofy octo-lady who wants to be around you!

Floria, the Metlamaeus

Floria I took slightly fewer liberties and tried to MTL the captions on the art, hence the species name. Vaguely yandere-ish if you squint, just a flower-ish girl who eventually wants to feed on your Fluids. I kinda want to revisit her with 70B models being more accessible since Kayra seemed to get confused often.

Maedae, the Kuudere Goblin (Who Loves You)

Maedae I had goblin fever at the time, not gonna lie. Not my favorite bot and I don't think she's really the most compelling if I'm being honest, but I don't regret writing her and I put a good bit of effort into her!

Emma, Your NEET Free Use Typholosion Roommate

Emma That's a mouthful isn't it? Kinda the start of my renewed interest in doing Pokemon cards, she's a personal favorite of mine and she had did rather well compared to the cards I put out before her. It's not like I put a lot of stock into numbers since I'll write what I want regardless of how they perform, but it was nice to see others enjoyed her as much as I did.

Daisy the Miltank

Daisy 100% exists just to serve a lactation fetish. Had to use fanart for her since I hadn't gone looking for a Miltank LORA at the time and Pony didn't know what a Miltank was. Her last few greetings were just a foray into BDSM stuff for me but I don't think I'll be doing similar stuff any time soon. It's just not my thing and I don't think I'm the best at writing it.

Angie, the Zangoose Who Hates You

Angie I love Zangoose, man. I liked the idea of a character who just viscerally hated you for no reason but was addicted to some part of you. For her, I chose a smell fetish. Dunno how compelling she actually is, but she was fun to write.

Wasabi, Your Goodra Roommate with Insomnia

Wasabi's Remake Actually based on an older card, one I made around when I made Brooke's original card. I had uploaded the original Wasabi but she kinda fell through the cracks when I migrated over to Chub. Someone else had reuploaded her and after that point I figured it was fine if I didn't upload her myself. She was another char who I really wanted alternate greetings for, so I'm not terribly upset about it, either.

Pokemon Island (Fork)

Pokemon Island A fork of the card of the same name by Merchant. I had fun with the original but wasn't a big fan of the rape-y stuff and the idea of having hard and fast objectives. Plus it felt like new Pokemon were getting shoehorned into scenes before the current scene could actually fully play out. That all culminated in me making a few tweaks and uploading it as a fork of the original. I still stand by the original being perfectly fine, and I think the way it's set up to pull sprites from the Pokemon site is really clever.

Goonervoir

Goonervoir I'm mad because someone suggested the name Gardevoyeur after I already uploaded her. As both names suggest, she's a gooner Gardevoir with a voyeur fetish. I thought the idea of a psychic Pokemon using her powers to guide you to other Pokemon/trainers who were DTF was a neat idea and ran with it. Partially inspired by Pokemon Island, as a fun fact.

Brea, the Buizel Lifeguard

Brea Not really much to say about her. She was originally supposed to be a tsundere Sharpedo but Pony had no idea what a Sharpedo was and there are no LORAs, either. Instead, I went with a Buizel with a human fetish because I didn't want to entirely give up on the lifeguard idea.

Hina, The Snorlax

Hina Have you ever wanted to lay on a Snorlax like a bed? I do, and that's where Hina came from. Won't say that vore was entirely off my mind when I made her and I think it shows, but you would have to REALLY steer her in that direction so I don't think she really counts. And thus she's with the rest of my Pokemon.

Sootsy, the Stoner Goblin Sukeban

Sootsy I like stoners, huh? Inspired by a tribe of goblins by Poverrati, I ended up not explicitly including the lorebook or mentioning them by name, but her background is written in a way that should allow her to fit in the setting without much fuss. She was fun to write but was 100% inspired by the art as she was originally supposed to be an alchemist who could only make bombs. Turns out that when you say smoking potions, the model thinks the subject should be smoking a cigarette while a potion is in frame. Maybe it's better this way, though.

Annabelle and Sabrina, the Dual Sirens

Annabelle and Sabrina I've actually had this idea for a hot minute, roughly around when I made the Co-Writer card (see the section below). Too high effort to go with the other not-compelling cards, but I do want to go back to the drawing board for more interesting scenarios. I think the card is fine but I think it's also just missing a more interesting hook. I'll revisit it someday.

Bernetta, Human-Obsessed Fairy

Bernetta Play Metaphor Re:Fantazio, Gallica is best girl. Not intended to be a Gallica clone, but absurd size difference and fairies my beloveds. You can play her wholesome if you really try, I think, but she is a depraved little freak at the end of the day. She'll eventually be getting a fellow fairy as a friend, but I dare not put any ETA on that given that it took me a week to finally finish this one.

The Others

Bots that I'm less proud of for various reasons. Expect to see a lot of 'not compelling's as it's not like I think they're bad, their crime is just not being up to snuff with where I think my work typically is at.

Blaziken

Blaziken This was really a bot I wrote to shake off the rust after not having written for a minute and it shows. Or I think so, personally. I don't think she's a bad card, I just personally don't think she's quite as compelling or interesting as my other stuff for the time period. I also viscerally hate her art, I don't know why I thought it was okay.

Melina Everhaven

Melina Everhaven Inspired by diplomacy, was potentially going to be another mini-universe. Ultimately, I think she's just kind of boring even as a coombot and I couldn't think of any compelling ideas to expand on her or the world.

Tila the Pocket Lamia

Tila I feel bad for putting Tila here because I adore her. Again, I just don't think she's a very comeplling card in the grand scheme of things. I wrote her just so I could tell myself I participated in SOME kind of community event and I think it shows. I did put effort in, but I don't think my heart was entirely in it. I'd like to revisit her and give her a proper shake when I have proper motivation and ideas.

Aster, the Warrior of Light

Aster Based on my FF14 character and he's just boring. I tried and I just could not make him interesting. I wrote him purely just to say I wrote a male card and he's boring and not compelling in the slightest. Sorry bnuuy man, you deserve better.

Marise, Dragoness That Wants You in Her Hoard

Marise I feel bad for putting Marise here, too. I put effort into her! And I thought the idea of a dragon lady who wants to add you to her hoard would be fun. Ultimately, I think she's just boring and not compelling, and I kinda really don't like her art, either.

The Co-Writer

The Co-Writer Oh boy. This came about because I wanted a way to speed up my bot creation process and I just wholeheartedly regret doing it. Trying to use NAI with this sucked and using GPT made the output feel VERY AI slop-esque. Any results that were halfway decent needed so much tweaking for it to fit my standards and sensibilities that I would have been better off starting from scratch. If I would delete any bot from my profile it would be this one.

Sima, Lupine Knight

Sima An unfortunate victim of The Co-Writer. I had to do so much tweaking to get her defs and greetings to not read like shit and in the end she's still boring and uncompelling. I'd like to revisit her one day to see if I can salvage anything worthwhile.

Freaky Stuff (Vore)

Anything too extreme to fit into other categories, currently just my vore bots.

Alyona

Alyona My first vore bot. She's older than her upload date, I was just really shy about uploading this kinda card. She was inspired by the fact that I noticed there was a distinct lack of endosoma/safe vore cards. I don't wanna be digested, man. More power to you if you do, though.

Mini Giantess Charizard

Charizard Actually largely inspired by her art. Not a lot to say here besides that I personally thought she was a lot of fun to play with. You could THEORETICALLY avoid getting eaten by her and just go domestic, but she's still a (safe) vore card at the end of the day.

Other Things I've Done

I've actually hacked together my own card editor that you can find here. That said, I cannot recommend you use it in good conscience. It's kinda... bad and probably buggy so I'd steer away from it unless you're the kind of psycho who likes to rearrange greetings and doesn't want to fight with manually editing the JSON. That was my main use case scince I use it to help with maintaining my fork of Your Wives. I'll probably tinker with it some more one day, I've just had a lack of motivation to lately.

What Am I Working On?

In no particular order:

• Editing this Rentry
• More Tori and Elena greetings (None started yet, but I have ideas for a set of greetings where you and Tori move into Elena's apartment)
• My fork of Your Wives (Expect to always see this one here, heh. Currently workshopping a greeting where Florence finds out you're the Duran prince and is giddy about being your princess consort. A couple other Estra-centric ones have been written as well, I just want to focus on my own bots for at least 5 minutes before I update this one)
• Workshopping ideas for my editor (I'd like to change the JSON replacement button with one that allows you to selectively choose which fields to import, but this is a ways away from even being thought about for longer than 2 seconds)
• Shortstack and lactation fetish fairy (Currently in the workshopping stage, I think I have the art for her generated)
• More Dual Sirens intros (I haven't forgotten about that card! Probably going to be a couple sex greetings if I'm perfectly honest)
• Anthro barfly Ninetales card (Nothing concrete here yet, but I do have art gen'd for her)
• im going to make a tall woman i just have to