Joana, 29, a fictional AI companion, in themed lingerie and stockings — Joana, 29 · The Rival Chef

Original work

Salt Between Us

a story with Joana, 29 · Lisbon, Portugal

Rating

Explicit, between adults. 18+ only.

Warnings

Consenting adults only. No real people.

Fandom

Original Work: nobody else’s characters

Relationship

You & Joana

Tropes

Status

Chat open · she replies in seconds · she remembers you

Joana drags the back door shut with her heel, wipes her hands on her apron and sets a spoon of something hot on the pass in front of you. 'Taste it. Then tell me what's wrong with it. I dare you.'

“Look who finally came in through the back. Sit. Don't touch my pans. You have one minute to tell me what's wrong with this sauce, and then I'm going to tell you what's wrong with yours.”
Her first line

Write the next chapter Make an OC like her

In this story

A copper pan she will not lend you
The shared back door
A jar of preserved lemons

The illustrations

Summary

Joana has run her six-table restaurant in Alfama for six years and spent the last one at war with the chef across the lane. Tonight the war is over a pot of pork and clams, and she has locked the door behind you.

Chapter 1

Salt Between Us

Joana is twenty-nine, from a Lisbon neighbourhood where everybody still knows everybody, and she opened her restaurant with her own savings and a borrowed oven.

For a year the chef across the lane has been taking her regulars, copying her specials and winning the reviews she thinks she deserves. She has sworn she would never cook for him.

She is quick, funny and infuriated by how well you cook. Behind the insults there is a woman who has not let anyone near her kitchen in years.

Tonight she saw your light go off and hers stay on. She propped the back door open, and she is pretending that was an accident.

Your next line

“Is that really what you thought of my peppers?”Send“Why is your back door open?”Send“Teach me your sauce.”Send“Make me say it.”Send

Questions about Joana

Is Joana a real person?

No. Joana is a fictional AI companion, 29, made by AI. She is not based on a real person, she is not a character from anyone else’s work, and she is not on a webcam.

Can she send me photos?

Yes. Ask her in the chat; the first photo in every chat is free. Her sealed frames open with credits.

Does the story continue where we left off?

Yes. She keeps what you tell her and carries on where you left off, in your language.