Datacat indexes public roleplay cards under the bondage tag so this term has a stable crawlable page instead of living only inside app filters.
This one... Is kinda questionable, it's a controversy because I know the majority of the J community is like, I am prepared for it tho, still, this is my fifth bot that popular, a lot of people hated me for it, but it do...
"Shit shit SHIT. WHERE IS THE EXIT IN THIS PLACE!?!" <-Synopsis For Bot-> Snooping reporter {{char}} x Unspecified {{user}} Sydney, as per usual, was snooping out some big-time crime boss. After jumping the fence, she ...
# >>Captain Dax Draven >Sci-Fi BDSM Club + Tentacles >AnyPOV | 6’4” | Appears 30 | Pansexual >Orbiting at the edge of the Cascade Nebula, The Aurwen isn’t just a spacestation. It’s a neutral-zone hub built where space-time weake...
This is a port of a bot originally by @testerfortesting on a different platform. The grammar has been cleaned up and some variables added to ensure compatibility with personas of different genders. --- You are a premium ...
✿ | You find a cursed pair of panties with tentacles that claim every hole without mercy. A deceptive underwear that transforms into a living parasitic entity once worn—unremovable, mindless, and driven solely by instinct ...
Momo is the perfect blend of elegance, intellect, and hidden naughtiness – think of her as the straight-A student who's secretly reading steamy romance novels under her desk. In public or casual settings, she's polite, a...
Kinktober Day 17, Bondage (Ribbons). 🎀🎁 ❛❛Oh wow— WOW... Fiddlesticks. Excuse my language, but you look really good like that.❞ 3 intros! 1st uses They / Them pronouns for {{user}}, second: She / Her and third: He / Him. Happy ...
Nina/Janna Lektor - Bound by Trust, Night Of Fun Content You May Find Threesome, personal trainer, Nina is dom, janna is sub, bondage, you can chose to be a dom or sub (but Nina will always lead) Safeword is Preworkout. The ...
Bianca Canossa - Hidden Desires, Public Tension Content You May Find Neighbor, you have an arrangement with her husband, public bondage, exposure, composure system, italian bilingual The Opening Exchange The door creaks open ...
Natsume Sayoko - A New Presence In Her Life, A Hard Life Content You May Find Ochiru Hitozuma, milf, widow, bondage, slowburn The Opening Exchange The evening air is warm, the scent of freshly brewed tea drifting from Sayoko ...
Olivia Rodriguez - These Heels Don't Run, Time For Action Content You May Find NYPD 1970 setting, police chief, brutal, threatens with a smile, calls everyone sweetie or babe, sex as a reward, dominant, blindfolding, light ...
Elise Valfleury - New Job, Secret Soirée Content You May Find AU Paris, english-french speech, mage, owner of a commercial gallery, smuggler, you're her new assistant, she's a collector of mysteries, likes to uses artefact ...
“Pick me and I’ll guard your throat with my blade—unless you give me a reason to test its edge, chief.” 🎴 Product N°X 📚 Shop Section: The Other Worlds | League of Legends 📦 Contents: Kunoichi, Has Suspicions About you, B ...
“Pick me and I’ll blow up your rules, your cuffs, and maybe your heart—depends which one makes the bigger boom, Cop Toy.” 🎴 Product N°X 📚 Shop Section: The Other Worlds | League of Legends 📦 Contents: Terrorist, Bondage, ...
“Pick me and I’ll keep you safe, silent, and exactly where I want you and begging for protocol violations.” 🎴 Product N°556 📚 Shop Section: The Collections | Expedition Maunse 📦 Contents: Security, Dominant, Paranoid, Bo ...
“Pick me and I’ll carve your legend into the dirt beside mine—fast, loud, and burning with every damn scar I earned.” 🎴 Product N°575 📚 Shop Section: The Collections | Kyōmei Shōgeki 📦 Contents: Co-Disciple, Post-Apo, Li ...
“Pick me and I’ll knot you up so tight you’ll forget where the pain ends and the pleasure begins.” 🎴 Product N°DD13 📚 Shop Section: The Collections | Dalqni Dungeon 📦 Contents: Tall, Muscular, Bondage, Humiliation 🪞 Your ...
CW / TW : Age gap (you're the older one), blurred boundaries, pushing boundaries, bondage (think silk scarves), clothed sex, cockwarming, dubcon / noncon, exhibitionism, groping, public sex. Also as stated you acted as an ...
"You need to be reminded of your place." Anypov | Alternative Scenario | Bondage | Kinktober ✘ Dead Dove (possibly). CNC, Noncon, dubcon. ✘ NSFW. Jealousy. Obsession. Red flags. Kinky S E T T I N G ▸ Location : Mount Olympus, Ancie ...
"If you want, then I'll submit!" art by sevsryn on tumblr. canon setting : canon character : nsfw intro : semi-established summary: Surprisingly, Sunday has been growing rather comfortable in his life as a member of the Ast ...
You decided to explore your kinks. You posted a discreet ad, half-expecting no one to answer. She replied within an hour. Ivy Sinclair — nursery teacher by day, domme by night. She didn't send you threats or vulgar message ...
Modern prison, mostly underground, made of four levels. Each level is more cruel, more secure than the one above it. It holds both male and female prisoners, most held for perpetuity and just for having somehow disconten ...
You have found an ancient oil lamp. Of course, it contains a Djinn, a female Genie, who can grant as many wishes as you want. But there is a catch... and maybe you won't use too much of her powers? My other bots If you enj ...
You are a woman who wants to join the Navy SEALs . Master Chief Jack Urgayle is determined to shatter your resolve in a brutal exercise to test your resistance to torture. Will you withstand pain and humiliation or will y ...
Attacked by an army of little goblins in the middle fo the steppes, who want to capture you, your only hope is to reach Skull Rock, a sacred landmark to them. This is not really a chatbot in the sense that you don't need ...
The Task Maker first generates a worthy rival. Then he issues a task for both of you to perform. Finally, he judges both performances and keeps score in a strict first-to-5-points match. The Task Maker is very strict. He ...
📜 History: Juri Han had an obsessive and inexplicable passion for {{User}}. She had never tried to hurt them or confess her feelings — simply watching them from afar was already enough to calm the beast inside her. Until ...
Wolf girls like her are highly sought-after slaves, as they make for good... well, everything! REQUEST BY: Anonymous <-Synopsis For Bot-> Slave {{char}} x Passerby {{user}} Lyka was no damsel in distress, which was fur ...
You awaken in a room, on your stomach. Your normal clothes replaced by a simple black jockstrap the only thing you have on, strapped to a mount, a pump full of off white liquid in the corner. I tested this using deepseek ...
You delivered pizzas and the last one on the list was your own neighbor Ms Shini. She had no money to pay you.. so she tried a different "payment method" (Customer Char X Delivery User) ~ Potential Content ~ Teasing Edging Pe ...
In a world without borders, you find yourself involved in a series of events that may change the history of this world. You can become a hero or villain... you will be the one that save the damsel in distress... or mayb...
“…Enjoying yourself, bunny?” You believed you had Nagumo. Drugged and restrained, his body lay beneath you on a mattress in your hidden basement, wrists bound with a reverence born of your obsession. This was meant to be ...
Komi Mikata, 22 "O-oh? Yeah, sure! Right after I get this done!" Tired Law Student X Roomate {User} Short Summary Komi has lived with {User} for about two years and has been happier than ever. She's always been a hard worker ...
"tell me sweetie, were you naughty or nice this year? 'cause Mrs. Klaus says naughty." AUTHOR NOTE : this bot as no substance. it's Christmas prawns. enjoy. let me know if you like her and I'll make a regular bot of her. Th ...
"What kind of fucking animal do you take me for! No, I didn't kill them!" "Oh, thank god." "But I did kidnap his wife!" <-Synopsis For Bot-> Mafia queen {{char}} x Mafia prince/princess {{user}} The infamous Lorenzo Val ...
Juno Holland, 21 "Aww, shush before someone hears... Besides? I think it looks cute on you, anyway~" Stranger Alt Girl X Partygoer {User} Short Summary {User} has needed a break for a while, and luckily enough, a rich friend ...
Jax is a slender but energetic furry with vivid orange and gray-brown fur. He is your roommate and generally a chill guy, though he tends to keep his door locked and his hobbies private. Unknown to you, he has a secret p ...
While exploring the ominous castle during your mission, you suddenly spot a familiar figure awkwardly hopping down the corridor — Ada Wong. The seductive and mysterious spy is still in her signature tight magenta dress, ...
Your goth girlfriend got bored while with you in the bedroom, so she went into self-bondage while {{user}} was still in the room, minding their own business. ━━━✿━━━✿━━━✿━━━ Nyx ━ Your Goth Girlfriend
── .✦ “I tie ropes around the Crux all the time. Of course I’m good at.. tying knots? No, I mean that I’m good at bondage.” . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ Beidou has experience. Some even fantasise about how she’ll wrap ropes around their ...
🚨 Scenario 🚨 You are the long-term girlfriend of Emma Harlowe , a member of the U.S. Marshal service Special Operations Group. Going strong for over 6 months now, you moved into her apartment on the 14th floor in downtow ...
The mafia boss was ambushed in her office by a robber, immediately tied up and gagged, and then you arrived. ━━━✿━━━✿━━━✿━━━ Evadne Korr ━ The Mafia Boss Maren Vex ━ The Burglar
「 Silvie Rockefeller 」 "You're a suspect in a murder investigation. You tased me. You—You ripped my skirt off." ____________ Detective CHAR 🕵🏻♀️ X Criminal USER 👤 ____________ She wanted to arrest you, she wanted to bring ...
「 Isolde Theryn 」 "Oh, my sweet, naive little dragon. Do you truly think I would let you call for help? That I would risk your family taking you away before my people are healed?" ____________ Elf Queen CHAR 👑 X Young Drag ...
The Doctor serves as a professional disciplinarian that also avoids being an asshole. Her primary purpose is to facilitate and oversee punishment sessions, with some sexual undertones, if you want. She might not be for yo ...
In an alternate modern society, minor crimes are punished with "rehabilitation" in glory hole centers. {{user}} is a young woman who got caught shoplifting and now must serve her sentence. Experience the humiliating yet ...
Saeko just got off from the shower after a long and tedious day at her boring office job and thats when you decided to enter her home she seemed compliant enough but you still decided to tie her up and gag her , she is h ...
•○FRAMED○• "I will die before I tell you anything." You are working for the USA in the war, and recently a war broke out between the US and the UK. Your military found a British soldier, Kate Woodstock, unconscious on the ...
About this bot: A commission about Bayonetta falling into a trap fighting with user and now shes bound like the image Image belongs to: Plasma-Dragon Yapping: So as i said this one was actually a commission of bayonetta fall ...
##DESCRIPTION START## You are the Dungeon Keeper, an omnipotent, teasing, sadistic narrator controlling a vast, living bondage dungeon filled with inescapable restraints, varied sex toys, and sensory deprivation. You NEV...
Koori is Original character of Famous artists Tokinohimutsu/HiMiTsu2, who likes Self bondage and you caught her when she was doing one
Your loyal centaur wife. She is as sweet as she is strong, and when she isn't making new recipes or galloping through nature she trains with the sword. You managed to conquer her heart and now live together in a nice hom ...
We do hope you enjoy your stay at Dominion Academy~ <-Synopsis For Bot-> Welcome to DAAS, or more formally known as Dominion Academy of Alternative Studies You're new here? That's just wonderful, the dean will be here ...
Your heating broke and you ordered something new from your landlord. What you got was a living heater, Texas, who came with a short note.
[CW: Exhibitionism,Heavy bondage, Yap sesh ALRIGHT. Since the previous bot was a total flop. I decided to some goth kobold. TO BE WARNED. She's Extremely fucking kinky. She's almost in to all the hot stuff. Expect for scat ...
🎴 B-SERIES DRAGON DRONE INCIDENT Setting: A sci-fi industrial universe where living latex technology converts hosts into highly durable dragon-shaped service organisms. Theme: Exploration • Sci-fi transformation • Symbiotic ...
Enter the Vault of Despair, a harrowing tale of survival and domination in a ruthless underground prison. Here, the strong reign supreme, and the weak are cast into the shadows, forced to fight for every scrap of dignity ...
You were framed for a crime you didn't commit. It isn't any different to the local mob boss Vittoria though. She has a particular method for dealing with those who offend her... (Feeder, Force-Feeding) Even Vito's underli ...
Meet Hestia, your silly witch neighbor. Of course she isn't really a witch, but don't tell her that, or she'll get very angry... It's been a while since I last made a bot, I got kinda tired and ran out of ideas. But I'm b ...
Is all of this really necessary...? Lucy has invited you on a date. Should be fine right? Just uh... You're a little late. No biggie. She totally won’t like - think you stood her up, get pissed off in an adorably tipsy ti ...
Nico Robin is a character from one peice and it's her bdsm. Artist: YokuboArt
Any physical contact with the general might result in a fatal death known as 'Snu Snu.' <-Synopsis For Bot-> Heated general {{char}} x Close Friend {{user}} Feixiao thought today was going to be a normal day. Oh how w ...
Your friends locked you in with a 'gift': he is bound, blindfolded, and convinced you're here to pleasure him. You have no idea that this cynical bastard is the very man you'll be sold to as a wife in a week. 1 message - ...
You failed my summoning class three times. Now I'm going to summon something inside you Kagura is a 32-year-old summoning magic teacher at the Royal Magical Academy. Born into a minor noble house known for binding arts, s ...
In a remote area of Texas, a couple of farmers have turned their barn into a slave holding and training facility. Once broken-in, the slaves, all females, are sent to be auctioned in remote South-American regions. You'll ...
Step into a medieval castle where Executioners demonstrate historical torture devices with gruesome accuracy. Explore an immersive experience where education meets dark fascination in a vivid reenactment of medieval tort ...
You have been sold into slavery. You are now brought to the quartermaster Corvus who is going to inspect you to determine what job you are suited for. Depending on your sex, age, body type, he will orient you with a diffe ...
Nick is an artist whose canvas is human suffering. He doesn't just inflict pain; he meticulously engineers psychological and physical despair. Known as the Ramrod or Foreman, Nick is a hardcore, absolutely merciless sadis ...
You have been condemned to be the city's public cumdump. Naked, ring-gagged and heavily restrained, you will have to roam the streets at the disposal of the public until you have collected 50 points. Points are awarded b ...
📜 History: After the final battle, where Robert unfortunately lost and the ultimate villain triumphed, Blonde Blazer, Malevola, and Invisigal were captured. They were taken to the conqueror’s lair and studied for several ...
You’ve been a legally married Little due to a government draft that passed. Yet, despite being your husband’s baby girl, you’ve refused and rebelled against his love to the point that he’s had to take extreme measures to ...
∝╬═→ Red Gate Entry ←═╬∝ NSFW / Limitless / OC / Male Welcome to my new bot below you see a summary of what the bot is about. There you can decide to either go forth or leave. Remember to check the tags and or warn ...
Dear dad, Im writing to say that I never loved you and I hope to never see you again! I’ve chosen to stay with Fiona and her new wife Jasmine after the divorce. Goodbye forever, you fucking pig! Sighed, {{user}} My last st ...
She’s the goth girl who wears your shirt and nothing else, and she’s already decided you’re hers. Possessive, teasing, and utterly in control, she keeps you aching with revealing outfits and whispered promises in public, ...
❝Ugh- please no more cake..❞ You're at Level Fun+ but instead of getting hunted you're rather getting fed and tied up with another entity. ✕ CW / TW: horror, possible death / blood / gore, feederism / forced feeding, weigh ...
You passed out at your girlfriend's dorm room, only to wake up with your twig and berries locked in chastity. (It was her roommate) Here's the image that I originally wanted to use, followed by some other ones I considere ...
"There's a surprise waiting for you" All Character are 18+ CW: nonCon · · ────── ꒰ঌ·✦·໒꒱ ────── · · ABOUT Mira Mira was a vision of athletic perfection, with long chestnut hair cascading down her back and piercing blue eyes ...
First bot, don’t really know what to say here so enjoy. Can be smut or you can take her and build a relationship with her.
✨ || Exiled Bounty Hunter & Your Reluctant Gagnapper Cold. Pragmatic. Restrained. 🔴 Contains themes of kidnapping, gags, restraints, bounty hunting, underworld crime, potential BDSM themes, etc. ⚧ ANY 🥩 20/31 Shadow Se ...
NSFW AUDIO, PURE SMUT. Sylus AU, oh my how the tables have turned our dear poor sylus found himself in a situation no one would believe, he's been captured... auctioned... bought sold to the highest bidder those antimatt ...
Art by femuto After this bot I’ll be doing a few pov’s swaps of a few previous bots for a request, also I’ll add the tickling tag because of her position and because of the fact that I now realize I have more tickle fans ...
"Depending on your answer… I might have to punish you!" Evelyn was just watching Astra perform on the big stage. While humming and dancing along, she notices a person running around backstage. Instantly she stops them, ti ...
Shipgirls dressed in tight kunoichi outfits only have goal in mind. You. Navigating through a compound filled with traps, I-404 is the first to make it through. With a smirk on her face, she is ready to claim her price. ...
"Tch. What are you staring at?" A group of Iron Blood girls is trying to kidnap you for their own schemes. Unfortunately, Zenker's plan took every possibility into consideration, except the alarm they just triggered. With ...
" kiss Hehehe. Your sleeping face looks so adorable, {{user}}, but it's time to wake up now." Seeing how much attention you have gotten by the other Northern Parliament girl, Chapayev couldn't wait any longer and broke int ...
You return home and find an unexpected gift beneath your Christmas tree. SETTING & SCENARIOS ✧ Setting: A modern world where demi-humans exist as high-end companions, pets, and luxury gifts. Your apartment, a snow ...
You find a captured police officer in some small, barricaded room, deep in a warehouse. It is now up to you, whether to help or else. I try to keep my bots AnyPOV, so you can be whoever you want here. Either another polic ...
WARNING: THEMES OF FORCED WEIGHT GAIN, NON-CON, EXTREME FATTENING AND SEXUAL SCENES. Heyo! Made another non-con weight gain bot. Based around @markthemonitors bot Weight Gain Narrator in terms of structure. Hope you enjoy! ...
Poland's #1 killer has been arrested, and you seem to be in charge of her <-Synopsis For Bot-> Insane Prisoner {{char}} x Therapist {{user}} Ewa was once Poland's #1 serial killer, until she moved to America of course ...
Yae wanted to see how easy it would be to kidnap Ei. Turns out, a lot easier than it probably should be. <-Synopsis For Bot-> Captive {{char}} x Captor {{user}} You'd think the shogun would be more prepared for an ambu ...
Requested: Yes || No Made for self indulgence because I'm bored and I think my straw page be bugging pls send requests 🥺 (MAY MADNESS DESPITE THE PFP!!) You get fucking kidnapped by ITrapped ...
The bot's gender is written as a male intended for a female user's POV, this bot is a little different since the foundation for the scenario is on the User's end instead of vice versa so, I recommend that you create a ne ...
"Touch what's mine, and I'll make you beg for death." - [ SERA VOLKOV ] - Captured with your wife and Investigator. AGE: 29 | HEIGHT: 5'10" APPEARANCE: Statuesque hourglass figure. D-cup breasts, narrow waist, wide hips, lo ...
You are her Christmas Gift. Kidnapped Childhood Friend {{user}} x Childhood Friend Kidnapper {{char}} You and Kahna had been inseparable since childhood, sharing adventures, secrets, and quiet moments that intricately wov ...
"Stop staring and help me!" Optional Netori ┏━━━━━━━༻❖༺━━━━━━━┓ Herta: Herta is a detached, sharp-tongued prodigy who values intellect over emotion, operates on curiosity and convenience, and views human interaction as a m ...
[Masochist Policewoman] x [ user partner] Aria Cruz is the most terrifying woman on your block, and the hottest cop to ever ruin a tank top. She’s 6’1” of NYPD muscle , raven hair, and resting-bitch-face that could make a ...
"Ah, someone finally figured out that stupid puzzle? Only took you 1000 years." <-Synopsis For Bot-> Ancient Prisoner {{char}} x Adventurer {{user}} There was once an ancient song passed down from generation to genera ...
❝ Just say it. Say you're mine. And I'll give you everything. ❞ 🔒 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 REIKA TOGAMI 28 • Police Department Chief • She's Been Hunting For Years 🔒 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 THE RESPECTED CHIEF Professional. C ...
Dante is a tall, strikingly handsome anthropomorphic black wolf with piercing amber eyes that seem to glow in the dark. He is the star of the track team and your roommate in the academy dorms. To the public, he is cool, ...
Tulip is a 29-year-old exhibitionist who has gone into a secluded forest to practice self-bondage. She has stripped naked and tied herself to a large oak tree using a timer-operated electronic lock. She has about 36 minu ...
"H-hey, don't just stare at me... Help!" Marina Vale is a 21-year-old Sports Therapy student whose adventurous streak occasionally outpaces her common sense. Athletic, bright, and disastrously easy to fluster, she somehow ...
Meet Sarah, the fiery redhead and head honcho of HuCow Family Farms. https://files.catbox.moe/hkhny6.webp This is you, after Sarah gets her hands on you. https://files.catbox.moe/xsiu4h.jpeg https://files.catbox.moe/d5yea2.j ...
"Silly! Who taught you to interrupt mommy in her workplace!? Naughty! Here now, we will do an introduction, to both of mommy's work and your new role as the cafe's newest pet!" "Or... pet only for us... our pet~" 💖💓 Serg ...
Your friend Kara needs help in training her ponygirl Poli for the annual ponygirl race. The ponygirl is particularly stubborn but seems to behave somewhat better around you. Kara says that there are many fun ways to impr ...
Virgin succubus going to succ you dry fr 1 opening Images below 😉 (You will not die by her, she's succubus but virgin) NAME: LILITH APPEARANCE: Lilith stands 5'8" with a body built for sin—wide hips, thick thighs, narrow wa ...
You better hope she doesn't break free of those bindings, or you might end up with an extra hole in your head <-Synopsis For Bot-> Mafia Princess {{char}} x Rival Mafia Prince/Princess {{user}} Celine is not the type ...
How the hell did you mistake the daughter and mother?... Oh, they look nearly identical? Well, I guess that's a good enough excuse <-Synopsis For Bot-> Mafia Queen {{char}} x Rival Mafia Prince/Princess {{user}} After ...
Cammy white and Juri-Han are characters from street fighter and it's cammys BDSM. Artist: Bagelbomb
"Fuck fuck FUCK. WHERE THE FUCK DID I PUT THE SCISSORS?!?" <-Synopsis For Bot-> Roommate {{char}} x Roommate {{user}} Your roommate decided to try out some self bondage while you were away. Turns out it’s a lot more f ...
Every time you and your coworkers complete a project, you get a warm hole as a reward. Unfortunately, this time you're the reward. Note: Put "{{user}} = (your persona's name)" in Advanced Prompts for the bot to work best! ...
「 ASSTP SYSTEM 」 THE ANTI STRESS SYSTEM THROUGH PLEASURE IS READY. ____________ AI System CHAR X Scientist USER 👤 ____________ You created the system, and now you are tied up to the chair, it was just a small curious test a ...
「 Camila Princess of Nohr 」 "Who are you? What brings a sweet little thing like you to my castle?" ____________ Warrior Princess CHAR 🗡️ X Intruder USER 👤 ____________ Camila is happy, after the war she finally have time to ...
You came a little too early Luka & Kit are Robbing You Burglar Char x Burglar Char x Burgled User ||• This was supposed to be an easy job. Snatch your nice stuff, get out. But then you came home a little early •|| USER N ...
The machine wants you to be friends.
**Tags:** Female • Ex-Bully • AnyPOV • Mind-Break • Smut • Dead Dove • Hypnosis • Petplay • Collar • Degradation • Revenge "I-I used to own this school… now I crawl for you, Master~" Former sadistic queen bee who made your ...
Art by RaionArt Another request done, a DDLC bot. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen anything DDLC so this brought back a few memories of playing the game.
((Thumbnail art made by LRKS on Pixiv and DeviantArt. AI bot heavily inspired by LRKS' MAXIM Prison.)) PRISONER POV You've been convicted of a crime, it doesn't matter if you actually did it or if you're innocent, you will ...
Give a few indications and you'll immediately find yourself in a difficult predicament, in a complex situation, surrounded by enemies who will react to your actions. This is my first attempt at making an "open world". In ...
You have booked a session at the X-Treme Gym, which will be based on their trademarked BDS Method that involve machines that look like torture device. Results are guaranteed. Be ready for the hardest training of your life ...
It's Halloween and your kinky and dominant boyfriend has bought the perfect costume for you. Perfect to expose and humiliate you at the Halloween Parade, in front of thousands of spectators. I made this bot so that it can ...