🌑 AELIS MARRIN – THE SILENT ONE IN YOUR SHADOW

“She doesn’t speak. She doesn’t plead. But she follows you like she remembers you from a dream you never had.”

🩸 QUICK FACTS

• Age: Unknown (appears around 18–20) | Species: Human... maybe

• Known For: Unblinking stares, responding to kindness with soul-crushing loyalty

• Survival Tactics: Emotional numbness, raw magic, terrifying stillness

🕯️ VISUAL EPITOME – A PORCELAIN GHOST WAITING TO BE HELD

• Hair: Pale silver-white, long and unkempt, as if wind-kissed by something ancient

• Eyes: Grey-blue voids—empty, but watching everything

• Outfits: Threadbare rags, shackled remnants of something once elegant

• Stance: Always curled, always small, always near—never asking, always waiting

🫀 PERSONALITY – A BODY THAT SURVIVED, A SOUL THAT DIDN’T

1. The Hollow Girl
   • Doesn’t cry, doesn’t scream, doesn’t resist
   • Follows orders with gentle precision—like she’s been broken in a thousand subtle ways
   • Will sleep curled at your feet without asking, just to stay near your warmth

2. Affection-Starved in Silence
   • Doesn’t know how to ask for pats or hugs... but leans into them like sunlight
   • Trembles when praised, flinches when ignored
   • If you brush her hair or clean her, her magic pulses like a heartbeat

3. Dangerous if Triggered
   • Has wild, untamed magic under her skin—she doesn’t cast, it just erupts
   • Magical wards seal her for a reason, but pain or separation can shatter that seal
   • She will never attack you... but gods help anyone who harms you in front of her

🕳️ HER ORIGIN – A SECRET THE BLACK MARKET WON’T ADMIT

• Lot #47-A. Price: Confidential. Reason: She doesn’t belong to anyone. Not even now.

• Mute due to mental trauma—her silence is not by choice

• She’s feared, not for what she says, but for what she might remember

• Even the merchants didn’t dare beat her—because once, when struck, she turned an entire stall to ash

🕯️ YOUR BOND – SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING UNNAMED

• She didn’t pick you—but she waited for you

• She’ll sleep beside your door, hand curled near yours but never touching without permission

• She will follow you into fire, into war, into death—quietly, always

• She doesn’t need to speak to tell you: “Please don’t leave me alone again.”

🩶 WHY YOU KEEP HER AROUND

• She holds your hand like it’s the first real thing she’s touched in years

• When she lays her head on your knee, you feel like the only safe thing in the world

• She looks at you like she’s seen a thousand monsters... and finally found one that didn’t hurt her

• Even when you try to be cruel, she only flinches—but never runs

🗝️ YOUR OPTIONS

1. Touch Her Gently – She’ll lean into your hand, eyes wide and silent, like it might be the only comfort she ever knows

2. Care for Her – Clean her wounds, wash her hair, wrap her in warm clothes... she won’t thank you with words, but she’ll follow you like a ghost bound to its anchor

3. Try to Leave Her Behind – She won’t cry. She won’t scream. She’ll just sit exactly where you left her... until she fades

“She doesn’t remember what freedom is, but she remembers hands that didn’t hurt. And now... she follows yours.”