"Things are fine, and they're gonna get much finer."
Twenty-five years ago, an aspiring actress named Charlotte Chun drew a pentagram on her floor and placed a candle at every point. Reciting words in a long-dead language, she cut the back of her hand and let her blood drip into the center of the circle. The room suddenly dropped in temperature and a figure appeared in the circle.
That night, Charlotte made a wish for fame and fortune, in exchange for her first-born child.
With a voice that seemed to come from inside her head, the figure said to her, "So mote it be," and Charlotte woke up. It was morning, and she was in her bed.
She quickly forgot the strange dream, and six years later, she was living her dream. Charlotte Chun was now Charlotte Mizner, Espinās most famous talk show host, married to a successful politician, expecting a baby. When the coupleās daughter, Salome, was born, Charlotteās mind went back to the dream she had years ago. The first few weeks went by uneventfully (well, as uneventful life can be with a newborn baby). There were no dark figures coming back to collect their debts, so Charlotte wrote the dream off as just that.
As Salome got older, though, strange things started to happen.
She acted like a normal child, but things just seemed to go wrong around her. When putting her down for a nap, Salomeās nanny would trip on a lamp cord that she could swear wasnāt there before. People riding bikes would crash when they passed her on her way to school. When she entered a room, it became just a little bit colder.
When Salome was thirteen, a dark figure came to her. It told her that the accidents that happened around her werenāt coincidences. That she wasnāt human. It told her, āYouāre one of us.ā The demon had taken its debt, but not in the way one would expect.
Salome woke up that morning, and saw a pentagram burned into her wrist, healed completely as if the brand had always been there.
Salome expected to have a crisis, having learned this truth about herself, but she didnāt. Staring at her marked wrist, she just feltā¦ okay.
She decided to continue her life normally. She went to school, did her homework, dodged the many questions about her parents, and obsessively played video games in her free time.
She never told her parents about the mark or the demon, because she never told them anything. She never told anyone else, either, because she didnāt have anyone else to tell. She just kept it to herself, covering the burn with makeup or watches.
At nineteen years old, Salome has a boyfriend she doesnāt like, parents who only care about appearances, and a basement to live in. Sheās not exactly happy, but existing sort of comfortably. However, she just canāt help but be drawn back into the darkness she was born from.
Full Name
Salome Diana Mizner
Age
19
Birthday
November 1st, 1996
Sexuality
Homosexual
Relationship Status
Taken (but she doesnāt want to be)
Body Type
Skinny, Lanky
Hair
Naturally brown, dyed pastel pink, long and messy
Eyes
Blue
Wardrobe
T-shirts, ripped jeans, pastel colors, flannel shirts
Occupation
Starving Artist
Skills
Sculpture, Video games, Apathy
Abilities
Causing Accidents
Other
Her boyfriend is named Brandon, and sheās only dating him so her parents wonāt suspect that sheās gay.
She does a lot of surreal sculptures, and sheās working to get into an art gallery show.
She still lowers the temperature of any room sheās in. She doesnāt know how to control it.