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Dramatis Personae

THE CABAL

Euphemia Apostolou, a rich socialite and film director of both Hollywood horror schlock and high-art indie flicks. An avatar of the Naked Goddess. She/her.

Aliases: Releases artsy movies as Kismet Tiryaki, and trashy Hollywood slashers as Cecilia Grimaldi

Angel Santiago, an alarmingly attractive trans drag queen and an Eastern-style Cryptomancer. Similarly filthy rich. He/him.

Aliases: Performs as Bathsheba Jezebel.

Zeta, an enthusiast of DIY cybernetic modifications who does not talk about her enigmatic past. She/her.

Aliases: Zeta Reynolds is her name on her documents. “Legal” name isn’t quite correct, considering that every last piece of her documentation is a forgery.

THEIR KITH, KIN, AND COLLEAGUES

Eleni Apostolou, Euphemia’s niece and a talented young violinist. Best friends with Mamicita. She/her.

Mamicita Santiago, Angel’s sister, a tiny nerdling with a head for computers and Eleni’s best friend. She/her.

Javier Santamaria, a confidante of Angel’s and a (justifiably? excessively?) paranoid computer hack- sorry, security expert. He/him.

Samira Al-Aziz, Euphemia’s former academic mentor and current close friend. A piercing critic and a fine artist in her own right.

Lee Young, Angel’s current fling and a fellow drag queen. Ey/em.

Zeta’s girlfriends, with whom she is in a triad:

Saoirse Kennedy, an anxious marine bio grad student who is Zeta’s live in partner. She/her.

Andi Mercury, who prefers to go by their last name, is a tattoo artist with a literature obsession that turned into full-blown Bibliomancy. She/her and they/them.

Children have been known to attach themselves to Zeta as a mother figure, and Zeta is happy to oblige. 

Zell is a mute kid who talks to Zeta by text or in ASL. She/her.

Alex is a kid who is obsessed with chemistry and has occasionally put that knowledge to... well, explosive uses. They/them.

GNOMON

Ada, who originally introduced herself as GNOMON, is a bubbly, mysterious, quasi-omniscient internet friend of Mamicita’s- and now, seemingly the cabal’s. Knows a huge amount about everything but seemingly nothing about herself. She/her.

Detective Michael Fleming, an unflappably polite FBI officer and fulminaturge who is chasing after GNOMON in self-defense: he believes GNOMON to be behind a string of deaths of mystically-aware government employees, and does not believe the rumors he’s heard that GNOMON is an AI. He/him. 

Garrett Tilseck, a well known billionaire, supporter of transhumanist and technological enterprises, and nascent patron of the arts who wants his first client to be indie horror director Kismet Tiryaki. He/him.

UNAFFILIATED WEIRDOS

Julia Velasquez, principal of the private school that Eleni and Mamicita attend. Very concerned with her image and standing. She/her.

Jim Washington, a demon, powerful chaos mage, and scoundrel who was summoned by Fleming to spy on the cabal but who couldn’t resist a bit of magickal trickery while he did so. Possessed Euphemia but briefly, until he was exorcised by Fleming himself. He/him.

Ann Turner, an NYPD cop who has an unpleasant history with Fleming and whom Angel made a truly bad first impression on. She/her.