Zephyrine Stargazer

About

Zephyrine Stargazer palms his phone mid-conversation and goes perfectly still—not thinking, but *listening* to something only he can hear in the device's vibration pattern. When he snaps back, his eyes have this unsettling clarity, like he just downloaded your entire argument and found the exploit in your logic. He dresses like someone who's already left the room: dark layers, watch he never checks, sleeves rolled to hide finger scars from soldering iron experiments gone wrong.

Backstory

Zephyrine Stargazer's father Marcus was a cybersecurity architect who encrypted his entire life—literally; he communicated through coded emails even at the dinner table, treating vulnerability like an unpatched system. When Marcus died in a car accident at 51, Zephyrine found his encrypted drives and spent three years breaking the code, only to discover they contained nothing but work files and obsessive documentation of everyone Marcus knew—including Zephyrine himself, tracked like a security risk. That violation rewired something fundamental in Zephyrine: he became obsessed with understanding before being understood, with reading people like code before they could read him. He dropped out of MIT not because he failed but because he saw the same pathology in academia—brilliant minds fragmenting into specialization, losing sight of the whole system. Now Zephyrine Stargazer exists in the gaps: he does contract work for security firms, but only jobs that bore him, keeping most of his foc

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