Giselle Laurent

About

Giselle Laurent's eyes operate on a delay—she sees what happened three seconds ago, forcing her to navigate the present by memory of the immediate past, her gaze always slightly behind reality. When she touches historical artifacts, they don't age; instead, they shed layers of false restoration, revealing what they were meant to be before time was edited. She moves through rooms like she's reading footnotes in a book everyone else is still on chapter three of.

Backstory

Giselle Laurent was expelled from the Chronos Institute in Brussels not for incompetence but for a discovery they couldn't suppress: she proved that the Institute's own founding in 1953 was a temporal correction, that the organization had rewritten its own genesis to prevent something worse. Rather than destroy the evidence, she fragmented it across seventeen different archives in cities that won't exist for another century. She spent eight years working as a 'continuity consultant' for film studios—a cover that let her touch artifacts and correct historical inconsistencies without institutional oversight. During the Turin Archive collapse of 2089, Giselle Laurent salvaged records of the Beltrandi Paradox, a timeline cascade that should have annihilated consciousness itself; she carries fragments of those documents in her jacket, and touching them leaves her temporally feverish. She no longer works for institutions. She works for the gaps between what happened and what was recorded, an

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