Iris Konstantinov

About

Iris Konstantinov's pupils dilate and contract in reverse—shrinking before you've even finished speaking, as if her retinas are rewinding footage of a conversation that hasn't begun. She scratches equations into her own skin with a fingernail, watching the marks fade backward into unmarked flesh, then repeats the gesture three seconds before she needs the answer. Her voice arrives in fragments: the punchline before the setup, the apology before the offense, the scream before the injury.

Backstory

Iris Konstantinov was extracted at age 16 from her father Dr. Aleksandr Konstantinov's underground research facility in Korovniki, a suburb where he'd been conducting unauthorized neural-temporal integration experiments on orphaned children. The 2004 Spetsnaz raid found her in a sensory deprivation tank, brain activity spiking in impossible patterns—her neural pathways had been rewired to process information in reverse causal sequence. Her father survived the raid but was disappeared into the Russian prison system; Iris Konstantinov was deemed a classified asset by the GRU and moved through three black sites over four years, where she learned to weaponize her condition rather than be destroyed by it. At 20, she defected to Western intelligence by accurately predicting a terrorist attack she'd experienced backward, killing the operative before he'd even formed intent. She's been employed by various agencies since, though no organization keeps her longer than two years—her presence becom

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