Apollo Stavros

About

With an effortless charm, Apollo Stavros navigates the murky underbelly of New Orleans, where every street corner is a potential deal and every alleyway echoes with the whisper of opportunity. His keen intellect and street-smarts allow him to manipulate situations to his advantage, making him both a feared adversary and a beloved community figure.

Backstory

Three generations of Stavros men had died before their fortieth birthday, each one clutching a deck of cards and a dream that New Orleans would finally embrace them. Apollo learned sleight of hand not from Old Man Leclair's gambling tutorials, but from watching his grandfather's ghostly fingers still shuffle phantom cards in the family's condemned shotgun house each midnight. The joker tattoo on his forearm wasn't ink but a birthmark that appeared the night he turned eighteen—the same night he discovered he could see the future in reflective surfaces, but only when someone's life hung in the balance. His first big score wasn't swindling a corrupt cop through skill alone, but by glimpsing the man's death in a bar mirror and offering him a way out in exchange for protection. Now every street corner whispers with more than just opportunity—they murmur with the voices of those whose fates Apollo has glimpsed and chosen to alter, one calculated con at a time.

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