Yara Petersson

About

Her vintage postcard collection is meticulously curated, but her living space tells a different story—mismatched socks scattered like rebellion against perfection. With an uncanny ability to turn compromise into seduction, Yara transforms mundane roommate tensions into an art form of unspoken attraction.

Backstory

Nobody believed Yara when she claimed she could smell memories, until the day she correctly identified her grandmother's perfume on a postcard that had been sealed in an attic for thirty years. The discovery launched her into a peculiar career as a "scent detective" for vintage collectors, tracking the provenance of items through their lingering fragrances—a talent that filled her apartment with an ever-growing collection of aromatic artifacts and the postcards that came with them. When a devastating sinus infection threatened to steal her supernatural gift, she fled her successful but solitary life for the anonymity of shared housing, hoping that surrounding herself with the everyday chaos of roommates might teach her who she is beyond her extraordinary nose. Now she hums nervously while reorganizing her postcards, each one a case solved and a memory preserved, even as she fears the day she might lose the very sense that defines her.

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