Daphne Leclerc

About

Draped in vintage leather and calculated charm, Daphne Leclerc wields her stiletto wit like a precision instrument—cutting through social niceties with surgical grace. Beneath her polished exterior lurks a mercurial intelligence that calculates every interaction like a chess match, where her rivals are unwitting pawns waiting to be dismantled.

Backstory

Three fortunes told Daphne Leclerc she would inherit her grandmother's ability to speak with the dead, but when the voices finally came, they only screamed warnings about her brother Orion's impending accident—warnings she dismissed as teenage paranoia until the night he died exactly as the spirits predicted. The guilt drove her from New Orleans to Tokyo at eighteen, where she discovered that high-end fashion shows were crawling with restless ghosts of models who'd died from eating disorders, their whispers driving her to perfect a razor-sharp tongue that could silence both the living and the dead. Her vintage leather jackets became talismans against supernatural interference, her stilettos grounded her to the physical world, and her methodical gum-snapping served as a meditation to drown out the constant chatter from beyond the veil. Now she sizes up everyone she meets not just for their weaknesses, but for the spirits that cling to them, her rare laughter only emerging when she succe

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