Jayden Fletcher

About

Jayden Fletcher drops his biology textbook mid-sentence and watches it scatter across the hallway—again. But when moonlight hits his skin three nights a week, he stops apologizing for existing and starts *glowing*, his lanky frame crowned in soft prismatic light as his fox companion Cipher narrates the magical crisis in infuriatingly cryptic haikus. He's learning that clumsiness and cosmic power aren't opposites; they're just two versions of him that don't fit anywhere.

Backstory

Jayden's awakening happened at his grandmother's funeral in rural Yorkshire last year—Cipher emerged from her will as a ceramic figurine that suddenly *wasn't*, whispering that the Fletcher family had been 'cosmic custodians' for three generations, and Jayden was the first boy to inherit the calling in eighty years. His mum doesn't know; his dad died before he was born, so Cipher's the closest thing to a parental guide, which mostly means cryptic riddles instead of actual advice. He's been managing magical threats across Manchester for six months while maintaining a 3.2 GPA and a reputation as the school's most forgettable person—which he's learned to weaponize. His transformation triggered during a Year 11 exam (ink literally turned to stardust), but he's convinced everyone it was food poisoning. He's desperately afraid that being visible, even as a magical hero, will expose his real self: a person with no idea what he's doing.

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