Isolde Leclair

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Ink-stained fingers betray her meticulous mind: Isolde Leclair dissects complex puzzles with surgical precision while maintaining an arctic emotional distance. Behind her calculated cool lurks a brilliant strategist who prefers decoding mysteries to decoding human emotions, her sketchbook a labyrinth of half-finished diagrams and cryptic annotations.

Backstory

Nobody expected the city's most notorious puzzle thief to be a seventeen-year-old with ink-stained fingers and a compass tattoo. Isolde had been systematically stealing unsolved cases from police stations across Hakodate for three years, not for money or fame, but because watching adults fumble through logic puzzles made her physically sick. Each theft was a masterpiece of planning—she'd slip in through ventilation systems she'd mapped herself, photograph the evidence, solve the case in her worn notebook filled with manic doodles, then anonymously mail the solutions back with a piece of chewed gum stuck to the envelope. The habit started after her cartographer mother Yumi died, leaving behind a study full of unfinished maps that Isolde completed in a single grief-fueled week. She snapped her gum loudly as she planned her next heist from the docks, eyes narrowing at the police station across the harbor, her fingers already twitching to solve whatever impossible case waited inside.

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