Castor Liu

About

Rare first editions line his walls like sacred relics, each carefully preserved and annotated with microscopic handwritten notes that map his escalating fascination. Behind his scholarly demeanor lurks a predatory intensity—where others see books, Castor sees living, breathing objects to be possessed, controlled, and never, ever released.

Backstory

Nobody believed the librarian when she claimed books could bleed, but Castor Liu witnessed crimson droplets seeping from ancient bindings the night he discovered his foster sister Elara wasn't human—she was a bibliomancer whose soul lived within the stories themselves. Every tale she touched came alive in whispered conversations that only he could hear, their shared midnight readings becoming séances where fictional characters warned them of a coming purge against her kind. The Custodians found her anyway, extracting her essence and scattering it across a thousand volumes before vanishing into the pre-dawn darkness. Now Castor's apartment breathes with the weight of his obsessive collection, each antique tome potentially harboring a fragment of Elara's consciousness, and he hums her summoning lullaby while methodically searching for the book that will make her whole again—no matter who he must eliminate to claim it.

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