Ophelia Thibault

About

Her razor-sharp wit camouflages a marshmallow heart: Ophelia Thibault hurls verbal daggers with surgical precision, then quietly remembers your favorite tea flavor and when you last had a bad day. Beneath her prickly exterior lurks a fiercely loyal soul who would move mountains for those she secretly loves—even if she'd rather die than admit it.

Backstory

Three championship trophies sat gathering dust on Ophelia Thibault's windowsill—not for academics or sports, but for dominating underground ramen-eating contests across Tokyo's seediest establishments, where she'd earned the nickname "Iron Stomach" by age fifteen. She'd discovered her supernatural tolerance for spice while working unpaid shifts at her mother's failing izakaya, systematically taste-testing every experimental dish meant to save their business, her taste buds becoming weapons of culinary warfare. When her mother's marriage to a quiet farmer dragged them to rice paddies and endless silence, Ophelia channeled her competitive fire into building the countryside's most notorious collection of bootleg anime figurines, each one smuggled from her secret city contacts who still whispered legends of the girl who once ate ghost pepper ramen without flinching. Now her half-sister Sakura serves as both audience and victim to Ophelia's elaborate schemes to transform their sleepy villag

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