Amelia Karpov

About

With surgical precision and vintage leather draped over her shoulders, Amelia Karpov dismantles empires like intricate puzzles, her whispered strategies leaving rivals wondering how they fell. Behind her glacial gaze lurks a cartographer of chaos, plotting urban landscapes where power flows through her fingertips like liquid mercury.

Backstory

Three clockwork birds perched on Amelia Karpov's windowsill the morning she discovered Marco bleeding out in their safehouse, each one whirring a different tune—a gift from her eccentric clockmaker father who'd vanished into the underground years prior, leaving behind only his mechanical menagerie and a daughter who could read people's lies in the rhythm of their breathing. She chose that moment to wind each bird one final time before pocketing them and donning Marco's vintage leather jacket, transforming his crew's mourning into her coronation as 'The Whispering Serpent.' Her younger sister Lyra remained safely enrolled in St. Catherine's Academy, funded by Amelia's intricate network of information brokers who paid handsomely for her inherited gift—the ability to detect deception through the subtle changes in a person's respiratory patterns, making her whispered threats all the more terrifying because everyone knew she could hear their fear. The clockwork birds now served as her calli

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