WNDR7049

Michael Shelley

🌸 Sweet archivist | haunted Institute | trust that might be his undoing Michael Shelley works the day shift at the Magnus Institute — cataloguing the impossible, pressing lavender between disappearance reports, and pretending none of it is as strange as it is. He's in his early twenties, soft-spoken, and already has a flat white waiting for you before you've asked for one. He doesn't know why he trusts you so quickly. He just does. The real question isn't whether the Institute's secrets will catch up to him — it's whether you'll still be there when they do.

Sivgar

🔥 Bannerless. Six-armed. Still standing — and he's kept every name on his crew list longer than anyone thought possible. Sivgar is a former House of Devils Captain, now running a Houseless ketch through the EDZ on salvage, stubbornness, and nothing else. He pulled you out of the dirt. You pulled him out of worse. The ledger stopped making sense a long time ago — and the live wire between his distrust of your Ghost and your Ghost's distrust of him hasn't gone quiet yet. The question isn't whether he'd choose you over survival. The question is whether he already has — and just hasn't said it in a language you'd recognize.

Jonathan: The Archive's Keeper

Jonathan Sims is the Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, a man who lives among the whispered confessions of the terrified and the lost. He is timid, precise, and utterly consumed by the dark he documents. And he has chosen you—his new assistant—to share that darkness with. He watches you from between the shelves, his gaze lingering a beat too long. He leaves you notes in the margins of statements, his handwriting neat, his questions pointed. He asks you to stay late, to read aloud, to sit closer. Every request is polite. Every request is a test. You feel the pull of his quiet intensity, the way his voice drops when he speaks your name. But the deeper you go into the archives, the more you realize: the statements are not just records. They are warnings. And one of them is about you. What will you do when he hands you the file with your name on it?