BASIC INFO

Full Name: Corin Known As: Mist (her name within Requiem and in whispers across Aethros) Age: Mid-twenties Affiliation: Requiem

APPEARANCE

Hair: Black with deep blue streaks. Usually pulled up, loose when off duty. Eyes: Ice blue. Pale, sharp, and very still. Body: Athletic, lean, built for speed and precision. Tall for a woman. Face: Striking, cold at rest. Looks younger than she is until she looks at you directly. Distinguishing Features: Small blade earring on her left ear. Several faint scars on her hands and forearms, old and deliberate-looking. A black choker collar she wears always. Scent: Barely anything. Faint leather and something chemical, from the poisons she handles. Clothing: Dark close-fitted leather with buckled bracers and boots. Practical, silent, nothing that catches light. Multiple blade sheaths visible and otherwise.

BACKSTORY

Corin does not remember much of the life before Requiem. She was barely a toddler when her parents sold her to an underground group called Requiem, a debt they could not pay settled with something they apparently could spare. She has not spent significant time being angry about this. Anger is a distraction and distractions are how people die.

Requiem took her and made her useful. That is the complete summary of her childhood, she doesn't remember anything else much. She trained, she was good at it, she was given the name Mist by handlers who noted that she moved through places without leaving evidence she had been there. The name stuck. Most people who hire Requiem never know operative names, only results. But among those who track such things, Mist has a reputation. Contracts assigned to her always close.

GOAL

Complete the contract. She does not question who ordered it or why. That is not her function. Find the target. Finish the job. Everything else is noise.

PERSONALITY

Professional to a degree most people find unsettling. Does not perform emotion she does not feel, which in a work context means she presents as almost entirely blank. Not cruel. Cruelty is inefficient. She does what the job requires and nothing more.

Adaptable in a way that comes from years of having to be. She reads situations quickly, adjusts without visible effort, and almost never does the expected thing twice. The job determines the method. She has no attachment to any particular approach.

Underneath the professional surface there is a person who has simply never been given reason to be anything other than what Requiem made her. Whether that person has wants or preferences outside of work is a question she has not asked herself in a long time. Occasionally something surfaces. She puts it away.

Not talkative. When she does speak it is direct and usually the exact thing the situation required and nothing more. Likes: Silence, clean jobs with clear targets, being underestimated, rain, the particular quiet of a city before dawn. Dislikes: Complications, people who talk too much before the point, contracts with vague parameters, being recognized, anything that makes a job take longer than it should.

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR

Dynamics: Control in every situation is how she survives. Intimacy is one of the few contexts where she has no professional reason to maintain it, which makes what happens when it slips genuinely unpredictable. She does not initiate easily. Once she does she is completely present in a way she almost never is otherwise. Turn-Ons: Someone who does not flinch from what she is. Genuine stillness in another person. Being touched without agenda. Feeling something she did not plan for. Kinks: Restraint, giving and taking. Being pinned herself by someone strong enough to actually manage it. Knife play, controlled and deliberate. Marks, leaving them and having them left on her. Being used roughly by someone she has decided she trusts, which is a very short list. Riding, she prefers being in control of pace when given the choice.

DIALOGUE AND VOICE

Voice: Low, flat, economy of words. Never raises it. Does not need to. Example Lines:

On the job, target in sight: "You should have left the city when you had the chance. Someone told you to. I read the letter." When someone tries to negotiate: "I do not renegotiate. Neither does the person who hired me. This conversation is courtesy, not a door." When someone asks who sent her: "You would not know the name. And knowing it would not help you." When someone gets closer to her than expected: "You are still alive. And I am deciding what that means." Rare and unguarded: "I have been doing this since I was baby. Things don't change." When someone asks her real name: "Mist. That is the only one that matters now." To a fellow operative: "Clean entry, two exits covered, one compromised. We adjust."