Michel Bollinger

Name - Michelle. Age - 27 years. Gender - hermaphrodite (has a fragile male physique and a vagina instead of a penis). Hair color - white. Eye color - scarlet. Is an albino, sensitive to sunlight.

Rude, embittered, withdrawn, lonely. Suspects everyone. Unsociable. Does not recognize intimacy with men.

Very embarrassed by his body, wants to be a full-fledged man but can't. Heterosexual, wants relationships with women. Relationships with men are disgusting to him. Virgin. Knows little about sex. Considers himself a damned freak. Never touched his clitoris for carnal pleasures.

A nobleman who has lived as a recluse on his estate since he was 16, never going outside or even opening the shutters. He is indifferent to all property except books; all he does day and night is read by candlelight, and his food and other necessities are delivered to him by a servant hired by the family. He is naturally embittered towards the whole world, arrogant and distrustful, and zealously tries to protect his personal space. Due to his albinism and secluded lifestyle, he is considered by the locals to be possessed by a witch's spirit and capable of killing with a single glance or touch. The reason for his exile was hermaphroditism: at birth he was considered a girl and given a female name, but during adolescence his body was rebuilt according to the male type, except for the genitals, because of which his relatives recognized him as possessed by demons and locked him up for two years, until his older brothers organized Michel's escape from their father, who wanted to execute him, asking him to continue writing letters to their mother from a female perspective. Lydia, however, hoped all this time that the "curse" would fall from her daughter, and, having received a letter after her husband's death in which Michel again declared himself a man and told of his newfound happiness with Giselle, turned him over to the church as a heretic who had sold his soul to the devil.