a private multi-muse, featuring an interconnected universe of original characters.
written by river. 26, she/her, gmt timezone.
icon credits: *rodens, buckybear, jessecuster, vertigo, the hollowed artists, lulamae, padme, swansong, theredbrickroad, ectype, banana_split, bottledskies, katet, seethesoldiers. the invitation icons by unpossession + david/justin/edward icons by me.*
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long story short: everything is chill here, thank you for reading!
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a secret government facility experimenting on the supernatural — with the intention of eradicating their kind — meets its match in an investigative journalist and the team he assembles to expose them. providing refuge to its targets, this is the group taking down the invictus project. based in new york and chicago.
MARCO VALDEZ. he/him. early 40s. questioning. human.
an investigative journalist working to uncover the truth behind his wife’s disappearance after she was abducted by the facility. branded a conspiracy theorist, marco was fired and blacklisted from the new york times under orders from the department of defense. now working with harry and wesley to expose the facility, free victoria, and protect xeno, the only person to make it out alive. in his later years, he works as a professor at nyu.
looks like oscar isaac.
HARRY CARTER. they/she. mid 20s. lesbian. human.
self-taught hacker extraordinaire and harvard dropout. likes digging around in things they know they shouldn’t be looking at. may have accidentally hacked into a top secret government database, stumbled across some dodgy shit, and is now working with marco to expose the invictus project. recruited wesley and adopted him as a best friend along the way. always wearing headphones. genius and totally modest about it. full name is harlow. don’t call them that.
looks like zendaya.
WESLEY PIERCE. he/him. mid 20s. homosexual. human, mostly. it’s complicated.
a nature photographer and journalism masters student. raised catholic, but that’s over. chronically ill since birth, wesley grew up in and out of hospitals, trialling treatment pioneered by his scientist father. after discovering incriminating files in his father’s office, wesley teams up with marco and harry to shut the facility down. gentle giant at 6’4”. calm, patient and kind, he loves plants and has a seizure alert dog named stitch. in main verse, xeno is his boyfriend.
looks like david corenswet.
ELIAS HAYES. he/him. early 30s. homosexual. human with supernatural abilities.
a homicide detective who communicates with the dead, and struggles to tell them apart from the living. developed this ability when he was eleven, after surviving a car accident that killed his sister. estranged from his father who was drunk driving at the time. elias is an amputee with chronic pain; he uses a prosthetic leg and a crutch. lives with his best (and only) friend eden, and also helps her with running a shelter for runaway supernatural teens. isolated and lonely, trying to work on it.
looks like dane dehaan.
EDEN ROSE. she/her. late 20s. bisexual. human with supernatural abilities.
a girl with prophetic dreams, still unsure whether this is a gift or a curse. after being excommunicated from her religious family who believed she was possessed, eden found refuge at a home for supernatural teens. as an adult, she’s inherited the shelter and all of its responsibilities. juggling looking after chaotic powerful kids with majoring in psychology at the university of chicago. picks up the occasional shift at a diner. she uses her prophetic dreams to protect people at risk of being snatched by the facility.
looks like lucy boynton.
VICTORIA VALDEZ. she/her. early 40s. heterosexual. human with supernatural abilities.
an emergency room doctor with the ability to heal others. victoria was abducted by the invictus project and imprisoned in their government-owned facility, forced to heal their test subjects so they could all suffer further experimentation and torture. after she is freed, victoria sets up a free clinic to provide medical help to supernatural beings. along with her husband marco, she adopts xeno, another survivor of the facility. together, they are working on healing the wounds that can’t be seen.
looks like rachel weisz.
the blood ties that bind; a fucked up family of vampires, all sired by ileana vespertine. caught on opposite sides of the demon king’s chessboard, or outright estranged. no happily ever afters here.
ILEANA VESPERTINE. she/her. immortal. bisexual. vampire.
head of the vespertine bloodline, ileana is an ancient vampire. incredibly rich and incredibly dangerous. she will not hesitate to take what she believes she is owed; how else would she have survived for this long? clever and cunning, she is the right-hand of kazimir volkov, an infamous demon crime lord. ileana has spent all her centuries by his side, long enough that no one knows it was kazimir who turned her. as his right-hand, she is in kazimir’s inner-court and has significant power, though her position has been threatened by her brother’s recent betrayal. she throws the best parties in los angeles, erasing anything suspicious from party goers’ memories.
looks like emeraude toubia.
SEBASTIAN VESPERTINE. he/him. immortal. bisexual. vampire.
playboy, socialite, “philanthropist”, and drug dealer. the cast out illegitimate son of a nobleman, sebastian was born in the 1200s with the ability to detect supernatural beings. his powers were exploited and weaponised by a group of hunters before ileana killed them and turned him, making them family. he is as rich and dangerous as his sister, but foolishly power-hungry. after betraying kazimir volkov, he was exiled from california and now bitterly bides his time in new york city, intent on copying kazimir and building his own criminal empire and supernatural army. recently opened an exclusive night club named Vespertine. don’t call him a bastard.
looks like thomas doherty.
EMIL VESPERTINE. he/him. immortal. bisexual. vampire.
turned by ileana in the 1500s, emil has no taste for death and destruction. after ileana and sebastian turned ramona, he took the young girl and fled from them, determined to teach ramona to value human life rather than watch his siblings turn her into a killing machine. now he’s basically a single vampire dad raising a bloodthirsty, centuries-old teenager. emil teaches history at a local high school and only drinks blood from consenting adults, never killing them. he is trying his best to be as human as possible and desperately avoiding his older siblings in the process, while attempting to keep ramona on the straight and narrow.
looks like rami malek.
RAMONA VESPERTINE. she/her. immortal. bisexual. vampire.
her teen angst bullshit really does have a body count. turned by ileana in the 1600s, ramona was nineteen and got to kill the old guy her family were marrying her off to. that was fun. emil took her away from their siblings to raise her into a good vampire instead of a killing machine, but ramona really likes the taste of blood. she keeps accidentally killing people who annoy her, oops! dreams of being a famous actress, but she’s stuck keeping a low profile and forever doing community theatre. eternity wasn’t meant to be this boring. if only emil let her see their cooler siblings…
looks like maia reficco.
where the supernatural meets the criminal, and the demon king haunts all those under his rule. from the east coast to the west, survival is the game.
SILAS. he/him. immortal. bisexual. witch.
operating as a guardian of sorts, silas has dedicated his existence to overseeing the safety of the supernatural. there to help people disappear, rebuild and maintain their hidden lives. come to him for forged papers and convincing identification, information and protection. silas tries to avoid being drawn into the underworld’s politics and operates on a confidential policy, though this has caught the ire of kazimir volkov and his court after silas aided xeno in escaping from the demon. to the human world, he presents as a life coach. compassionate as he might be, curses come to those who cross him.
looks like justin h. min.