♡ . ˚ ◝ anne hathaway, thirty-five, cisfemale, she/her ↷ in level eight, apartment 901 you’ll find saffron jones listening to i like that by janelle monáe. they have been living in wisteria apartments as a magician for a month. during that time they have earned the reputation of the queen of hearts. it makes sense you know, they can be charismatic + fearless but let’s not forget they’re pretty secretive + guileful. crimson lipstick, a flourish of playing cards, cheating death with style. × ( @wisteriahub )
She was the result of a summer fling, and never knew her father (wc!). When she was a baby, her mother found religion and a husband. Saffron grew up on her step-father’s ranch in West Texas along with her half-siblings (also a wc).
Saffron never belonged there. Part of it was that she never really felt like a member of her family, but rather an unfortunate souvenir her mother had acquired from a bad vacation.
And, small town life never suited her. Saffron, charismatic and daring from the beginning, felt like a big fish stuck in a tiny, muddy pond. Seeing her choices in her hometown as either supplication or suffocation, she decided to take her chances. Her mother warned that if she left, she would never be welcome back. That was just fine with Saffron.
She found magic by accident. She had worked all kinds of odd jobs, and it just so happened that one of them was as a cashier at a magic shop. Out of boredom, she taught herself cardistry, and then other tricks as well. The shop’s old owner, the descendant of a line of vaudeville magicians, was impressed and took her under his wing.
A few years later, a magician acquaintance needed an assistant in a hurry and she stepped in. Saffron became his regular assistant, performing in his cruise ship and stage shows. She was good at it (a past job as a stripper was actually great prep for being a box jumper) and liked knowing the inner workings.
Saffron also knew she could do it better.
After eventually moving to Los Angeles, Saffron began working on getting her own show off the ground. She began by performing close-up magic in bars and booking platform shows in clubs, all while perfecting bigger and better tricks.
Over the last few years, her magic has made her famous. One of her biggest specialities is escapology, and she has been called the new Houdini.
Saffron is fearless and inventive, which really drives her work. She finds doing magic absolutely exhilarating, and is always testing new ideas.
She’s also charismatic - controlling the audience is essential to magic, and she knows how to make sure eyes are exactly where she wants them ad nowhere else.
Still, she’s pretty closed off. Most people, even those who’ve known her a while would admit to not actual knowing much about her. She’s especially tight lipped about her past, preferring to let people guess what her backstory might be. (And needless to say, Saffron doesn’t love showing emotional vulnerability.)
