#ch: cypher

[marrowwrites]

- THE ALEXANDRIA SOCIETY -

"Welcome to the Alexandria Society, you are here because you have potential, no more, and no less."

- ABOUT -

urban fantasy

third person pov

first draft / writing & planning

trigger warnings; blood, gore, ritual, tba

- TROPES & THEMES -

dark academia, wlw romance, knowledge based magic system (learned rituals, ingredients, language etc), hidden society, the demonic & the angelic, new adult, found family, power & corruption

- BLURB -

You can enter the Library Of Alexandria in one of three ways. One; become an initiate of the Alexandria Society and hope you make it to Librarian. Two; stumble across one of the many hidden entrances scattered around the world and make it past the wards. Three; summon a demon and make a deal, hope the demon doesn't take your soul in the process. Most witches choose option one.

Cypher Castellan is a legacy; a daughter of Librarians tracing their way back to the cult of Hekate. Magic is the only thing she has ever loved and the only thing that has truly loved her. With the potential of an entire bloodline singing in her veins, Cypher will become a Librarian. In her family, there's no other option.

Ridley Chance is a watcher, someone who sits on the sidelines and gazes at the lives of others, a daydreamer. Working at the old bookstore on campus, she knows all about the Alexandria Society, the rich and untouchable elite. Or she thought she did, before the door, before the invitation, before the veil lifted from her eyes. Can a girl who barely survived mundanity survived the darkly addictive world of witches?

June Apatow is a traitor. That's what they call witches who turn to forbidden magic. But the Alexandria Society does not know her source, only her potential. And June needs to become a Librarian, needs access to the secrets hidden in the Library of Alexandria. But the Trials of the Inititiates are far from a walk in the park, especially with the Rule Of Three tying June in with a legacy and a nobody. June has never been a team player.

- TAGLIST -

(ask to be added or removed)

@houndmouthed @moonscribbler @lockejhaven @aeipathys @cryptid-s-wips @seven-little-constellations @asralieswritingcorner

[ouroboroshq-blog]

Alias: C Y P H E R 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

NAME: Kang Eun but goes by Elijah Kang AGE: Appears 32, Actual 92 FC: Steven Yeun POWER: Technophile OCCUPATION:  Intelligence Analyst, Jolt

POSITIVE :  focussed, precise, quick thinking NEGATIVE :  obsessive, escapist, pedantic

You were born in the year that movies went technicolor.  An astounding leap.  You grew up in time where radios and radar were cutting edge.  When frozen food was a remarkable premise and phonographs were new.  By the time you died the world had moved on to solar cells, discovering DNA... And hydrogen bombs.  

Even then, you were attuned to progress.  Whenever technology or science took a step, you took a leap.  But it wasn’t until after your serpentine embrace that you uncovered your truest potential.  Stepping between 8-tracks and supercomputers - the pre-digital revolution was moving faster than ever before.  Touch tone telephones became your window to the world - information passed along wires that you could tap into, read just as though they were pages in a book.  

In 1983 came the thing that would revolutionise your existence - tah, and verily dah - the internet was born.  Tech became smaller, faster, you didn’t have to run to keep up, every new device or piece of software, every sliver of connectivity was just another door.  Visualising the world in binary and basic, in codes and scripts and languages that can’t be spoken.  Traversing cyberspace through firewalls and networks.  There aren’t a lot of places you can’t go.   And you do.  Data is information, information is knowledge.  You’re the walking wikipedia of Ouroboros.

You live and breath and dream digital - this is your playground.  

[ Cypher is currently TAKEN ]