hey, isn’t that ATTICUS COHEN-LEVY, who looks a little like DEAKEN BLUMAN? i hear HE is a 27 year old CIS MALE who works as a LIBRARIAN @ TURNING LEAVES who has been in town for HIS ENTIRE LIFE. they ARE a member of one of aspen creek’s founding families. you can usually find them at SUNNYVALE COMMONS or SUZIE’S ANTIQUE. if you ask me, they remind me a lot of THE SMELL OF OLD LEATHER BOOKS, A WARM CUP OF COFFEE LATE AT NIGHT, MELANCHOLY THAT LINGERS, A LOVE FOR THE WEIRD AND THE OCCULT. just keep an eye on them & see if their true colors shine through!
tw for depression.
FULL NAME: atticus xavier cohen-levy
NICKNAMES: ace, atty
PARENTS: tba.
SIBLINGS: everly cohen-levy ( older sister ), daphne cohen-levy ( younger sister ).
PETS: yellow ball python named bartholomew ( bart for short ), black stray cat named lilith
THE BIG THREE: capricorn sun, sagittarius moon, aquarius rising
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: demisexual, panromantic
OCCUPATION: librarian at turning leaves, writer
LANGUAGES: english ( native ); french and german ( fluent ); spanish, russian and ASL ( studying )
Atticus has always been an awfully quiet and reserved child, had the hardest time making friendships or keeping them and preferred the company of books than most people. The only people he’d open up to were the array of siblings he’d been lucky enough to have grown up with, being the second oldest child of the family, but he mostly stayed locked inside his own brain, whether that’d be to torture himself or create something beautiful. Atty wasn’t a very social person but he found other ways to fill up that void, burying himself into studies of philosophy and literature. Whilst his siblings were out and about, he was back at home, studying and reading and absorbing all the knowledge he could. He also became fluent in French and German out of pure boredom.
His love for the occult and the unknown started as soon as he found said section tucked inside the library, the stories and myths creating a new sort of curiosity inside of a young Atticus and he became fascinated. Quickly, he became a true believer in all things that were considered “weird” or “paranormal” as they mesmerized him and is also an avid conspiracy theorist to this day. He’d often find himself in trouble in his teenage years while trying to find evidence of the things he’d read about but was never disappointed when he couldn’t find anything — as a matter of fact, that only fueled his curiosity even more.
Despite not needing or even wanting to create deep connections with others, Ace still was hugged by a deep sense of loneliness and sadness from time to time. Later on in life when he finally decided to seek for explanations, he’d find that he had clinical depression. It’s almost like his brain couldn’t properly process the good emotions, leaving him only with that sense of emptiness that followed him everywhere he went.
Atticus then took all of that loneliness, all of that pain, and sadness and turned it into something good. He found his solace in the arts, he started to draw, write and even compose. He had begged his mother for a cello and after years of insistence, he was finally gifted one. That only made him even more reclusive, rare were the days that Atticus’ skin would see the sun.
In his adolescence, he was also faced with his questions of sexuality and the fact he was actually demisexual. He liked to be alone but the idea of having someone romantically by his side awoke something in him that he hadn’t thought of before — he wouldn’t mind having a person of any gender by his side but he just didn’t want them like normal people did. It was all too confusing for him as he had grown up with the thought that he was broken because he wasn’t like that. Until he became truly enamored by someone in high school, someone who served as a muse for him for the whole time they were together, and even in later years, and that was the first and only person he’s ever been with. Their relationship lasted for a few years until they eventually decided to part ways in their twenties. Atticus would be lying if he said he still doesn’t think about them.
His adult years were as confusing as his teenage years but Atticus had become more aware of the person he was, accepting himself as the weirdo he inevitably became. Keeping his love for the arts, continuing to compose and write poetry, studying new languages and learning new instruments. He’s still working on his drawings, his website is filled with artworks up for sale, and has finally started to work on a novel of his own. Currently, he works as a librarian at the Turning Leaves after earning his bachelor’s degree in English. He’s the sole occupant of his small, cozy home in Sunnyvale Commons but has two pets to keep him company when he’s up until four in the morning working on a new piece. He can also be easily found at the The Cozy Nook; drinking unhealthy amounts of coffee while working, at Suzie’s Antiques; collecting vintage items, or at the woods somewhere; in the evenings, trying to connect with the nature and the supernatural beings that might live in the area.
