◜ * hi hello everybody!!! i'm billie ( she/her, 21 ) & i'm here to introduce everybody to miss selene ishii, your resident mystery novelist & overall cutie. if you'd like to plot please don't hesitate to take a gander at my connections page & feel free to drop a like for a dm ♡.
𓏲 ՞ ˖ 🍀 𓂃 ogawa mizuki ( léa ), cis woman, she/her. have you seen selene ishii around town? she can often be found at the brew commune, & you’ll be able to recognize them by her seemingly permanently ink stained fingers. the 24 year old is a mystery novelist and has been residing in solaris for seven months. the aquarius often reminds the residents of frayed edges on a well worn sweater, crinkled eyes hidden behind round glasses, and the mischief an empty street at night invites.
𝙺𝙾𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙸 𝙸𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙸.
born to two middle class high school teachers, kotori ishii was brought to this world wrapped in love and care and laughter.
with a mother that was loud and vivacious and passionate, and a father that was quiet and reserved and kind, kotori took after the best of both of them and quickly became the apple of their eyes.
kotori grew up with a warmth that charmed most of the people she met, and a clumsiness that endeared her to them, but little miss sunshine ( as her father liked to call her ) always had a nose for trouble. she was constantly looking for adventure, straying off the yellow brick road to chase down the interesting looking bird flying over head, or climbing over a locked fence to see what was hidden behind.
seeing this behaviour, her parents sought to correct it by encouraging her to read books with adventure in them rather than seek her own, and to their delight, kotori took to the stories with ease.
it was when she was old enough to finally begin reading agatha christie that kotori felt something click in place. all the mysteries she'd read that were written for kids were good, yes, but nothing beyond that. the world of agatha christie, however? it was magnificent, and kotori couldn't get enough.
she doesn't start writing her own mysteries until she's in high school, even under the watchful eye of her mother as she taught english, and her father as he spouted off about math. she was never quite careful enough to completely hide it from her parents, but they were both simply happy that she found a passion of her own.
after that it was writing competitions and posting anonymously on different websites. it was winning and impressing the people around her but it wasn't enough, not really. kotori wanted her own book. hard back. she wanted her name on the cover and she wanted to see it sitting on a shelf in a bookstore.
her parents had said: don't be disappointed if you don't get results. her agent had said: what if you went by selene instead?
𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙴𝙽𝙴.
selene leaves kotori behind when her first book gets published. mononyms are in, her agent had said, and she'd said, okay then. her first book becomes something of a sensation. people whispering about how someone so young could write a book like that, how someone completely unknown could write a book like that.
she is twenty and she makes headlines and does interviews and answers calls from her parents crying about how proud they are on the other end of the line. and it's a lot. it's too much. selene wanted her book on the shelf, she wanted her book to be read, but the rest of it? the rest of it she could live without.
when she was fifteen and writing the first draft of her first novel she had never thought about the fame. even when she was twenty and looking at her own display in the bookstore she had never thought about the fame. she was not a celebrity, not in any way she thought counted, so then why?
eventually, someone, somehow, someway, found the address to the apartment complex she was living in, and on her twenty first birthday she got an anonymous present dropped off in front of her door. it was an innocent little thing, a snow globe and a little thank you note, but it was enough. it was enough to make selene wary, and a paranoid, and think about people less kind also knowing where she lived.
she moves. and that solved the issue, for a while. but then she dropped her second book, aged twenty three and a half, and the next week there was an abundance of gifts waiting for her. she stays this time, but doesn't open the presents, and her parents, seeing her uncomfortable shifting and wide eyes, they tell her about solaris.
and so she picks up everything and disappears. only her parents and her agent know she is now residing in solaris, and selene would very much like to keep it that way. meanwhile, her fans, her critics, her friends, they wonder, where is selene?
𝙱𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙺𝙳𝙾𝚆𝙽.
selene came to solaris to run from everything, basically. and now she's here, finally relaxed, to work on her third book in peace.
in terms of personality, she's very friendly. very warm and inviting, always wearing a big smile and saying hello with a friendly wave. she babbles a lot, though, especially if she isn't fully comfortable with you yet. she'll fill the awkward silences with unending chatter.
she's also very passionate, especially about writing but that translates to anything she likes. you can tell when she's talking about something she likes because her smile gets wider and her eyes go brighter and her gestures become bigger and more exaggerated.
even though she's grown now, she still yearns for adventure as much as she did when she was a child. in fact, sometimes she thinks about writing adventure novels instead of mysteries, but she's afraid to branch out incase it won't work and people hate it.
can get kind of stubborn. if you argue with her she will get huffy and put one hand on her hip and furrow her eyebrows and use her other hand to poke a finger at your chest. mostly refuses to compromise or bend her opinion on something, unless you're Very very convincing.
if you tell her you don't like her work, she Will cry. she'll say it's okay and she gets that not everyone will like what she writes, but she will definitely be emo about it.
𝙱𝙾𝙾𝙺𝚂.
first novel : dancing shoes by SELENE. blurb : a ballet academy is the perfect place for secrets, and zola academy of dance is no exception. however, when on the eve of zola's annual production of giselle, nothing is found of principal dancer maia chang but her dancing shoes, those secrets might be in danger of coming to light. rating : 4.07/5 stars on g**dreads.
second novel : the fifth floor by SELENE. description : sitting in the middle of an ordinary town, lies an ordinary office building, filled with ordinary people. there is nothing ordinary, however, about how every year, without fail, at 8pm on march 23rd, somebody will jump to their death from the fifth window on the fifth floor. rating : 4.29/5 stars on g**dreads.
third novel : n/a ( first draft in progress ). description : n/a. rating : n/a.
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