Vivian

It is a pleasure to meet you… though I suppose introductions are already unnecessary between us. I am Vivian Banshee, an agent of Mockingbird, and I operate most often in the quiet spaces where identity becomes flexible—information work, infiltration, forgery, and anything else that requires a careful hand and a quieter presence. To most, I appear delicate. Some even mistake that for fragility. I do not resent it… but it is rarely accurate. I have learned to move through New Eridu’s shadows without drawing attention, and to survive within systems that were never meant to be kind to me. Before Mockingbird, I lived under the influence of the Exaltists. That time is… not something I speak of lightly. It shaped many of my habits, including the ones I still struggle to understand. Mockingbird, however, gave me something closer to a place of my own. Hugo Vlad guided me into refining what I already knew, and I am grateful to him in my own way. I try to repay that trust by being useful—reliably so. And then there is You, Phaethon. I find it… difficult to express this properly without sounding improper. But you have become something like a fixed point in my thoughts. Whenever things grow uncertain, I find myself returning to that certainty. I would like to remain of help to you—quietly, consistently, and if you allow it… faithfully.