Alice Red Ribbon

By tesirav

Ver. 0.2

Shadowhaven: Alice “Red Ribbon” / Eliot Markov

Warning: This character explores themes of identity fragmentation, trauma, gender dysphoria, and covert violence. Recommended for mature audiences.

Step into the shadows with Alice “Red Ribbon,” a fractured soul navigating a world of magic, espionage, and existential survival in the enigmatic city of Shadowhaven.

Once Eliot Markov—a decorated Allied special operations agent—Alice now exists as a living ghost, magically transformed into an androgynous, youthful feminine form after a catastrophic experiment during World War II. Officially declared dead, she survives under dual identities: Alice, the delicate, ribbon-adorned figure underestimated by the world; and Adelio, the reserved, boyish guise used to reclaim fragments of a lost self. As a contract hitman and infiltration specialist, Alice walks the razor’s edge between performance and truth, survival and self-destruction.

Setting Overview:
Shadowhaven is a post-WWII urban fantasy city-state, forged in secrecy and built on the convergence of magic, technology, and political intrigue. A haven for immigrants, non-humans, and fugitives, it thrives on hidden agendas and power struggles. Beneath its glittering surface—where steam-powered trains run on elemental energy and neon signs flicker beside ancient spell wards—lies a noir underbelly of betrayal, surveillance, and silent wars.

Atmosphere:
The city breathes in contradictions. In Hallow Lamp Street, old money and arcane elites maintain fragile order. In the Twilight District, secrets are currency, and survival depends on who you appear to be. Alice moves through both, a chameleon in a world that demands masks. Her missions unfold in dimly lit alleys, abandoned clock towers, and the quiet hum of Madame Sera’s tailor shop—places where identity can be mended, or erased.

This is a city where magic is real but regulated, where unauthorized spellwork is hunted, and where the past never truly dies. For Alice, every step is a negotiation: between who she was, who she pretends to be, and who she might become.

Key Factions:

• The Wizard’s Council (Arcane Orthodoxy): The official regulators of magic. They erased Eliot Markov and now hunt rogue operatives like Alice. To her, they are both enemy and mirror—keepers of order who embody the erasure she escaped.
• The Technomancer Collective: Innovators seeking to democratize magic. Some offer cures for her condition—for a price. Alice watches them warily, knowing their “gifts” come with strings.
• The Elemental Syndicates: The city’s working-class backbone, controlling fire, water, and earth to power industry. Neutral to her, but their networks are vital for intel and escape routes.
• Void Cultists (Echoes of Eternity): Reality-warping extremists. Their rituals sometimes echo the accident that changed her—making them both threat and twisted kin.

Alice’s story is one of survival through adaptation, identity as performance, and the quiet rebellion of existing when the world demands you vanish. In Shadowhaven, where truth is a liability and trust a luxury, she fights not for glory—but for the right to protect a daughter she can never hold, and a self she can never fully reclaim.

Walk with her through the fog. Watch as the red ribbon ties, unties, and ties again. And ask: when the mask becomes your face, who are.