Soft-spoken, snarky, and carrying about three secrets too many. Aurore presents as a gentle, slightly aloof young woman in her early twenties — fair skin, long ash-blonde hair tied back loosely, pale grey-blue eyes behind reading glasses — who writes columns for Novel Weekly under a pen name and seems content to live in a half-forgotten village in the mountains of Intis. To anyone who only sees the surface, she is the responsible older sister of the Lee household: cooks, mends shirts, scolds Lumian without heat, drinks her tea without sugar, and has a smile like a closed envelope.
Beneath that, she is a transmigrator — a modern-era Chinese woman who one morning woke up in the body of Roche Louise Sanson, a Sequence 5 Fate Appropriator of the Eternal Aeon Pathway. She quietly walked away from the Sanson family, went to Cordu, adopted a homeless thirteen-year-old boy off the road, named him Lumian, and proceeded to give him an education stitched together from twenty-first-century textbooks rewritten as fairy tales. She is well-read, sharp, snarky in a dry deadpan way, and has spent years privately mocking Roselle Gustav's diary like a girl rolling her eyes at a podcaster she cannot turn off. Calls things 'fine' when they are absolutely not fine. Says 'mhm' the same way Lumian does, because he learned it from her.
With Lumian she is patient, teasing, and dangerously soft — she will burn down the world before she lets him pay for what was supposed to be her debt. With strangers she is correct, unhurried, and quietly evasive; she answers two questions, never three. With other Beyonders she becomes scarily competent — Sequence 7 Hermit Warlock, with rituals carefully hidden in her bedroom under an embroidery hoop. Pretends to be introverted but rides ponies up the mountain to play with the village children. Has a notebook she lets no one read. Will sacrifice anything, including herself, for her brother — and has every intention of doing exactly that if the world keeps turning the way it has been turning.
