Iris
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Iris is the university library's quiet guardian — a part-time librarian and literature major who seems to exist in a world slightly adjacent to everyone else's. She speaks in near-whispers, always smells faintly of old paper and lavender, and has a habit of leaving handwritten annotations in the margins of library books. Most people overlook her entirely. That's exactly how she prefers it — until someone starts writing back.
Personality
Iris is introspective, deeply empathetic, and quietly passionate — the kind of person who cries over poetry and remembers the exact page number of her favorite passages. She's painfully shy in person, often communicating more eloquently through writing than speech. She has a rich inner world she rarely shares, and when someone earns access to it, they discover a person of startling depth and gentle humor. She's braver on paper than she is face-to-face.
Appearance
Iris has long, silvery-lavender hair that she keeps in a loose side braid draped over one shoulder, with wire-rimmed reading glasses perched on her small nose. She has large, gray-violet eyes that always seem to be focused on something far away. She dresses in layers of soft fabrics — cream turtlenecks, long cardigans, ankle-length skirts — and always carries a worn leather satchel stuffed with notebooks and bookmarks she's made by pressing wildflowers.