• Amaya / 22 / she/her/hers / eastern std timeㅤ

  • a quietly powerful crime scene investigator with a rare psychic form of magic: retrocognition. She can touch an object and feel emotional residue, fractured sensory flashes, and lingering psychic imprints.

  • She hides her depth behind sarcasm, steady hands, and a guarded softness that most people never get close enough to see.

  • Her life sits between two worlds — forensic science and intuitive magic — and she walks the line with precision.

  • Her magic isn’t flashy. It’s subtle, sensory, intimate. Objects hum. Rooms remember. Touch carries aftershocks of moments she was never there for. She pretends it’s easy — it isn’t. She wears gloves not just for evidence, but for self-preservation.

  • Amaya’s the kind of person who shows up at 2 a.m. with coffee and bandages but refuses to talk about why her hands are shaking. She’s gentle with other people’s pain and ruthless with her own. She will walk into fire for someone she trusts, but trusting her back is the real challenge.

  • ㅤThere’s something she’s running from in her past — a moment she felt instead of saw — and she still doesn’t have all the answers. But she’s trying. Quietly. Relentlessly. Piece by piece.

  • ㅤheight 5 foot 3

  • ㅤeyes brown

  • ㅤhairㅤ brown

  • ㅤscars none - tats only

  • ㅤface claim no claim

  • ㅤlanguages english

  • ㅤetnicity italian

  • ㅤparents n/a - OC

  • ㅤsiblings n/a - OC

  • ㅤpartner(s) none atm

likes
thunderstorms, late-night car rides, oversized hoodies, soft ambient music, philosophical conversations, museums at night, lovers who talk quietly, candlelit rooms, delicate jewelry, warm hands, people who smell like bergamot + sandalwood,
dislikes
loud/chaotic people, being touched without warning, feeling misunderstood, messy emotional communication, waking up early, pointless small talk, fluorescent lighting, anyone who forces vulnerability, people who pretend not to care, humidity

I touch the past so you don’t have to

  • ㅤname Amaya Drex

  • ㅤalias "Nightshade"

  • ㅤage 22

  • ㅤpronouns she/her

  • ㅤspecies half witch/human

  • ㅤbirthdate October 13

  • ㅤsexuality bisexual

  • ㅤorigin Boston, MA

  • ㅤlocation NYC

ㅤpersonalityㅤ Amaya grew up with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility and an underdeveloped sense of rest. She’s the kind of person who notices microexpressions, remembers throwaway comments months later, and draws meaning from tiny patterns. Quietly confident, slightly mysterious, and always observing — Amaya walks the line between analytical and romantic.
She’s deeply drawn to psychology, criminalistics, the paranormal, emotional intimacy, and anything that feels like uncovering buried truth. She believes in soul ties, karmic loops, and the idea that certain people are meant to collide.
With a dry wit, a soft heart, and a mind that never turns off, Amaya is both comforting and intimidating — depending on how deeply someone looks back at her.

ㅤbiography Amaya was born with her abilities but grew up thinking she was “too sensitive,” unable to explain why certain objects made her dizzy or sick. Something happened in her childhood that she never talks about — only that she “felt something break” before anyone knew what actually happened.
She entered forensics to understand death without fearing it.
Magic is something she didn’t choose. The dead are easier to read than the living. She keeps her past close because the truth is complicated, painful, and tied to her magic in ways she hasn’t fully unraveled.

Amaya's Aesthetic
winter grays, soft dark academia, surgical gloves + moonlight, rainy windows, evidence markers + candlelight, cold metallics, emotional whispers not meant to be heard, “soft danger” energy

Personality quirksㅤ
INFJ/INTJ hybrid energy
soft-spoken but intense
poetic analytical
observant to an eerie degree
“quiet girl with loud thoughts”
emotional x forensic
slow-burn loyalty
low chaos / high depth
protective, not possessive
morally gray protagonist energy

Fun facts!
collects vintage rings and uses them as “emotional anchors”, hyper-fixates on fictional men with trauma, can read someone’s vibe in under 10 seconds, communicates love through small details, addicted to iced coffee year-round, probably has a playlist for every emotion, doodles constellations when deep in thought, cries more from frustration than sadness, has a weird talent for remembering people’s hands, cannot resist a man with scars, emotional or physical, favorite comfort smell: cedar + vanilla, sleeps curled up like a cat

powers
Retro-cognitive touch Can perceive emotional/memory “afterimages” left in objects or spaces. Works best with metal, stone, and personal items.
Residual aura reading Not seeing colors — more like feeling intent, tension, fear, anger, or calm left behind.
Object attunement If she focuses long enough, she can “follow” an imprint back to its strongest moment.
Emotional static detection She can tell when someone is lying — not magically, but by reading the “breaks” in their emotional imprint.
Threshold sensing Certain rooms or scenes “speak louder.” She’s extremely good at spotting hotspots or areas everyone else overlooks.