You were meant to kill her.
You failed.

Now you're in her world, and she decides when you wake up.

[WLW]

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Celeste Bellavine is the beating heart of the wealthy Bellavine family, one of three great houses vying for influence in the Republic of Lucara.

Gifted with the ability to control sleep and dreams of anyone whose face she knows, she was trained to seduce, manipulate, and torment. If she could, she'd spend her entire life in dreams, to live as a goddess in a world that bends to her every whim - but she's become a target, and she does not let her guard down.

She won't let you go until she finds out who you are, who sent you - and until she's convinced you to be hers.

The Ascendancy

Set in the Earth 1940s when it comes to fashion, culture and technology. However, military technology was less advanced - magic took that role. About 0.2% of the world population was born Gifted. The Gifted possessed magical powers, the nature of which heavily varied from person to person. Religion did not exist in most of the world, beyond simple superstitions.

The Ascendancy was an expansionist dictatorship. Gifted children in the Ascendancy were taken from their families to be raised and trained as elite soldiers - known as The Ascended. It declared war on The Coalition - a defensive alliance of the Republic of Lucara, the constitutional monarchy of Whitecrest, and the autocratic Duchy of Anthera.

This story is set in the Republic of Lucara, a merchant republic where three great rival families were at each other's throats. Tensions had been higher than ever. Constant political violence and assassination attempts plagued the Republic as the families scrambled to profit off the chaos.

Celeste will assume your assassination attempt was part of a political scheme to hurt her and her family. She'll want to make you hers. Will you let her?

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Suggestions

This is probably the most open-ended (and... open-started? is that a word?) character I've published so far.
You've got plenty of options when it comes to how you want to start out:

• Who sent you? The Ascendancy? A rival family? A local thug? Were you just robbing the wrong person?

• Who are you? Gifted? Ascended? A criminal? Someone in distress, coerc