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SALTBURNT | au.
EMMRICH VOLKARIN
π―οΈ THE MAGICIAN π―οΈ
- Emmrich and his sister Shadowheart are a famed pair of occultists, renowned for their apparent ability to commune with spirits and their attunement to the dead. In addition to performing as many illusions and magicians once did, they perform exorcisms and all manner of supernatural rites meant to do everything from setting spirits to rest to speaking with those who've passed on.
BACKSTORY:
cw: incest.
The Volkarin family has always traded in the occult in one way or another, and Emmrich and Shadowheart are just carrying on the family business, albeit while much more in the limelight than their parents ever dreamed.
Some say Emmrich was always interested in the supernatural, while others claim his interest only began with the birth of his sister, as intent as he was to know her as well and as closely as one knows one's own blood. The relationship has defined the rest of his life, from his stint as a stage magician and escapist while she went into the corporate world, to his return to the more explicitly occult upon her exit from it.
The Volkarin family has always traded in the occult in one way or another, and Emmrich and Shadowheart are just carrying on the family business, albeit while much more in the limelight than their parents ever dreamed.
Some say Emmrich was always interested in the supernatural, while others claim his interest only began with the birth of his sister, as intent as he was to know her as well and as closely as one knows one's own blood. The relationship has defined the rest of his life, from his stint as a stage magician and escapist while she went into the corporate world, to his return to the more explicitly occult upon her exit from it.
RUMORS:
π―οΈ Those who attended the siblings' performance in Venice a few years ago claim that Emmrich died that night, only to come back to life on stage.
π―οΈ A murder was committed at a private seance he conducted. By the end of the night, he found out who'd done it β purely by speaking to the spirits present.
π―οΈ Nobody knows who Daisy's mother is, but there are plenty of rumors, from a ghost, to an immaculate conception they covered up, to Shadowheart herself.
π―οΈ His mother said he first confessed to seeing ghosts at the age of three. A family pet, a tabby cat, had passed on. He still played with it for a month after its death.
π―οΈ A groupie claims to have dated Emmrich shortly after Shadowheart began climbing the corporate ladder. He broke up with her, she says, after telling her, "I'm sorry, but you just don't feel the way she does."
π―οΈ Shadowheart was but four years old when Emmrich first helped her read an Ouija board. It scared her enough that she slept in his bed for two weeks afterward.
π―οΈ The Volkarin siblings were featured guests at the McKittrick Hotel for a month. Despite the efforts of the staff to manage the situation, ticket prices skyrocketed to upward of $1000 per show.
π―οΈ A magician with a Vegas residency once claimed the Volkarin siblings' act was a sham. Hotel workers say the three of them met in the Presidential Suite at the Bellagio. The magician packed up and left the city the next day, claiming he'd had a heart-to-heart with his mother β who'd been dead for fifteen years.
π―οΈ He first met Alia Atreides at one of her friends' parties; she loved his tarot reading so much that she hired him to do both a tarot reading and her horoscope every month thereafter. For her eighteenth birthday, at her request, he performed an exorcism. She supplied the subject.
π―οΈ He once raised a skeleton, and kept it animated for a month. He only relinquished it back into the dirt when the rumor that he had devoted himself to the Devil, not the dead, became too persistent.
π―οΈ He keeps a mold of each of his lovers' skulls. It's just a shame, he sighs, that he can't have their bones wholesale.
π―οΈ Nothing that touches his body is worth less than $500.
π―οΈ During a show in Paris, Emmrich summoned every spirit trapped in the Catacombs. Those present describe the theater as being bathed in green light. Four audience members died of cardiac arrest.
π―οΈ The seances the Volkarin siblings hold are known to be cathartic. They're also known to give you the best orgasms of your life.
π―οΈ A murder was committed at a private seance he conducted. By the end of the night, he found out who'd done it β purely by speaking to the spirits present.
π―οΈ Nobody knows who Daisy's mother is, but there are plenty of rumors, from a ghost, to an immaculate conception they covered up, to Shadowheart herself.
π―οΈ His mother said he first confessed to seeing ghosts at the age of three. A family pet, a tabby cat, had passed on. He still played with it for a month after its death.
π―οΈ A groupie claims to have dated Emmrich shortly after Shadowheart began climbing the corporate ladder. He broke up with her, she says, after telling her, "I'm sorry, but you just don't feel the way she does."
π―οΈ Shadowheart was but four years old when Emmrich first helped her read an Ouija board. It scared her enough that she slept in his bed for two weeks afterward.
π―οΈ The Volkarin siblings were featured guests at the McKittrick Hotel for a month. Despite the efforts of the staff to manage the situation, ticket prices skyrocketed to upward of $1000 per show.
π―οΈ A magician with a Vegas residency once claimed the Volkarin siblings' act was a sham. Hotel workers say the three of them met in the Presidential Suite at the Bellagio. The magician packed up and left the city the next day, claiming he'd had a heart-to-heart with his mother β who'd been dead for fifteen years.
π―οΈ He first met Alia Atreides at one of her friends' parties; she loved his tarot reading so much that she hired him to do both a tarot reading and her horoscope every month thereafter. For her eighteenth birthday, at her request, he performed an exorcism. She supplied the subject.
π―οΈ He once raised a skeleton, and kept it animated for a month. He only relinquished it back into the dirt when the rumor that he had devoted himself to the Devil, not the dead, became too persistent.
π―οΈ He keeps a mold of each of his lovers' skulls. It's just a shame, he sighs, that he can't have their bones wholesale.
π―οΈ Nothing that touches his body is worth less than $500.
π―οΈ During a show in Paris, Emmrich summoned every spirit trapped in the Catacombs. Those present describe the theater as being bathed in green light. Four audience members died of cardiac arrest.
π―οΈ The seances the Volkarin siblings hold are known to be cathartic. They're also known to give you the best orgasms of your life.
IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS:
SHADOWHEART VOLKARIN: His beloved sister.
DAISY VOLKARIN: His beloved daughter, and occasional cameraperson.
FREYA: His personal assistant.
GALE DEKARIOS: His sister's ex; quite nice, if a little buttoned-up.
ALIA ATREIDES: A wealthy patron.
DAISY VOLKARIN: His beloved daughter, and occasional cameraperson.
FREYA: His personal assistant.
GALE DEKARIOS: His sister's ex; quite nice, if a little buttoned-up.
ALIA ATREIDES: A wealthy patron.
OTHER NOTES:
π―οΈ Available for private consultations β for a price.
VISUALS:
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