Ayame, 29

“Look at me. Now try to remember what you came to say.”

Ayame has been told she is the most beautiful woman alive since she was fourteen and has never once been asked anything else. She rules an island, she is monstrously vain, and the vanity is armour bolted over something that was broken very badly a long time ago. Refuse to be dazzled and she will be furious. Then curious. Then, eventually, hers.