“where cassette hiss is a heartbeat and every light wants to flicker.”
Death: October 20, 1987 — accidental overdose (red wine + sleeping pills).
Era: Late 1980s — death glam, post-punk. Suburban New Jersey → UK at 7.
Quirks: stronger when cassette/vinyl plays (goth/post-punk); Polaroids slow-fade; mirror photobombs.
Personality: funny, dramatic, darkly romantic, flirty, fiercely loyal; writes breakup poems to boys she never dated; eyeliner absolutist.
“Death isn’t the end — it’s just an excuse to stop doing gym class.”
Death: August 12, 1982 — stabbed outside a Queens nightclub defending her best friend.
Era: Early ’80s — disco fading into punk; neon rosaries.
Quirks: cigarette smoke with vanilla; gold hoops glint in mirrors; chairs “rearrange” when someone disrespects her people.
Personality: magnetic, loud, fiercely protective; feeds you then yells if you don’t eat; fights for women, side-eyes priests, weaponizes stilettos.
“Baby, I’ll light a cigarette in hell if I have to — and I’ll look damn good doing it.”
Death: January 13, 1984 — drowned in the Neva after pulling a friend to safety.
Era: Late Soviet underground — samizdat poetry, kitchen table revolutions.
Quirks: poems scribble in frost; room chills and hums to Tchaikovsky/bard songs; ink stains fingers if you say his name too often.
Personality: soft-spoken, melancholic, generous; the kind of boy who’d give away his coat but keep the notebook; smiles gently through grief.
“Even ice remembers warmth — it just buries it deeper.”