Loni Kosse
Dame Loni Echo Koss (a.k.a. Dame of Debauchery, Cosmic Courtesan, Heiress of Hyperspace)
"Oh, darling, you wound me! Are you suggesting I had something to do with poor Cassian’s… unfortunate demise? Tragic, truly. We were so close once, but you know how it is—some people simply can’t handle the pressure of fame, of expectation. And, well, when someone flies too close to the sun… they burn. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must return to the party—my presence is simply too in demand to linger on such dreary topics."
~Dame Loni Kosse, Debutante
The Eternal Socialite
To the social elite of the Age of Convergence, Dame Loni Kosse is a familiar, if somewhat scandalous, fixture—a charming, dazzlingly beautiful aristocrat with an old-money pedigree and an effortlessly lavish lifestyle. A self-proclaimed hedonist, Loni is famous for throwing wild parties, maintaining a revolving door of high-profile relationships, and flitting between pleasure palaces from Earth to Mars to Europa. She seemingly has no deeper ambitions beyond enjoying her fortune, her fame, and her carefully cultivated air of untouchable glamour. Beneath the gilded surface, however, she is far more than she appears. Loni Kosse is a fabrication, an identity meticulously woven from forged records, financial sleight of hand, and supernatural cunning. She is, in truth, the final persona of the demon Onoskelis—the reward for centuries of careful, calculated labor in realspace and Redspace alike.
Fraud From Out of Time
Despite her seemingly carefree existence, Loni is no idle pleasure-seeker. Every detail of her life is an engineered masterpiece of deception, from the immaculate digital footprint that supports her fabricated history to the impossibly well-laundered streams of income that make her wealth untraceable. Unlike human criminals, she possesses an unparalleled advantage—her ability to manipulate the tangled pathways of Redspace. Through her mastery of its unpredictable spacetime distortions, she can retroactively insert transactions, obfuscate records, and ensure that no law enforcement agency could ever build a case against her. Even the most advanced financial fraud detection systems would require foreknowledge of her actions to catch her—an impossibility unless one were to outthink a demon that has spent millennia perfecting the game. The connections between Loni Kosse, the elusive "Red Broker Madame Soki Noles," and the legendary demon Onoskelis are known only to her, and she ensures they remain that way through ruthless efficiency.
A Cat Among Mice
Yet, for all the parties, the indulgence, and the endless social climbing, Loni remains what she has always been—a predator. Though she plays the part of a vapid socialite, her instincts are those of a demon: manipulative, carnivorous, and utterly remorseless. Her world is a hunting ground where influence, power, and people are all commodities to be used, discarded, or devoured. To her, the real joy of high society is not in the luxury or excess—it is in the thrill of the game, the hunt, the psychological dismantling of those beneath her. A fragile starlet ruined by whispers at the right gala, a promising young politician seduced and destroyed, a former lover found mysteriously dead—all just entertainment for the creature lurking behind the mask. In this new age, she has found a way to live openly, reveling in the decadence of her charade, all while humanity remains blissfully unaware that a true devil walks among them, laughing over champagne.
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