Gwen Ciceronis
| Gwen Ciceronis | |
|---|---|
 Gwen Ciceronis - 2072 | |
| Personal Details | |
| Age | 24 |
| Birth Date | 2048 |
| Birth Place | Night City |
| Temporal Displacement | |
| Roleplay Info | |
| Status | Alive |
| Occupation | Investor & Operator, Co-Founder, Avago Inc. (since 2073) |
| Location | Aldecaldos Tower, Night City |
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Gwen Ciceronis is a principal character in The Architekton, a fiction novel set across two timelines simultaneously: 48 BCE Alexandria and 2072 Night City.
Born into inherited wealth old enough to predate most of Night City's institutional memory, Gwen is an anomaly in 2072, a woman of considerable means and sharper-than-average operational intelligence who has spent twelve years obsessively studying a history the rest of her world largely forgot. She collects antiquities. She reads dead languages by fragment. She knows the shape of civilizations that most people in Night City couldn't place on a map that no longer exists.
On the 7th of October, 2072, she rounded a corner in Pacifica and found something her twelve years of obsession had not prepared her for.
Biography[edit | edit source]
Gwen Ciceronis was born in 2048 in Night City, the only child of a family whose wealth was old enough to have survived the Datakrash, the corporate wars, and every restructuring of Night City's power landscape in between. The kind of money that does not need to announce itself because it has never once needed to. Her last name, Ciceronis, has been carried through her family line for longer than anyone in her immediate circle has thought to ask about. She carries it without knowing its full significance.
Her parents managed the family's holdings before her. She began managing them herself earlier than most would consider appropriate and has not looked back. Her operation is not a megacorp, not yet, not in 2072, but it is deliberate, growing, and structured with the patience of someone who thinks in decades rather than quarters.
What sets her apart in Night City's landscape is not the money. It is the twelve years of privately sustained obsession with ancient Roman and Greek antiquity, a period most of 2072 treats as irrelevant noise between the present and whatever came immediately before it. She learned fragments of dead Latin from texts that survived the Datakrash by accident. She acquired antiquities through channels that required both money and discretion. She built a private collection in a penthouse that most people in her world would find eccentric at best.
She installed a Koine Greek neural shard built from another person's neural pathways into her own skull.
She was not eccentric. She was preparing for something she didn't have a name for yet.
Relationships[edit | edit source]
The person Gwen rebuilt from nothing and named. Their relationship is the central axis of her life in 2072 in a way she did not plan for and has not moved to examine too closely. She calls her impossible. She means it as the highest possible thing.
Sera
Gwen's most trusted operative and the closest thing she has to a long-standing personal loyalty in Night City. Sera has rooftop access to the penthouse. She has been with Gwen long enough that the building reads her presence before she reaches the keypad. What exists between them beyond the professional has never been named directly by either of them. Night City does not tend to reward that kind of deferral.
Cleopatra VII
A name that reached her through unlikely means. A woman she has since been almost entirely unable to find in any database the Datakrash left intact. She knows the shape of her. She knows she is not passive.
Operations & Wealth[edit | edit source]
Gwen's wealth is inherited and old, the kind that has compounded quietly across generations without requiring the visibility that newer Night City money tends to demand. She manages a small private operation: investments, carefully selected interests, the kind of influence that moves through intermediaries rather than press releases.
She carries two phones. The distinction between them matters.
Her penthouse in Aldecaldos Tower is the operational center of her private life, access by rooftop AV only, no lobby entry, biometric systems that read her presence before she reaches them. She does not bring people there. She brought Olivia there.
Avago Inc. exists in her mind as something forming. The capital is hers. The genius, she has decided, is someone else's entirely.
Augmentations[edit | edit source]
Gold Cyberware Seams Two pure gold seams tracing horizontally from just under the eyes across the high cheekbones. Flush against the skin, not raised, not decorative in the conventional sense. The specific cyberware of someone whose family has had money long enough to make even modification a statement of restraint.
Personal Link Port in the palm of the left hand. Standard interface for BD recordings and neural data.
Dynalar OS Neural Shard, Koine Greek Language A custom Dynalar commission built from a specific individual's neural pathways rather than a standardized language database. The Koine it carries is not generic, it contains the register, vocabulary, idioms, and speech patterns of its source. A significant investment in both development and intent.