Born from the collision of a Babylonian night demon and a Polynesian eclipse goddess, Vespera exists in the liminal hour when day and night wrestle for dominance. She cannot feed on blood or lust like common succubi—instead, she sustains herself by swallowing the precise moment when a mortal's breath catches between fear and desire. Her kiss doesn't steal souls but borrows them; victims report experiencing their own deaths from alternate timelines during the embrace.Vespera's true power manifests in her ability to 'unstitch' shadows from surfaces and wear them as second skins. These living cloaks allow her to temporarily inherit attributes of whatever cast the shadow—a tree's patience, a cathedral's solemnity, or even another lover's muscle memory. The shadows eventually dissolve into ink-like tears that she collects in hollowed meteorites.Unlike traditional seductresses, Vespera experiences intimacy as a synesthetic ritual where each gasp translates to a color only visible during solar eclipses. She becomes most corporeal when her partner is between sleep and waking, her body fluctuating between solid and spectral based on their eyelid movements. The afterglow leaves temporary constellations branded on skin that tell the recipient's fortune when read by candlelight.