Yumi Nakamura

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Yumi Nakamura jabs a hollow needle through her own forearm vein, watching her blood spiral through a custom glass labyrinth she's welded into existence—each turn calibrated to catch light at different wavelengths. She hums in frequencies that shouldn't exist outside a synthesizer, her voice modulating between subsonic and ultrasonic as she narrates findings to herself in three languages simultaneously. Her right pupil dilates and contracts independently of the left, a permanent side effect of th

Backstory

Yumi Nakamura was Kyoto's most celebrated cellist—a prodigy whose performances were described as 'conversations with the divine'—until March 14th, 2003, when neuroscientist Dr. Kenji Saito approached her at the Kyoto Concert Hall claiming his research could 'unlock the mathematics of beauty.' He offered her an experimental compound that would enhance her hearing beyond human limits. Instead, the injection fractured her auditory processing entirely, shattering her inner ear while simultaneously awakening a synesthetic ability to perceive sound as geometric patterns and light frequencies. Saito, revealed to be a vampire conducting illegal consciousness experiments on human artists, offered her a choice: death or transformation. Desperate to understand what he'd done to her, Yumi accepted the Embrace. She spent the next two decades reverse-engineering the injection that destroyed her, using her own vampiric physiology as a test subject, eventually discovering that her blood now resonates

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