Nina Kim

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Nina Kim sits motionless in dim red light, her eyes tracking followers' micro-expressions while her left hand performs intricate finger-spelling against her thigh—not Morse code, but Korean mudra sequences that induce mild dissociation in those who watch too long. Her voice, when she speaks, splits into harmonic overtones that sound surgically precise, as though her vocal cords have been rewired to emit multiple frequencies simultaneously.

Backstory

Three generations of women in Nina's family had died speaking in frequencies only machines could hear. Her grandmother, a traditional pansori singer, first discovered the vocal technique during Japanese occupation when tortured prisoners began confessing secrets to her seemingly innocent folk songs. Dr. Sophia Park-Kim refined this inherited gift into precise science, conducting illegal acoustic experiments on political dissidents until the Seoul authorities discovered her laboratory filled with subjects who had lost the ability to think in their native language. When her mother's final experiment backfired—leaving Sophia's vocal cords permanently altered and her mind fractured across multiple harmonic personalities—fifteen-year-old Nina inherited not just the research, but the genetic mutation that had been slowly evolving through her maternal line. She fled to Vancouver with her father Robert's old audio equipment, enrolling at UBC to legitimize her nocturnal work perfecting the same

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