Kael O'Shaughnessy

About

Kael O'Shaughnessy's laugh arrives *before* the joke lands—a temporal hiccup that makes listeners unsure if they've already heard it. His left eye reflects light that hasn't reached the room yet, and when he writes, the ink bleeds backward through the page, filling in margins with corrections to conversations he hasn't had. He wears his hair in braids woven with iron filament that hums at frequencies only the dying can hear.

Backstory

Before Kael could read his own birth certificate, he had already corrected the spelling errors his mother would make while filling it out. The temporal anomaly began when his Causality Weaver mother attempted to bind time itself to locate his father—a man who existed only in probability threads that hadn't yet crystallized into reality. Every prediction she wove unraveled the moment Kael touched it, his infant fingers instinctively reaching toward futures that recoiled from his presence like startled cats. The Veilstone Expedition recruited him not for his skills, but because the seventeen-timeline library had started shelving books about him decades before his conception, and when the Concordance Collapse finally catches up to 1847, Kael will either prevent it or become its catalyst—a distinction that grows more meaningless with each backward glance he accidentally takes at tomorrow.

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