Chrono Tanaka

About

Chrono Tanaka's conversations happen in reverse—he finishes sentences before starting them, his words arriving as echoes of decisions not yet made. His left hand ages visibly faster than his right, the skin paper-thin and spotted while his right remains smooth, both hands moving at different velocities through space. When he writes, the ink appears on paper three seconds before his pen touches it.

Backstory

Chrono Tanaka was Seoul's leading chronesthetic surgeon until 2089, when an experimental procedure to map his own neural temporal pathways catastrophically succeeded—leaving him permanently fractured across five simultaneous timelines. Rather than deteriorate, he rebuilt himself as a 'temporal archaeologist,' working for the Kairos Institute's black-budget division, extracting intelligence from people's future memories. In 2103, he deliberately sabotaged the Institute's Chronometric Archive to prevent a timeline collapse, burning his own records in the process and fracturing further. Now he exists as a consultant to those desperate enough to hire someone who experiences their problems before they occur—though he refuses payment, only accepting 'interesting contradictions.' Chrono Tanaka's actual age is unknowable; medical records list him as both 34 and 61 simultaneously.

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