Arjun Kapadia

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Arjun Kapadia's fingertips leave temporary scorch marks on metal surfaces—not from heat, but from electromagnetic potential bleeding through his skin like sweat. When he concentrates, nearby devices emit a low thrumming that feels less like sound and more like a second heartbeat everyone in the room suddenly shares. He moves with the jerky precision of someone constantly adjusting to frequencies no one else perceives.

Backstory

Nobody believed the wedding photographer when she said the groom's handprints had burned through her metal camera equipment, but Arjun Kapadia's new bride Meera felt the truth thrumming through her gold bangles during their first touch. The ceremony had been arranged to merge two tech dynasties, but when Arjun's electromagnetic field synchronized with the venue's sound system, turning their vows into a city-wide broadcast that reached every radio in Mumbai, Meera realized she'd married something far stranger than a fellow engineer. Three months later, when Meera flatlined during routine surgery, Arjun pressed his palms against the hospital's defunct defibrillator and willed every electron in the building to bend toward saving her—the lights exploded, the backup generators screamed, and her heart stuttered back to life with a rhythm that now matched his own. He'd always felt the city's electrical pulse, but that night, learning he could share it, reshape it, even use it to anchor a soul

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