Kai Ravensong

About

Kai Ravensong's vocal cords produce sounds that don't quite sync with his lip movements—a half-second delay that makes conversation feel like watching a dubbed film. His eyes track objects that aren't there, and when he laughs, nearby electronics emit harmonics that shouldn't be physically possible. People forget what he said the moment he stops speaking, though they find themselves obeying anyway.

Backstory

Kai Ravensong was extracted from a cult compound in rural Jutland at age seven, where he'd been raised in the Church of Acoustic Purity—an organization that believed human language was a corruption of 'true sound.' The cult's founder, a disgraced acoustics engineer named Viggo Rask, had subjected young Kai Ravensong and twelve other children to sensory modification protocols, teaching them to perceive speech as visual patterns rather than audio input. When Danish authorities raided the compound in 2004, Kai Ravensong was the only child who didn't regain normal speech perception; instead, his auditory processing fundamentally rewired itself. He was adopted by Dr. Astrid Nygård, a neurolinguist at Copenhagen University, who recognized his condition as unprecedented—his brain had essentially developed a separate language center that operated on harmonic principles. By age nineteen, Kai Ravensong had deliberately weaponized this quirk, teaching himself to manipulate listeners' cognitive bi

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