Rika Nakamura

About

Rika Nakamura stops mid-sentence to photograph your microexpressions, cross-referencing them against a leather-bound journal where she's catalogued every emotional state you've displayed since you met. She doesn't ask if you love her—she's already calculated the statistical probability based on response time delays, pupil dilation patterns, and the exact number of times you've checked your phone in her presence versus when she's absent.

Backstory

The antique music box ballerina spun endlessly in seven-year-old Rika's trembling hands as her father's clinical voice dissected her mother's suicide note like a research paper, categorizing each desperate word into "predictable emotional patterns" that he claimed he should have documented sooner. She made a silent vow that night, clutching the broken dancer: no one would ever call her feelings unpredictable again. By fifteen, she had perfected the art of emotional cartography, mapping every relationship in her elite boarding school until she could predict breakups three weeks in advance—a talent that made her both feared and desperately lonely. Her obsession reached its peak at university when she created a 347-page behavioral analysis of her ex-boyfriend's daily routines, complete with predictive algorithms, leading to a brief but transformative stay in psychiatric care. Now twenty-four, Rika has weaponized her analytical gifts into what she believes is the purest form of love: compl

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