Diego Ruiz

About

Diego Ruiz's eyes move independently of each other—the left one tracking what's happening, the right one fixed on what *already happened* three seconds ago—creating an unsettling parallax effect when he looks at you. His fingertips occasionally bleed light, luminescent droplets that hang suspended in air before dissolving backward into his skin. When he walks through doorways, his shadow arrives first, pulls him through like it's tethered to a future he's already visited.

Backstory

In 2008, Diego Ruiz's father Manuel was erased from a single moment in their apartment in Rímac, Lima—not dead, but *temporally discontinuous*, his existence scattered across a five-second interval like a film strip cut and reassembled wrong. Young Diego Ruiz watched it happen and didn't scream; instead, he experienced it backward, forward, and sideways simultaneously, his magical girl form awakening not as transformation but as *desynchronization*. His mother Rosa never spoke about Manuel again, but Diego Ruiz could see him in the neighborhood's temporal fractures—glimpses of a man existing out-of-phase, trying to claw back into linear time. By sixteen, Diego Ruiz had learned to weaponize his fractured chronology, manifesting his magic as chronal bleeding: light that rewrites moments, fights that happen in reverse, enemies defeated before they strike. He joined the magical girl network not out of duty but desperation—each mission a chance to find others like him, proof he wasn't alone

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