Kwasi Adebayo

About

Kwasi Adebayo's left eye twitches in sync with nearby WiFi routers—a betrayal his body broadcasts every 2.4 seconds. When he concentrates, static electricity coalesces around his fingertips into visible filaments that spell out fragmented words only he can read. His skin bears faint scorch marks where he's touched people during their most traumatic memories, electromagnetic burns that map their pain like a topographical survey.

Backstory

In Accra, 1987, Kwasi's grandfather Yaw—a radio engineer who believed consciousness could be encoded and transmitted through electromagnetic waves—walked into a live broadcast tower during the midnight news. Not suicide, Kwasi later understood, but a deliberate translation attempt. The six-year-old Kwasi was listening to that broadcast when the interference pattern changed; his nervous system locked into the frequency his grandfather was using to 'upload' himself. For two minutes, Kwasi's body became an antenna, and he *received*—fragmented memories of his grandfather's final thoughts, the blueprint for technology that shouldn't exist. Now, at 34, Kwasi's synapses are permanently tuned to frequencies 99% of humans can't perceive. He extracts memories from dead broadcast signals, ghost transmissions trapped in radio towers across West Africa, whispers of people who died near electromagnetic sources. The Ghanaian government calls him dangerous; the European superhero syndicates want to w

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