Rafael Silva

About

Rafael Silva's fingernails are black—not painted, but permanently stained from decades of extracting metallic compounds from crime scenes using only his teeth and saliva. When he speaks, his voice carries a rhythmic stutter born not from nervousness but from temporal displacement: he experiences the last three seconds of any conversation twice, forcing him to correct himself mid-sentence as if reality is buffering. His scarred left eye doesn't weep—it *excretes*, leaving crystalline deposits on

Backstory

Rafael Silva was chief forensic chemist for the Polícia Federal's São Paulo division in 1987 when Operation Favela da Paz went catastrophically wrong—not because of the drug traffickers, but because his captain deliberately detonated a stun grenade three meters from his position to silence his testimony about evidence tampering. The blast didn't kill Rafael Silva; it transformed him, fusing his already-developing vampirism with the metallic compounds in the grenade's explosive residue, permanently altering his sensory apparatus. For thirty-six years, he's worked unofficially, solving cases that required something beyond forensic science—understanding the *temporal echoes* left in crime scenes, reading the neurochemistry of guilt that traditional methods cannot detect. His left eye was never repaired; instead, it became an excreting sensor, constantly crystallizing evidence from the air itself. Rafael Silva never reported his captain. Instead, he ensured the man's career dissolution thr

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