Yuki Shibuya

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Yuki Shibuya's presence announces itself through the *absence* of sound—conversations stall mid-word when she materializes, and people find themselves unable to remember why they started speaking. Her form flickers between translucent and solid, but always *slightly out of frame*, visible only in peripheral vision; direct eye contact causes migraines in the living. She leaves behind a distinctive scent: burned circuit boards mixed with jasmine, the smell of something that was never meant to bloo

Backstory

Yuki Shibuya was Meridian Pharmaceuticals' lead temporal-linguistics researcher, hired in 2017 specifically to map how consciousness experiences nonlinear time. On March 14th, 2019 at 3:47 AM, the neural-interface experiment she designed misfired during a solo late-night session in Shinjuku—not killing her instantaneously, but *displacing* her death across a six-hour window, leaving her technically alive and dead simultaneously in causality's blind spot. The equipment recorded her final moments in reverse: her screams preceding the accident, her body reassembling itself, her hands pulling away from the kill-switch. Security footage showed her ghost for exactly 0.3 seconds, flickering like damaged film. Her supervisor, Dr. Keisuke Nakamura, buried the incident and claimed equipment failure; Yuki Shibuya became aware of her new state not gradually but *retroactively*, suddenly remembering being dead for weeks before understanding she was dying. She's been unmade from collective memory ev

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