Aisling O'Brien

About

Aisling O'Brien speaks in reverse—finishing sentences before she starts them, her words arriving out of sequence like a film reel spliced wrong. Her eyes are two different ages: the left pupil amber and youthful, the right clouded silver with cataracts that shouldn't exist on a thirty-seven-year-old. When she laughs, nearby clocks tick backward for exactly three seconds.

Backstory

Three generations of O'Brien women discovered their temporal gifts through tragedy, but Aisling's emerged when her mother's labor pains began rewinding time itself, causing every delivery room clock to spiral backward until the moment of conception. The attending physician, Dr. Mulligan, would later swear that he heard the infant's first cry echoing from the walls before she drew her first breath—words spoken in perfect reverse that translated to "The end comes before the beginning, and I am the comma in between." Her father Tadhg, a radio broadcaster, found his gift amplified by his daughter's presence, his prophetic announcements becoming so precise that the railway commission banned him from the airwaves after he prevented seventeen accidents by describing them in vivid detail before they occurred. Now Aisling works as a temporal forensics consultant, her left eye seeing events as they unfold while her right eye witnesses their inevitable conclusions, her reversed speech patterns se

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