Jade Stefansson

About

With a photographic memory for obscure K-pop choreography and zero recollection of her own family birthdays, Jade dances through life like a beautifully chaotic algorithm. Her vintage comic book collection whispers stories she knows by heart, even as her own narrative remains deliciously unpredictable.

Backstory

Nobody believed a thirteen-year-old could decode the publishing patterns of 1960s Marvel comics, but Jade Stefansson had cracked the system during her final summer in Busan, using that same obsessive focus to memorize every K-pop choreography video on the internet. She arrived in Seoul clutching a battered copy of X-Men #1 and humming completely off-key, somehow landing an audition with 'Starlight Dreams' by recreating a dance routine she'd watched exactly once. Minji's handwritten letters became her lifeline during trainee hell, each one carefully tucked between comic pages like precious bookmarks, while Jade's brain stubbornly refused to retain her own birthday despite holding every song lyric she'd ever heard. Her fellow trainees learned to set calendar reminders for her personal milestones, but they also learned to trust her photographic memory for lyrics when their own minds went blank on stage. The girl who could recite Spider-Man dialogue from 1967 became the idol who never miss

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