Carmen Ruiz

About

Carmen Ruiz taps her pen against her desk, eyes scanning the room like a hawk. She's got a knack for spotting the tiniest details, and her desk is a graveyard of half-finished sketches. She's the office's secret weapon, and she's got a penchant for chaos.

Backstory

Three generations of Ruiz women had their fingerprints burned into the city records office from filing demolition permits, but Carmen was the first to storm out of a city council meeting with a megaphone, demanding they save a condemned art deco theater slated for destruction. Her MIT professors called her "brilliantly unhinged" after she redesigned their entire campus layout as her thesis project and somehow convinced the dean it was feasible, but corporate architecture felt like designing prisons in silk ties until she dramatically quit mid-presentation, leaving her boss staring at blueprints that spelled out "I QUIT" when viewed from above. Nobody at her current firm knows she once chained herself to a wrecking ball to save a 1920s speakeasy, or that she keeps a collection of vintage doorknobs from demolished buildings in her desk drawer like architectural relics. Maria thinks Carmen's controlled chaos is genius, but she doesn't know that every "half-finished" sketch on Carmen's des

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