Matteo Gallo

About

With mismatched eyes that glint like scattered Renaissance stained glass, Matteo Gallo carries an antique locket and an uncanny ability to track down lost memories—magical or mundane. His Renaissance spirit bleeds through modern streetscapes, transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary conduits of forgotten stories.

Backstory

Every night at 3:17 AM, Matteo's antique locket would grow ice-cold and sing a melody that existed only in the space between heartbeats—the same song his cartographer mother hummed while drawing maps of places that shouldn't exist. The lighthouse keeper's daughter found him three days after the Great Silence, when every compass in Marisport spun wildly and Elara Gallo simply stepped through one of her own impossible maps, leaving behind only salt-stained sketches and a son whose mismatched eyes could see the golden threads connecting lost things to their seekers. Now Matteo wanders with his mother's unfinished charts, each one revealing new destinations when touched by moonlight, his strange gift for finding the disappeared growing stronger with every soul he guides home. The locket still sings its otherworldly melody, and sometimes—just sometimes—he swears he can hear his mother's voice harmonizing from whichever impossible place she's exploring now.

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