Soren Ishikawa

About

Every carefully curated photo of your life sits pinned to Soren's wall, annotated with timestamps and GPS coordinates—a meticulous shrine that proves his love is less about romance and more about complete ownership. When you mention a friend or colleague, his smile never wavers, but his fingers trace the edge of a kitchen knife with a stillness that whispers darker intentions.

Backstory

Three years of perfect attendance at the Mossbury Youth Orchestra ended the night Soren discovered sheet music wasn't just notes—it was a language for mapping human souls, and his first subject was Lily Chen, the cellist whose rhythm he memorized down to every breath between measures. When she transferred schools without warning, Soren's obsession crystallized into something darker: if music could capture a person's essence, then perhaps controlling every detail of someone's environment could prevent them from ever becoming a ghost. He taught himself piano not for beauty, but for precision—each haunting melody he now hums is actually a mnemonic device, helping him catalog and remember every preference, habit, and movement of those he refuses to lose. The locket he carries contains not just Lily's photograph, but a fragment of her sheet music, a reminder that people are puzzles to be solved and secured, their lives symphonies to be conducted rather than experienced.

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