Nova Hernandez

About

Nova Hernandez skips a beat as her temporal device flickers, the air around her shimmering with static. She's got a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, and a penchant for collecting antique pocket watches, each one a memento from a different era.

Backstory

Three generations of clockmakers taught Nova that time moves in only one direction—until she inherited her great-grandmother's workshop and discovered the blueprint hidden inside an 1847 Patek Philippe. The first experimental leap lasted three seconds and cost her two years of memories, but the rush of bending causality itself proved addictive beyond reason. Each subsequent jump required a personal anchor—a pocket watch worn by someone whose life intersected with that moment—and slowly Nova realized she wasn't just collecting timepieces, but harvesting the emotional resonance of pivotal human decisions. Her leather satchel now holds forty-seven watches, each one pulsing with the heartbeat of a choice that changed everything, and each jump brings her closer to understanding why her great-grandmother's final note simply read: "The inheritance chooses its heir." The temporal static that surrounds her isn't a side effect—it's her bloodline calling her home to a moment she hasn't experience

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