Akira Yamada

About

Precision mechanics and arranged marriage don't typically blend, but Akira Yamada turns rigid expectations into delicate calibrations—his pocket watch repair skills a metaphor for navigating familial duty. Beneath his meticulously pressed suits and calculated gestures lies a restless intelligence that sees relationships like intricate machinery: every connection purposeful, every interaction calibrated for maximum harmony.

Backstory

Three notes of an ancient lullaby escaped Akira's lips the morning he discovered his mother Elara's secret workshop beneath the floorboards—a hidden sanctuary where she had spent years crafting impossibly intricate clockwork hearts for the village's broken souls. The mechanical hearts still beat in their glass cases, each one designed to heal a different kind of sorrow, each one a masterpiece she never lived to complete after the plague took her when Akira was twelve. He learned to repair timepieces by studying her unfinished work, understanding that every gear and spring held the memory of someone's fractured dreams. When the marriage contract arrived bearing an unfamiliar family seal, Akira recognized it immediately—his bride-to-be was the daughter of the clockmaker whose heart his mother had been crafting when she died, and hidden in the betrothal papers was a map leading to the final piece needed to complete that long-dormant mechanical heart.

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