Sylvia Lemarque

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Sylvia Lemarque, perched on the rooftop, sketches the city's underbelly with charcoal, her eyes reflecting the neon lights. She hums a haunting melody, fingers tracing the scar on her cheek, a memento from her last foe.

Backstory

Three notes from a stolen violin changed everything the night Sylvia discovered her synesthesia could predict crime—each melody painting vivid maps of future violence across her vision in ribbons of scarlet and gold. The underground orchestra she'd infiltrated to catch art thieves had been experimenting with sonic frequencies that unlocked latent psychic abilities, and when their leader Maestro tried to silence her permanently, she fought back with nothing but bow and strings, losing her left eye but gaining the power to see tomorrow's bloodshed. Now she sketches what her music shows her—charcoal portraits of crimes yet to happen, each stroke guided by the haunting melodies that flow from Maestro's violin, the instrument she claimed as both trophy and curse. The scar on her cheek pulses in time with the city's heartbeat, and every rooftop concert she performs sends ripples through the criminal underworld, warning them that One-Eyed Sylvia already knows their next move.

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