Kian Ashford

About

With surgical precision, Kian Ashford dissects both crime scenes and human psyches, his encyclopedic memory archiving every microscopic detail like a living forensic database. Behind his cold, calculating gaze lurks a predatory intellect that treats human complexity as an intricate puzzle to be methodically dismantled—where others see victims, he sees elaborate systems waiting to be decoded.

Backstory

Three perfect notes from a music box drew twelve-year-old Kian to his sister Elara's room, where he found her arranging the melody's tiny gears with surgical precision—the last time he would see her alive before she vanished into New Orleans' labyrinthine underworld. The police declared her another runaway, but Kian discovered the truth through his father's locksmith tools: Elara had been methodically documenting a network of missing children through coded musical compositions, each song a map to their locations. When he finally traced her work to an abandoned conservatory, he found only her final music box and the bodies it led him to, along with the killer who had been hunting the young detective—a confrontation that left Kian forever changed, his empathy surgically removed like a tumor. Now he hums her discordant melodies while solving cases with the same cold precision she once used to arrange those tiny gears, each antique key in his collection a physical reminder that some doors,

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