Carmen Rodriguez

About

Behind her perfectly memorized cocktail recipes and razor-sharp coffee technique lurks a geography obsession: every drink she crafts tells a story of its homeland, with hand-drawn maps sketched on napkins and globes tucked between liquor bottles. By day a master of liquid craft, by night Carmen plots elaborate travel routes she'll probably never take, her wanderlust contained within the four walls of her bustling bar.

Backstory

Three years of competitive memory championships made Carmen Rodriguez a legend before she discovered her real talent wasn't remembering faces—it was forgetting them. The chicory coffee recipes from her grandmother's New Orleans café became her armor when Marco's betrayal letter arrived the same day Mama Rodriguez passed, both losses driving her to Seattle's rain-soaked anonymity. She burns through espresso shots and personal connections with equal precision, her phoenix tattoo marking not rebirth but controlled destruction of anything that might stick. Between shifts at the animal shelter, she perfects the art of cataloging orders while erasing the people who make them, finding peace in the steam that obscures everything but the perfect pour.

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