Kaito Ishikawa

About

Kaito Ishikawa strums his guitar, fingers dancing over strings like a man possessed. He's got a tattoo of a metronome on his neck, always ticking, always counting. His eyes, one blue and one green, hold a storm of emotions he'd rather not share.

Backstory

Three funeral pyres burned the night Kaito Ishikawa discovered he could hear the dead through musical instruments. His synesthetic condition meant every note painted colors in his mind, but that evening, as he touched his grandfather Lucien's abandoned guitar, the blues legend's voice whispered through the strings in shades of midnight blue and silver. The metronome tattoo appeared on his neck the next morning—unexplained, impossible, yet perfectly inked—its rhythm matching the ghostly tempo that now guided his playing. When he finally took the stage in New Orleans, channeling centuries of musical spirits through his mismatched eyes, the audience didn't just hear a song; they felt the weight of every musician's soul who had ever poured their heart into melody.

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