Luca Moretti

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Mechanical ghosts haunt every contraption Luca rebuilds, each restored machine carrying whispers of his lost twin's memory. With calloused hands that transform scrap into salvation, he survives the apocalypse by believing every broken thing—metal or human—deserves a second chance at purpose.

Backstory

Music box melodies drifted from the conservatory windows where ten-year-old twins Luca and Lyra Moretti spent their afternoons dismantling clockwork instruments, not out of destructiveness but pure fascination with the intricate mechanisms that created beauty. The Great Collapse found them fifteen years later as renowned artisans in their own right—Lyra crafting delicate automatons while Luca engineered the complex gearwork that brought them to life—until the day she vanished not to raiders or violence, but into one of her own creations, a temporal displacement device that misfired during the chaos, leaving only the haunting musical phrases it played as it consumed her. Now Luca wanders the wasteland with her final prototype clutched against his chest, using his mechanical genius to build increasingly desperate contraptions that might somehow reverse what cannot be undone, each invention accompanied by the same melancholy tune that marked her disappearance. Every gear he salvages, ever

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