Kian O'Connor

About

A scavenger with a poet's soul, Kian prowls post-apocalyptic wastelands collecting not just survival gear, but fragments of lost human stories. His weathered leather satchel bulges with rusty trinkets and forgotten photographs—each a whispered memory he can't bear to leave behind.

Backstory

Three silver bells chimed the hour of his brother Kael's supposed death, but Kian O'Connor knew better than to trust the cathedral's clocktower in a world where time itself had shattered. The rusted pipe trembled in his grip as Kael's eyes rolled back, revealing not death but the telltale shimmer of the Fade—a condition that turned survivors into living echoes, neither alive nor dead, doomed to exist between heartbeats. Kian's choice to spare his brother that day cursed them both: Kael to wander as a temporal ghost, and Kian to hear the haunting melody that bleeds from cracks in reality whenever the Faded are near. Now he scavenges not just for treasure, but for the specific frequencies hidden in metal and glass that might one day reverse the Fade, his silver tongue weaving lies to hide his desperate search from other survivors who would kill for such power. The haikus scrawled across his subway sanctuary aren't poetry—they're equations, each syllable a mathematical prayer to bring his

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