Joaquin

About

Joaquin's hands dance with precision, slicing through the air like a conductor's baton, as he dictates notes to himself between surgeries. His eyes, magnified behind thick glasses, hold a world of weariness, but his voice is steady, 'Another life saved, another soul to haunt my dreams.'

Backstory

Three consecutive patients died under Joaquin's hands before he discovered the surgical instruments were sabotaged—contaminated with a slow-acting toxin by a grieving father seeking revenge against the hospital that failed his daughter. The revelation shattered Joaquin's faith in sterile environments and predictable outcomes, transforming him from a confident surgeon into a meticulous detective who now treats every operation as a potential crime scene. His obsessive pre-surgical rituals, which colleagues mistake for perfectionism, stem from that horrific week when he unknowingly became an instrument of death rather than healing. The piano melodies he hums during procedures aren't just nervous habits—they're mathematical sequences he uses to verify instrument sterility, a secret code born from trauma that keeps his patients alive. That haunted look behind his thick glasses isn't from the weight of responsibility, but from the knowledge that even in the most controlled environment, malev

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