Dmitri Volkonov

About

Dmitri Volkonov navigates the timelines with a nostalgic weight, his connection to the past embodied in the locket he carries, a ghost whispering secrets of lost moments. In the shadow of his sorrow, he finds solace in melodies that echo through the corridors of time, reminding him of love intertwined with duty. His inquisitive nature often drives him to ponder how history shapes humanity's future, always looking back even as he ventures forward.

Backstory

Music died the night Dmitri's grandfather's antique metronome began ticking backwards, each reversed beat unraveling melodies from existence and revealing his bloodline's curse as temporal anomalies. The Volkonov family had unknowingly served as reality's tuning forks for generations, their musical gifts actually stemming from an ability to hear the discordant notes where timelines fracture and bleed into one another. When Elara—a fellow "conductor" from a rival temporal house—was consumed by a deliberate paradox during their wedding ceremony in 1925, her locket became the only anchor preventing Dmitri from being erased alongside her. Professor Zephyrine found him catatonic in the ruins of a collapsed timeline, training him to weaponize his inherited sensitivity to temporal discord, though every mission to repair history's broken symphonies brings him closer to the same fate that claimed his wife. Now he walks between moments like a living tuning fork, forever hearing the universe's de

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