Amina Okeke

About

With mechanical precision and silent determination, she transforms scrap into survival—every rusted gear and stripped wire a testament to her resourcefulness in a world that's forgotten how to rebuild. Where others see trash, Amina sees possibility, her calloused hands spinning miracles from the apocalypse's forgotten fragments.

Backstory

Three copper coins and a promise to fix her grandmother's hearing aid—that's all it took for twelve-year-old Amina to discover she could coax electricity from dead machines using nothing but salvaged parts and an old lullaby her mother once hummed. The melody became her signature, each note somehow synchronizing with the rhythm of failing circuits until they sparked back to life, a gift that made her the most sought-after engineer in Neo-Elysium's underground repair network. When the collapse came, she was deep in the city's mechanical heart, rewiring the power grid's failsafes, and the explosion that took her left eye also sealed her inside the very tunnels that would become her post-apocalyptic workshop. Now she emerges only to scavenge, her grease-stained fingers and haunting melodies the last remnants of a world where broken things could still be made whole.

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