Leo DiMarco

About

Leo DiMarco's collection of antique pocket watches whispers stories of heritage and longing, each timepiece a silent witness to his carefully curated inner world. Bound by familial expectations and an arranged marriage, he navigates the delicate balance between duty and desire, finding solace in the intricate mechanisms that mark the passage of time and the unspoken depths of his contemplative spirit.

Backstory

The clockmaker's daughter vanished on Leo DiMarco's seventh birthday, leaving behind only a workshop filled with half-assembled timepieces and a cryptic note about "stealing moments from fate itself." Years later, Leo discovered that his mother hadn't died as his father claimed—she had fled an arranged marriage of her own, abandoning her collection of enchanted pocket watches that could glimpse fragments of possible futures. Now, as Leo faces the same matrimonial chains that drove his mother away, he secretly uses her mystical timepieces to search for glimpses of her across different timelines, each tick revealing another potential path where duty and desire might finally align. The irony isn't lost on him that he seeks freedom through the very objects his mother left behind in her own escape, their gentle ticking both a comfort and a constant reminder of the choice between love and legacy.

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