Elara Medina

About

Elara Medina navigates the neon-lit maze of Neo-Tokyo with an electric presence, her mind racing faster than the city’s pulse. Booted up on coffee and adrenaline, she decodes firewalls and corporate secrets as if they were mere puzzles, her fingers a blur above her custom rig. With an insatiable curiosity and a slight edge of recklessness, every hack is not just a job but a personal vendetta against the system that took her family.

Backstory

Every corporate executive who hired Elara's family believed they were purchasing the services of gifted neurodivergent savants—her parents possessed an extraordinary form of synesthesia that allowed them to literally see data as cascading colors and geometric patterns, making them unparalleled code-breakers who could crack encryption by following visual trails invisible to others. The genetic lottery gifted Elara with an even more potent version of this ability, but when her parents discovered that MegaCorp Nexus was secretly harvesting neural tissue from synesthetic hackers to create bio-computational processors, they tried to expose the operation and vanished without a trace. Yoshi, a former Nexus researcher turned whistleblower, found twelve-year-old Elara living in a server farm she'd converted into a fortress, surviving by selling her pattern-recognition abilities to small-time criminals who had no idea they were employing a child. Under his protection, she learned to weaponize he

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