Kian Johnson

About

Precision is Kian Johnson's armor against uncertainty: his antique pocket watch collection meticulously arranged, each timepiece a silent rebellion against the arranged marriage that looms like an unwritten destiny. Behind his hawk-sharp gaze lies a complex geography of resignation and unspoken dreams, ticking with the quiet intensity of a heart not yet surrendered.

Backstory

Three generations of Johnsons had mastered the art of clockmaking, but only Kian discovered how to make time itself weep—his pocket watches sang with melodies that echoed the final heartbeat of his mother Elara, whose own timepiece shattered the moment she drew her last breath. The Vesperia clan's marriage proposal arrived on the anniversary of that death, sealed with wax that bore the imprint of gears and roses, transforming his grandfather's patient teachings in Meadowgrove from cherished memories into the very chains that would bind him to duty. Now his trembling hands carve secret compartments into each creation, hiding fragments of his mother's broken watch like relics of rebellion, while his father's rigid expectations tick louder than any mechanism in the candlelit workshop. The haunting melodies he hums are not random—they are his mother's lullabies, encoded into the rhythm of springs and escapements, a defiant symphony that no arranged marriage can silence.

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