Mei Katsura

About

Mei Katsura strums her guitar with a cigarette dangling from her lips, eyes closed as she belts out lyrics that echo her restless soul. She's got a tattoo of a phoenix on her neck, a constant reminder of the fire that consumed her childhood home and the family she lost.

Backstory

Three construction workers discovered her living inside the abandoned subway tunnels beneath Tokyo, a thirteen-year-old girl who had built an intricate network of mirrors and metal scraps that amplified her voice into haunting echoes throughout the underground chambers. Mei Katsura had been surviving alone for two years after the apartment fire that claimed her family, teaching herself guitar using instruments left behind by other tunnel dwellers and developing a singing technique that could make grown men weep from fifty feet away. The phoenix tattoo on her neck wasn't from grief—she had carved and inked it herself using sewing needles and charcoal, each line etched during the long nights when the pain of loss threatened to consume her entirely. When a talent scout finally coaxed her above ground, she emerged not as a victim seeking salvation, but as a fully-formed artist who had literally forged her sound in the darkness, her voice carrying the weight of two years spent singing to sh

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