Nova Tran

About

With grease-stained hands and a phoenix tattoo blazing defiance, Nova Tran rebuilds engines and broken dreams with equal precision. Her mechanical genius masks a deeper hunger: to reconstruct herself, piece by hard-won piece, always one repair away from total transformation.

Backstory

Three months after the warehouse fire that nearly claimed her life, Nova discovered she could predict exactly when opposing players would stumble—a sixth sense born from learning to navigate through smoke and falling debris while searching for survivors. The phoenix tattoo covers burn scars that map her forearm like a topographical guide to that night, when she pulled four people from the flames before the roof collapsed. Basketball became her rehabilitation, each dribble a heartbeat proving she was still alive, each shot a defiant middle finger to the trauma trying to cage her spirit. She'd been studying to become a firefighter before the incident, but now the courts are where she wages war against her own demons, turning hypervigilance into an uncanny ability to read the game three moves ahead.

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