Rio Ferreira

About

Beneath her magical girl facade, Rio Ferreira harbors a rebellious cartographer's soul, mapping impossible rhythms across her sketchbook while her houseplants absorb her half-whispered samba dreams. Her tardiness is legendary, a deliberate choreography of resistance against rigid schedules and expectations, each late arrival a silent dance of defiance.

Backstory

Three generations of women in Rio's family had vanished on their sixteenth birthday, leaving behind only pressed flowers and cryptic botanical journals that her grandmother refused to discuss. The morning Rio discovered she could hear her houseplants gossiping about the mailman's secret crush, she finally understood why her mother had spent those final weeks frantically sketching migration patterns of extinct butterflies across her father's antique maps. When the greenhouse behind their house began growing impossible things—midnight-blooming roses that whispered coordinates and ferns that sprouted tiny compasses instead of spores—Rio realized her family's disappearances weren't mysterious departures but necessary transformations. Now the plants hum back when she sings to them, and her father's maps have started rearranging themselves to show pathways that exist only when the moon is dark.

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