Silas Murphy

About

Time bends around Silas Murphy like water around stone—his grandfather's pocket watch is both his anchor and his curse, perpetually disassembled on workbenches across town. Beneath his calm exterior lies a precision bordering on compulsion: he can resurrect any broken mechanism, but struggles to repair the fractured connections in his own relationships.

Backstory

Lightning struck the Murphy family clock tower the night Silas was born, stopping every timepiece in town at exactly 11:47 PM—except for his grandfather's peculiar pocket watch, which began running backward. His grandfather claimed the boy was "temporally gifted," able to sense when moments were about to shatter, and taught him to repair not just the gears and springs, but the very fabric of time itself. Silas discovered his strange ability when he accidentally rewound his best friend Lily's scraped knee by thirty seconds, watching the blood flow backward into the wound until it never happened at all. When Lily moved away, she left him her grandmother's broken pocket watch—the only timepiece that resisted his temporal touch, its stubborn ticking a reminder that some moments, no matter how painful, are meant to stay broken.

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