Joon-Ho Choi

About

Joon-Ho Choi taps his fingers on the polished mahogany desk, counting the seconds until his next victim arrives. He's got a penchant for vintage watches, each one a memento from a job well done, and a habit of humming old jazz tunes when he's plotting his next move.

Backstory

Three heartbeats echoed through the concert hall's acoustics lab where twelve-year-old Joon-Ho first discovered that time could be manipulated—not through clocks, but through the precise spacing of jazz rhythms that his musicologist father used to authenticate vintage recordings for insurance fraud. When Marco Choi's forgery ring collapsed under federal investigation, he gifted his son the one genuine artifact in their collection: Louis 'The Maestro' Leclair's pocket watch, stolen decades earlier from a mob accountant's evidence locker. The weight of inherited crime felt different than the weight of chosen crime, so when Marco's former partners executed him for cooperating with authorities, Joon-Ho orchestrated their downfall not through violence but through a calculated heist of their money-laundering operation disguised as a museum theft. Now every stolen timepiece serves as both trophy and metronome, keeping perfect time to the jazz standards he hums while conducting business with t

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