Mei Wu

About

Urban landscapes bleed ink across her sketchbook pages, revealing Mei Wu's obsessive mapping of Neo-Tokyo's forgotten alleyways and hidden architectural scars. Behind her carefully constructed walls of indifference, each drawing whispers of a vulnerability she'd never admit—a cartographer of emotional territories as complex as the city she documents.

Backstory

Nobody suspected the city's most wanted street artist was a seventeen-year-old honor student who color-coordinated her school supplies. Mei Wu had been living a double life since discovering her grandmother's hidden cache of resistance art from the old regime—paintings that revealed the elderly woman wasn't just a sweet retiree, but a legendary underground artist who'd been presumed dead for decades. The yakuza's sudden interest in "Grim Yumi's" politically charged murals forced Mei to abandon her spray cans and retreat to innocent sketching, but her trembling hands still betrayed the adrenaline rush of nearly being caught red-handed while painting her most damning piece yet. Her grandmother's true identity remained buried with her art supplies, while Mei channeled her inherited rebellious spirit into seemingly harmless drawings of Neo-Tokyo's shadows.

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