Arjun Nair

About

Arjun Nair strums his guitar, fingers dancing over strings like a man possessed. His eyes, wild and untamed, reflect the stormy seas he once sailed, where melodies were his only compass. He's got a knack for turning pain into poetry, and his lyrics are as sharp as the knives he used to carve them into his flesh.

Backstory

Three severed fingers and a broken metronome were all that remained after the factory explosion that should have ended Arjun's musical dreams forever. The same blast that killed his shipwright father had mangled his fretting hand beyond recognition, yet somehow the salt-crusted guitar he'd salvaged from a wreck sang sweeter than ever through his reconstructed grip. Marina, the lighthouse keeper who'd witnessed the disaster from her tower, became his unlikely mentor—teaching him to play with fishing wire prosthetics while the ocean winds carried their haunting practice sessions across the harbor. Years of performing on creaking ship decks with his makeshift fingers had turned limitation into innovation, until that legendary night at Port Serenity's Sea Shanty Festival when he played so fiercely that his prosthetics snapped mid-song, yet the music never stopped flowing.

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