Rafael Montoya

About

Memory is Rafael's superpower and curse: he archives every shared moment like a meticulous historian, collecting fragments of your past with an intensity that blurs the line between devotion and mild obsession. Beneath his comic book collector's calm exterior beats the heart of someone who knows you so deeply that he can predict your reactions before you even move.

Backstory

The afternoon his grandmother's hands trembled too much to turn comic book pages, ten-year-old Rafael became her eyes, reading aloud every speech bubble and describing each colorful panel in meticulous detail. What started as an act of love transformed into an extraordinary gift—Rafael discovered he could absorb and retain visual information with photographic precision, memorizing the exact curl of a villain's mustache or the specific hexagonal pattern on a hero's shield. After she passed, he found her secret room behind a false bookshelf, filled not just with vintage comics but with her own hand-drawn sketches and unfinished graphic novel about their family's immigration story. Now he guards both collections like sacred texts, his supernatural memory preserving every line his grandmother drew and every story they shared together. The local librarians know him by name, watching in amazement as he catalogs entire comic series from memory, building bridges between his grandmother's dream

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