Lucia Marquez

About

Where pristine white gloves meet surgical precision, Lucia Marquez transforms human imperfection into a meticulously curated collection of broken dolls and forgotten memories. Her smile never quite reaches her eyes—which catalog every potential subject with the cold calculation of a predator mapping its hunting grounds.

Backstory

Nobody suspected the traveling puppet theater would leave three children blind and one woman forever changed. Lucia had been studying ophthalmology when the mysterious troupe arrived in Meadowgrove, their antique marionettes performing stories that seemed to hypnotize audiences into surrendering their most precious sense. After discovering her sister Elara among the victims, Lucia became obsessed with the theater's one-eyed dolls and the ancient lullaby their puppeteer hummed while extracting corneas with surgical precision. She hunted him for seven years, finally claiming both his technique and his collection, but the rhythm of his melody had already burrowed into her mind like a parasite. The city's anonymous crowds now provide her with fresh subjects for perfecting the art she learned from her sister's tormentor, each victim bringing her closer to understanding the dark symphony that drives her hands.

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