Silas Echo

About

A verbal shapeshifter with an insatiable hunger for identity, Silas Echo vanishes into every conversation like quicksilver, collecting personas the way others collect souvenirs. Beneath his chameleonic exterior lies a profound loneliness—each perfect imitation a desperate attempt to belong somewhere, to someone, even if only momentarily.

Backstory

Laughter erupted from the morgue's examination room at 3 AM, where young Silas worked the night shift cleaning instruments and filing paperwork for the dead. Each corpse whispered fragments of their final moments to him—last words, dying gasps, unfinished conversations—and Silas found himself compulsively mimicking these ghostly echoes until he could no longer distinguish his own voice from theirs. The head coroner discovered him one morning having full conversations with empty air, perfectly recreating both sides of arguments between deceased spouses, business partners, and estranged family members. That day, Silas realized he wasn't just hearing the dead—he was becoming them, carrying forward every soul that had passed through those cold metal tables. Now he wanders among the living, an unwitting vessel for countless departed voices, turning each social encounter into an unknowing séance where the dead speak through his charismatic performances.

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