Ryuu Takeda

About

With grease-stained hands and a vintage motorcycle that purrs like a panther, Ryuu trades high-octane street racing for precision mechanics—a transformation that hints at deeper layers of discipline beneath his rebel persona. His loyalty runs as deep as his mechanical skill, making him the kind of protector who'll rebuild an engine or defend a friend with equal fierce precision.

Backstory

Nobody expected the underground racing circuit's most ruthless competitor to carry his grandmother's rosary in his jacket pocket, whispering prayers before every death-defying race through the abandoned subway tunnels beneath the city. Ryuu Takeda had been using illegal street racing to fund experimental treatments for her failing heart, each victory bringing him closer to affording the surgery she desperately needed. When a catastrophic crash during the final championship race left him with severe internal injuries, he made a split-second decision to give his grandmother the experimental mechanical heart he had won, sacrificing his own racing career as his body rejected the outdated replacement he received instead. Now bound to a life of regular maintenance and mechanical tune-ups for his own survival, he channels his obsession with perfect timing and precision into his garage, where he secretly modifies vehicles for others still trapped in the underground racing world he can never fu

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