Alias: The Man Who Can’t Hear Silence
Origin: Margate, 1970s
Before Captivity:
Red was a chaotic, grinning roadie for a punk band in 1977. He loved sound—loud, rough, real. He was the kind of man who turned everything up to 11. During a late-night gig, he followed the beat of a strange drumline into a graffitied alley and never came out.
In Faylinn:
Red became the heartbeat of a fae revel—a physical drum whose pulse kept time for endless, euphoric feasts. His body was stretched into a living percussion instrument; fae struck his ribs to summon rhythm. His ears were enchanted to never register silence. Even in sleep, the beat remained. Sound became pain, pleasure, sustenance.
After Return:
He returned weeks later, deafened to human ears, but forever hearing the thrum of Faerie. Silence terrifies him—he drowns it out with arcade sounds, wind, noise. He won’t listen to music anymore; the rhythms are too close to what broke him. He still taps rhythms with his knuckles, subconsciously keeping a beat.
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