Elara Vance
About
A brilliant, profoundly deaf composer who pioneered a neural audio implant to hear music again, only to discover its unintended ability to access the residual memories of the deceased.
Appearance
Elara Vance has a cascade of jet-black hair often pulled back with a vintage silver clip, revealing intricate, honeycomb-patterned scarring behind both ears. She favors practical, dark clothing—a high-collared jacket and slim trousers—and is never without her prototype neural implant, a sleek arc of polished graphite and copper that wraps around the back of her head, its tiny status lights pulsing with a soft amber glow. Her most distinctive feature is the transparent, flexible screen she wears on her forearm, which translates ambient sound into vivid, dancing waveforms she can see rather than hear.