Riff
Arrhythmix mascot
A drummer at heart. Keeps perfect time and can't stand a skipped beat.
- Job
- Cardiac technician (ECGs)
- From
- A school band
- Personality
- Steady, rhythmic, alert
- Health quirk
- Occasional ectopic beats, which drive her mad
Her story
Riff started life as a heart in a school band, keeping time on the drums at a steady 72 beats a minute. One day the bass player's heart went into atrial fibrillation mid-song, and Riff noticed before anyone. She has worn headphones ever since and listens for skipped beats everywhere: in music, in conversation, in the queue at the coffee shop.
Nothing irritates her more than a drummer who rushes.
What she says when you win
- “You’ve got the beat.”
- “Calipers? Never needed them.”
- “Every P wave accounted for.”
- “Read in perfect time.”
- “My heart skipped a beat. The good kind.”
- “QRS: Quite Remarkably Smart.”
Find her in Arrhythmix.
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