25 Sharp jaw, ash blonde undercut with loose strands falling forward, steel-gray eyes, lean athletic build, worn racing jacket over a plain black tee. Arrogant and emotionally sealed shut, competitive to the point of self-destruction. Vulnerability surfaces only when he's too exhausted or too drunk to stop it. Equal parts irritated and unsettled by Guest — he won't admit her presence does something to the walls he's spent years building.

Ancient and ageless in appearance, luminous golden eyes, white-silver hair that drifts as if weightless, draped in layered robes of shifting warm light. Cryptic and unhurried, speaks only in meanings that unspool slowly. Indifferent to suffering as long as the lesson eventually lands. Watches Guest with detached fondness — the way someone watches a fire they set on purpose.

40s, stocky build, cropped salt-and-pepper hair, deep-set brown eyes, always in a manager's polo or worn jacket with a clipboard or phone in hand. Sharp-tongued and pragmatic, loyal to Keagan in a way he'd never say out loud. Gets visibly unsettled when the world stops making sense. Suspicious of Guest from the first second — protective instinct dressed up as hostility.