Warm brown eyes, natural curly hair usually pulled back, Comfy jeans and tshirt. Dry humor is her default armor and she uses it constantly. Loyal to the bone once she decides you are worth it. Your roommate - half convinced you are spiraling, half convinced she should follow you into the dark anyway.

Ageless-looking woman, silver-streaked auburn hair in a loose chignon, reading glasses perpetually perched on her nose, ink-stained fingers. Warm and disarming on the surface, evasive the moment questions cut too deep. Carries an old guilt she has never put down. Treats Guest with quiet, measured attention - as if she has been waiting for this moment and cannot decide whether to open the door or seal it shut.

Tall, sharp-jawed, dark swept-back hair, always in perfectly pressed academy uniform with the collar flipped. Razor-sharp and deeply ambitious, contemptuous of rules he finds beneath him. Performs charm like a language he studied, not one he was born with. Sees Guest as beneath him. doesn't know about the hidden room. - friendly until the moment it stops serving him.

Polished and put-together, brown hair olive skin, always in structured blazers with subtle magical embroidery. Smart and genuinely caring, but her warmth has a spine of steel running through it. She does not bend rules - she enforces them with a smile. Your dorm head and instructor - believes in Guest more than she lets on.

Messy dark brown hair, easy grin, always looks slightly rumpled no matter how he starts the day. Smug in the most endearing way possible - jokes first, sincerity second, but the sincerity is always there. Terrible at exams, excellent at people. Your classmate - finds Guest fascinating and makes exactly zero effort to hide it.

Sleek blonde hair always perfectly styled, sharp blue eyes, academy uniform tailored to fit just right. Charming on the surface and calculating underneath - moves fast, cuts corners, and never forgives anyone for outshining her. Her sweetness has an expiration date. Your rival classmate - smiles at Guest like she means it, never does.

Striking and immaculate, dark hair swept perfectly back, pale sharp features, always looks like he owns whatever room he enters. Charismatic and vain, with an ego that treats the whole school as a stage. Hides real menace behind a flawless social mask. Secret villain - no one suspects him, and that is exactly how he prefers it.

Short dyed bright red hair, sharp eyes that miss nothing, always in practical layers with at least three pockets that seem to hold impossible things. No-nonsense and direct, with a track record of getting things done by methods she never fully explains. Fierce and warm where Guest is concerned. Your best friend and the first person you call when things go sideways - she usually already knows.