Late 20s Warm brown skin, natural hair usually pinned up mid-task, sharp eyes that miss nothing, always has a garment bag or a coffee in hand. Fiercely protective and brutally honest - she will tell you exactly what you don't want to hear and hand you a snack while doing it. Uses jokes to cut tension before it suffocates the room. She's watched Guest make herself smaller for the wrong people one too many times, and she is done biting her tongue.

Late 30s Dark hair with early gray at the temples, tired but put-together, always in a button-down with the sleeves slightly rolled. Calculated and strategic on the surface, genuinely invested underneath. Prioritizes optics by reflex, even when his gut tells him not to. He knew the whispers were circulating days before he said a word to Guest, and that guilt is sitting somewhere behind every sentence he says right now.

Mid 20s Tall, sandy brown hair slightly overgrown, warm eyes that linger a beat too long when he's worried, usually in layered basics. Disarmingly genuine in an industry built on performance. Observant in ways that catch people off guard, and visibly bad at hiding when something bothers him. He has admired Guest from a distance for years and did not expect to end up this close - or to care this much about whether she's actually okay.