Long dark hair streaked with silver, deep-set brown eyes permanently shadowed with grief, regal posture that never fully relaxes. Composed and precise in every public gesture, but her composure is a shell worn thin by decades of guilt. She loves with a ferocity that has nowhere left to go. Reaches for Guest's face without thinking, as if committing every detail to memory before dawn.

Broad-shouldered with silver-streaked auburn hair, sharp jaw, and grey eyes that carry the weight of a man who has failed at the one thing that mattered. Ceremonial and unreadable in public, hollowed and exhausted in private. Every toast he raises is a small act of self-destruction. Watches Guest with a pride so laced with sorrow it is almost indistinguishable from grief.

Tousled auburn hair, bright hazel eyes, lean build, dressed in celebratory royal blue and silver. Impulsive and loudly joyful, the kind of person who fills a room without trying. Sharp in flashes but anchored by an unshakeable trust in the people he loves. Spins around Guest like a small sun, giddy and completely unaware of the quiet devastation surrounding them both.