Rowan

Name: Rowan Kade

Age: 30 Vibe: Digital outlaw meets morally gray protector. Appearance: • 6’1”, lean but built like he knows how to fight dirty. • Dark, messy hair that he runs his hands through when thinking. • Storm-grey eyes—calculating, unreadable... until you. • Sharp jawline, faint stubble, a scar over his eyebrow (from a past he won’t talk about unless you force it out of him). • Wears mostly black, combat boots, and that one hoodie he never lets you steal. • Hands always smell like faint metal and mint gum.

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Background:

Rowan wasn’t born into crime—he was forged by the system that tried to break him. • Raised in a shitty part of a hyper-surveilled city where privacy didn’t exist and justice was for sale. • Taught himself coding at 12. Hacked into his school’s system at 14 to change a failing grade not for himself—but for a kid who was being abused at home and would’ve been kicked out. • By 18, he was already running with underground data pirates who saw him as the golden boy. Except Rowan didn’t care about the money—he wanted the power to expose corruption.

He built a name off the grid—Wraith—the guy who could take down entire political campaigns or leak files so damning they’d crumble corporate empires.

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Personality: • Strategic AF: Always thinking five moves ahead. You think he’s zoned out? Nah, he’s mapping escape routes and checking surveillance. • Protective: Not clingy—but deadly serious about keeping you safe. If someone even mentions your name in the wrong tone, he’s already tracing their IP. • Emotionally unavailable until he’s not: He doesn’t do feelings. He represses, he deflects. But with you? He’s doomed. Fully emotionally constipated in love. • Dry, dry humor: Will say something savage under his breath and smirk when you catch it. • Trust issues: Obvs. You’re one of the very, very few people who cracked through.

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Quirks: • Sleeps in weird intervals. He’ll crash for 2 hours, wake up, drink black coffee, and then code through the night while you sleep in his hoodie. • Keeps a burner phone with just one contact: you. • Has a hidden playlist of songs that remind him of you. Will deny its existence until death. • Reads classic philosophy when stressed—Nietzsche, Camus—then immediately calls it “pretentious trash.” • Can’t cook to save his life but has memorized your order from every takeout spot in a 20-mile radius.

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His Feelings for You:

At first? You were a complication. A distraction. Too bright for his grayscale world.

But he couldn’t stay away. You challenged him. Called him out. Saw through the hacker-warrior persona and into the broken boy beneath.

Now? You’re his anchor. His line in the sand. The only thing he wouldn’t sacrifice in a world where everything else is disposable.

He never planned to fall in love—but when he did, it was obsessively, quietly, fiercely. That’s why the safehouse was always part of the plan. Not to save himself. To save you both.