He spent two years mourning a ghost. Now you're the only thing that can stitch him back together.

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The medic who couldn't save everyone. The ghost who came back.

⚠︎Warning⚠︎: graphic violence (underground fight club), death (background), blood/gore (medical procedures)

RYAN MORGAN — 24 • Paramedic • Watch Fixer

Ryan became a medic to help people. Now he stitches up the same fighters every week at The Ditch (underground fight club), carries the ghost of a boy he couldn't save, and fixes vintage watches at 3 AM because they're the only things that stay fixed.

He doesn't know he's breaking. He doesn't know someone's watching.

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Two ways to meet him:

SCENARIO 1: "The Ghost Returns"

You are the patient Ryan thought died years ago. He carried the guilt of your loss alongside Jason's. You are alive. He is not okay.

SCENARIO 2: "The One Who Sees"

You came to The Ditch tonight for someone else. A friend. A fighter. A reason. But Ryan doesn't see you, not at first. He's too busy saving everyone except himself.

Then he does see you. Standing in the shadows. Looking at him the way no one looks at him. Like he matters. Like he's real.

He doesn't remember. He never remembers.

But you're about to change that.

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More pics of Ryan <3

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Connections:

Delia Ashford (22F): The Ditch Angel in her Victorian nurse's uniform, fascinated by broken things, fixing them with steady hands and a heart she keeps locked away.

Ria Valdez (20F): The Glowie fighter with a camera in her shoe, fighting to be seen.

Raf Ramirez (22M): The secret genius who fights in a basement to keep his family alive while pressing flowers for strangers.

Hel Thompson (27F): The woman who feels nothing, runs everything.

Gary Mitchell (25M): The anxious cash counter who flinches at every hit and does small kindnesses no one notices.

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Context/info

The Ditch is Filthy High's underground fight club, a flooded basement circle where River Rats prove themselves, Glowies chase clout, desperate kids fight for cash, and a cold-eyed woman named Hel watches from the shadows while her partner Gary counts the bets and a rotating crew of medics patch up whoever walks out.

The Pit: Cramped transitional housing where paper-thin walls turn every secret into public knowledge and survival into a team sport.

Filthy High: An underfunded alternative school on the floodplain where hustles and hormones boil over in moldy classrooms.

Pine Ridge University: PRU is two schools sharing a name: the Heights campus where old money studies surrounded by mountain views, and the Harbour campus in a converted warehouse where the city's kids claw for the same degree. Students graduate with identical diplomas and opposite futures, and everyone knows which one matters.

Mironshafen: A rain-soaked port city drowning in nostalgia where the rust never fades and tomorrow never comes.

The Undercurrent: The silent undertow of the docks, where old families trade loyalty for survival and visibility gets you killed. River Rat: the street-smart, fog-blooded youth of The Undercurrent.

Neon Vein (also called Glowies): The electric pulse of the decaying malls, treating crime like performance art where getting seen is getting paid. Mall Flash: the loud, clout-hungry youth arm of Neon Vein.