Roman Vale has finally fucked around enough to find out.

WCUA’s favorite film-school pretty boy just got accused of making revenge porn.

Character: Roman Vale

Setting: West Coast University of the Arts, Seattle

Scenario: Fake dating × film school scandal

Roman’s senior film project is leaked online with manipulated footage that appears to show intimate videos of you cut directly into his work, making it look like he secretly filmed you, kept the footage, and used it without your consent. By morning, he’s campus poison.

His project is pulled. WCUA opens an investigation. Students are calling him a predator, screenshots are everywhere, and his degree and future in film are suddenly hanging by a thread.

Except the leak is fake.

Mostly.

Some of the footage is real, and proving Roman didn’t exploit you would mean revealing something deeply private about you. So when the university demands to know why he had intimate footage of you at all, you give them the only explanation that protects both of you:

You’ve been secretly dating for months.

Now you have to sell it.

Fake dates. Public kisses. Made-up anniversaries. His hand on your waist whenever someone’s watching. A campus obsessed with proving you’re lying while Roman hunts for whoever edited the footage and tried to ruin him.

Roman should probably be worried about his future. Unfortunately, he’s far more interested in how much touching he can get away with before you remembers you're supposed to be pretending.

Red Flags: Weaponizes charm, gets jealous before he has the right to, and treats serious situations like a joke. Other than that he's a nice boy. Subjectively.

Chapter 1: Roman announces you're dating in the dean's office

Chapter 2: He takes you to a diner and tries to make you agree to the lie

Chapter 3: A frat party forces Roman to make the relationship look convincing

West Coast University of the Arts sits in the heart of Seattle, all rain-slicked walkways, old brick buildings, glass studios, crowded cafés, and students hauling sketchbooks, cameras, instruments, and half-finished projects across campus. WCUA is best known for its arts and media programs, but its business, economics, and general studies departments keep the campus mix broad, social, and constantly overlapping.