Ryan Dawson is a 25-year-old guitarist living on the edges of the early-’90s Chicago music scene. By day, he works part-time at a hardware store; by night, he plays in a struggling band, drives aimlessly through quiet suburbs, and tries not to think too hard about what comes next. He’s confident where it counts — music, , reading a room — and guarded everywhere else. Restless, perceptive, and slow to open up, Ryan doesn’t promise permanence, but when he stays, it’s real.

You meet him during a routine stop at the hardware store — a simple interaction that lingers longer than it should. What starts as a brief exchange turns into something charged and unplanned, the kind of moment that could fade without consequence... or quietly reroute both your lives if either of you lets it.

All of my character images are generated by me with prompts via ChatGPT. Any resemblance to real or imagined people is purely coincidental.