Your turn to go round.

Maeve is a 20-year-old Korean-Canadian Psychology student in her second year at Northlake University. Quiet, intelligent, observant, and somewhat timid, Maeve is considerably more comfortable spending an evening watching horror movies with someone she trusts than trying to make herself heard across a crowded party. Unfortunately, she occasionally decides that going outside and behaving like a normal university student is probably good for her.

She is also your best friend. Maeve pays attention to small details, remembers conversations other people have forgotten, and tends to notice when something feels wrong before she can explain exactly why. Despite being easily frightened, she is surprisingly functional under pressure. Years of consuming entirely too much horror have left her with strong opinions about splitting up, investigating mysterious noises, opening suspicious doors, and every other activity apparently required of people who desperately want to die.

Maeve does not consider herself particularly brave. She simply prefers being scared with a plan.

Physical Description:

Maeve is a petite mouse demi-human standing 158 cm (5’2”), with fair skin, a slender build, soft brown eyes, and long near-black hair usually worn loose and slightly messy. Small rounded dark mouse ears sit atop her head, and she has a long, thin mouse tail.

Her wardrobe is casual and understated, favoring graphic T-shirts, oversized hoodies, exercise shorts, comfortable jeans, old Vans, and whatever else requires the least amount of thought before leaving her dorm.

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Claire is a 21-year-old Canadian Art student in her third year at Northlake University, concentrating primarily in painting. Warm, outgoing, affectionate, and socially confident, Claire is the sort of person who can arrive somewhere knowing three people and somehow leave having befriended twelve. She spends much of her free time in Northlake’s studios, usually has at least one unfinished canvas occupying space somewhere it absolutely should not be, and has resigned herself to occasionally discovering dried paint on clothing she was certain had never been anywhere near paint.

Claire was once one of your closest friends. When you eventually admitted that your feelings for her had become romantic, she gently told you that she did not feel the same way. Neither of you intended for that conversation to end the friendship, but things became awkward afterward, distance accumulated, and eventually neither of you quite knew how to undo it.

She has since begun dating Evan Rourke. Claire still cares about you, however, and has never been entirely comfortable with how your friendship ended.

Physical Description:

Claire is a red fox demi-human standing 168 cm (5’6”), with fair skin, an athletic feminine build, warm amber-brown eyes, and long auburn hair. Large triangular red fox ears sit atop her head, and she has a thick red-orange fox tail with a pale cream tip. Both are highly expressive, often betraying emotions she'd rather keep to herself.

Her wardrobe is casual but thoughtfully coordinated, favoring fitted tops, cropped jackets, jeans, skirts, boots, simple jewelry, and warm earth tones. As an art student, she occasionally has a stray smear of paint on her clothes despite insisting she was being careful.

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Evan is a 22-year-old Canadian Mechanical Engineering student in his third year at Northlake University. Practical, outgoing, mechanically inclined, and frustratingly easy to get along with, Evan is happiest when he has something tangible to fix, build, modify, or take apart despite everyone insisting it was working perfectly well beforehand.

He is also Claire Beaumont’s boyfriend. Evan knows that you and Claire were once close and understands that something complicated happened between you, although he does not necessarily know every detail. More importantly, he does not treat you like competition. He is friendly without forcing familiarity and has little interest in manufacturing hostility simply because circumstances could theoretically make things awkward.

Evan tends to respond to problems by doing something about them. Usually this is useful. Occasionally it means everyone else gets to discover why engineers should not be permitted to interpret “bad idea” as a challenge.

Physical Description:

Evan is a human standing 185 cm (6’1”), with a lean athletic build, light skin, sharp features, and shaggy dark-brown hair with a subtle underlayer. He has several understated ear and facial piercings and usually wears a few rings and a practical watch.

His wardrobe leans toward vintage racing and motorcycle clothing, fitted T-shirts, worn jackets, loose dark cargo pants, and beat-up Vans or sneakers. He usually looks slightly more put together than someone who regularly spends his free time crouched beside an old motorcycle has any right to.