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SHEN HENG ⸝⸝ n/a. FINANCIAL ARISTOCRACY. — twenty-nine , he/him , bisexual.

hometown: london, england.

( + ) polished , calculating , multilingual , composed.

( - ) manipulative , elitist , secretive , emotionally repressed.

tragic flaw: believes affection is a liability that can always be bought, controlled, or discarded.

secret: shen’s family fortune didn’t survive on old money alone—years ago, he uncovered evidence that his father had been laundering political bribes through their investment firm. instead of exposing it, shen used the information to seize control behind the scenes, blackmailing the board into loyalty. the empire became his, but every luxury he enjoys is built on silence he can never afford to break.

LILY-ROSE WATTS ⸝⸝ n/a. DESIGNER SHOWROOM STYLIST. — twenty-nine , she/her , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: new york city, new york.

( + ) refined , trend-savvy , persuasive , detail-oriented.

( - ) status-obsessed , insecure , competitive , quietly judgmental.

tragic flaw: ties her self-worth to external validation—if she isn’t desired or envied, she feels invisible.

secret: she has been quietly swapping and “borrowing” unreleased pieces between showroom collections to elevate her clients and her own reputation, creating a curated illusion of exclusivity. one designer has started noticing their missing samples reappearing styled elsewhere under suspiciously similar concepts—and is beginning to trace the pattern back to lily-rose’s fitting rooms.

KAIRO BAXTER ⸝⸝ ebby brown. ZOOLOGIST. — twenty-nine , he/him , queer , biromantic.

hometown: cape town, south africa.

( + ) curious , empathetic , analytical , adventurous.

( - ) absent-minded , stubborn , peevish , overly shy.

tragic flaw: treats danger like something he can study instead of something that can change him—so he always gets closer than he should.

secret: during a field expedition, he illegally relocated a critically endangered animal out of its documented habitat to save it from poachers—but in doing so, he disrupted the only known breeding pattern of its kind. now the species’ survival data is collapsing, and he’s the only one who knows where the last viable bloodline is hiding.

CESAR FERRÓN ⸝⸝ emilio sakraya. RESTAURANT CHEF. — twenty-nine , he/him , bisexual , biromantic .

hometown: barcelona, spain.

( + ) passionate , inventive , charismatic , dedicated.

( - ) temperamental , prideful , impatient , gruff.

tragic flaw: equates perfection with worth—if the dish isn’t flawless, he believes he isn’t either.

secret: years ago, early in his rise, he let a rival kitchen take the blame for a food safety incident that hospitalized several diners. he covered his tracks so cleanly it became industry legend, but one of the affected guests was a food critic who survived—and has since begun quietly reconstructing what really happened plate by plate, memory by memory.

KWON JAE ⸝⸝ jey jinhyeong. R&B ARTIST & SONGWRITER. — twenty-nine , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: oakland, california.

( + ) meticulous , creative , soft-spoken , faithful.

( - ) socially awkward , work obsessive , conflict-avoidant , finicky.

tragic flaw: confuses silence with safety—so he never says what he feels until it’s already too late.

secret: his breakout hit wasn’t fully his—he quietly rewrote a demo he was sent in confidence by a struggling, unknown songwriter and released it under his own name after a label warned it would never get picked up otherwise. the song changed his life overnight… and he still gets anonymous voice notes of the original version from someone who knows exactly what he did.

JAIRO PINTO ⸝⸝ n/a. PARAMEDIC / EMT. — twenty-nine , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: boston, massachusetts.

( + ) courageous , empathetic , quick-thinking , warm.

( - ) reckless , guilt-ridden , overcommitted , demanding.

tragic flaw: believes every life can be saved if he just tries hard enough—so he keeps crossing lines that should’ve stayed boundaries.

secret: on one of his earliest night shifts, he altered a patient’s triage priority to save someone he personally recognized from his neighborhood, letting a stranger wait longer than protocol allowed. the patient he delayed didn’t make it. the hospital never traced the decision back to him, but a senior EMT did—and has quietly been making sure jairo never forgets what that choice cost, even as jairo builds his reputation as a miracle worker.

KANG JAEYUN ‘LAMB’ ⸝⸝ jeon jungkook. PROFESSIONAL BOXER. — twenty-eight , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: busan, south korea.

( + ) charitable , principled , daring , cultured.

( - ) moody , glory seeker , blunt , troublemaker.

tragic flaw: self-worth tied to winning—he doesn’t believe love or respect can survive loss.

secret: early in his career, he deliberately threw a sanctioned fight to settle a family debt tied to his father’s gambling. it was framed as an “off night” in his record, but the payout came from a backroom agreement he’s never been able to fully walk away from—because the same people who bought that loss now quietly expect repayment in favors he can’t refuse.

DUKE BLAINE BLACKWOOD ⸝⸝ martin bobb-semple. LAND OWNER / ESTATE MANAGER. — twenty-eight , male , he/him , asexual , greyromantic .

hometown: london, england.

( + ) pragmatic , observant , principled , sweet.

( - ) emotionally detached , rigid , elitist , vain.

tragic flaw: mistakes emotional distance for strength—so he builds walls instead of relationships, then calls it control.

secret: he estate he manages isn’t just old wealth—it contains a sealed wing his family has forbidden him to access, where records prove the Blackwood fortune was built through fraudulent land seizures generations ago. duke blaine has quietly begun restoring and cataloging those documents himself, not to expose them… but to decide whether he will finally become the first blackwood to burn the legacy down—or preserve it.

MAGNO WU ⸝⸝ hudson williams. ROYAL ADVISOR / COURTIER. — twenty-eight , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: new edinburgh, canada

( + ) strategic , smooth talker , politically savvy , interesting.

( - ) manipulative , elitist , secretive , schemer.

tragic flaw: believes loyalty is something people can be negotiated into—so he always chooses strategy over trust until there’s no one left who trusts him.

secret: early in his rise, he leaked classified state plans through an encrypted intermediary to destabilize a rival advisor’s faction, framing it as “necessary balance.” the move secured him unprecedented influence in court—but the leak also reached foreign intelligence channels in ways he didn’t anticipate. now someone outside the palace holds proof of his authorship, and they’ve begun quietly steering court politics using his own ambition as leverage.

MISKA EL-SALIM ⸝⸝ n/a. FINE ARTIST & TRAVEL BLOGGER. — twenty-eight , she/her , bisexual , biromantic.

hometown: beirut, lebanon.

( + ) observant , expressive , culturally attuned , aesthetically intuitive.

( - ) detached , self-mythologizing , inconsistent , emotionally evasive.

tragic flaw: turns real life into art before she’s fully lived it—so she never experiences things without curating them first.

secret: many of her most acclaimed “authentic travel” works were staged in collaboration with tourism boards and private sponsors, but one of her most viral pieces was based on a real, undocumented refugee encounter that she reinterpreted without consent. the subject has since been trying to track her down, not for money—but for ownership of a story miska turned into her masterpiece.

T'AK JAE-SUN⸝⸝ cho guesung. SOCCER PLAYER. — twenty-eight , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: seoul, south korea.

( + ) disciplined , resilient , hyper-focused , team-aware under pressure.

( - ) ego-driven , emotionally repressed , intolerant of failure , defensively prideful.

tragic flaw: believes his worth exists only in his performance—so every failure feels like erasure, not just loss.

secret: during a pivotal championship match, he didn’t directly fix the outcome—but he did knowingly accept help arranged through a third party who bribed a referee to tilt key calls in his favor. he told himself it was “already happening without him,” just luck he chose not to refuse. they won the title that year, but the assistant referee involved was quietly removed from the league afterward… and has since been keeping detailed records of every game jae-sun plays, waiting for him to slip in a way no scoreboard can hide.

MINISHI KOZAHO ⸝⸝ taytthar. YAKUZA PRINCESS + TRUSTEE OF UNDERGROUND FIXER BUSINESS. — twenty-seven , she/her , fraysexual , aromantic tendencies.

hometown: kyoto, japan.

( + ) composed , strategic , ruthlessly efficient , quietly perceptive.

( - ) emotionally detached , manipulative , cold , control-driven.

tragic flaw: believes attachment is liability—so she severs connections before they can be used against her.

secret: she has been quietly redirecting certain “fixer” operations without her family’s knowledge, taking contracts that benefit her own long-term power rather than the clan’s interests. what no one realizes is that one of those altered jobs involved sparing a target she was meant to eliminate—and that person has since become a hidden variable in her life, one that could expose both her betrayal and the fact that she’s not as untouchable as she appears.

MATLIDA SHAW ⸝⸝ chase infiniti. POLITICAL JOURNALIST / FORMER PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER. — twenty-seven , she/her , heterosexual , heteroromantic .

hometown: washington, d.c.

( + ) fearless , curious , principled , relentless investigator.

( - ) intrusive , obsessive , stubborn , emotionally uncompromising.

tragic flaw: truth matters more than people—she will sacrifice relationships, safety, and loyalty if it means exposing what’s real.

secret: she was the anonymous source behind a leaked investigative piece that exposed a powerful senator’s corruption, fully aware it would destabilize political alliances and directly embarrass her own family. the story was published under a protected journalistic shield, but someone within the senator’s circle has begun tracing the leak’s origin—and the evidence is circling dangerously close to the president’s inner family orbit.

ZAHAIR COPELAND ⸝⸝ geo caceres. TATTOOIST. — twenty-seven , he/him , bisexual , biromantic.

hometown: brooklyn, new york.

( + ) artistic , perceptive , open-minded , emotionally intuitive with clients.

( - ) impulsive , cynical , commitment-averse , self-isolating.

tragic flaw: pushes people away before they can leave—he chooses abandonment as a form of control.

secret: early in his career, he unknowingly embedded and later knowingly continued using coded gang iconography in some of his designs, which allowed him to survive and stay in demand—but also tied him to networks he can’t fully walk away from without consequences resurfacing.

ANTOINE HILAIRE ⸝⸝ tyriq withers. LUXURY HOTEL HEIR & HOSPITALITY EXECUTIVE. — twenty-seven , he/him , sapiosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: milan, italy.

( + ) refined , strategic , articulate , socially commanding.

( - ) calculating , emotionally distant , vain , image-obsessed.

tragic flaw: equates love with leverage—he only understands intimacy when it can be negotiated or controlled.

ISAAC KIM ⸝⸝ jackson wang. VIP LIASION / CLUB PROMOTER. — thirty-two , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: miami, florida.

( + ) persuasive , social , observant , discreet.

( - ) opportunistic , amoral , shallow , power-drunk.

tragic flaw: believes people are only as valuable as the access they give him—so he never learns how to love without leverage.

secret: he didn’t just “promote” the club scene—he’s been quietly controlling who gets seen, hired, and protected in nightlife circuit by trading information on clients and performers to the highest bidder. what no one knows is that one of the women he helped “place” years ago vanished from the system entirely, and isaac has been paying someone ever since to keep her name from resurfacing anywhere official.

MEMPHIS TERRY ⸝⸝ justin bieber. FACTORY WORKER / SINGLE FATHER. — thirty-one , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: memphis, tennessee.

( + ) protective , street-smart , resilient , hardworking.

( - ) self-destructive , paranoid , defensive , coarse.

tragic flaw: believes he’s already ruined—so he keeps making choices that prove it true.

secret: his daughter wasn’t supposed to be his to raise—memphis unofficially took custody after his younger sibling disappeared, stepping in before the system could. on paper, it looks temporary… but he’s been avoiding every follow-up, every official check-in, terrified that if anyone looks too closely, they’ll take the kid away—and uncover what really happened the night his sibling vanished.

AURÉLIEN LOUISSAINT ⸝⸝ joey badass. STREET-LEVEL EMPIRE BUILDER + FINANCIAL CLEANER [STRIP CLUB]. — thirty-one , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: harlem, new york.

( + ) resourceful , street-smart , composed under pressure , loyal to his circle.

( - ) controlling , suspicious , prideful , morally flexible when cornered.

tragic flaw: confuses protection with ownership—he believes keeping people close is the same as keeping them safe.

secret: his “clean” financial operation through the strip club isn’t just for survival—it’s also laundering money tied to a failed deal he personally oversaw, where a close associate took the fall and disappeared. officially, it’s written off as bad business, but aurélien knows the associate is still alive—and quietly watching how he chooses to rebuild what was destroyed.

MOISE LAURENT ⸝⸝ n/a. FARM-HAND + RODEO STAR. — thirty , he/him , heterosexual / polysexual , aromantic tendencies.

hometown: rural north carolina, u.s.a.

( + ) overly confident, fiercely competitive, physically fearless, charismatic in motion.

( - ) impulsive, dismissive of consequences, emotionally detached, reckless with pride.

tragic flaw: believes control is proven through dominance—if he can’t win, he doesn’t believe he’s worth anything.

secret: he’s been quietly barred from multiple rodeo circuits under different names after a pattern of “accidents” that always seem to benefit him in standings—he insists they’re coincidences, but one former competitor knows the truth and has started showing up wherever moise rides.

KOBRA THORNTON ⸝⸝ n/a. STRIP CLUB HEADLINER + HOUSE MOTHER. — thirty , she/her , bisexual , biromantic.

hometown: las vegas, nevada.

( + ) magnetic , protective , business-savvy , emotionally perceptive.

( - ) manipulative , possessive , secretive , vengeful when crossed.

tragic flaw: confuses control with safety—she believes if she manages everyone’s choices, no one she loves can be taken from her.

secret: she didn’t just rise through the club—she quietly took ownership by outmaneuvering the previous management through legal loopholes and buried financial pressure, forcing them out piece by piece. the official story says it was a clean purchase, but the former owner knows otherwise and has begun resurfacing with documents that could unravel her entire empire.

AYMERIC LOUISSAINT ⸝⸝ playboi carti. THE GHOST OPERATOR + LOGISTICS ARCHITECT. — thirty , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: harlem, new york.

( + ) strategic , elusive , innovative , calm under pressure.

( - ) emotionally detached , secretive , unpredictable , morally flexible.

tragic flaw: believes invisibility is invincibility—so he trusts systems and shadows more than people, until isolation becomes his undoing.

NAMGUNG JI-TAE ⸝⸝ jay park. NIGHTCLUB OWNER & SILENT FINANCIAL BACKER. — thirty-nine , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: busan, south korea.

( + ) charming , intuitive , resourceful , confident.

( - ) manipulative , secretive , indulgent , slimeball.

tragic flaw: trusts leverage more than loyalty—collecting secrets until there’s no one left he can trust.

secret: the club that made his name wasn’t built clean—ji-tae quietly bankrolls a network that launders money through his nightlife empire, skimming just enough to stay invisible while keeping powerful people indebted to him. what no one knows is that his first big investor didn’t walk away from the deal—he disappeared, and ji-tae was the last one to see him before everything went quiet.

ORIEN KELLY ⸝⸝ michael b. Jordan. CONGRESSMAN. — thirty-eight , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic .

hometown: baltimore, maryland.

( + ) persuasive , community-minded , punctual , educated.

( - ) calculating , emotionally guarded , image-obsessed , clean-freak.

tragic flaw: measures his worth by how far he can rise, not who he has to lose to get there.

secret: his rise started with something he never earned—he quietly took credit for a grassroots housing initiative after the real organizer, a close friend from back home, got caught in a minor legal scandal. orien let the narrative shift, let the spotlight find him… and never corrected it. now that same friend is out, rebuilding—and knows exactly who owes him everything.

GUN HAE ⸝⸝ manny jacinto. TRAUMA SURGEON. — thirty-eight , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: jeju, south korea.

( + ) calm under pressure , decisive , skilled , attentive.

( - ) absent-emotionally distant , work-obsessed , cynical , glory seeker.

tragic flaw: knows how to save a life, not how to live one—so he keeps choosing the former.

secret: he falsified a post-op report early in his career to cover a surgical error that should’ve cost him his license—his patient lived, but not without complications. the hospital buried it to protect its reputation, and now he’s built his entire identity on being untouchable… knowing one crack in that story could take everything down with it.

APOLLINAIRE LOUISSAINT ⸝⸝ asap rocky. SYNDICATE EXECUTIVE + BROKER / NEGOTIATOR. — thirty-five , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: harlem, nyc.

( + ) charismatic , strategic , composed under pressure , highly persuasive.

( - ) calculating , emotionally detached , controlling , morally flexible.

tragic flaw: believes everything—and everyone—has a price, including loyalty, love, and trust.

secret: he once brokered a high-level syndicate peace deal by arranging a betrayal within his own organization, trading one trusted ally’s life to secure long-term control of a territory. the act solidified his reputation as untouchable, but an eyewitness who survived the fallout has resurfaced, and they’re not interested in money—only in making sure apollinaire finally pays in something he can’t negotiate his way out of

NASSAU LINDSEY ⸝⸝ pardison fontaine. BEEF RANCHER OWNER. — thirty-five , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic .

hometown: dallas, texas.

( + ) careful , flirty, decisive , capable.

( - ) overzealous , sly, hot headed, stubborn

tragic flaw: confuses self-sacrifice with love—will bleed himself dry just to feel needed.

secret: nassau secretly pays the overdue bills and debts of struggling families around town through anonymous accounts tied to the ranch. no one knows the money comes from him — not even the people closest to him. he’d rather work himself into exhaustion than admit he’s terrified of becoming useless to the people he loves.

RAPHAËLLE ‘PEGGY’ VERNINAC ⸝⸝ renell medrano. MUSEUM CURATOR / SOCIALITE. — thirty-four , she/her , lesbian , homoromantic .

hometown: bordeaux, france.

( + ) perceptive , cultured , patient , intellectually precise.

( - ) aloof , overly critical , emotionally distant , quietly controlling.

tragic flaw: fear of vulnerability—she would rather analyze love than risk being undone by it.

secret: one of her most celebrated acquisitions wasn’t obtained legally—she knowingly authenticated and displayed a piece with disputed ownership, suppressing evidence that it had been wrongfully taken from a private family collection decades ago. the exhibit elevated her reputation overnight, but a descendant of that family has recently begun tracing the artwork’s history… and peggy’s role in rewriting it.

JELANEY AMAZU ⸝⸝ damson idris. NASCAR DRIVER. — thirty-four , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: silver spring, maryland.

( + ) fearless , competitive , adaptable , humorous.

( - ) impulsive , prideful , thrill-seeking , overly ambitious.

tragic flaw: mistakes recklessness for purpose—if it doesn’t cost him something, it doesn’t feel real.

secret: he wasn’t supposed to walk away from the crash that made his name—telemetry later showed he ignored multiple team calls to pull back, chasing a risky overtake that triggered the pileup. a fellow driver took the worst of it, their career never recovering. the footage was buried under “equipment failure,” and jelaney leaned into the miracle narrative… knowing it was never luck, just a choice he’d make again if the moment came.

CHO MIN-JUN ⸝⸝ byeon wooseok. VICE CHAIRMAN OF A FOOD PRODUCTION COMPANY. — thirty-four , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic .

hometown: seoul, south korea.

( + ) visionary , composed , diplomatic , gallant.

( - ) ruthless , secretive , perfectionistic , shut-in. tragic flaw: equates control with safety—believing if he feels nothing, nothing can break him.

secret: he orchestrated a quiet product recall years ago—not to protect consumers, but to bury a contamination issue that could’ve exposed deeper negligence within the company. a smaller subsidiary took the fall, employees lost their jobs, and the story never reached the public. min-jun rebuilt the brand’s image flawlessly… while keeping meticulous records of every corner he cut, just in case he ever needs leverage—or a way out.

RISHU NANDI ⸝⸝ rome flynn. SOUTHEAST ASIAN PRINCE. — thirty-four , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: kathmandu, nepal.

( + ) diplomatic , cultured , nurturing , socially graceful.

( - ) sheltered , entitled , naive , overly trusting of polished facades.

tragic flaw: trusts appearances over reality—he believes the world as it is presented to him, not as it truly functions.

secret: he funds and secretly participates in an underground humanitarian network that bypasses royal protocol, redirecting palace resources to unapproved aid efforts. what he doesn’t realize is that parts of the organization are being monitored by internal court factions, and every “charitable act” he authorizes is slowly being traced back to him as evidence of political dissent.

YVES MARCELIN ⸝⸝ keith powers. CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY. — thirty-three , he/him , heterosexual , demiromantic .

hometown: chicago, illinois.

( + ) persuasive , sharp-witted , observant , practical.

( - ) morally flexible , cynical , resentful , judgmental.

tragic flaw: believes everything can be justified if he’s clever enough to explain it.

secret: his reputation was built on one impossible win—getting a clearly guilty client acquitted on a technicality. what no one knows is that yves didn’t just argue the loophole… he engineered it, quietly tampering with a piece of evidence through a back-channel contact. the case made his career, but the man he freed went on to do worse—and yves has been justifying it ever since.

QUINWELL STEWART ⸝⸝ kofi siriboe. PASTOR. — thirty-two , he/him , heterosexual , heteroromantic.

hometown: birmingham, alabama.

( + ) charismatic , persuasive , emotionally perceptive , commanding presence.

( - ) lustful , hypocritical , controlling , image-obsessed.

tragic flaw: confuses authority with righteousness—believing his position justifies the lines he crosses.

secret: he has quietly engaged in multiple inappropriate relationships within his congregation, using his influence to blur boundaries under the guise of “spiritual guidance.” one former member has documented everything—messages, meetings, patterns—and has been waiting for the right moment to expose not just quinwell, but the entire system that protected him.

PAE TAE-WON ⸝⸝ lim jaebeom. VINTAGE RECORD STORE OWNER + INSTRUMENT RESTORER. — thirty-two , he/him , questioning , heteroromantic.

hometown: incheon, south korea.

( + ) nostalgic , attentive , patient , deeply perceptive.

( - ) withdrawn , emotionally guarded , indecisive , self-erasing.

tragic flaw: lives in the past to avoid choosing the present—he confuses preservation with progress.

secret: one of the rare instruments he restored and sold to a rising musician was stolen property, and he recognized it immediately but chose to keep it moving through collectors anyway. now the original owner has resurfaced, tracing the instrument’s history back to his shop, forcing tae-won to confront how far he’s been willing to bend ethics for the sake of keeping beauty alive.

MAURICIO ALICEA ⸝⸝ gabriel medina. LIFEGUARD & JUICE BAR OWNER. — thirty-two , he/him , pansexual , panromantic . hometown: san juan, puerto rico.

( + ) warm-hearted , adventurous , grounded , compassionate.

( - ) commitment-shy , impulsive , stubborn , unlucky.

tragic flaw: runs from anything that tries to anchor him—even the things he wants most.