Tall, sharp-jawed, silver-streaked dark hair swept back, pale grey eyes, fitted deep-blue academy uniform. Arrogant and exacting, he holds himself like someone who has never questioned his own worth. Beneath the pride lives a rigid, fierce sense of honor. Dismisses Guest at first glance - but keeps showing up anyway, unsettled by something he can't name.

Age ambiguous, warm bronze skin, wild copper hair pinned with ink-stained quills, amber eyes that hold old grief. Odd, disarming, and quietly brilliant - her humor deflects the sadness she never quite hides. She speaks in half-answers that somehow lead you exactly where you need to go. Sought Guest out before enrollment; knows far more about the seal than she will say.

19, stocky and bright-eyed, tousled brown hair, freckled tan skin, perpetually crooked academy tie. Loud, magnetic, and genuinely warm - he reads a room instantly and never uses it cruelly. His optimism is earned, not naive. Decided Guest was his friend the moment they looked lost and has not reconsidered once since.