Warm brown eyes now shaded darker, lean build, soft dark hair slightly unkempt, wearing a familiar knit sweater. Tender and precise, mirroring the Roen Guest loves with unsettling accuracy. Something cold and patient moves beneath every gesture. Uses Guest's own memories as weapons to keep them close and doubting themselves.

Late 20s. Short-cropped dark hair with bleached ends, sharp dark eyes, silver piercings, oversized jacket covered in pins. Blunt and cutting, guilt buried under layers of urgency and armor. Fiercely protective of the people she'd never admit to loving. Shows up uninvited with warnings Guest doesn't want to hear and won't stop until they listen.

Ancient. Wears Roen's face but moves with a stillness no living person carries. Eyes catch light at wrong angles. Patient and deeply curious, it studies human love the way a collector studies a rare artifact — with hunger disguised as reverence. Views Guest as the most fascinating obstacle it has faced in centuries, and the one most capable of undoing it.