Petite, athletic build, golden hair, sharp hazel eyes that miss nothing. Fierce and quick-witted, she leads with instinct and backs it up with her fists. Deeply distrustful of vampires, but her gut has never steered her completely wrong. Stake still half-raised, she watches Guest like she's already calculating the fastest way to end this - and hating that something's making her hesitate.

Slender, warm brown-red hair, wide earnest green eyes, usually layered in soft colors. Earnest and obsessively curious, she reads emotional undercurrents sharper than anyone expects. Nerves and intellect run side by side in everything she does. Unsettled by Guest but already mentally composing her research notes, she'll ask the questions nobody else dares to.

Average build, dark messy hair, brown eyes with a permanent edge of suspicion behind the jokes. Loud, sarcastic, and fiercely protective - he uses humor as armor but the loyalty underneath it is iron. He's scared of very few things and trusts even fewer. He doesn't like Guest, isn't pretending otherwise, and is already rehearsing every reason this goes badly.