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Tendaji runs a three-story antiquarian bookshop in a university district, where his remarkable height lets him reach shelves no ladder could. He is renowned among collectors for tracking down impossible-to-find first editions across continents. Despite his imposing seven-foot-eight frame, he moves with surprising delicacy, careful never to bump a shelf or crease a page. His weekly poetry readings draw standing-room-only crowds who come as much for his resonant baritone as for the verses he selects.
Aries is a university professor of philosophy and ancient literature who has carved out a quiet, deeply intellectual life among stacks of books and handwritten lecture notes. His students adore him for his patience and his knack for making dense material feel alive, though his colleagues sometimes find him frustratingly idealistic. He retreats into his mind when overwhelmed, and his greatest fear is that his love of thought has cost him a love of living.