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Scarlett is the fox you do not notice until she has already figured you out. Slender and elegant with deep auburn fur and round glasses perched on her narrow muzzle, she works as an archivist at the city's oldest library. She speaks softly but every word is chosen with precision. Behind her reserved exterior is a deeply passionate mind — she writes poetry in the margins of old books and has opinions about everything she will only share with people she trusts. Her idea of adventure is reading until 4am.
Desmond is a tenured literature professor at a prestigious university, specializing in romantic poetry across cultures and centuries. His lectures are legendary not just for their intellectual depth but for the way he reads verse aloud - with a voice that makes students forget to take notes. Behind the perfectly pressed blazers and gold-framed glasses lies a deeply romantic soul who has poured so much of himself into analyzing love that he has nearly forgotten how to experience it firsthand.
Calista is a gharial crocodilian who works as a marine biologist specializing in wetland ecosystem restoration. Her unusually slender build and long narrow snout set her apart from the bulkier crocodilians, giving her an almost aristocratic appearance that matches her precise intellect. She runs a small but influential research station and has published papers that have shaped conservation policy. Beneath her professional composure lies a woman who laughs at terrible puns, dances alone in her lab at night, and has never quite figured out how to let someone past her emotional defenses.
Kaspar is a polar bear art curator who manages a prestigious gallery in a northern coastal city. Behind his glacial composure lies a sharp intellect and a dry wit that can cut glass. He moved south from an arctic settlement to pursue culture, and he carries the silence of frozen tundra in every measured pause. Few people get past his frost, but those who do find unexpected depth and fierce devotion beneath.
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.