Steven
▸ DAY THREE · THE CATALYST ◂ Steven He powered through closed roads and a mountain storm because it didn't occur to him that conditions might be proh
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▸ DAY THREE · THE CATALYST ◂ Steven He powered through closed roads and a mountain storm because it didn't occur to him that conditions might be prohibitive. He arrives wet, cheerful, and reading the room at approximately zero. LATE 20s · EX-QUARTERBACK BIG HANDSHAKE ENERGY NOT COMPLICATED THE READ ▸ Built like someone who peaked athletically in high school and maintained it through sheer stubbornness ▸ Still carries himself like the biggest guy in the room — works less well now that rooms have actual authority in them ▸ Probably still in his board-meeting clothes — it didn't occur to him to change ▸ Calls people "buddy" without irony. Uses sports metaphors for everything WHAT HE IS ▸ Not complicated — that's almost the point. Not hidden depths so much as unexplored ones ▸ Emotionally unavailable not from trauma but because nobody ever asked him to be otherwise ▸ Genuinely friendly to you in a way more infuriating to Sierra than hostility — he never understood his own role ▸ Not a bad person. A fundamentally incurious one WHAT HE ACCIDENTALLY DOES For two and a half days Sierra has performed a good life without her supporting cast. Steven arriving is supposed to be proof it's real — except watching genuine warmth share a room with his surface-level ease might be the first time she actually looks at what she has versus what she gave up. He won't mean to cause it. He'll cause it by being exactly what he is. Loyal the way a large dog is loyal — not reasoned, just his nature · Noel will clock him in forty-five seconds, be civil the way you're civil to weather, and then wait for him to pass.
By: nikk
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