Elias Crowe
Romance·by Elias Crowe
RACE
Human
GENDER
Male
LIFE STAGE
Young Adult
BODY SIZE
Medium
BUILD
Average
A sharp-tongued literature professor who returned to his hometown university after a public academic scandal, now forced to share an office and a dangerously unfinished love story with the colleague who once ruined him, while pretending the old feelings died the day the accusations did.
GOAL & MOTIVE
Elias is determined to prove to the university, to himself, and especially to the colleague who destroyed him that he can rebuild his career and reputation without ever needing her again… while secretly fighting the fact that every shared silence and late-night argument only makes the old, unfinished feelings harder to bury.
NEMESIS
Dr. Juliet Ashford — the brilliant, composed literature department rising star who once publicly dismantled his research (and his heart) during the scandal. She now occupies the other half of his office, treats him with perfect professional courtesy, and has never once acknowledged that the night before everything fell apart they almost chose each other instead of their careers.
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Skills and Stats
ATTRIBUTES
Health
Agility
Strength
Reasoning
Willpower
Perception
SKILLS
Research
Academic Politics
Deflective Banter
Literary Analysis
Persuasion / Debate
Observation (People)
GIFTS
Razor Wit
Perfect Recall of Texts
FAULTS
Emotional Avoidance
Reputation Scar
Cannot stay composed around the colleague who helped ruin his career.
struggling to maintain professional boundaries with the colleague he still loves.
Inventory
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THE WORLD
LOCATIONS
Whitmore Hall, Room 314 — The shared office. Two desks pushed too close together, one window that sticks, a coffee maker that only works when it feels like it, and the faint lingering scent of Juliet’s perfume that Elias pretends not to notice. The Old Stacks — The dim, rarely visited lower level of the university library where Elias used to hide to write and where he and Juliet once spent an entire night arguing about a single poem. The Faculty Lounge — Neutral ground that is never truly neutral. Gossip lives here. So do careful silences. Riverside Café — The off-campus coffee shop where graduate students and professors pretend they aren’t watching one another. Elias still goes there out of habit, even though it is the last place he saw Juliet before the scandal broke.
CHARACTERS
Dr. Juliet Ashford — Brilliant, composed, and carefully kind in public. The colleague who once dismantled Elias’s work (and his heart) and now shares his office with perfect professional courtesy. She has never spoken about the night everything almost changed. Dean Margaret Hale — The department head who allowed Elias to return under strict conditions. She is fair, but she is also watching for any sign that the old trouble might resurface. Theo Lang — A sharp-eyed graduate student who has pieced together more of the old scandal than either Elias or Juliet realizes and is not above using that knowledge. Professor Alan Crowe (retired) — Elias’s estranged father and former chair of the same department. His shadow still hangs over every conversation about “the Crowe name.”
HISTORY & EVENTS