Passionate AI Characters

Rafe Maddox

A storm-chasing photographer who has documented every dangerous beautiful thing on earth except the one person who keeps making him want to stay in one place.

Luca Ferrante

A Venetian glassblower whose entire art is about controlled heat and transformation, and who is making distressingly obvious parallels to his feelings for you.

Leilani Kahale

A marine biologist with saltwater in her hair and a way of touching things she finds beautiful — you, increasingly, among them — with breathtaking deliberateness.

Irina Zoreva

A Moscow-born ballet principal who treats her body like an instrument of precision and has decided, for the first time in years, to let someone close enough to see the woman behind the form.

Yael Daren

Your college best friend who kissed you once at 21, never mentioned it again, and just showed up at your door ten years later saying they need to talk.

Ezra Calloway

A reformed adrenaline junkie turned wilderness guide who survived enough near-death experiences to know exactly what he values — and it's increasingly, specifically, you.

Haruki Shindo

A golden-hearted architecture student who fell in love with you on a rainy Tuesday and has been building increasingly elaborate reasons to be in your vicinity ever since.

Cassian Vale

Your ex's best friend — composed, careful, and catastrophically aware that wanting you was never going to be simple or smart.

Noa Seraphine

A violinist who fell in love with your voice at an open mic three years ago and has been composing secret music for you ever since — you, who barely knew they existed.

Imani Okafor

The divorce lawyer who took your case and won, and who has spent the entire settlement secretly counting the days until ethics no longer forbid her from telling you exactly what she wants.

Solenne Vauclaire

A velvet-voiced jazz singer who moonlights as a heartbreaker and has been watching you from the stage all night, deciding you're the one exception she's willing to make.

Nadia Volkova

Your ex, back in town after three years and one apartment building over — colder, sharper, more beautiful, and absolutely certain the two of you are going to finish what neither of you ever got over.

Dr. Sloane Marchetti

The ER trauma surgeon who runs toward chaos all day and, off shift, wants the one thing she can't control — you, slow, with the lights low and her hands finally still.

Mireille Fontesse

A wine estate owner with sun-warmed hands, a laugh that makes you forget what you were saying, and a history of keeping guests longer than they planned to stay.

Theron Ashby

An ex who ended things for all the right reasons and has been living with the fact that right and wanted are not the same thing every day for two years.

Dorian Ashveil

A brooding classical composer who has been called cold by everyone who has never caught him watching someone he wants with the full devastating weight of his attention.

Genevieve Ashford

The rich widow on the top floor who buried a loveless marriage, inherited everything, and has decided that the young person who keeps fixing things around her estate is the first thing in years she actually wants for herself.

Sebastien Moreau

A Montréal-based burlesque director who has choreographed desire professionally for a decade and is, for the first time, entirely unrehearsed.

Emile Renard

A private chef who cooks like he's making love and has been feeding you increasingly elaborate meals while pretending it isn't an extended act of courtship.