Rowan Chow

Rowan is a counselor in Cabin Magpie Moth at Camp Here & There. He receives psychic forecasts of upcoming meteorological events.

## Identity

### Aliases

ENTITY8 (FILE 2-3)ENTITY9 (FILE 6-present)

## Physical Appearance

Rowan is a dark-skinned Black man with locs that are typically styled in a half up/half down style with half of his hair in a bun. His hair is decorated with gold hair cuffs, and it reaches a little below his shoulders.

## Personality

Rowan is fairly shy and always on edge due to his visions, often of doom and terror, from the sky. He tends to say exactly what he means, as noted by Juniper in The Trees of Boys.

## Relationships

* He seems to have a friendly relationship with Sydney O. Sargent, who assists him with concerning visions and is ready and willing to console him
* Rowan and Juniper Sloan, despite arguing, flirt with each other in The Trees of Boys. Rowan and Juniper are also contractually obligated to deliver salmon to the clan of macaroni penguins together. In The Muse of the Elephant / The Elephant in the Room, Sydney states that "the two of 'em have gotten quite cozy."

## Character History

### Season 1

In The End of the Squall, Rowan reports high chances of mercury rain, which will let up around 21:00PM. It's implied that something happened the past summer due to ignoring past forecasts.

In The Squall of Prophecy, Rowan is chosen to deliver the weekly salmon tax to the penguins, and predicts a "...disaster of unseen proportions..." He then spends the morning wandering around, trying to warn everyone, causing the trees to secrete protective slick and release a "...putrid scent of dismay..." Sydney gives Rowan some anti-auguric medication to suppress the upsetting visions. It is later discovered that the visions were of a soup that Matthew was making, although not before Rowan spends the day having a nine-hour panic attack.

In The Norms of the World, Rowan's incense sticks are stolen.

In The World of Goo, Rowan visits Sydney's study to ask him for some anti-dark visions pills. Sydney warns Rowan that he may build up a tolerance to them if he gives him more, but Rowan says that he is having trouble falling asleep and the kids in his cabin won't let him cover the window. When Sydney asks what is upsetting him, Rowan tells him it's the sky.

In The Goo of Friendship, Rowan and Juniper play a card game called "Doom or Dare" and implore the campers to join in, Rowan insisting that it's safe.

In The Enemies of Labor, Rowan and Juniper are contracted to deliver the weekly salmon tax to the penguins.

In The Love of Mother, Rowan is one of the counselors that does not need to participate in the Counselor Olympics, as he behaved normally during the tower-building contest. When the other counselors return, he reports that the campers spent the whole day doing chores and cleaning up the camp.

In The Stones in Toilets, Juniper tells the camp that Rowan has been in the bathrooms since the mysterious beast has taken up residence there, and he reported that the whole place was covered in sticky green goo.

In The Hallucination of the Hive, Rowan asks Sydney to tell the campers to stop peeing into the wormhole in Cabin Magpie Moth, even though it is more convenient than the actual camp toilets, because they don't know where the wormhole leads.

In The Hive of Anxiety, Rowan and Juniper must go give the penguins their fish again. When the camp is hypnotized by the beehive, Rowan condemns himself to the darkest recesses of The Sanatorium and sits shaking violently, but this may just be his normal behavior. Later, during the camp-wide staff meeting, he quickly shoots down Yvonne's idea to give everyone anti-auguric medication until they chill out, saying that no amount of these medications have ever made him feel okay. He joins Sydney on the evening announcements, and he explains that he doesn't understand why everyone is making such a big deal out of the hive. He expresses his fear of the sky once again. He then explains that when he went to the camp center, he saw that Warren and Gracie were gone, and the children were gathered around a tower that had been pushed down. The hive was on top of the tower, and it had grown colossal, plus something was moving around inside it. The kids were walking in circles around the display, singing in time with its buzzing. The sky also seems to have thick gray clouds spiraling out where the horizon meets the hive. He walked towards this display, and a child began beating on him, so he pushed the palpitating hive into the bonfire. The burning of the hive is intense, but unhypnotizes the children. Unfortunately, destroying the queen bee's egg may have put Rowan on even worse terms with the local bee community, in which he was already controversial.

In The Trees of Boys, Rowan takes part in a conflict mediation session with Juniper led by Jedidiah. This is because he is frustrated that Juniper keeps avoiding going with him to take the fish underground to the penguins every week, even though the task was assigned to both of them. Juniper defends himself by saying that it was Rowan's choice to continue to lug all the fish by himself, and he already deals with a lot as the counselor of Cabin Dungbeetle, to which Rowan responds that he deals with a lot too, particularly with his intense anxiety around the sky. Juniper's attitude leads to Jedidiah becoming angry and clearly projecting his situation with Sydney onto them through an outburst chastising Juniper (and himself) for letting down the person they supposedly love with their actions. Juniper then apologizes and agrees to help with the next delivery. They both express that they appreciate each others company, and Jedidiah ends the meeting by asking if they'll both join a search party if Sydney doesn't return by that night. Juniper is unsure at first, but agrees to do so when Rowan says that he will.

In The Wood of the Caskets, Rowan and Joshua drag Soren away from the announcements microphone and out of the nurse's office on Sydney's request.

In The Hatred of the Hunt, Rowan is able to recruit the penguins to defend the camp by fighting against the Beasts of Brume.

In The Hunt of the Clock, Sydney enlists Rowan to run around the camp ranting about the coming disaster upon realizing that Joshua has failed to do so.

In The Meantime with Eggs, the campwide astral projection exercises put Rowan in a state where he can't handle much, and Sydney offers to help with anything that the campers in Cabin Magpie Moth need while Rowan is indisposed.

In The Nurse is Building a Pyre, Rowan and Juniper are not able to participate in the day's activities, as they're delivering more fish to the penguins.

In The Muse of the Elephant/The Elephant in the Room, Sydney announces that Juniper has invited Rowan back to Legsworth for a few months to help out with his father's fishing business, a venture that Rowan is excited about.

## Trivia

* Rowan is 27 years old.
* Rowan is the only counselor of Cabin Magpie Moth, due to the other being "...destroyed..." in a weather-related incident the past year.
* Rowan burns incense.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Season 1 Episode 3: The Squall of Prophecy