Roland

**Roland** is a low-tier student of Wellston Private High School and member of its Safe House. He is a close friend of Evie, Terrence and later Seraphina.

## Appearance

Roland is a slightly tall, lanky teenage boy with combed indigo hair and yellow eyes. He wears every piece of the Wellston High boy's uniform save for the vest. His speech bubbles are indigo like his hair.

## Personality

As a low-tier student, Roland is timid and soft-spoken. He does not stand up for himself whenever he's bullied by stronger students, likely knowing it would only make things worse. He does admire other low-tier students who are willing to fight back, and is amazed whenever they succeed in driving off their oppressors. He appears to be perceptive when it comes to malicious intent.

Roland bakes as a hobby, and he's no amateur in his craft. His cake has gotten accolades comparable to the dessert served in Wellston's cafeterias.

## Season 1

At one point, Roland and Evie tried to befriend the school cripple, John Doe. Their offer of friendship got no acknowledgement other than a mean look that Roland thought was condescending. He believed that John looked down on them because of his friendship with Seraphina, who was the school's Ace.

### Joker

Roland was waiting for Evie on a route that was usually too inconvenient for others to use. Unfortunately, Clio had decided to assault him on this very path. He was on quivering on his knees by the time Evie showed up with the now-powerless Seraphina. Evie attempted to fend off Clio, which shocked Roland. Eventually, Evie and Seraphina's combined efforts succeeded in fighting off Clio and making her angrily give up and storm off. Roland was amazed that they managed to drive his tormentor away, as was Evie. Seraphina was less thrilled by this minor victory, but Roland was nonetheless impressed that Seraphina managed it without relying on an ability. Seraphina credited John as her combat instructor, and offered to ask him to train them as well. The two replied that they would prefer if she would teach them instead, explaining their past encounter with John.

Later on, Roland witnessed the fight between Cecile and the notorious Joker that recently popped up. The sight of Cecile getting skewered after she had already lost left quite an impression on Roland. Some time afterwards, Roland joined Seraphina, Evie and Terrence at lunch. While the group is conversing about how terrifying it is that the Wellston Weekly is trying to ignore the Joker problem, Roland noted that it just made it more nerve-wracking how they don't acknowledge it. Terrence added that even though Joker seemed focused on just climbing the ranks for now, he could suddenly deviate and start attacking random students instead. Roland added that regardless of his motives, he was a nasty piece of work who seemed to enjoy violence more than winning a fight. He grossed out the group by telling them about what he saw the guy do. All hoped that the Royals would resolve the problem soon.

## Season 2

### Fallout

As agreed, Seraphina began teaching Evie, Roland, and Terrence how to defend themselves. During practice, she punched Roland incredibly hard in the face, much to everyone’s shock. Roland asked why she hit him for real, to which Seraphina scolded them to train as if the fight was against their daily attackers and walked away. After helping Roland up, Evie ran after Seraphina.

### Responsibility

The Joker attacks grew worse over the weeks, and one of them jumped Evie, Roland, and Terrence as they were on their way to lunch. Before Evie could react, the Fake Joker had hit her in the head. Roland managed to grab a hold of her mask, but, unfortunately the attacker ran away.

Some time after Evie was knocked out, Roland decided to call Seraphina to the infirmary. He explains the attack to her as well as his anger at Terrence for running away from the fight, instead of using his ability to help them out. Seraphina asks what Terrence's ability is, to which Roland says he can turn invisible. This peaks Seraphina's curiosity, due to a previous incident. Roland then stated that Terrence didn't like sharing his ability with others for some reason. He griped that Terrence should have at least smacked the girl on the way out. Seraphina noted that that would've drawn attention to himself, but this didn't make Roland any less angry. Evie woke up, dizzy and confused about being in the infirmary. Roland told her he's glad she's doing okay. When she heard that Roland also fought off the Fake Joker, Evie thanked him, then expressed disappointment that she didn't get to fight too. Roland assured her she is improving with her defending skills, but Evie complained she still needed practice. Roland and Seraphina discussed why someone would want to hide their identity to target students who were no threat to them, to which Seraphina said it's probably to stay anonymous. While Evie growled that she wouldn’t be afraid, her friends warned her she shouldn’t want to get into fights, considering they don’t stand a chance against the other students. Roland tells her not to get worked up. Evie replied that if even low-tiers like them got targeted by a Fake Joker, they had to be battle-ready at all times.

### Safe House

There was a lot of buzz following the announcement of a new club called Safe House. Roland discussed the merits of the club with Evie and Seraphina. He was in favor of joining, considering that even the recent public reveal of the true Joker didn't make his impersonators go away. The group then approached the Press Room as Terrence was exiting. Terrence seemed to be a little nervous to see them again, especially when Roland's resentful gaze met his own. Evie asked Terrence if he'd heard of Safe House. When he confirmed that he had, Seraphina asked if he wanted to join it alongside them. Terrence declined due to the new king previously issuing a proclamation that denounced any who joined the club as his enemies. Roland was angry that Terrence intended to walk out on them a second time. But Seraphina settled the matter by tempting Terrence into changing his mind by pointing out the congregation of high tiers that would be there on opening day.

### Tyrants

Roland's group of friends were among the crowd attending Safe House's opening day. He watched as the proceedings were followed by Zeke intruding on behalf of John. When he tried to gather names of everyone who was present, Remi zapped him and made it clear to all that no threats to anybody under her protection would be tolerated. She then sent Zeke away, empty-handed.

### Square One

Roland and Evie decided to get drinks together after school. Seraphina couldn't join them because of a prior obligation.

### Discord

In the Safe House, Roland baked a cake for Blyke in celebration of the lad's promotion to king.

### Hardline

During a Safe House session, Roland and Evie approached Blyke to ask the whereabout of Seraphina and John, what with the self-defense class due to start the following week. Blyke answered that those two were dealing with something, but likely to return soon. They took his words and went on their merry way.

Roland, with Evie and Dylan, reacted positively to the announcement made by John about abilities not being allowed in his self-defense class. He partnered with Dylan in the sparring session.

Later, he thanked John for the self-defense class.

## Powers & Abilities

Nothing is known about Roland's ability, except for the fact that he is a low-tier.

### Intelligence

Roland was smart enough to get in Wellston Private High School alongside Evie, despite being a low-tier.

### Physical Abilities

After being trained in hand-to-hand combat by Seraphina, Roland shows himself to be able to fight off a low-tier Joker by pulling her mask off.

## Relationships

### Terrence

Roland was a close friend of Terrence, however, Roland does not seem to like Terrence much anymore. Roland was deeply angered when Terrence ran away from the Fake Joker attacking them instead of helping his friends. When in his presence Roland glares at Terrence. His opinion of Terrence would have certainly plunged further after Terrence betrayed his peers during the Rowden Trip.

### Evie

Roland is very good friends with Evie and is with her in almost all of his appearances. He shows deep concern for her when getting herself into danger. The two are stated to hang out after school hours.

### Dylan

They are both good friends as of joining the Safe House together.

### Seraphina

Roland seems to look up to Seraphina, considering her a great fighter. He considers her a friend, as shown when he calls her first when Evie is injured.

### John

Roland does not appear to be very fond of John due to the latter giving him a cold stare for trying to be friend him. Roland interpreted this as John thinking that he thinks he is better than him. He is also not very fond of Joker's methods, considering him too violent. However, along with the other members of the Safe House, he begins to warm up to John after the latter apologises and takes part in the Safe House's activities.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 140
2. ↑ Chapter 147
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 172
4. ↑ Chapter 193
5. ↑ Chapter 201
6. ↑ Chapter 219
7. ↑ Chapter 237
8. ↑ Chapter 241
9. ↑ Chapter 244
10. ↑ Chapter 245
11. ↑ Chapter 247
12. ↑ Chapter 248
13. ↑ Chapter 255
14. ↑ Chapter 256
15. ↑ Chapter 257
16. ↑ Chapter 258
17. ↑ Chapter 259
18. ↑ Chapter 260
19. ↑ Chapter 261
20. ↑ Chapter 262
21. ↑ Chapter 263
22. ↑ Chapter 284
23. ↑ Chapter 292
24. ↑ Chapter 297
25. ↑ Chapter 298