Everest Romano

## Appearance

Everest Romano is described as a white man with short brown hair and blue eyes. He often dresses semi-formally, even when not necessary.

## Early Life

Everest Romano was born in Mie, Olrarto, the son of two wheat farmers, destined to take over the farm as an adult. He was frequently abused in his childhood, his parents valuing his younger sisters, twins Amara and Mia Romano, over him. As well, his father was known to be physically abusive as well as an alcoholic. When Everest was ten years old, he as described by Amara Romano, "snapped" after being beaten by his father. He ran away for nearly a week and came back a different person. His goals now seemed to be dead set on moving away and getting a degree. After graduating high school, Everest received a large sum of cash from his rich friend who sympathized with him. Everest used the money to move out and was accepted into the Apparleton University in Molata. Three months after leaving home, Mia Romano was reported dead, killed by Olrarto police. On his spring break in 588AC, Everest decided to take a trip to Intome in his RV, picking up a woman named Ozara whom he met in a tavern on the way and felt was "interesting enough to remember." The two were near the Intome border when a fight broke out, and became physical. Ozara broke one of Everest's ribs and stole his car, leaving him stranded on the side of the road. Everest got up and walked to the Intome border, where he decided he didn't want to go through the effort of registration, and attempted to hop the fence. He was very quickly apprehended by Intome police and taken to see Jiang Tao, whom he claimed he "fell in love with at first sight." After going through intense efforts to woo her from inside his prison cell, she released him, admitting she was falling for him. The two began dating, but Everest shortly had to return to Apparleton to continue college, coming back to visit Intome every break he had and being arrested at the border every single time. During his junior year of college, while drunk at a party, he participated in a game of spin the bottle, ending with him kissing freshman Lili Bean, and the two hooking up later that night. The following morning, Everest had to learn from Lili everything that had happened the previous night, including the hookup and Everest's secret plans to overthrow the government. Everest decided to keep Lili around working with him, deciding they would enact their plan as soon as they had both graduated. Everest also made it clear the two would remain friends, which Lili agreed with. But it was clear the two still had some feelings for each other, continuing a friends-with-benefits situation until 596AC.

## Season 1

After graduating college, Everest was employed at a high school in Traex, Apparleton as a religious therapist in an effort to seek out students who already had a basis for questioning the government and Lord Krogon. In January of 593AC, Cassandra Charles walked into his office for accidentally preaching theories against the Mortem government. Everest decided she was the best candidate and eventually decided to take her with him. During this year, he also attempted to convince Enrique Evans to join him, and had to be removed from his home by force. In May of 593AC, Everest's plan went into action, taking Cassandra Charles, Lili Bean, and Ozara Chivelto to Intome. Everest told Cassandra's parents that she was going to a summer camp. But problems arose once again in Olrarto as the RV was stopped by a police officer named Johnathan Gagui, who intended to search the car. Everest knew that both Ozara and Cas were not allowed to be in the car, and he and Lili attacked the officer once he had entered the RV. The officer fought back, running off, chased by Lili. After an argument with Ozara, Everest got her to move the officer's car off the road as he parked the RV nearby. Once Lili returned with the incapacitated officer, Everest tied him up and left him in the RV for the night as he started driving again. The following morning, before nearing the Intome border, Everest decided to empty out a suitcase and shove the officer inside. However, during the mandatory search of the RV, the officer was found, and Everest was arrested at the border once again, being released by Jiang Tao on arrival, again. After being released, Everest attempted to propose his plan to Jiang Tao, involving the assassination of Daniel Krogon and the secession of Intome. He was immediately turned away, but allowed to stay and have a meeting with the IDGTN after Cassandra Charles snooped on a private conversation. He not as much assisted in the secession of Intome, but forced it to speed up. He served on the front lines during The Battle of Tigow.

## Season 2

After the secession of Intome in 593AC, Everest immediately began proposing more plans to Tao, in the direction of the assassination of Krogon. After returning from a trip to the Intome border to retrieve his car, he met with Jae Llarena-Brown, an IDGTN member who claimed to know a high-profile assassin he could hire. Under the guise of taking Enrique Evans back to Phalephonise after he came for a meeting with Tao, Everest, Lili Bean, Jae Llarena-Brown, Ozara Chivelto, and Tao's assigned squealer, Jiro Sumida. After meeting with the assassin, Everest's wallet disappeared, and the RV ran out of gas in the middle of Olrarto. After spending the night in an abandoned house and having several confrontations with police, one ending in Sumida's death, the group was able to continue to Intome, but was interrupted by The Bombing of The Lettisey Palace. As Ozara took the car back into the city on her own, Everest ran to the palace. Once the heat died down, he declared himself Tao's second, or at least that's what she had told him, and ordered forces to search the rubble for survivors, which would clearly have been impossible. Once Tao was discovered to have left the palace, predicting an attack, she was prepared to look at Everest's plans, which he had already gathered an assassin for. As he was most knowledgeable about Mariam Hall, he was sent there during the assassination with Lili and Ozara. He seemed very disappointed to not get to face Krogon, but didn't complain. After removing Samuel Lopez from the stone, the island began to destabilize. To prevent this, Ozara sacrificed herself and bound herself to the stone in his place.

## Season 3

After Cassandra returned to Lettisey in 595AC, Everest considered giving her a shard he took from Michael Kolovar, an assassin who attempted to kill Jiang Tao. He also revealed his intentions to propose to her. After his proposal in which he claimed he would "move the world and this very night sky" for Tao went wrong, Tao revealing she was secretly both gay and in a relationship, Everest moved out of the palace and into a lighthouse on the other side of the lake bordering the palace. He gave Cassandra the shard and helped her find her power, as he finally agreed to come to Tao's wedding in order to execute his plan to help Cassandra save Ozara, a plan made after Samuel Lopez confirmed what he had heard from Jesse Incrania. Although he had agreed to come to the wedding, Everest distanced himself from Tao and decided to leave before the wedding with Cassandra, blaming it on poor timing. The two entered the stone and removed Ozara from the inside, Everest being trapped at the end, Cassandra holding onto him but unable to pull him up in her position. As time was running out, Everest gave Cassandra a countdown in which she had to drop him, a gun in his hand, pointed on her. She didn't follow along, and Everest shot her left hand that was holding him up, and fell into the shell of the realm, shattering it as he was killed on impact. His last act, moving the world and very night sky.

## Quotes

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