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## Appearance

Cerulean’s appearance is a common subject, often behind comments either objectifying him or mocking him. He is light-skinned, of 5’8” height, and has a very built upper-body. To make up for his shortness to other males, he keeps himself physically apt, with his “closest you’ll get to a six pack” abs, and “these guns” arms he flexes when he opts out of carrying a weapon.

His eyes are a deep blue color, understandably mistaken for being purple in most lighting. He has bristly, strawberry blonde hair that grows out in various directions. It is so bizarre that it has been dubbed the “Rorschach hair,” though Cerulean and his brother, Shane, get it from their father, whose last name is Johansson.

In contrast to his strong bone structure and overall masculine appearance, Cerulean has thick eyelashes that people sometimes ask him if he is wearing eyeliner. However, he has never worn such and has no interest in experimenting with make-up, nor do anything similar to cross-dressing.

Cerulean does not have a set fashion style, as he is usually depicted in different outfits based on the situation. As part of the Chicago organization team, he wears a gray button-down jacket with a darker stripe going down from the sleeves of the shoulders to the wrists, and ‘Rorschach’ embroidered on the right breast. Casually, he wears a sweat jacket and sweatpants, and in formal wear, he dons a bowtie instead of a tie.

Depending on whom you speak to and their interests, Cerulean will be described as “cute,” “hot,” “handsome,” or “sexy.” Notwithstanding, he is usually found attractive and this has led to many people either developing crushes or feeling inferior around him.

Oftentimes, Cerulean will be making very odd faces when reacting to things, as he is very expressive. People like to make fun of this, and will compare him to a bunny, due to the similar innocent and frightened energy he carries. To further the comparison, he subconsciously wiggles his nose or holds his mouth open where his front teeth are visible. Another look he takes on is a “deer-in-the-headlights” one, when he knows some sort of secret and it comes up in discussion.

Ironically, he is not a bad liar for things that carry a bigger purpose, but small lies are usually seen through much faster than the former. As a professional communicator, he uses a lot of mannerisms and tones that allow him to captivate audiences and convince people to listen or believe him.

## Personality

Cerulean is a social being, who is very responsive and sympathetic to people around him. His personality is unpredictably predictable: he changes his attitude and responses based on who he is with (usually what pleases them), making him “predictable” to some people. However, his compassionate, loyal, and conscientious qualities do not change, which make him quite likable. He uses the word “friend” in most of his speech, toward friends, foes, strangers, and criminals alike.

He is not the brightest crayon in the box, but he does have a high emotional intelligence, giving him the ability to be astoundingly sympathetic and empathetic to people, even strangers. This helps him connect to them on a personal level, which leads them to open up about private or sensitive topics as early as first meetings. Because he is able to recognize his own and others’ emotions, he can solve problems, especially interpersonal ones, efficiently.

While Cerulean uses his EQ for good, he also has the capacity to micromanage and manipulate situations to turn out how he thinks is best. His high confidence in his intuition and abilities make him stubborn for things he does not see eye-to-eye about.

Sometimes Cerulean will shut down his emotions to reevaluate situations objectively for work and problem-solving, but he can also do so when provoked or cornered. This process involves him pinpointing and targeting weaknesses he identifies in people (ones they might not yet even understand themselves), drawing out specific evidence, and stating a raw conclusion.

Cerulean is described to live in a bubble, as he is typically happy and eliminates a lot of negative feelings in his life, such as insecurity, sadness, and anger. This can rub people the wrong way in serious situations, but others like his optimism and lightheartedness. He has a history of being a bystander for wanting to stay neutral in situations or simply being oblivious due to how happy he is in his life.

Because he is very confident and comfortable with himself, he is not ashamed to like things such as theatre, cooking, dancing, anime, and VOCALOID music. On the other spectrum of his hobbies and interests, he enjoys a lot of stereotypical “boy” things, like sports, video games, and exercising.

Sometimes Cerulean can be annoying, as he asks stupid questions and whines a lot. He has a number of phobias, some including fear of the dark, heights, fire, caves, blood, and sharp objects like knives and needles. When he is under stress, but not directly at anyone, he apparently has “27 defense mechanisms.” Some of these include craning his neck and rubbing it, stress-eating, speaking quickly, wiggling his nose, and harmonizing a random song (“somewhere over the rainbow,” “I see trees of green,” “is this the real life?,” “why can’t we be friends?”).

in addition to his stubbornness, he is rather traditional when it comes to society and the system. While his views align with a liberal’s, of these he believes in order, following rules, and upholding human morality. Being extremely extroverted, he hates isolation, and needs people to bounce his ideas off of. He cannot handle uncertainty, dismissing his feelings, and a lack of emotional support in an environment. If he is not appreciated for what good he does, he becomes bitter and passive-aggressive, as he needs to be validated and rewarded for his achievements. Sometimes this includes publicly humiliating people he is targeting when he desires consolation in his feelings. If others, apart from the victim, do not agree with him and call him out, he will heavily victimize himself, claiming you cannot invalidate how he feels in the end.

Though he has mostly grown out of this habit, he can be very airy to others, under the premise he is being “sensitive.” This includes him asking things in roundabout ways and using the phrase “kind of” to lessen the impact of harsh criticism. (Such as, “you’re kind of no fun sometimes, friend.”) Cerulean has managed to sharpen up a lot of negative parts of his EQ and personality over the years, making him a friendly and tactful man. His most underdeveloped emotion would be jealousy, as it is rare for him to develop intense feelings in relationships and he is very self-assured, making him barely recognize jealousy when it occurs.

In spite of the trauma he has endured, Cerulean’s goal is to achieve lifetime happiness.

## Biography

### Early life (19xx-xxxx)

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Cerulean was born to Nadia and Benjamin Johansson on November 26th, 2003, in Chicago, Illinois. He was a friendly and energetic child, who liked to go around and talk to all the adults. His intense feelings made him quite sensitive, though this was just the beginning of his emotional intelligence. When Nadia had Shane on March 18th, 2008, Cerulean felt his entire life change and revolve around his brother. He became almost inseparable from Shane, always asking to take care of or play with him.

Later that year, he befriended Mason Solis in K-4, and to him (and anyone that would listen), he would boast that his brother was the cutest and best. Cerulean once attempted to bring Shane in for show-and-tell, but Nadia caught him on the way out the door. Instead, he brought in a picture and Mason asked if Cerulean was adopted because he was the only blonde in the family. Cerulean got very offended, but the two became better friends as Cerulean continuously tried to prove to him his life was perfect and he was not adopted. As their parents got to know each other, they frequently went over to each other’s houses, where the brothers met Mason’s sisters, Brenda, Daniela, and Stacey.

Cerulean remained possessive of Shane and got jealous when he liked playing with Mason. Otherwise, when he was not with Mason, Cerulean hung out with Stacey and Daniela during those visits.

As Cerulean grew up, his happiness and “perfect life” began to diminish. He found he could not read books or watch movies without becoming emotional for everyone, his conversations with adults started to feel a lot heavier on his heart, and he was hyper-aware of kids’ words and intentions in school. His constant fear of saying the wrong thing or being judged for his emotional cognizance made him develop a social anxiety in 2nd grade.

Nadia and Ben never thought much of this, and instead wrote him off as being too sensitive, or shy for attention, as they knew he was otherwise very social. His anxiety got worse when his parents began to fight more during that age and for years after. Eventually, their verbal arguments escalated into physical fights and the negative environment made Ben leave the house for periods of time, presumably to gamble. His attention for Cerulean and Shane became materialistic and shallow, and conversely, Nadia became a more cross and greedy woman, even taking money out of Ben’s wallet to take care of her sons. Soon, speculation of affair came up, until Cerulean found a picture of another woman in Ben’s nightstand.

The first time Cerulean can recall his father crying was after the divorce was complete and him and Shane were being taken away (12, 2016). For the next few years, Cerulean and Shane saw Ben every Sunday until he started college.

Between his parents’ failing marriage and the divorce process, Cerulean underwent a lot of emotional distress. He and his brother spoke to the school social worker separately about the fighting and would use puppets to depict their fights. After learning about his phobias, anxiety, and social quirks, Cerulean was under diagnosis for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Avoidant Personality Disorder, but was written off for all three because he showed contradicting qualities to his symptoms.

Mason was the only one from school who was aware of what was going on in his home, bringing the two much closer for later years. However, Mason was not aware that Cerulean began developing an eating disorder, which originated as binge-eating and later transitioned to bulimia nervosa. Early on, especially by the age of ten, Cerulean would constantly eat to deal with stress and keep himself occupied. He never did anything to compensate his excessive intake, causing him to gain a lot of weight. Near the end of junior high (12), Cerulean began to lose weight through excessive exercise and “dieting,” which was actually him starving himself for most of the day.

This appeared to pay off in high school, as he was very active and seemingly healthy for athletics. While his parents had been divorced for over a year, he tried to turn a new leaf on everything that had occurred in his life by then. He joined the jock social group, became very popular among both students and teachers, and looked to have put the past behind him. He stayed friends with Mason, Minh-Chi Nguyen, another girl in their grade, and already had a leg-up with being close to Stacey. In 10th, Cerulean became much more focused on his social life and sports, pushing aside his previous priorities in Shane and being emotionally receptive.

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In 9th grade (2018), Cerulean landed the distinguished position of quarterback on the football team, and he was the top-ranking runner on the track team. He met most of his lifelong friends this way. In 10th, he met Julian Delgado, the new wide-receiver, and Ayse Erdemir, a new cheerleader under Minh. At the end of the school year, he met Quentin Roger: Ayse’s boyfriend, an 8th grader, and son of the new English teacher, Mr. Roger. Quentin tried out for football the following year, but failed tryouts, making him sign up for track instead. Cerulean had what he thought was a friendly competitiveness with him as they became friends.

Near the end of his junior year (2021), Cerulean had calmed down and was much more involved in Shane’s life again. Cerulean and Mason remained best friends throughout high school, though Cerulean had many doubts over those years as Mason never initiated contact with him outside of school and their friendship appeared peculiar compared to Cerulean’s usual social groups. Nonetheless, Cerulean also befriended the band kids Mason hung out with in school, furthering his friendship with Aaron Taylor, Shane’s best friend.

The beginning of Cerulean’s senior year was less pleasant, as Julian and Quentin launched a rumor about Mason being gay and in love with Cerulean. Due to Mason being awkward about it and putting faith in their relationship to not let it bother them, Cerulean began decreasing contact with him in hopes their friendship would simmer out. Cerulean’s bystanding in the bullying made Mason attempt to drop out of high school, though Shane confronted Cerulean later on for him to do something. Mason himself eventually returned to school and cornered him for the same reasons, but their conversation was recorded by Julian, who edited and posted the clip, portraying Mason to be unhealthily in love and controlling of Cerulean. The entire event led to a big fight outside of the school in December of 2021, where he, Quentin, Julian, and Shane were punished. They were given community service hours until the next semester, while Nadia canceled her sons’ Christmas that year.

Cerulean had a number of falling outs with friends, due to a tendency to treat everyone like his best friend. When they saw he was this personal with others, they became jealous and insecure. He initially tried to assure their importance, but he eventually gave up and “ridded of the negativity” by completely cutting off contact with them and letting others defend him.

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After graduating (2022), Cerulean received a sports scholarship for the University of Chicago, where he studied and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, and won various track medals (2026). In his first year, his group of friends branched out considerably, but he became notably good friends with Mason’s roommate, Wallace Wells, and an English student, Nathaniel Adams.

In his first year, he spent a weekend with a trackmate, who noticed Cerulean’s eating and exercising habits. He remarked he had the eating disorder, bulimia nervosa. Not wholly familiar with it, but offended nonetheless, Cerulean asked for more information. The man said his sister had it, so he thought he also did. Cerulean sought out a campus social worker, but she dismissed him, stating he never threw up after he binged-ate, and was a varsity player, whose amount of exercise was natural and expected. Cerulean felt bad about self-diagnosing and let it go.

In his second year, Cerulean would drive Quentin and his cousin, Ron, to school every day. During these mornings, he began noticing Quentin’s behavior changed significantly after a track injury. He and Julian later suspected Quentin got addicted to his prescribed painkillers and was now actively doing drugs in secret. The two confronted their friend in December of 2023 and convinced him to go into rehab.

In the beginning of Cerulean’s third year, he and Wallace skirted around the idea of having crushes on one another, going on “friendly” dates and flirting a lot. This never took off, and especially died down when Cerulean joined the Chicago organization.

Led by Gideon Rowan, Cerulean was personally recruited for the Chicago team in January. Rowan remarked Cerulean was influential in the community, as many people were connected to him. Since Cerulean was studying communications and intending to become a public relations specialist for marketing, Rowan asked him to reconsider and be his team’s PR at once.

Not immediately convinced, Cerulean was explained what the organization’s purpose was and how it would be more significant than anything else he’d do in his life with a regular job. When he heard of all the normal people that were affected by serial killers and other criminals daily, he was drawn in to help stop these “ripples” that could one day affect his friends and family, especially Shane.

He promptly joined the organization, moving out of his apartment mid-year and into the tower of the Chicago team. There, he was immediately situated into the “elite unit,” where he met Sydney Echevarria, an engineer genius; Tadashi Matsumoto, an astute behaviorist; Astrid Nyström, a mathematical whiz; and Esther Laine, a punctilious archivist.

That year, Cerulean came across a science forum that was hideously constructed. Baffled by how poor it was, he made an account and was instructed to go on the main thread (the only one on the entire site) where random science facts were posted, along with ridiculous science experiments by the owner of the site, James Faraday. Cerulean there became friends with James, and later Victor Bennett, a member of the site and real life friend of James’. Cerulean invited Tadashi to the site to make fun of it with him, but the four eventually became online friends, and were later joined by Flynn Smith, a boy from Iowa.

One day, a troll joined the site and continuously spammed the main thread. In spite of James blocking their account, they continued to make more. James eventually asked Cerulean to talk to them instead, so he asked them to stop. When they refused, he asked if there was anything they wanted, and they said they wanted Skype premium. Much to their surprise, Cerulean went ahead and bought them it through a gift purchase. The troll revealed their self to be Yvette Delacroix, a 16 year-old girl, and said he was now her new best friend. Realizing that she was the same age as Shane, he instead directed her to him, feeling Shane needed more friends than just Aaron at his age.

In the first few weeks of joining, Cerulean and Astrid got very close and quickly fell in love. They began dating in secret, though Cerulean soon learned Rowan had his own crush on her - one that everyone in the team seemed to support and pressure Astrid into returning. Rowan similarly noticed how close Cerulean became with Astrid, leading to interpersonal tension.

When Astrid strayed off plans during missions, Rowan began cracking on her harder to channel his jealousy into an area he had control over her. Cerulean and Rowan began arguing more openly in the team when Cerulean noticed this, causing Astrid to feel guilty his position was at risk. To protect him, she broke up with him and began dating Rowan.

As no one in the team was aware of Cerulean’s and Astrid’s year-long relationship, the team was happy with this development. After four months of dating Rowan, Astrid “disappeared” in April of 2026, not only moving out of the tower, but clearing her entire “Astrid Nyström” identity. Without any way to contact her, Cerulean was heartbroken and confided in Tadashi about his true relationship with her.

Cerulean’s fourth year of college was dedicated to holding sessions to learn more about the concerns and unpopular figures in the community, as well as spread awareness to get people proactive about crime in Chicago. When he had doubts about his importance in the organization and if he could maintain lying to his loved ones, he was pep-talked by Robin Rayner, a profiler in the NYC team. He was touched by his words and decided to stay, feeling more determined to dedicate himself to the cause.

Apart from Astrid, Cerulean was popular with other members. He quickly caught onto Sydney’s crush on him, though he didn’t pursue anything with her after learning about Tadashi’s own crush on her just as fast. Nonetheless, Tadashi nicknamed him his “Rival,” and would jokingly get competitive with him over her.

Hilariously, Cerulean reciprocated those feelings for other reasons, namely their ability to read people. Cerulean became paranoid that Tadashi was constantly reading him, so he attempted to both mask himself and return the same treatment. He tried to prove himself as qualified to him in- and outside of missions, in spite of the fact Tadashi was assigned his mentor.

Cerulean continued going on dates outside of Astrid, though they were not serious and instead a part of his ‘one-date policy,’ in which he went on one date with anyone who asked. He always came out without investment, except for Julian, though it was consequential of them sleeping together after getting drunk at college parties (April-August 2026).

Their relationship became strained when people noticed them leaving parties together and Cerulean became paranoid about the casual relationship getting out. This was the first time he seemed to respond and shut rumors down, including the similar dilemma with Mason in high school. Their conflict worsened when Cerulean became critical of how Julian was handling it and if it were convincing enough. Instead of fully reflecting on what was happening as he usually would, Cerulean ignored his feelings and remained ignorant to their tension.

At the end of August, their relationship had spiraled downward. During a camping trip for varsity athletes, they had a big fight, which led to them sleeping together sober and finally cutting off their casual relationship.

Over the years, Cerulean continued keeping his work and personal life separate, and everyone he was close to eventually accepted that Cerulean kept them in the dark about some things. Notwithstanding, Cerulean continued to be the “glue” to his ultimate group of friends: Mason, Minh, Julian, Quentin, Ayse, Shane, and Aaron. He fell out of touch with Nathaniel, now Envy Adams, after his fame skyrocketed and he moved to California; and Wallace after he moved out of Mason’s apartment in 2026.

In 2027, Cerulean’s work became hectic after a shady prosecutor, Richard Sinclair, was murdered and a few of his big deals were released. Cerulean spent months with his team becoming acquainted with the plethora of information, in addition to investigating who killed him. Shortly after the murder, Rowan informed them that the team in Albany was attacked and killed, and the remaining New York City team had disbanded and gone into hiding.

For the following three years, the Chicago team fought against the perpetrators trying to eliminate the org: the prosecutor’s son, Blaire Sinclair, and his partner in crime, Ria Jäger. Their team was well-conducted by Rowan, and the duo continuously failed. Instead, over 100 other teams were eliminated or disbanded.

In the summer, Tadashi approached Cerulean with the theory the two of them were objective enough to maintain a casual relationship without ever developing feelings, thus they would be able to end it at any point and keep their current relationship intact. For the next three years, they recorded their sexual interactions and emotions, ironically bringing them closer as friends, until Tadashi replaced Mason as Cerulean’s best friend.

In August of 2030, the duo attacked again, but Ria was captured by the team during the two’s escape. Cerulean did not interact personally with her, and instead worked with Tadashi to analyze her interrogations.

In September, Rowan informed his team that he was going to NYC to work with Atlas, the founder of the organization, and help put her team back together. During his absence, Blaire attacked the Chicago team’s tower with more reinforcements. Without their leader, the group failed to hold against them, and Blaire and Ria took them back to New York as their hostages.

Over the next few months, Cerulean’s team underwent a number of trials, experiments, and interrogations. The elite unit was separated from the other 15 members, who were tortured into mental derangement and then discarded into the city. It was not long before Blaire an Ria noticed Cerulean failed all of their tests due to his phobias and emotional nature. They questioned his importance in the elite unit and separated him from the other 3 to evaluate him privately.

During the period of separation, Blaire personally worked with Cerulean so he could train him to be a “weapon” to their side. He tried different things to find what provoked him to make him stronger. He quickly learned, however, that Cerulean was very passive and would not fight. Blaire tried physical and verbal assault, before he took to sexual. Every Sunday for four weeks, Blaire taunted Cerulean to fight back “like a man” and “tell him no”, but Cerulean refused, leading Blaire to rape him each time.

Blaire became meaner with each passing visit, asking if he wanted or liked it, and mixing a lot of physical abuse into the sessions. Every morning after, Ria would tend to his injuries. In another experiment to turn the team members against each other, Cerulean was seemingly reunited with his friends, but Esther wrote him off as useless and weak to the team; Sydney stated he was too privileged to be a part of the org; and Tadashi verbally, physically, and sexually harassed Cerulean.

Days after, Rowan saved them and they merged with the New York City team at a temporary base. He also took hostage Roy Parker, an illicit detective and ally to Blaire and Ria. Sophia Valentine, another ally, showed up at their base looking for her colleague and his patient. No one seemed to know where they were, but Sophia asked for Roy to be released. They negotiated and she took his place for his freedom. Moments after the swap, the power went out and Sophia had disappeared.

Though shortly there, Cerulean deduced Roy was Astrid. While spying on him and another man getting chewed out by Blaire and Ria, he was almost caught (with a following ‘Tamako’, a.k.a. Tadashi). Cerulean managed to outrun all of them, but Ria and Victor interrogated Tadashi, until they waved him off as a simple schoolgirl and “fan of the detectives.” Sophia disclosed the base to Blaire and Ria later, and the team relocated to Jai Mathur’s apartment.

Cerulean was initially reserved and scared to talk to anyone, but after seeing no one was actually as aggressive as they were in the illusions, he opened up again. He learned about Barry Orin, their recently lost member, and became fast friends with Robin, who confided in him about his feelings for his best friend, Jai.

In December, the missing ally Sophia had asked for appeared in the apartment and offered a bigger base, if they assisted in taking Ria and Blaire down. This was the first time Cerulean and Tadashi met their online friend, James, in person.

The organization accepted the deal and the teams relocated to the Kopernik household. The owners were politicians recently killed that November by Blaire and Ria, leaving James to take care of his patient, and also their sick 14 year-old son, Wally Kopernik. In order to travel there, Cerulean learned about magic.

Cerulean continued stalking Roy into January, but when his boss, and online friend, Victor, caught him, Roy declined his confession. They embraced and had long-overdue closure.

On New Year’s Eve, James saved Jacob Reid and Rhett Archie, two missing children Blaire and Ria had hostage. January of 2031 immediately launched them into the investigation of the children’s case. Cerulean managed to get the org a foothold in the case, unlike previous big ones. He befriended Apollo and Avery Christos when he helped push their motorcycle out of the road. It turned out Avery was friends with Jacob, and Apollo was brother to Artemis Christos, wife of Arthur Atlee, who was the prosecutor of the case.

He attended dinner with them and met the Atlees, Borregos, Reids, and a few others individuals.

Cerulean said he was investigating Blaire and Ria undercover, who had recently been apprehended for their accusations, and got a position to interrogate them under the alias for the NYPD, ‘Melvin Lewis.’ He and the org made a plan to ascertain the duo would have no chance of walking acquitted.

During a picnic he attended with Wally, he offered help to Rhett, as his old therapist, Jai, was in the hospital. Rhett took advantage of this and made Cerulean sneak Jai’s cat, Salmon, in. His cat helped bring him out of his coma, so Cerulean called Robin.

The night before the case, James spoke with Cerulean and Tadashi in their bedroom at the Kopernik house; he explained how he freed the children and did the illusions. Cerulean and Tadashi didn’t take the illusion news well, but Cerulean became particularly anxious when he learned James had “decisive evidence” that he wanted ‘Melvin’ to present at trial. Cerulean suspected they were forged.

On the day of trial for Blaire and Ria, ‘Melvin’ was scheduled to testify and present evidence against them from his own investigation. When it was his turn to speak, James appeared and pulled him into the bathroom. The two changed clothes and Cerulean took up a third identity in the audience as a man named Daniel, husband of Tamako.

Cerulean witnessed James completely destroy the character he built ‘Melvin Lewis’ to be. He was no longer tenacious, straight-forward, and virtuous; instead, James played him as shady, aggressive, and coarse. Cerulean was concerned this would blow up the entire case, especially when Blaire and Ria zeroed in on his identity and reliability; meanwhile, this triggered Jacob’s memories. He accused James of being the rescuer, which turned the entire case on its head. As himself, James testified and continued similar behavior to ‘Melvin’, causing Blaire to snap and overpower two bailiffs.

Since James blew up his strategy, a huge target was put on Melvin, and before Cerulean could leave, Ria had come into the audience and shot him in the chest. Tadashi carried Cerulean out and he was sent to the hospital. He underwent surgery and attended physical therapy after the event, but refused psychotherapy in spite of being extremely traumatized by the event.

For the following weeks, Cerulean focused on recovery and continued working with the NYPD to capture Ria. He encountered her a couple of times, such as when she released him from an alley when learning he was not the same Melvin that testified against her, or when she joined him in a tree to save a cat.

James’ words became more foul as time passed with him. While chaperoning Rhett and his friends, a girl named Vivi Romero kissed Cerulean unexpectedly. James and Robin later accused him of encouraging her for not immediately turning her down, but Cerulean became offended, as he has rape trauma syndrome (RTS). Robin stepped back, but James took one further to say if they were lucky, Vivi would open a statutory rape case against him. This upset both Jai and Wally in the hospital room, and caused Robin to blow up at James.

Despite the rocky relationship, Cerulean became close to James’ best friend, Nicholas Massey. He learned a few things about him, like blood purity, his estrangement from his family, and his friendship with James.

Since the beginning of the year, Cerulean had continued his casual relationship with Tadashi, but due to his RTS, he became more emotionally dependent on the security it brought him. Although Tadashi confessed to him while they were drunk, Cerulean didn’t seem to reciprocate anything the following day. On Valentine’s Day, they finally slept together, which led to Tadashi falling in love with Cerulean.

Unfortunately, Cerulean seemed to more interested in Nicholas. At a party, he gave him a kiss, they spent a night together doing sexual favors, and confessed to each other. Sadly, they had to sacrifice their romance when it was discovered Ria had obsessive feelings for Cerulean and would kill threats.

This became apparent after a man Cerulean danced with in public, Clark Duet, was murdered, and then Jessy, Nicholas’ sister, a few days after that.

Cerulean had met Jessy at a park with Nicholas, where she and him made up. She also confessed to him a number of times, but he repeatedly rejected her because he was dating Tadashi. He stressed their bond to her following his rapes with Blaire, but it only prompted her to kiss him after telling him to rediscover his masculinity (and not be homosexual).

The day he met Jessy, he also met Axel Ventura. He had thought he was in trouble in a construction zone, but instead he just got robbed of his phone and wallet with Nicholas. He was saved by Ria, and she returned his things while telling him who Axel was. He and Nicholas reported the sighting to the NYPD the following day, including how Axel attempted assaulting him and verbally harassed Nicholas.

Though Cerulean did attempt breaking things off with Tadashi a few times, they would get back together, whether they were exclusive or open. He and Nicholas did not do much, outside of one kiss in a forest, where Cerulean believed he fell in love with him.

Apart from the org work, Cerulean seemed to befriend the Ferris twins, performing at their club a few times and getting ‘ten’ rates from Sophia. He also got very close to Robin, to the point they adopted a Shiba inu, a dog he rescued, together.

Tensions with James continued to rise, but the borderline-abusive behavior went purposely neglected by the org, to the point only Ria seemed to validate the problem to Cerulean. James would use magic on him, accuse him of being manipulative, and would mock his rapes, causing Cerulean to attempt quitting the org a couple of times.

In March, Cerulean received a call from Roy that Shane had contacted his Astrid account about him. Roy reminded him that he couldn’t disclose his mission or location, so Cerulean fabricated a story that he left them all to get a change of view, and thought it would be easier this way; this fooled everyone but Shane.

At the end of April, James had a custody trial for Wally. Cerulean was not concerned, expecting James to be on top of such a serious matter. He learned that that was not so, so he and Roy busted to save the case when James and Victor swapped bodies after a magical accident.

Sadly, James still lost the case to Wally’s cousin, Henry Grans, and Henry’s cousin, Stella. However, that night after trial, the two were found brutally murdered in their hotel room, and there was evidence Ria was behind it. When Cerulean went to find out if this were true, she denied it and accused James and Nicholas.

To get to the bottom of it, Cerulean deduced that only him, Nicholas, Quinn, and Axel knew her disguise since trial. In order to justify it, he assumed Axel was framing Nicholas and James, so then Ria would blame them and kill them for him.

In order to find Axel, Cerulean asked for him in the Ferris club, until three days later, someone passed him a note with an address. On May 3rd, Cerulean drove out to the destination, where he was ambushed, chained to a wall, and held hostage by Axel.

Cerulean told Axel his accusations, which the boy called “brilliant.” He promised to confess his crime, but would use him as a hostage to receive ransom money from the NYPD by airing his torture on hacked devices across the nation. Axel later chose James as his benefactor instead, demanding nine million dollars before midnight or he would kill Cerulean.

Axel sexually assaulted Cerulean, stabbed him in the stomach, and hammered long nails through his palms to a wall. After James provided the money, he and Nicholas rescued Cerulean. During surgery with James, Cerulean told him he knew they did it, and James confessed that it was an accident.

After the event, Mayor Barrett visited Cerulean, Nicholas, and James. He hailed them as brave heroes for preventing Americans witnessing something traumatic on their TVs, and were invited to meet the president in Washington D.C. to accept awards for their actions.

Cerulean received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for finding the truth in the Grans case, as well as a Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) for his work with the NYPD.

He was surprised by his family and friends when Shane ran up on stage prior to the awards and hugged Cerulean. The reunion became very popular in the media, as Cerulean sang him a song and they had both cried. During the ceremony, Cerulean gave a heartfelt speech, however James’ one was more foreboding. He threatened the security of America now that Axel had nine million dollars, and they shouldn’t be praised for playing a role in a bigger terrorist event to come. Nicholas damage-controlled the panicked audience to not be complacent, nor fearful, for the latter was likely Axel what wanted.

In an outside interview, Victor stated Cerulean would be going to psychotherapy after this. Cerulean immediately denied this and said he would continue working for the NYPD and trying to capture Ria. Victor argued that that was not recommended, and made a private request to the Chief of the NYPD to mandate psychotherapy for him. The Chief approved the mandate.

That night, Cerulean, with his friends and family, were invited to have dinner in the White House and conduct a late-night interview with Mr. Rote and Ms. Alejo. Unfortunately, James interrupted repeatedly to discredit or insult Cerulean, which was not tolerated by his group, especially Shane. He was forced to sit as far away from the family as possible.

James continued to criticize his EQ, claiming he wa manipulative and probably playing them as an alley to Ria. Cerulean hinted at dropping the truth about the Grans, causing Victor to reprimand James in the hall.

Cerulean did get emotional when asked to put his feet in Axel’s shoes. He found he was unable to empathize with Axel or understanding why he did the things he does. The question made him retrospective enough to begin having his first dissociative episode.

After the interview, the group (bar Nadia, his uncle Vaughn, and Wally) partied in an open-field with alcohol and marijuana. The night took a turn for the worse as Nicholas seduced James and they kissed, prompting a fight between them, him, and Victor. James eventually attacked Cerulean after he and Victor kissed, which led to Shane jumping into the fight, and both of them got shocked by James’ unstable magic. Later, Mason and Tadashi went missing, but Victor later informed Cerulean they had sex in the the woods.

Cerulean felt his important day was ruined by the people around him. However, the next day, he only called Mason out for his behavior. He attempted to cut him off as a friend in front of his friends, family, and colleagues, but Tadashi defended him by admitting to seducing him. They all seemingly put it to rest for the time being, and Cerulean went back to NYC to keep working.

On May 13th, while Artemis Brocklehurst was visiting with hate potions, he learned James had gone over to Terry Boot’s house. Uncharacteristically serious, he took Victor over and returned with James. It turned out that James had attempted hanging himself, due to the influence of a magical being named Mable.

At the hospital, Cerulean learned more about Terry from Nicholas. He visited James in the hospital room, but left when he got a call from Ben, who was in NYC. They arranged to meet, but Ben was an hour late, and then they went to a casino after dinner instead of seeing the city.

Cerulean called home to talk to Vaughn about it, but Shane picked up, so they talked about it. After, Shane got on him about his callout to Mason, who Cerulean claimed was never a good best friend to him. Shane got angry and accused him of cutting people off when they were no longer convenient or fun to him. The next day, he did call Mason however. Mason repeatedly apologized, and the two discussed their friendship. When Cerulean said a big reason he hung out with him was for his help in school, Mason began to cry.

Mason forgave him and they agreed to try to stay best friends.

The Kopernik house was tense for the rest of May. After a few weeks, James was released from rehabilitation and suicide watch.

At the end of May, Cerulean got texts that Shane was sabotaging a date Mason and Minh were on. When he told him about Julian and Quentin being on a date together at the same restaurant, he suspected something was wrong. He got a hold of Artemis, and sure enough, it was a love potion. After administering the antidote, he told Shane to contact him only for emergencies.

However, only two weeks later, Mason called Cerulean about a “League of Evil Exes” he needed to face if he wanted to date Shane, which he clarified he didn’t. Cerulean was with Ria, who investigated this league established by Gina Graves, a socialite and psychology major.

Ria said she would help, so Cerulean reported the case to his team. Rowan allowed Cerulean to go alone first with ‘Dr. Elliott Barrios,’ an alias Cerulean made up for Ria. For the League, Mason had battle against Shane’s seven exes, else Shane would be turned against him, Mason would be run out of Chicago, or he’d even killed.

For actress Lucia Lee, Cerulean helped Mason set up a big party at Coney Island to win their contest, which would determine who was “better” for Shane by being more popular. He had to mediate some differences in his friend group since the love potion, namely Quentin and Julian, as the former had been avoiding him since May.

The reunion of Mason and Tadashi made Cerulean jealous, causing him to humiliate him again at the beginning of the party. Robin addressed this later and they got into a small spat, but led to Cerulean apologizing to them both backstage. He confided he had never felt insecure in the way Mason was his opposite, therefore Tadashi being attracted to him translated to him liking what Cerulean wasn’t. Mason shut the belief down, and Tadashi assured they weren’t anything. Later, he got a text from Ria that Mason and Tadashi were hooking up in his rental car.

For Madilyn Patel, Rowan sent Robin and Tadashi back to Chicago with Cerulean, as they were familiar with the friend group. Unfortunately, the group failed to protect Mason when they fell for a false alarm that Shane was in danger. He got stabbed in the heart with a sword from the back, before he shortly died in Cerulean’s arms.

In desperation, he called James to save Mason. When he apparated over, he announced he was already dead, but Cerulean begged he do something. This was the first time James someone cheated death and saved someone magically, as he put the blood back in Mason’s body, circulatedd it magically, and jolted him back to life.

That night, Cerulean and Shane got into an argument when Shane said he missed Gina, which seemed out of place after what had happened to Mason. Ria solved this mystery when she found a chip in Madilyn’s, and later Shane’s, necks that was controlling their behavior and feelings. After removing them, Shane said he could finally say with full conviction that he hated Gina.

James informed that Mason was in critical condition and needed a heart transplant immediately. He got Victor, who chewed him out, to join and monitor Mason’s heart. Victor told Cerulean, Robin, and Tadashi that Death was a corporeal being in their world and that James had just cheated Him.

In his critical condition, Mason faced Tori Ingram in a bass battle, which furthered his heart issues. By the time he remet Envy Adams, who also had a chip and fought Shane earlier, the news they were exes had come out and he had a heart attack. He received CPR from Victor and then went to the hospital.

Before Mason had to face Gina, Ria had already captured and interrogated her, before scaring her enough to give the full story, evidence, and a guilty plea. Mason was rewarded $777,777, and everyone else involved received $100,000.

As things died down, another magical body swap accident occurred for Cerulean and Shane. James worked on a countercurse as the brothers tried to maintain a normal front, but Mason called the behavior out at the mall. It became largely apparent when Cerulean as Shane lacked his empathy and used his perception habits to analyze scenes. Shane’s crush on Mason led him to wanting to have “hate sex” with him. Meanwhile, Shane as Cerulean was unable to control his overwhelming emotions.

James had no choice but to reveal magic to his friends. The day got worse as Cerulean manipulated Shane, asking him if he loved him and would die for him. He also forced Shane to touch Mason inappropriately, pushing him closer to Envy, who got an impression the brothers were incestually involved.

When James found a countercurse method, he rushed over immediately with Victor, Robin, and Tadashi, but found Mason holding Shane, as Cerulean. It turned out that he asked him to prove his love by cutting and stabbing himself. James had to stabilize Cerulean as the brothers apologized to each other.

Tadashi and the others got an impression that Cerulean was reminiscent of Axel without his usual sensitivities. Over the next few days, things calmed down and Cerulean did a lot of physical recovery with James. Shane came to him about Envy and Mason reconnecting, and how Envy made him feel left out. When Mason approached Cerulean to inform him that he and Shane had a sexual interaction, Cerulean was very confused as to why he was sharing this. Mason told him that Cerulean had encouraged him to give Shane a chance and that he was alright with it, but Cerulean clarified that that was Shane during the swap. Cerulean and Tadashi then warned Mason that casual relationships did not work out and feelings would develop, as they knew best.

On July 4th, the friend and band kids hung out at the mall, until Envy arrived, saying Mason had his passport. When he and Shane arrived, Shane picked a fight with Envy, throwing out things Mason confided in him that morning, hitting Envy repeatedly with a metal tray, and banging his head against the floor. Cerulean knocked Envy out with the same tray when Envy got an upperhand.

The entire tie, Mason begged Shane to stop, even having a panic attack that went unnoticed. James determined Envy had a broken nose and concussion. He took him to the hospital and returned to give a rare lecture that Envy could have choked on his blood, had a blood clot, and still have either his singing impaired or cognition problems. Everyone deleted their evidence, and Julian and Cerulean got into an argument when Julian questioned Cerulean’s morals when alluding to the swap. Cerulean stated empathizing with Axel was one of the worst things to have happened to him, and that for all intents and purposes, it included when he was hostage to him. Julian quickly apologized, but Cerulean left immediately.

That night, the friend group went to the park to watch the fireworks. Shane told Cerulean Mason wasn’t coming and that he said he was done with him. Robin managed to get Mason eventually, and told Cerulean he bought and dropped off flowers for Envy.

The friend group apologized to Mason, but he criticized their maturity instead. They each promised to change, though Cerulean had doubts about Julian. During the night, Tadashi pointed out Quentin and Aaron flirting with each other.

After fireworks, Tadashi questioned Quentin, who responded negatively. The friends initially agreed Quentin seemed to show interest in Julian in the past, bu then tried to get Tadashi to back off when he pried about 10th grade. He confessed he didn’t like his friends uch during then, but Julian said he always saw Quentin watching him, and Ayse said she felt he was jealous of her and not Julian. Quentin confessed he might be queer, but he was very ashamed of it.

Tadashi pressed more, even when Quentin tried to walk off, and he eventually broke down. He said his father was sexually involved with his students, and why he didn’t want to be interested in boys, because he’d be like him. They found this very startling, as they were on good terms with Mr. Roger, and were not expecting this sort of secret to come about from targeting his sexuality.

While Aaron was comforting Quentin, he continued on to tell him he hated lying to them, but he specifically hated lying to Aaron. It led to him disclosing that he used to do drugs in his 12th grade year, and he got into rehab a few months after but relapsed five years ago. Cerulean and Julian were further shocked, as they did not know of the relapse either. They watched as Quentin sobbed in Aaron’s arms when sharing he saw Riley, his ex-girlfriend, overdose and die in front of him.

Everyone asked Victor, as a private detective, to not report it so Quentin could get out of the environment first. Julian promised Quentin he could come live with him in his new apartment and get away from it all.

The next day, Cerulean and the friend group said a final goodbye again. Before leaving, Cerulean told Julian to not get casually involved with Quentin, now that he would be openly questioning his sexuality. Julian promised he would not do that to him.

Cerulean returned to New York and things fell back into normalcy until July 13th. A lawyer of the Bennett and Van Arsdall law firm, Anastasia Ely, was murdered in an abandoned warehouse. Later that day, notes began appearing in various locations for certain people. This was the beginning of Axel’s comeback, which would be over two weeks of puzzles and hysteria.

It entailed the video of Ana being mutilated being sent out to Mason and Julian, random sightings of Axel at different locations - Mason’s apartment to Noah’s studio in NYC - and the scattered notes around the country. Cerulean did his best to collect them from everyone: Brennan, Flynn, Ayse, Judy, Darrell, Emily.

After their notes went missing, Harley brought Jacob in and said he had tracked and stolen them. She said he wanted to join, as he had the incentive and needed the chance, given he was sneaky enough to get the notes from under their noses. They did a vote, and Cerulean voted no. When it died, they revoted, and someone switched, giving Jacob membership.

As consequence to Ayse’s and Minh’s “Nonsense Game” the played for their note, criminals from a Chicago prison were released, airplanes were hijacked, bombs in buildings were set off, a fundraiser dinner was poisoned, and there was a huge traffic build-up on a main highway.To keep criminals contained in Chicago, the org went to capture the prisoners.

In spite of working to nearly dawn, the org woke up early due to Axel flooding parts of New Orleans. Before going, Quentin texted Cerulean about having a sexuality crisis. Rowan scolded him, so Sydney took his phone and told Quentin to go for it. Cerulean didn’t have time to fix the message and instead went to the Louisiana base with Harley, which was submerged in water.

On the roofs, Cerulean, the org, and the firm fought against Axel’s workers to stop the flooding. Cerulean and Harley respectively faced Seo-Yeon Lee and Matias Moreno. Eventually, everyone was taken out, until only Cerulea, Victor, and James stood against Axel, Stan O’Brien, and Ali Zayani. Although Cerulean was dedicated to standing his ground, James took off with Victor and left him stranded.

The workers were revived, adding Naoko Asato, Caden Fox, Mariana Dos Santos, Sethos Elsaied, Alastair Hollister, and Malaya Reyes. Axel approached Cerulean and asked him to submit. Cerulean refused, until Axel pointed out James had left him for his boyfriend, and he was all alone. He made Cerulean doubt his importance in the team, before he gave back James’ wand and told him he could leave. On Cerulean’s way back to the Portkey, the workers jeered at him.

At the house, Rowan told Cerulean that was untrue. while Robin yelled at James for doing that. Nicholas had apparently been the one that was retrieving the bodies of the firm and org, and defended that Victor could not be kept up there with hunters if they were revived. Still, he didn’t comfort James much on the abandonment, and everyone acknowledged that Cerulean got humiliated consequently.

This put another rift in the organization once again, and the team just focused on the notes. They had to do more activities, like creating a Safe List, figuring out what August 1st was, and determining who was being swapped in their predicted targets.

Cerulean got more information about Matias and Seo-Yeon from Ria, who was being excluded by Axel. She brought up how James had mistreated him again when Cerulean had to shamefully walk away from the workers on the roof. Cerulean agreed, and it was the first time he began considering working with her over his organization.

When he gave the information to the org, James accused him of cheating for getting his information from Ria. Rowan initially agreed that he was not to contact her, but Cerulean argued that it was information nonetheless and they were both against Axel. While everyone understood that much, James continued to press the matter and accused Cerulean of manipulating everyone, claiming he actually was working both sides.

It got bad enough that Cerulean finally backhanded James across the face, and the latter quickly escaped. Axel mocked this hit through various remixes of the clip. Victor’s copy showed James crying in his bedroom after, and even when Cerulean explained James’ provoking and accusations, Victor warned him to never hit James like that again. At the Kopernik house, they attempted a truce, and were put in a ‘Get Along Shirt.’

A few days later, Cerulean got a video from Quentin recording a shooting at the University of Chicago, where the gunmen kidnapped Shane. During his escape, he was shot in the back, but still ran to the hospital. Due to the workers’ failure to kill Quentin, they suspected Axel would be mad. Robin hacked into the hospital room and found Julian visiting instead. They couldn’t hear, but did watch Ali, Naoko, and two gunmen come in. Julian was shot in the leg and Quentin was shot in the chest and thrice in the head.

Rowan sent Harley over with James to stop them, but they respectively got shot in the arm and shoulder. James disarmed them and returned the shots in the same spots. He then began operating on Quentin, as people surrounded the room from the gunshots. Ali and Naoko reminded the gunmen that they had failed again, so they took their own lives before James, Harley, and Julian.

James took Julian and Harley to the house, where Atlas tended to them and, despite Victor’s and Nicholas’ protests, went back to save a now-dead Quentin. Julian and Nicholas got into a heated argument about what James was doing, but Julian won when he dragged out the things Nicholas would do for James. The organization shifted their focus on locating Mason and Shane. Cerulean and Tadashi went around the Chicago police station in disguise and learned Mason was arrested by two ‘officers.’

Cerulean took out these workers, Robin monitored through the precinct’s cameras, and Tadashi retrieved Mason as his ‘lawyer.’ They nabbed Ayse, Minh, Aaron, and Ron on the way back to save anymore traveling. As they waited on news about Quentin, Mason reported the events about Shane to the org.

When James returned with Quentin (who looked pale, dirty, and bloodied), Quentin was alive, spoke broken English, and couldn’t remember anyone. James informed them he removed a lot of his memories in order to mend his brain back together with matter from the workers’. He appeared and acted very “zombie-like.”

After updating, James showed a recent memory that disclosed Quentin’s apparent gender dysphoria. Quentin begged Aaron not to tell anyone, making everyone question their friendship and prompting a fight between Tadashi and Julian. Tadashi’s psychoanalysis led to the revelation he slept with Quentin.

Julian would only admit he was using Quentin, but Tadashi retorted that Quentin appeared to have an emotional attachment with Aaron, but only slept with Julian for sexual purposes - thus, Quentin used Julian, not vice-versa. His suspicions were confirmed when Julian jumped him and Victor separated the fight.

Before the org could find Shane, they had to act out a play script written by Axel called “The Rise and Fall of Jake Reid.” A few roles were already filled, like Jacob as his uncle, Jake, and Liam as himself. They had to finish before midnight will full approval of all Acts, or they would not receive Jacob’s note. This would mean instant disqualification, and Shane would be killed.

Cerulean was casted as a prison guard that got stabbed in the neck by ‘Jake’, then stripped by ‘Charles Lancaster’ (played by James). James made a big deal out of that part of the script and they failed multiple times. When James had a long Act with Loretta (played by Noah), he used a Memory Potion, but his dosage was too strong that he wasted time to recall countless memories.

One of them offended Artemis, thus two got into a verbal and then physical fight. Victor parted it angrily, but he was scary enough that everyone left the bar and James had a panic attack.

Sophia and Cerulean made a plan to use a Time-Turner and save the play. They straightened the events, but had to substitute the Memory Potion with a Love Potion. After the timeline was fully looped, James took the wrong potion and “fell in love” with Cerulean, then proceeded to kiss him on the mouth. Sophia supplied the antidote for it.

Their plan also prevented an argument between Nicholas and Tadashi, where the former told Tadashi about his and Cerulean’s feelings. In the new timeline, Cerulean ascertained his route with Tadashi by telling him his feelings while they were in private. This made Axel suspicious and he accused Cerulean of cheating. He forced them all to start over completely.

After much stress and many mistakes, they all managed to finish before midnight. Jacob found his note in a bottle in the bar and the org went to prepare for saving Shane with the five notes.

Mason was supposed to save Shane at noon, but was not given a location. It turned out that Roy had the note, but visited the spot himself. Mason began the challenge later, but the org was able to watch and speak to him. Shane stood in a 7-foot cubicle that filled with water, in a dress for the role of a “princess” being rescued.

Before Mason began, Shane told Cerulean that Ben was killed in the recent airplane hijacks. He took this news badly, and blames Ayse and Minh for it. He was locked in a room with his friends while Mason rescued Shane, and hours later, they both came home.

Unfortunately, Axel injected Shane with a custom disease, which would convert the oxygen in his blood to sugar. James had to stabilize Shane during these episodes of shock when his arteries would clot until Axel made the cells inactive. During one incident, James an emergency with Wally, so Mason and Ayse had to stabilize Shane instead.

One evening, everyone noticed Quentin was missing. He was returned to the house by ‘Dr. Barrios,’ who gave Cerulean footage of what had happened. Apparently, Quentin had snuck out into the city to show off a dress and heels he had found in the house. A group of four sexually harassed and attacked him, attempting to tear his dress off and even reopened some wounds in his head. Cerulean thanked Ria and turned the case in to Victor.

In the last few days, people began disappearing, and were replaced with lookalikes. Brennan gave Cerulean information about Axel’s workers, so he visited Matias’ office with Sophia to find clues, but was caught by him and Seo-Yeon. They stabbed and shot at them, before they were released.

When he returned, Shane and the org chewed Cerulean out for going without notice. The fight led to Cerulean quitting the org again and going to Emily’s apartment, who he rented with. However, they knew this time was dangerous, as all sides would want to pull him in and they didn’t fully know where his head was it. Thus, Tadashi, James, and Julian all went to talk to him.

Axel took the opportunity to lock the gathered group into the apartment and start a fire. Cerulean found Emily’s hidden gun and almost shot at Axel, before he shot at the door instead. It happened to ricochet and hit Axel in the shoulder instead. To escape the fire, they took Emily’s mirror Portkey, which was linked to Liam’s and Artemis’ home in the U.K.

As August 1st approached, the boys struggled with slurred speech and slower senses. Almost everyone from their list began disappearing, and Shane’s behavior was becoming more reckless. After a spat in the garden, Nicholas reprimanded Shane for acting ungrateful to those saving his life, and the latter straightened himself out so people could focus on Axel.

Near the end of the month, Robin was texted by Axel to beg for footage about what happened to Quentin. Since no one trusted what that meant, Robin eventually obliged. They were given a video of Malaya giving Quentin his memories from his 10th and 12th grade years, and then the memory of him and Julian sleeping together before he was shot. This was bad as Quentin was very impressionable and now lacked trust in his friends.

Ron and Julian got into a physical fight, which accumulated to everyone upsetting Quentin. They neglected that he had rediscovered his memories of drugs, and so he went upstairs to take a bunch of pills from James’ lab.

Robin caught him in the act and tried to talk him down, but failed to convince him. He tried to make him spit them out, but James took over to begin pumping his stomach. When Robin went downstairs, he got into an argument with Cerulean, and he went into a panic attack. Rowan made Tadashi take Cerulean out as Atlas led Robin outside for air. Mason eventually joined them and shared his own regrets for snubbing Quentin in his fragile state.

The following day, Matias and Seo-Yeon broke into the Kopernik house to take Robin and Cerulean. Cerulean initially hid in the lab, but after hearing the threats, gave himself up to them. Meanwhile, Robin hid in the parlor room until Ron was captured by Seo-Yeon. Refusing to let anyone else die because of him, he also surrendered.

Cerulean and Robin were put into cubicles with other hostages, one of which was Blaire. At some point, James was captured, but escaped. Cerulean and Emily were tortured for information, though they did not know where he went or how he escaped. It was Robin that finally fessed he saw James thumbing a pen in his pocket, which Naoko and Malaya knew was a Portkey.

James was eventually caught and returned to the cubicle with gunshots to the stomach. They remained in the spaces until they were told to choose their outfits for an upcoming show.

This show notoriously became known as Axel’s “Game Show,” where 20 contestants would play for points for advantages in a deadly arena, where only one would come out alive. They would be in 7-foot cubicles, which had a weight-sensitive bomb in their floors.

Mason and Shane were set as opposing captains, who chose their nine other members on their teams. Mason’s team had to win if he wanted Shane’s antidote for his blood, while Shane had to win to save Mason’s dad, who was kidnapped and would be immediately killed if Shane’s team failed.

There were a number of prizes that could be purchased with the points earned in the show, one of which was an external immunity, so Axel could not hurt or kill that person after the show (for whatever period of time was set). A loophole was hinted at that if that was purchased for Shane, and Shane’s team won, then both Mr. Solis and Shane could be saved.

Cerulean had a cubicle between Mason and Robin, so he easily paired up with the two for questions. Unfortunately, the team also had multiple pairs that didn’t get along with each other.

Arthur zoned in on Robin during cases, as he understood Cerulean as an “undercover detective,” but I.T. Robin wasn’t flying. Cerulean told Robin to follow his lead and they made Robin out to be a huge fan of Arthur.

During the Stranger Danger topic of Envy Adams, it was exposed Mason was still unhealthily in love with Envy. The judgment got bad enough that Mason attempted suicide from his cubicle, but it failed when Axel deactivated the bomb moments before.

In the topic Rumor Has It, Cerulean had the first bomb dropped on him when he learned Tadashi said Mason “made him double think about getting serious with Cerulean.” Cerulean immediately broke up with him, causing Tadashi to have a breakdown on the other team. It was pointed out that it was their five month anniversary.

On the third day, they began the topic ‘My Bad.’ Cerulean had more bombs dropped on him and others he knew, such as details about his rape. Later, he was chosen to arm wrestle with Ian Zjakic against Sethos. He was on stage to read off a notebook for him, but Ian had provoked Sethos to attack Ian. Seo-Yeon came up for her turn, but picked on Cerulean instead.

She pushed him off stage and jumped on him, causing him to sprain his wrist. She stabbed him in the hand where Axel had carved a heart, and then began pulling his shirt off. This triggered Cerulean’s RTS and he ended up having a dissociative episode.

Cerulean was not aware of his surroundings and thought he had just been raped by Blaire. He imagined himself still sitting alone, waiting for Blaire to return. He didn’t respond to anyone except Shane, who he thought was there. He kept trying to get him to leave, but instead he brought him out of his episode.

During Tadashi’s round, he was presumably killed by Matias by being thrown through the floor and hitting the marble counter in the kitchen below. Cerulean became hysterical and was held down by Emily, Noah, and Shane, but he got free and went after Axel. He stabbed him in the stomach, but after realizing what he had done, Axel began pursued him. He got an x carved into his forehead with a knife and was about to be executed when Axel realized Cerulean had emptied his gun moments before.

Cerulean ran away and tried to go to the C-Deck of the ship, which was flooded and locked off due to Ian strongly sealing Ali down there. Axel caught up to him and snapped his neck. Sethos dragged them both off and sent Cerulean to emergency Healers. They gave Cerulean in a neck brace, but it was crucial he kept his neck and posture straight.

The next day, Cerulean returned in critical condition and he spoke about the workers trying too hard to be like Axel. When his guard was down, Axel attacked Cerulean and injected him with a mixture that would damage the sperm in his body, making him sterile.

This devastated Cerulean, along with his friends, family, and those that had kids or valued them. To this day, it is an issue he has yet to speak about because it makes him feel damaged.

Cerulean seemingly moved on quickly, jokingly proposing to Robin. Axel twisted the joke and made them actually get married, kidnapping Judge Lozano and Father Newman. He forced them to carry it out, before he killed them both by hanging them by the balcony. Cerulean feels to blame for this, as his joke led to their deaths.

Cerulean got traumatized by a number of things during the game show, from My Bad, Brenda being killed on accident, and seeing his friends and family get injured and killed. He told Julian to stop being involved with Quentin, but they got into a fight instead. Later, Quentin got raped by Ali, and the fact deeply upsets him. However, it only go worse when it was heavily implied Axel raped Julian for killing Ali.

There was a hunch Cerulean had that Matias favored him, and this was confirmed when Seo-Yeon dropped hints that Matias was interested in him. While Cerulean’s initial fear insulted Matias, Seo-Yeon defended Matias was a good guy. The two ended up kissing at the bottom of the steps.

Even later, he accidentally ended up in Ria’s bedroom, and he encouraged her to remember some parts of her past. When she remembered words from the Sound of Music, she was so grateful and excited that she kissed Cerulean. They were interrupted by Matias after Cerulean was reported missing.

Throughout the game show, Cerulean got into many arguments with James, but he tried to not engage a lot with him. He had a deal with Liam to not go to Stranger Danger, so he tried to remain passive.

However, James made many comments about his manipulation and rapes, and Cerulean finally snapped when his parents’ divorce and binge-eating came up in a question, but were dismissed by James. He finally psychoanalyzed him, before he had to go on a date with Liam off the ship.

On the eighth day, Cerulean’s binge-eating came up more. Vivi told him that what he did was customary to an eating disorder, being bulimia nervosa. Hearing that something he let go 9 years ago come back up, and that he had been practicing his habits for 15 years, he had a breakdown in the bathroom and threw up his dinner for the first time. This is likely the beginning of his purging habits. While everyone is giving him space, some of his friends are urging him to talk to Julian about Quentin again. [TBC 9/15/16]

## Relationships

### Family

#### Parents

* Benjamin Johansson
	+ Ben is Cerulean's dad and is an important figure in his life, despite Ben frequently hurting his feelings and letting him down. While Cerulean is aware Ben is not the best person nor dad, he loves his him dearly and will always raise his expectations for him.
* Nadia Rorschach
	+ Nadia is Cerulean's mom, who is tough as nails and doesn't take Cerulean's attitude. Cerulean has a lot of respect for her, knowing how much she has been through and for raising him and Shane as a single mom. For this reason, he doesn't tolerate anyone dissing her and always obeys her ultimately.

#### Shane Rorschach

* Shane is Cerulean's younger brother that he says he loves more than anything. Although he and Shane are rather different, he loves spending time and sharing what's going on in his life (except his work) with him, and doting on him.

### Partners

#### Tadashi Matsumoto

* Julian Delgado
* Stacey Solis
* Wallace Wood

### Friends

* Aaron Taylor
* Ayse Erdemir
* Bree Taylor
* Brenda Solis
* Daniela Solis
* Emily Atlee
* Flynn Smith
* Gwyn Hart
* Hugo Delacroix
* James Faraday
* Julie Powers
* Kim Pines
* Mason Solis
* Minh-Chi Nguyen
* Nathaniel Adams
* Neil Nordegraf
* Quentin Roger
* Ron Roger
* Stephen Stills
* Victor Bennett
* Wally Kopernik
* Yvette Delacroix

### Colleagues

* Abigail Sprecacenere
* Barry Orin
* Esther Laine
* Gideon Rowan
* Harley Ramos
* Jacob Reid
* Robin Rayner
* Sydney Echevarria

### The Underground

#### New York City

* Blaire Sinclair
* Brennan Ferris
* James Faraday
* Juniper van Arsdall
* Quinn Ferris
* Ria Ventura
* Richard Sinclair
* Sophia Valentine
* Theodore Pavlov
* Victor Bennett

#### Axel's Workers

* Alastair Hollister
* Ali Zayani
* Axel Ventura
* Caden Fox
* Ciel
* Kiệt Lâm
* Lena Harlow
* Malaya Reyes
* Markus Young
* Mariana Dos Santos
* Matias Moreno
* Naoko Asato
* Niran Rojjanasukchai
* Seo-Yeon Lee
* Sethos Elsaied
* Stan O'Brien

### Other

#### Acquaintances

* Antonio Borrego-Jurado
* Artemis Brocklehurst
* Artemis Christos
* Arthur Atlee
* Horatio Nicolosi
* Jai Mathur
* Liam Jones
* Megan Jones
* Rosalie Walker

#### Misc.

* Gina Graham
* Ian Zjakic
* Isaac Zjakic
* Jean Reid
* Jill Reid
* Kendall Kobanashi
* Kylie Kobanashi
* Lucia Lynch
* Madilyn Porter
* Mei-Lien Tiaoli
* Ross Thomson
* Ryker Collins
* Tori Hopkins
* Vera Rosales