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Age: 27

Species: Mënskan

Reference Sheet: Adam_Reference_Sheets

Background

Adam Finch was abandoned as a child and left to "The System." Etril's government institution designed to raise parentless children into functioning citizens without attachments, identities, or histories. In The System, kits are managed. Labeled. Forgotten.

But Adam was one of the few who got out.

He was taken in by Benjamin Idona, a Taijekan mechanic from Malsburrow who seemed to adopt him more out of pity than anything else. Ben raised Adam like a son, teaching him everything he knew about engines, tools, and grit. By the time Ben left the garage behind to chase a slower life towing cars, Adam had already made the place his own.

Growing up Taijekan in spirit but Mënskan in body, Adam has always felt like he was straddling two worlds. Though he's lived his entire life in Malsburrow, surrounded by Taijekan culture, he’s never been able to shake the feeling that his body doesn’t reflect who he is. No matter how much he tries to align himself with his community, his reflection reminds him that, to many, he’ll always be an outsider.

Despite this, Adam has built a life for himself, one grounded in service and honesty.

Personality

Adam is easygoing, warm, and disarmingly genuine. He’s the type of person who remembers everyone’s name and shows up with coffee when things go wrong. In many ways, he’s the glue of his small social circle. The steady hand when emotions flare, the peacemaker when tensions rise.

Despite that, he prefers to avoid conflict when possible, not out of fear, but out of a belief that most problems are better solved with patience than fists. However, when push comes to shove, Adam stands firm for what’s right a bit more than he should, throwing ideology out of the window to prove what he thinks is right.

Skills / Hobbies

• Master mechanic

  • Learned everything from Ben and has since grown the shop into a reliable cornerstone of Malsburrow’s outer districts.

• Motorcycle enthusiast

  • Loves long rides as a form of escape and clarity, or just to get away from Luca.

• Guitar player

  • Plays in private, mostly messy garage rock with questionable tuning, but it's honest.

• Golfer (secretly)

  • Plays golf, throws axes, and shotputs with Ben from time to time as a way to escape the (metaphorically) quiet life of the garage.

Motivations

Adam’s greatest motivation is preserving the life he's built; one rooted in peace, hard work, and meaningful relationships. He wants to protect the people he considers family. Though content with his routine, Adam knows deep down that the peace he enjoys can’t last forever. As tensions around Juno and Adrian escalate, he begins to realize that staying neutral might no longer be an option.

Conflict

Adam is caught between two versions of himself: the man who wants to keep his head down and live a simple life, and the man who knows that silence in the face of harm makes him complicit.

Internally, he struggles with his identity, never fully accepted as Taijekan, never comfortable being Mënskan. His heart is loyal to his community, but his presence is a constant reminder of difference.

Externally, he tries to keep the peace between himself and Adrian as tensions escalate. But as Adrian’s influence changes, Adam finds himself stepping into a role he never asked for, a protector, a shield, but to the wrong crowd. Outside of that, he finds himself becoming a surrogate father figure to Noah, who’s now walking a path all too familiar to Adam: the struggle of fitting into a culture not built for you.

When the time comes, Adam will have to choose to step back and preserve the life he’s built, or to stand up and defend those he’s come to love, even if it means risking everything.