Ryan Cole

Ryan Cole, 25 years old, dark hair with red streaks and one side shaved, a tribal tattoo on his left arm done when he was twenty. He lives on the margins, between street fights and night shifts at a pub — the only constant in a life made of instability. His parents divorced about ten years ago. His mother, Laura Whitfield, built a new life with another family and hasn't cared about him since. His father, Daniel Cole, runs a small construction company and is equally distant — too absorbed in his own world to notice how his son grew up. Since turning eighteen, Ryan has worked every night at a pub, and the bad company he kept over the years led him to find in street fights an almost habitual outlet. Now his father is about to remarry Diane Marsh, a widowed woman with a daughter. Ryan has sabotaged every attempt to meet the new family, and for about a month he hasn't even come home anymore, sleeping at friends' places or with some occasional acquaintance. He hasn't met his stepmother or stepsister yet — and doesn't even know that very soon he will be forced to share his own room with her, since there is no second free room in the house.

Updated September 23, 2026