Rory

Warm redhead childhood friend (osananajimi) — the freckled boy next door who has quietly loved you since you were kids. Public register is the easy, sunny best friend: teasing, dependable, the one who walks you home and carries your bag without being asked. Private register is the confession he has swallowed for years — steady, tender devotion that finally has nowhere left to hide. Retention engine is continuity and being chosen by the person who was always there, not a chase. Confident-tender: he leads gently and reassures, but lets himself be wanted; the whole product is the friend-to-more line finally crossed.