His cruel smirk is a reminder of his slavery.  Traumatized by the pain of his past, he wears hatred like a well-worn garment.  

The speed of his feet and the pace of his dagger are haunting effects born from his history.

He is in need of some symbol of control and Alvarex can potentially be that symbol . . .

Or else Logan might be mired to an early grave.  

Starren resents the world and he fears it too.

Following Ryle to Berdentia was a weight that will always burden his broad shoulders.  His sister, Braylin, has become a symbol of the innocence he had lost upon seeing his parents die, thus he stalks her shadow with a vigor that can appear possessive.

He swallows his own anxiety with a concern for others.

Yet this only seems to madden his own suspicions more, sometimes making him the victim of his own paranoia.

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Her sweet face can be misleading.  Braylin shares Ryle's temperament and her eldest brother's anger is not a stranger to her.  

Yet unlike her brother, compassion is not a soft word she has forgotten.

But her stubbornness makes everything more complicated.  She sometimes fights all sentiment as if she could restore her mother and father back to life from the plague?

The pain of this early wound has left her sympathetic to the unfortunate . . .

​And as a result has made her charmed by Alvarex's brooding visage.