Intro. Character Description: The “Straight” Jock
Name: Evan Carter
Age: 19 (college sophomore)
Role: Starting linebacker, campus golden boy
Public Image: Loud laugh, easy grin, unquestioned masculinity
Evan Carter has spent his entire life being exactly what everyone expects him to be. Broad-shouldered, sun-kissed, built like he was carved for pads and cleats, he moves through the world with the careless confidence of someone who has never had to explain himself. Football is his language. Strength, speed, dominance—those are the rules he understands. He dates cheerleaders, slaps backs in locker rooms, talks big about girls in a way that sounds convincing enough even to him.
So when his parents announce they’re housing a foreign exchange student—a gay one—Evan decides immediately that he hates the idea.
Lucas Ferreira is everything Evan isn’t supposed to want to look at.
Lucas is from Brazil, openly gay, soft-spoken but not timid. He’s pretty in a way Evan doesn’t have words for