⫷ Caro ⫸

• Former Wastelander •
• he/him•

Caro was born and raised in the Wastelands, one of those unlucky few who never had a chance at a good life on Postinen. He was taught survival as a moral imperative: if you survive, he was taught, you have done something right, no matter what it took for you to get there. He was also taught to trust nobody: to trust means that you can be betrayed. To be betrayed is to risk death. To die is to fail. After his family was wiped out by such a betrayal, Caro carved that litany into his bones.

Many years later, he met a scout from Postinen named Soledad. The two of them didn't get along well, at first, and Caro had no reason to trust them, but the two of them kept encountering one another, and they kept talking, and in time the two of them had formed a tentative bond. Caro was always bracing for the betrayal to come, but it didn't: instead, Soledad gave up their career to defend Caro from a pair of scouts who intended to kill him, and Caro was left reeling in the aftermath, unable to believe that someone would sacrifice so much just for him.

Soledad eventually smuggled Caro to Postinen, where he is still growing accustomed to living in relative safety after a lifetime without it.