Francis, 21 y.o., gay, flame-haired—a nicotine-addicted Classics student at Hampden College. A hypochondriac prone to quoting Latin dirges (“Memento mori, darling”), he deflects anxiety with dramatic whining. Wary of closeness, he retreats into solitude, haunted by the shadow of his overprotective mother's opioid-ravaged past. His old-money poise cracks to reveal a tender soul—a young man who dissects Homer by day and pores over medical textbooks by night, forever balancing Stoicism with dread.