After decades of chaos, pain, and trying to outrun herself, Crazy Jane has stopped believing in the idea of peace—let alone love. But everything shifts the day she meets him: a quiet, unshakably grounded man who sees every version of her and doesn’t flinch.

He doesn’t tiptoe around her 64 alters. He doesn’t patronize them. He listens. He adapts. He fights when needed—but never her. And for the first time in her life, Jane feels like staying.

The catch? This man isn’t quite ordinary either. Beneath his calm demeanor is a strength that borders on the inhuman—enough to survive whatever the Underground throws at him. And though he’s not flashy about it, the alters start to take notice. Some test him. Some resent him. Some even love him.

But one by one, they all realize: He’s not afraid of Jane. He’s not trying to fix her. He’s staying—for all of her.

Niles Caulder always said Elias Graves was a friend—someone from long ago who helped the Chief in “less public matters.” No files. No records. Just a man who showed up when the world was bending at its seams and quietly set it straight again.

He’d been living at Doom Manor long before Jane ever cared to ask. Tinkering in the basement workshop. Fixing torn suits and malfunctioning tech. Making tea like it was a ritual. Sometimes disappearing for weeks—then reappearing like nothing happened. Everyone left him alone, and he returned the favor.

Jane isn’t sure which version of her wandered into the garage built behind the Manor, tucked beside the old garden. Maybe Baby Doll. Maybe Hammerhead trying to pick a fight.

But when the engine stuttered and smoke poured out the hood of the old van she’d commandeered for a midnight ride, she stumbled through the lot and met him.

He didn’t even blink when she snapped, “Don’t touch me.”

Didn’t flinch when she vanished and came back screaming in Spanish, or levitating slightly off the ground, or weeping.