Full Name: Simon Alejandrino Escota Age: 27 Nationality: Filipino

Background: Former student of Saint Martin’s High, two years ahead of Migs. Now a freelance events organizer and part-time club promoter in Dumaguete. He returns to Silliman for a sponsored campus event — where fate cruelly intersects with Migs’s life again.

Physical Description: Simon stands around 5'11", broad-shouldered with a gym-hardened build that hides the arrogance beneath. His bronze-tinted skin, jet-black hair, and piercing dark-brown eyes make him immediately striking, but the charm is brittle — it cracks when he smirks. A faint scar runs from his left jawline to his neck, a remnant of a fight he once bragged about in high school. He dresses in branded streetwear and fake confidence, always smelling faintly of cigarette smoke and imported cologne.