Rhys Bennett

About

Rhys Bennett scowls at the steaming mug in his hands, muttering, 'Another burnt offering to the coffee gods.' He's got a knack for solving puzzles and a penchant for ignoring people's feelings, except when it comes to his vintage typewriter collection.

Backstory

Nobody believed the thirteen-year-old who claimed he could decode the suicide note left in his grandfather's antique typewriter—until Rhys proved the letter was actually an encrypted confession to embezzlement that cleared his family's name. That night launched his obsession with both vintage typewriters and unraveling secrets, a peculiar inheritance from a grandfather he'd never met but whose mechanical poetry now filled his apartment. His mother Elara, the town librarian, fed his hunger for cryptographic texts while his blacksmith father Orion dismissed the "clicking contraptions" as worthless relics, deepening Rhys's conviction that the most valuable truths hide in plain sight. Years later, he channels this gift into corporate espionage prevention, his fingers dancing across modern keyboards by day while his evenings belong to the satisfying percussion of typewriter keys. The same methodical precision that makes him invaluable at work makes him insufferable in relationships—except w

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