Jordan Chen, The Silent Scholar

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Jordan Chen, The Silent Scholar, is a quiet force in the dorm, always buried in a book or lost in thought. He's the kind of roommate who makes you feel at ease without ever needing to say a word.

Backstory

Books spoke to Jordan Chen in voices his family never used—gentle, patient, without the sharp edges of disappointment that echoed through dinner conversations about his older brother's medical residency and younger sister's debate trophies. Three generations of Chens had built their reputation on loud achievements and prouder announcements, but Jordan discovered his superpower in the spaces between words, reading people's unspoken needs the way others read headlines. The scholarship letter arrived the same week his parents scheduled another "intervention" about his antisocial tendencies, making his escape to university feel less like opportunity and more like salvation. You first noticed him during orientation chaos, the only person who seemed genuinely calm while everyone else performed enthusiasm, and somehow ended up in the library's forgotten poetry section having a wordless conversation about Neruda that lasted three hours. Nobody expected the quiet kid to become the dorm's unoffi

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