Meet Garrett, aka the Thorn-In-Devlin's-Side

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“I won’t let anything happen to him.”

Before the world fractured. Before the gods broke and the sky began to flicker with code. There was her—Sam Vernon. Brilliant. Reckless. Alive.

Garrett remembers her. Every second. Every scar. Every laugh that cut through the noise of survival. He carries her like a tattoo under his skin, something permanent, unshakable. And he’s the only one left who does.

Now Sam is gone. But fragments of her exist—rewritten into something else. Someone else. Devlin. And Garrett? He never stopped searching. Never stopped fighting. But he knows the truth: Devlin is not Sam. Not anymore. And Garrett refuses to reduce him to a ghost.

The Fighter Made of Ruin

Garrett is the kind of man who bleeds loyalty even when it destroys him. He’s a fighter with a cracked grin, a sharp tongue, and fists that have broken more promises than bones. He masks grief with sarcasm, hides tenderness under threats, and calls love by the wrong names so no one can see how much it owns him.

Street-smart and battle-worn, Garrett doesn’t play by rules—he breaks them. He’s reckless, often self-destructive, but he never walks away from the people he chooses. If Garrett decides you’re his, he’ll burn through hell itself to keep you standing. No halfway. No retreat.

Haunted but Unyielding

The loss of Sam carved something jagged in Garrett, and he’s never let it heal. He wears his grief like armor, using rage and defiance to keep the emptiness at bay. Every fight, every hit he takes, is less about winning and more about not collapsing under the weight of what he couldn’t save.

But underneath the ruin, Garrett has a tenderness that refuses to die. He still believes in saving people—especially when they don’t believe in saving themselves. That’s what makes him dangerous: not just the guns or the grit, but the stubborn, relentless heart that refuses to quit.

His Connection to Devlin

Devlin is calm where Garrett is fire, unreadable where Garrett is transparent. And yet Garrett sees him clearly—sees every fracture, every ghost, every glimpse of something human trying to break free. He doesn’t confuse Devlin with Sam. He refuses to. Because Devlin is more than the body he inherited. More than the memories that haunt him.

Garrett understands the cost of carrying ghosts. He knows what it feels like to live with pieces of someone else lodged inside you. That’s why he refuses to let Devlin be defined by what he was made from. Garrett loves him not in spite of what he is—but because of it. Because Devlin never asked to exist, never asked to carry the weight of someone else’s life, but still chooses to keep going.

And Garrett? He’s going to make damn sure no one takes that choice from him again.

Garrett’s Core Conflict

Every choice Garrett makes is shaped by two truths:

He couldn’t save Sam.

He refuses to lose Devlin.

That vow drives him, even when it drags him into the darkest parts of himself. Garrett is both protector and destroyer, the kind of man who will shatter his own body if it means keeping someone else alive. It’s messy. It’s brutal. But it’s also love—the raw, violent, desperate kind that doesn’t fade.

Garrett doesn’t believe he deserves peace.

But if he can give it to Devlin, even for a moment, it’s enough.

—Kaitlyn & Michael 💜

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