Omg am I posing about the other characters that I said I'd talk about a month ago? Gasp. Anyways he's for Tamarack's romance route.
This is Kale 'Cran' Berry! (Step 1 specifically)
He's ~20% Greek and ~80% Jamaican. He's trans, FtM, from the very start of the game. He doesn’t tell anybody in the first step, but I think in the 2 Step, he tells them about it.
Cran is actually an awkward kid, but his awkward-ness paired with his 'stone cold face unintentionally gave him the title of 'nonchalant'. He was relieved to leave his old town of Phoenix, Arizona to get away from the heat, but he was also reluctant to part with the real friends he was finally making.
Because Cran has a cold-looking exterior, he doesn't make friends often and grew to learn not to expect to be friends right off the bat of first meeting. And when Qiu made the proclamation of being friends, he was reluctant because of how hard Qiu was trying to be so adult-like and a case of people pretending to be friends. He's a lot softer to Tamarack because she was more like an open book.
In step 2, he grows to learn to not be overly protective of himself and also when he changed his name from Kale to Cran. His favorite hobby is both baking and cooking for both Qiu and Tamarack, He specifically uses a cookbook that was made by his food-obsessed uncle (I'm still working on him, so he doesn't have a name yet).
He's teamworking for both Qiu and Tamarack. Unassuming and Accepting to Qiu, Praising and Doting for Tamarack.
I named him Cran Berry as a jokey thing, initially just wanting 'Cran' to stay a nickname, and Kale was a placeholder name until I found something I liked for him, but it slowly dissolved into Cran being his name so... that's how I made up the story of him using Kale as a placeholder name. Also, he's oblivious to the fact that his nickname was a pun for 'Cranberry'.