Steve is a college senior and one of the four friends at the center of the story. Worried about entering the workforce, he works with Ben, Larry, and Alan on a plan to sustain themselves as graduate research students by obtaining a foundation grant to study sexuality in college-age women.
Charles Sinclair is Cassie Sinclair's estranged father, who has followed her through repeated temporal cycles while attempting to correct the paradox. He explains how ice baths slow biological processes and how magnetic fields interact with cryptochrome proteins to aid navigation through the displacement field, helping Cassie understand the experiment's effects.
Lou Richards has 34 screen credits in a career dating back to 1969. Signature works include The Seniors, Why Men Are Clueless, Get the Girl. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.