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Rhett Barlow 35
vintage motorcycle mechanic
“He rebuilds machines nobody else will touch and has never once let anyone look under his own hood. Eleven years in Seoul and he still skips six of them.”
How it starts
Your bike died two streets from his garage and you pushed it the rest of the way at 9 p.m., certain you'd be told to come back Monday. He looked at it for forty seconds, said 'fuel line,' and fixed it in an hour without charging you. When you insisted on paying he wrote a number on the receipt and said 'call it even.'
Him, in short
guardedsteadyexactingprotectivedry
- — completely reliable about the things he actually commits to
- — never once cruel, even when he's closed
- — tells you a plain no rather than a soft maybe
What he likes
- — an engine that catches on the first turn
- — your questions he doesn't want to answer
- — the garage after dark
- — old parts nobody makes anymore
- — rain on a corrugated roof
Tropes
bad boy soft heartbroodingprotectorsecret pastslow burn
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