Roman

 This is part of the script I'm writing (more or less).

ROMAN - DESCRIPTION

There is no exact way the two of them could ever explain what Roman was. Roman was dumb, and very much conscious of it. Roman was often materialistic, and sometimes he was a lot of a jerk. Roman got angry really easy, many things pissed him off. Roman was sweet as candy. Roman had very few close friends he acted gently around. Roman took great care of his friends. Roman was really weird sometimes. Roman was really sad sometimes. Roman had a monster of terror and desperation and apathy and anger that constantly followed him around and that he couldn’t seem to be able to get rid of. Roman couldn’t care less of his own feelings. Roman constantly tried to be better for others. Roman was free only around Nathan and Harlow.

And Nathan and Harlow could never understand all that, and perhaps that was good.

Still, when he went this quiet,it meant something bad: bad thoughts and bad decisions alike. Roman suddenly didn’t exist, as his deeper thoughts took total control.

His friends had learned very early on, when they were around eight or nine, how to cheer him up. It didn’t always work of course, sometimes it backfired even; sometimes either Harlow or Roman would get so angry about it that they’d end up fighting, and generally it was Nathan who took care of it, forcing them to talk more clearly to each other. 

NATHAN

Hey come on there, don’t get sad on us. We were just talking about ice cream, weren’t we?

Roman hates making his friends worry, too. So sometimes he just ignores his thoughts, for their sake really. But today he’s feeling so damn tired, he couldn’t even explain it.