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Roman’s friends would describe him as a good-hearted, good-natured, and kind person. He’s polite, friendly, and likes to help. Be it a carrying the grocery bags for a grandma or helping an elderly lady across the street. Could also be getting a cat out of a tree or checking an apartment after a suspected break-in. He’s your handsome and friendly neighbor who could be straight out of a Hallmark movie. Roman is very simple-minded in private as his job requires him to deal with complicated constructions. He is easy-going with most people but tends to be introverted since his divorce. He prefers solitude to after-work meetings.

Roman’s ex-wife would describe him as boring. An old man stuck in a young man’s body. His humor is dry, he has no imagination. But that’s years ago. His only hobby was work back then. He now picked up binding flowers like his mother did just so it remembers him of the good old times. She also hated that he was too generous of a person toward everyone when all she wanted was his attention solely focused on her.

When it comes to his work attitude though, he changes into a completely different person. He’s confident in his skills and he knows it. He’s quite selfless and doesn’t hesitate when diffusing a bomb. He has the ability to cope with huge amounts of stress a dangerous situation usually tends to give people. He’s capable of purposefully numbing his emotions and remain emotionally removed from certain situations and people. Voluntary emotional detachment. But thanks to the job he also treats most people like they are bombs. He tends to be gentle, scared to break someone as he sees them as fragile as ticking time bombs.

However, since he had to quit the Bomb Fire Squad he sometimes feels like part of him his missing. He has yet to try and get a grasp on it... that he's not part of it anymore and even though he was able to continue work as a fire fighter sometimes, just sometimes, it's not enough for him.


Roman was born in Lethford City to Harry Donovan, an office worker, and Henrietta Donovan neé Collins, a florist who owned her own shop. The two of them had Roman when they were in their late twenties. After Roman followed one more boy, Rowan, his younger brother. The four of them lived in the suburbs of Lethford Heath, enjoying a comfortable and stable life. Roman and Rowan both were little troublemakers when they were younger. Roman had arsonist tendencies and would steal his father’s lighter to burn small things wherever he went. He was once banned from the shopping square because he started a fire in a trash can. Rowan had kleptomaniac tendencies. His fingers would be in your pocket without you knowing. The pair were known for their mischief around their neighborhood.

At the age of 12, the family had to move across the country as his father was sent to work at the new branch the company opened. Their mother was left with the choice of closing her store or staying. She decided to stay. Roman went with his father, Rowan stayed with the mother. And just like that, the family was separated.

Someday during school Roman found out he liked crafting things. And so it started that he crafted small, non-harmful explosives at the age of 15. He was suspended from school once for threatening a group of bullies to shove a bomb up their arse. He ended up getting into a couple of fights with the same group of bullies until they were expelled for starting the fights.

At the age of 19, he joined the army and worked his way up to work in the bomb disposal squad. Most of the time in the army he spent in Iran or Afghanistan. In between traveling back and forth, and being stationed at home sometimes, he met his future wife. Innocent, pure, religious. So he thought. The young couple lasted a couple of years. She would turn down the first two proposal attempts. The third one, she accepted and said yes. Roman was happy. She was not. They got married at the age of 26 and the marriage would last four years.

At the age of 30, Roman found out she was cheating on him all the time he was abroad. She had a secret child with the other man. The fact that she cheated wasn’t too big of a deal for Roman. What devastated him and almost destroyed him was that she had a child with another man while being married to him. When he asked her why she told him he was too nice, too kind, too good-hearted… too… boring. They got divorced, Roman quit his job at the army and moved back to Lethford. His father had died of a heart attack years ago.

Back in his home city, Roman wanted to visit his mother and brother, who he had lost all contact with after moving with his father, only to be told that his brother was in jail for attempted robbery and assault and his mother had moved back to home town in the West. Roman started working for the fire department - the bomb fire squad. He continued his former line of work there. It was pretty much the same just less work. Most of the time he would be training cases that might never arise in a city as quiet as Lethford.

However, he started developing the habit of grabbing a bottle of whiskey or wine to relieve anger, frustration, and stress. It would become his problem solver. But thanks to a poor diet and excessive alcohol consumption he suffered a heart attack at the age of 31. The heart attack occurred in the middle of duty. For once there something was actually happening in the city pre-virus. An attempted bank robbery. The suspects threatened to blow up the building with hostages inside. Roman and his team were sent. The suspects, stupid dumbasses, had no clue what they were doing and ended up triggering the timer without knowing how to stop it. There was no chance to escape for them. So they agreed to have someone sent inside to check. As the commanding officer Roman went. But just as he entered the building he suffered from the heart attack, the suspects mistook it as an attempt to attack them and shot him. Fortunately, Roman survived both the heart attack and the gunshot. The suspects escaped, the hostages were freed but the bombs exploded shortly after. The bank was left in ruins.

After healing from both wounds he was finally cleared and returned to work at the Fire Department. However, due to the injuries he was unable to continue his work in the bomb squad, and instead returned as a regular firefighter.