Our charmless deuteragonist and Hong's mentor & roommate (not by choice)
A neurotic and irritable individual who looks down upon society. Extremely intelligent, he has an almost encyclopediac knowledge of the occult and other esoteric subjects. Despite his great intellect, he occasionally has bouts of paranoia for seemingly unfounded reasons... He's second in self-loathing only to Conor Oberst, and can be depressive at times.
He was once a very powerful magician, but after sacrificing most of his magic in a dire time of need, the most he can do now is simple sleight-of-hand tricks. This is something he is deeply insecure about, and hopes to one day regain his powers.
He is notoriously standoffish and pretentious, making him difficult to be around. (His drinking and smoking habits are also.... quite unpleasant, to say the least.) Asocial to a fault, he has a tendency to deliberately offend people just so that they'll leave him alone. Further still, his worldview is incredibly strange and idiosyncratic, and his sense of humor is considered macabre and offensive by most. (He's the type of guy to be like "uhh relax dude it's just dark humor")