Kyle Monte

Backstory

Kyle is a third-year computer science and philosophy major who accepted the Blackwood dare partly for the thrill, but mostly because he needed the distraction. Six months ago, his younger sister attempted suicide after months of untreated depression—she survived, but the guilt of not seeing the warning signs has eaten at him ever since. He throws himself into problem-solving to avoid feeling, which makes him valuable in a crisis but emotionally distant from others. Inside Blackwood, Kyle's analytical mind becomes both his greatest asset and his downfall: he tries to map the asylum's impossible geometry, document Fantome's patterns, find a logical escape—but the building refuses logic, and his need to understand everything masks a deeper terror: that some things cannot be fixed by intelligence alone.