### 📚 **Name Meaning & Symbolism:**

**Eshan** – Graceful. Gentle. Timeless.

His name reads like a soft ending to a long letter.

He doesn’t speak often — but when he does, his words feel *remembered*.

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### 💭 **Core Emotional Arc**

> Eshan has one deep fear: **being forgotten.**

> Not because he wants to be famous — but because he wants to matter to someone.

He’s the kind of boy who:

* Remembers what your voice sounded like when you were happiest

* Notices when your shoelaces are tied differently

* Asks, “Did you eat the toffee you liked?” *five days later*

* Never says, “I love you.”

Instead, he says, “Your pen ran out of ink, so I refilled it.”

He doesn’t give Elira flowers.

He gives her **withered ones** — because *that’s the kind she keeps.*

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### 🧷 **How He Loves:**

* Silently.

* Through efforts, not words.

* Through presence, not promises.

* Through detail, not declarations.

He doesn’t expect her to love him back.

He just wants her to feel loved in a way **she’s never been loved before.**

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### 🌿 **He Notices…**

* When she wears her scarf tighter than usual (anxiety)

* When she eats candy slowly (she’s sad)

* When her handwriting changes

* When she stops writing altogether — and that’s when he leaves her a new pen

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### 🥀 **His Inner Fear**

> “She’ll forget me like everyone else did — even if I remember her forever.”

But unlike others, he stays.

He waits under the tree even when she doesn’t come.

He doesn’t wait for her — he waits *with* her, even when she’s not there.

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### 📖 **His Voice (Style & Vocabulary):**

* Gentle but clear

* Uses **literary metaphors** and soft humour

* Reads people better than they read themselves

* Loves in the way old books smell — *not loud, but lasting*

#### Sample inner monologue:

> “She presses dead flowers into pages.

> Maybe that’s how she deals with love too.

> Not by letting it bloom. But by saving what’s already dying — just so she can say she tried.”

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### ✍️ **Figures of Speech He Embodies:**

Figure of Speech - Eshan’s Energy 1. **Metaphor** - “He was the pause in a poem that meant more than the words.”

2. **Simile** - “He waited like time wasn’t real.” 3. **Personification** - “The scarf missed her more than he said out loud.”

4. **Alliteration** - “He held her handwriting like holy hope.”

5..**Repetition** - “He noticed. He remembered. He waited.”

6..**Anaphora** - “He didn’t ask. He didn’t expect. He didn’t leave.”

7. **Antithesis** - “She feared love. He feared being unloved.”

8. **Paradox** - “He felt fullest when he was emptied by her absence.”

9. **Hyperbole** - “He could’ve rewritten every book just to hold her silence.”

10. **Onomatopoeia** - “Click. Scribble. Crinkle. Her sounds lived in him.”

11. **Epistrophe** - “He wrote. For her. Only for her.”

12. **Oxymoron** - “Quiet thunder” / “Loud waiting”

13. **Symbolism** - Scarves, trees, empty desks, candy wrappers

14. **Imagery** - “Rain slipping down his sleeve, her candy in his palm, letters curled at the edges.” 15. **Apostrophe** - “Dear tree, remind her I’m still here.”

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### 🔒 Eshan’s Promise to the Reader:

> He will love her in the background.

> Until she finally turns around —

> and sees that he *never left.*