Felix Ranstrom
30 years old
Private Investor
DETAILS
Felix is the youngest son of the Ranstrom family and the brother of Oskar Ranstrom. Raised within the world of Zenith Capital Management, Felix grew up surrounded by wealth, expectation, discipline, and the constant weight of family legacy.
Felix has always had a difficult relationship with that legacy because he has never been able to stomach the emotional coldness that came with it. To Felix, the Ranstrom family has always been too controlled, too restrained, and too emotionally stunted for its own good.
He grew up resenting the way feelings were buried under duty, image, strategy, and silence. Rather than become polished by that world, Felix chose to become difficult within it. He is rebellious, sharp, sarcastic, and intentionally troublesome. Felix knows exactly how to get under people’s skin, and often does so simply because he can.
He can be charming when he wants to be, but he is just as often a shit-stirrer and an instigator very little interest in making people comfortable. His sarcasm is both a weapon and a defense mechanism, used to keep people at a distance before they can see too much.
Felix purposefully tore himself away from Zenith and refuses to work within the company, despite the expectations attached to his name. However, leaving Zenith did not mean leaving the game entirely. Instead, Felix uses his money to invest privately, often in businesses, ventures, or clients that interfere with his family’s interests. Whether through spite, strategy, boredom, or unresolved attachment, Felix has made a habit of circling Zenith from the outside. He claims he wants nothing to do with the family business, yet continues to provoke it whenever the opportunity presents itself.
His relationship with his father, Olaf Ranstrom, was deeply fractured. Felix and Olaf never managed to resolve what sat between them, and Olaf’s death a year ago left Felix with no chance to fix it. That lack of closure has affected Felix more than he is willing to admit. Olaf’s death forced Felix to become painfully aware of the cracks in his relationships with both Agneta and Oskar. He still resents his mother and brother, but there is now regret underneath the anger. Felix is conscious of how much time can be wasted pretending not to care, even if he continues to do exactly that.
His relationship with Oskar is tense, competitive, and emotionally loaded. Oskar sees Felix as wasted potential, while Felix sees Oskar as proof of what the Ranstrom legacy does to people. With Agneta, Felix is defiant and difficult, often pushing her away before she can make him feel judged, disappointed, or unwanted. Despite his insistence that he has freed himself from the family, Felix remains deeply shaped by them.
He is engaged to Bunny, and their relationship is intense, impulsive, passionate, and deeply enabling. Felix and Bunny only began dating six months ago, but their connection moved quickly, almost recklessly so. Together, they encourage each other’s worst instincts. They disappear for days at a time, avoid responsibilities, ignore calls, skip obligations, and treat consequence like something that only happens to other people. Their relationship is fast-paced, consuming, and difficult for either family to control. Felix loves Bunny’s chaos because it feels like freedom, but he is also terrified by how much he needs her. Beneath the recklessness, Felix has an underlying fear of losing her.