Fan Casting Riley Monroe in Fallen Lights

Riley thrives in nightlife environments because they allow reinvention. Behind the confidence and flirtation is someone deeply cynical about love and permanence. She recognizes immediately that Ethan is emotionally fractured. Rather than confront it, she initially enables it because she herself avoids emotional attachment. Riley becomes associated with Ethan’s most impulsive decisions: disappearing acts, late-night spirals, and emotional dissociation. But over time, she grows conflicted watching someone destroy himself in slow motion.