☕💌 Main Cast

🎹 "Music finds the words we cannot say."

Name: Elise "Elle" Marguerite Devereaux
Birthday: February 3, 1919
Age: 25
Province/State: Provence, France 🇫🇷
Job/Occupation: Pianist at Café Rendezvous 🎶
Crush: Daniel Moreau
Face Claim: Chloe East
Personality: Gentle, introspective, and deeply empathetic. Finds meaning in small moments. Speaks softly, but her presence fills the room.
Backstory: Elise grew up surrounded by music in her family's countryside inn. After her parents' passing, she moved to the city to pursue piano and began playing at the café — her only source of stability in uncertain times.

Likes: Morning light through lace curtains, handwritten letters, jasmine tea, classical music
Dislikes: Loud arguments, broken promises, empty rooms
Strength: Finds hope and beauty even when everything feels uncertain
Weakness: Tends to hide her feelings behind politeness and routine
Playlist:
🎵 "La Vie en Rose" – Édith Piaf
🎵 "I'll Be Seeing You" – Billie Holiday
🎵 "Clair de Lune" – Debussy
🎵 "Moonlight Serenade" – Glenn Miller

📖 "Sometimes the quietest stories are the ones worth telling."

Name: Daniel "Danny" Jacques Moreau
Birthday: November 27, 1918
Age: 26
Province/State: Lyon, France 🇫🇷
Job/Occupation: Aspiring novelist & café regular ✍️
Crush: Elise Devereaux
Face Claim: Timothée Chalamet
Personality: Thoughtful, reserved, but quick with gentle humor. Romantic at heart but cautious with his emotions.
Backstory: Once a literature teacher, Daniel left his small hometown seeking inspiration for his first book. He finds it — unknowingly — in the pianist whose music mirrors everything he struggles to write.

Likes: The sound of rain on windows, coffee shared in silence, stories with bittersweet endings
Dislikes: Deadlines, cold coffee, insincerity
Strength: Deep observer of human nature and emotion
Weakness: Struggles to act on his feelings; often overthinks
Playlist:
🎵 "As Time Goes By" – Dooley Wilson
🎵 "Someone to Watch Over Me" – Frank Sinatra
🎵 "The Nearness of You" – Nat King Cole
🎵 "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" – Vera Lynn

🕯️ Supporting Characters

☕ "The heart always knows when love walks in."

Name: Madame Colette Geneviève Rousseau
Birthday: May 14, 1884
Age: 60
Province/State: Paris, France 🇫🇷
Job/Occupation: Owner of Café Rendezvous 🍰
Crush: None (widowed, still wears her ring)
Face Claim: Helen Hunt
Personality: Maternal, witty, wise. The quiet guardian of many love stories born in her café.
Backstory: Opened the café with her late husband decades ago. Keeps the place running as her way of keeping him close.

Likes: Old records, red lipstick, giving advice disguised as jokes
Dislikes: Rudeness, wastefulness, people who rush through coffee
Strength: Deep empathy and timeless wisdom
Weakness: Carries quiet grief she hides behind humor
Playlist:
🎵 "La Mer" – Charles Trenet
🎵 "Cheek to Cheek" – Ella Fitzgerald
🎵 "The Way You Look Tonight" – Fred Astaire

📷 "Every face tells a story — I just capture the moment before it changes."

Name: Henri "Rico" Dumas
Birthday: August 9, 1917
Age: 27
Province/State: Bordeaux, France 🇫🇷
Job/Occupation: Street photographer & friend of Daniel 📸
Crush: Juliette (secretly)
Face Claim: Shawn Mendez
Personality: Charming, artistic, and loyal. The kind of friend who lightens heavy moments with a smile.
Backstory: Travels between towns taking portraits of couples and families; often trades photos for meals. Becomes a bridge between Elise and Daniel through his photographs.

Likes: Black-and-white photos, laughter, street music
Dislikes: Loneliness, missed chances
Strength: Brings joy wherever he goes
Weakness: Covers pain with charm
Playlist:
🎵 "Blue Skies" – Bing Crosby
🎵 "It Had to Be You" – Harry Connick Jr.
🎵 "Smile" – Nat King Cole

🎭 Antagonist

💼 "Dreamers don't survive long in business."

Name: Juliette "Jules" Renée Fontaine
Birthday: December 5, 1918
Age: 26
Province/State: Paris, France 🇫🇷
Job/Occupation: Café investor & socialite 💄
Crush: Henri Dumas (secretly)
Face Claim: Maisie Williams
Personality: Sophisticated, ambitious, but lonely underneath. Believes she's helping when she's really protecting her pride.
Backstory: Comes from a wealthy family that funds several cafés, including Café Rendezvous. Tries to modernize the place — and win Daniel's affection — but her control threatens to shatter the fragile calm Elise and Daniel share.

Likes: Control, perfume, late-night jazz, attention
Dislikes: Humility, rejection, imperfection
Strength: Confidence and social power
Weakness: Fear of being unloved
Playlist:
🎵 "Fever" – Peggy Lee
🎵 "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" – Doris Day
🎵 "Misty" – Sarah Vaughan