KopiMatcha Special Chapter - Characters

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 SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Before the story of coffee and matcha begins, there are a few people who make everything a little more interesting.

They’re not just friends.

Some always know things before anyone else does.

Some love teasing.

Some can’t help but get involved.

And some are perceptive enough to notice things that even the person having those feelings hasn’t figured out yet.

These are them.

 

RAGA ARVIN MAHESA

The main character.

Raga is the kind of person who always seems to have something going on.

College, organizations, campus activities, friends, and a hundred other things that keep his days from ever feeling truly quiet.

He’s smart, active, easy to get along with, and has quite a lot of friends.

Raga also already has a girlfriend when this story begins.

From the outside, his life looks pretty complete.

But there’s one thing not many people know about him.

Raga can actually lose focus pretty easily because of someone he never planned to let into his life.

Hana.

Raga likes green tea and matcha.

To him, bitterness isn’t something that needs to be avoided.

Maybe that’s why he doesn’t really mind differences either.

The problem is, when it comes to Hana, Raga starts realizing that some things can’t be figured out with logic alone.

Especially his own feelings.

 

RAGA’S CIRCLE

DIMAS

Raga’s closest friend.

If there’s one person who knows when something about Raga has changed, it’s probably Dimas.

Dimas knows Raga’s habits.

He knows when Raga is doing just fine.

He knows when Raga is being lazy.

And most importantly—

Dimas is quick to notice when something changes whenever Hana’s name starts showing up more and more in Raga’s life.

Unfortunately, his ability to read the situation comes with one annoying habit:

he loves teasing people.

The more Raga denies it, the more Dimas enjoys himself.

“You like Hana?”

“No.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah.”

“So, can I make a move on her?”

“Don’t.”

Dimas grinned.

“There we go.”

Raga went silent.

Dimas won.

 

ADIT

The laid-back one.

Adit doesn’t overthink things as much as Dimas does.

If something is funny, he laughs.

If Dimas starts teasing Raga, Adit usually joins in.

Not because he wants to make things more complicated.

He just thinks it’s funny.

“Come on, Ga. Just admit it.”

“Admit what?”

“You know what.”

“I have no idea.”

Adit nodded casually.

“Yeah. That makes it even worse.”

Adit is often the one who keeps things between them light.

Not too serious.

Not too dramatic.

If Dimas is the main instigator, Adit is the guy who casually pours more gasoline on the fire.

 

OPAL

The source of chaos.

Opal is the kind of friend who doesn’t always understand what’s going on, but somehow always has something to say.

Random.

Ridiculous.

Sometimes completely unrelated.

And somehow, that’s exactly what keeps things from getting too serious whenever Opal is around.

When Raga is seriously thinking about something, Opal can suddenly show up with a question that has absolutely nothing to do with it.

“Ga.”

“What?”

“What happens if you mix matcha with coffee?”

Raga stared at him.

“No idea.”

“So... Kopimatcha.”

“What the hell is that?”

“The title of your life.”

No one knows whether Opal is genuinely clueless or secretly way more perceptive than he lets on.

Either way, whenever he’s around, the whole circle almost always ends up laughing.

 

HANA KEIRA ANINDYA

The main character.

Hana is the kind of girl who makes people feel comfortable around her without even trying.

She’s kind, cheerful, easygoing, and almost always knows how to lighten the mood. No wonder people enjoy being around her.

Among the people around her, Hana is also known as someone they can count on. If someone needs help, there’s work that needs to be done, or someone simply needs a friend to talk to, Hana is usually there.

But being someone people can rely on doesn’t mean Hana is always okay.

She has a moody side that sometimes shows up without warning. One day, she can be cheerful and talkative. The next, she might suddenly want to spend some time alone.

Hana also has one habit that’s pretty hard for her to break:

she hates saying no.

She often finds it difficult to turn people down, especially when she feels like she can help. Sometimes, she thinks so much about other people’s feelings that she forgets to ask herself what she actually wants.

When it comes to love, Hana doesn’t really think about it that much.

When this story begins, she’s single. Most of her attention is focused on her career, her future, and the life she’s currently building.

Until Raga walks into it.

At first, he’s just someone who catches her attention.

Then he becomes a friend.

And eventually, he becomes someone she starts looking forward to seeing.

Without even realizing it, Raga becomes the person who forces Hana to face feelings she never planned to have.

Hana is a coffee lover, especially unsweetened lattes.

Coffee has a place in almost every one of her moods—when she’s happy, tired, busy, confused, or even when she’s having a bad day.

And maybe, out of all the things Hana has always been able to handle so easily, there’s one thing that turns out to be much harder:

understanding her own feelings.

 

HANA’S CIRCLE

ICHA

Hana’s closest friend and her go-to person for everything.

Icha is the person who hears Hana’s stories the most.

Including the ones about Raga.

It starts with something as simple as,

“Raga did this earlier...”

until eventually, almost every story somehow has the same name in it.

Icha may not always give Hana the answer she wants to hear.

But she’ll always tell her what she believes is true.

When Hana starts getting her hopes up about Raga, Icha is the one who reminds her of reality.

Raga already has a girlfriend.

And there’s no guarantee that Raga feels the same way.

That’s why Icha tells Hana to keep her distance.

Not because Raga is a bad person.

Quite the opposite.

Icha knows Raga is a good guy.

And sometimes, even a good person can still be the wrong person to hope for.

 

NADINE

Blunt and the most perceptive one.

While Icha usually listens, Nadine prefers to say exactly what she sees.

Hana can deny anything she wants.

But denying something in front of Nadine?

That’s a lot harder.

“You like Raga, don’t you?”

“No.”

“Then why do you immediately look up whenever someone mentions his name?”

“Coincidence.”

“Then why do you know what he likes?”

“Because we see each other a lot.”

“Then why are you smiling?”

Hana fell silent.

Nadine won.

Nadine is the kind of friend who notices the smallest changes in Hana even before Hana notices them herself.

She knows when Hana is happy.

She knows when Hana is annoyed.

And she knows when Hana is actually trying way too hard to pretend she doesn’t care.