Rowan Salazar

Rowan, a character in The Phantom Agent series, is an agent. He/She was your partner and love interest. He/She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
His/Her gender are determined by the player. Both versions wore a black leather jacket with a white t-shirt underneath, a golden triangular necklace, a black watch, and jeans. As The Contractor, both versions wore a black helmet, a black jacket, black gloves, black pants, and a mostly black shirt. With the male version, the shirt had a black diamond with green above and blue below. With the female version, the shirt had multiple V-shaped lines. In Chapter 11, the male version wore a gray suit with a green tie and the female version wore a green dress.

Background
You and Rowan worked at GAIA together for five years and eventually formed a romantic relationship. While the two of you were pursuing your target, the two of you are caught in an explosion and Rowan appears to die from it.

In Chapter 11, it is revealed that Rowan is The Contractor, the assassin doing The Architect's dirty work. If you decide to get answers from him/her, Rowan will tell you that he/she faked his/her own death with the help of The Architect, who had supplied the drug that slowed his/her heartbeat. Once Rowan woke, he/she hacked GAIA's records to say he/she was cremated before you were able to say your goodbyes.

In Chapter 14, a premium flashback shows that he/she started having doubts about GAIA during a mission called Operation Sunset, in which the two of you chased an arms dealer through a sweatshop. While you subdued your target, Rowan wanted to help the women in the sweatshop, believing that they were likely victims of human trafficking, but was frustrated when GAIA seemed to care only about the arms dealer you were pursuing and disobeyed orders by liberating the people in the sweatshop. After that, he/she started acting as a vigilante, helping to clean up collateral damage from GAIA operations.

The Phantom Agent

 * Chapter 1: The Art of the Chase
 * Chapter 2: No Risk, No Reward (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 3: Under Fire
 * Chapter 4: The Doctor is In
 * Chapter 6: Island of Secrets
 * Chapter 7: The Man in the Shadows
 * Chapter 8: Tricks of the Trade (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: Faster
 * Chapter 10: Forbidden Fruit (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 11: Laser Focus
 * Chapter 12: Reunion
 * Chapter 13: Rogue Agent (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 14: Kill Switch
 * Chapter 15: Loyalty

Your Character
You two were partners, professionally for 5 years and romantically for an unspecified amount of time, and worked well together. Based on the mission in Greece, you sometimes flirted and liked getting competitive with each other. When he/she seems to be killed, you are deeply saddened by his/her apparent death, even going as far as refusing a partner for the next year. However, you always keep his/her necklace close which was a gift from you in celebration of first mission in Morocco. In Chapter 11, you are shocked after finding out that he/she is alive and is The Contractor. At first you fight each other, but despite his/her betrayal, it is shown he/she still cares for you, and apologizes for keeping you in the dark about everything. He/she then tries to convince you to join The Architect's side, and if you take the premium scene and spend more time with him/her, you have the chance to kiss him/her. Later when he/she tries to get away with the painting, you can try to shoot him/her or let her escape. Regardless of your choice however, Rowan manages to escape unharmed, along with the painting.

Johann Skovgaard
In Chapter 11, Rowan is revealed to be "The Contractor", the assassin doing The Architect's dirty work. If you decide to get answers from Rowan, you find that Rowan truly believes that The Architect is making the world a better and fairer place. However, in Chapter 13, you find out that The Architect is not a Robin Hood, robbing from the rich to give to the poor, as Vivian reveals that The Architect has not given a cent of his ill-gotten gains to anyone but himself. This leads you to believe that Rowan either lied to you about his/her belief or that Johann is manipulating Rowan.

A premium flashback in Chapter 14 shows that Johann approached Rowan, having heard of his/her vigilantism, and convinced them to help him overthrow the capitalists and oligarchs he felt were oppressing the masses.

Other Looks

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Miscellaneous

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Trivia

 * He/She is the forty-fifth
 * He/She is the twenty-eighth
 * He/She shares the same forename as Rowan Thorn from The Crown & The Flame, Book 2 and Rowan West from the Perfect Match series.
 * He/She shares the same surname as Emilio Salazar from Ride or Die: A Bad Boy Romance, Book 1.
 * His/Her crimes include aiding & abetting and attempted murder.