Rafael Aveiro

Rafael Aveiro, a character in the Open Heart series, is a paramedic at Edenbrook Hospital and one of your love interests. He is first seen in Chapter 4.

Appearance
Rafael has wavy brown hair, brown eyes and tan skin. He wears a dark blue paramedic uniform with his last name on the right. Dolores Hudson, the pregnant woman he saved from an office fire, called him a total hunk, implying a muscular physique.

Outside of work, he wears a green jacket over a black t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.

Personality
He is a brave guy as he chose to save Dolores Hudson from a fire.

Open Heart

 * Chapter 4: Dolores
 * Chapter 5: Relief
 * Chapter 7: Patient X
 * Chapter 9: The Pita
 * Chapter 11: Whatever It Takes (Determinant)
 * Chapter 12: Panacea (Determinant)

Your Character
You first meet him in Chapter 4, when he brings your patient in the ambulance. In Chapter 5, you meet him when he takes the injured baseball player to the hospital by helicopter. In the premium scene in the same chapter you can choose to be either friendly or flirty, if you flirt with him he tells you he would like to have a drink with you another time. When he lands at the hospital you can choose to hold his hand or let it go. If you hold it, he smiles at you and apologizes. You can choose to kiss him in a premium scene of Chapter 7. In a premium scene of Chapter 9, you can choose to let him show you where he lives and meet his grandmother. He also tries to teach you some samba. In Chapter 11, he will join you and your friends when you go skydiving with Kyra. You can choose to fly towards him and kiss him. In Chapter 12, he appears at Teresa Martinez's going-away party. After her death in the same chapter, you can choose to tell him everything and let him comfort you.

Trivia

 * He has been an EMT for about 3 years.
 * He graduated with an Associate's degree. In Chapter 9, it is revealed that he went to Beacon Hill Community College.
 * His late uncle, who had retired from the Marines, taught him how to fly a helicopter while Rafael was still in high school and also the importance of community service. He inspired Rafael to become a paramedic so he could help others. He died two years prior to the start of the story.
 * In a premium scene of Chapter 7, between the choices of food, he says that Caribbean is his favorite. If you kiss him in the same premium scene, you tell him you were wondering what it would be like to kiss Superman in reference to the alias Dolores gave him. He says he is just a regular guy and you say that this what Clark Kent would say.
 * In Chapter 11, if you go skydiving and fly towards him, you tell him that he is indeed Superman.
 * In premium scenes of Chapter 7 and Chapter 9, he speaks Portuguese.
 * The name Rafael is Hebrew origin, which means "God as healed".
 * His surname, Aveiro, was named after a city in Portugal.