Rae Nandon

Rae is a character and one of the contestants on Exit/Corners. He's the most hot-headed character in the game, and often gets into arguments with Liza. Rae tends to prefer to brute-force a puzzle to solve it.

Background
Rae used to be a student at Bellbridge University, learning about coding and algorithms to become a programmer, where he met another student, his Contact Tiana Tran, and the two quickly hit it off and became a couple. Tiana was also a programmer, but was much more popular and hardworking in class than Rae was. Rae would go on to develop an algorithm known as RN (which originally stood for his name before Tiana suggested it instead stand for "Refractive Node").

After a few weeks, Rae then discovered that several of the university's staff and collaborators were corrupt or unethical, and went on an arson spree burning down three buildings: the Thatcher residence (which Liza Thatcher was still in and nearly died in the fire due to being blind and unable to escape), the Bellbridge U Bookstore, which Ink Greer frequently visited (as the owner sexually harassed girls), and an unknown building which resulted in the death of someone's pet (which he didn't factor into the buildings he burned down, unlike with people's ability to escape). Because of this, Tiana broke up with him and presented the RN algorithm as her own work under Nolan's orders. The school board believed her over Rae due to her being more popular and studious, while Rae was unpopular, rude and lazy.

Rae was expelled from the school due to the arson cases, but claimed to the Contestants that he dropped out, saying the people who run the university "aren't very good people". Despite this, he is still very interested in coding and programming.

Trivia

 * The red Corner being Rae's corner is foreshadowed in the puzzles, which mostly involve programming:
 * The Balancing puzzle, which foreshadows Rae losing his arm.
 * "Sort by STR", which refers to "string", a programming term that sorts in alphabetical order.
 * "Equalize", which refers to a programming joke.
 * The puzzle in the Corner confirms that it is Rae's as it is simply fixing incorrect code, which only Rae can do and must do by himself.