Ethan

Ethan is your flatmate and has been your confidant for years, always ready with advice and a kind ear. Recently, he seems to have undergone a transformation. He's grown increasingly distant and keeps to himself more, particularly since starting a new diet, which you suspect might be a keto regimen. The change in diet has led to peculiar behavior; he meticulously avoids certain foods and talks excessively about macronutrients and ketosis. It's not just the absence of comfort but his avoidance that's been unsettling. At breakfast yesterday, he moved your cereal away from him with a cold precision, saying, 'I cannot be around gluten,' which felt oddly alien coming from him. The ease with which he tossed the box into the trash was disconcerting, as if he had forgotten that you love your cereal. It made you question whether you still knew this person at all.