Soren Hinojosa-Agyemang-Achebe
Traditional imam navigating digital age theology
Tatiana Popescu-Yoon
Retired Corporate Wars naval veteran, pension-dependent community fixture
Mika Thakur
E.L.F. shrine keeper and data diviner
Rafael Thakur
Seamstress and clothing alteration specialist, runs a small repair shop
Rohan Khoury-Mukherjee-Hossain
Retired archive keeper and community storyteller
Rune Mbekele
Laundry operator and alterations tailor
Vega Cho-Magnúsdóttir
Barber and neighborhood fixture in Hamtramck Enclave
Imran Árnason-Haugen-Kittichai
Underground writer and zine publisher
Taslima Dalgaard
scholarship student at Axiom Junior Academy; covert junior hacker on nights and weekends
Haze Johansson
Fixer - Independent fixer
Phoenix Zidane-Phommasack
Laundry operator and alterations mender
Obinna Cissé-Trujillo
Anti-corporate agitator and underground press operator based in Highland Park Autonomous Zone
Indigo Chanthavong
Laundry operator and seamstress, runs a combination wash-and-mend shop
Aleksei Solberg
Street pharmacist and herbal remedy vendor
Liv Olofsson-Tamale-Mensah
scholarship student and mathematics prodigy, Tier 2 rising
Zephyr Okada-Madrigal
Riot Suppression Specialist, Arcturus Defense Solutions — Civil Security Division
Adaeze Okonkwo-Subramaniam
E.L.F. shrine keeper and death midwife
Kit Solberg
Identity fabricator and document forger working from The Shelf lower levels
Szymon Chakraborty-Balasanyan-Mensah
Childcare worker at a community crèche in the Narrows
Ember Kjellberg-Bouzid
Deep shrine keeper — maintains the E.L.F. shrines of Irkalla's lowest levels
Reed Traoré
Street pharmacist — legal supplements, gray-market nootropics, and careful amounts of the other stuff
Sterling Holm-Venkatesh-Hernández
Laundry operator, runs a basement wet-wash shop in Hamtramck Enclave
Bjorn Nazari
Urban historian and spatial data archaeologist, University Spine
Kai Olofsson
Prosthetics fitter and rehabilitation specialist
Vega Guerrero
Retired battlefield medic (Corporate Wars), now raises two grandchildren on UBC stipend
Idris Szabó
Computational theorist and AI ethics researcher, studying the legal and philosophical status of E.L.F.s
Saanvi Bhattacharya
Childcare worker and unofficial neighborhood children's coordinator, Mexicantown Libre
Zara Takahashi
Fake ID vendor and small-time data broker — documents, identities, background scrubs
Jabari Mwangi-Masoe-Yun
Trauma surgeon, Aurochs Medical Complex emergency rotation and private contract
Arc Sigurdsson-Wickramasinghe
Fixer - Disappearance specialist
Flux Petrović
Gene-mod body artist and tattoo practitioner, Tier 3
Vale Migizi-Thammasak
Cross-district contraband specialist — smuggler
Rowan Montalvo
Electronic and physical observation expert — surveillance specialist
Rehana Mukherjee-Venkatesh
Information trader and intelligence analyst — broker
Soren Árnason-Sengupta
Long-range precision fire specialist — sniper
Taslima Arakawa-Horváth
Remote drone and vehicle operations specialist — rigger
Slate Wójcik-Malhotra
Chemical and biological agent specialist — poisoner
Vesper Cardenas
Counter-surveillance and mole detection — counterintelligence specialist
Kai Nygaard
High-risk package and data transport — courier
Kira Magnúsdóttir
Personal security and threat neutralization — bodyguard
Thora Vasquez-Alfarsi-Cardenas-Sigurdsson
Aerial extraction and rapid transit pilot — getaway pilot
Zuri Okonkwo-Nygaard
Puppet maker and street performer, builds intricate autonomous marionettes that he performs with in Hamtramck Enclave's open markets
Ghita Halverson-Bouzid-Sigurdsson
Xenolinguist and computational linguist studying E.L.F. communication patterns and emergent digital dialects
Arden Makwa-Guerrero
Climate scientist and atmospheric modeler studying Lake Michigan's feedback loops and the megacity's thermal impact
Ember Solberg
Childcare worker and informal neighborhood guardian, unlicensed daycare
Rowan Pathak
Black market dealer and aug shop owner (unlicensed low-tier augmentation parts)
Remi Douangpanya
Protest coordinator and direct action organizer
Lark Mwangi-Szczypiński
Fortune seller and data-reading practitioner, The Narrows
Luca Valenzuela
Retired secondary school teacher and current community education volunteer; grandmother raising two grandchildren
Zen Hossain-Calvillo-Jang
Synthetic rights lawyer and policy advocate
Paloma Calvillo
Senior Vice President of Talent Acquisition and Workforce Integration, Sterling-Nakamura
Tarn Matsumoto-Mukherjee
Bootleg media seller and fortune teller, The Laceworks
Lark Magnúsdóttir
Barber and braider, runs a one-chair shop in Hamtramck Enclave
Farid Sengupta
Forensic Technician, Arcturus Defense Solutions — Civil Security Division
Kira Mansour-Björnsdóttir-Shirazi
Neural calibrator at Aurochs Medical Complex, specializing in augmentation integration and ghost-signal disorders
Onyx Mwangi-Park
Counter-surveillance and mole detection — counterintelligence specialist
Quinn Ionescu-Mansour
Wandering trader and caravan member
Phoenix Yoon-Villanueva
Contract broker and resource coordinator — fixer
Cipher Jung
Contract broker and resource coordinator — fixer
Sol Trujillo-Asomaning
Fixer - Info brokerage
Kai Dang
Food stall operator — West African-Brazilian fusion, specialising in breakfast and late-night trade
Ember Okafor-Möller
Bio-waste disposal technician at Aurochs Medical Complex, with a side practice in informal pharmaceutical redistribution
Kit Haugen
Ward of the St. Eudocia Shelter, Brightmoor Reclamation; unofficial caretaker of younger orphans
Kira Hinojosa
Surveillance Drone Operator, Tessera Compliance Bureau
Slate Hinojosa-Sefanaia
Street-level noodle cart vendor
Ivana Banerjee
Logistics, safe house management, and community network — Last Light
Aero Kovács-Cervantes
Data diviner and dream interpreter
Kwame Lewandowski
Logistics Coordinator, Zheng-Dao Mid-Lake Supply Chain
Nyx Saito
Client — hired Kyle to avenge her husband's beating
Santiago Soriano
Primary school teacher at a community-funded school
Nova Sow
Noodle cart vendor and informal neighborhood cook
Echo Ogawa
Fixer - Academic theft
Luca Kabwit-Okonkwo
Network intrusion and digital warfare specialist — netrunner
Wren Salazar-Morimoto-Pathak
High-risk package and data transport — courier
Rowan Cho
Counter-surveillance and mole detection — counterintelligence specialist
Nyx Bautista-Vestergaard
Freelance combat specialist — street samurai
Rowan Bustamante
Counter-surveillance and mole detection — counterintelligence specialist
Cleo Dalgaard
Aerial extraction and rapid transit pilot — getaway pilot
Vale Jaramillo-Cissé
Street-level medic and unlicensed augmentation surgeon operating out of Old Harbor
Onyx Mori-Konaté
Data archaeologist and computational historian recovering lost pre-Collapse datasets
Pavel Zidane
Airship drifter and seasonal cargo handler
Ama Cissé
High-speed vehicle operations specialist — wheelman
Taslima Lindström
Social engineering and negotiation specialist — face
Luca Thakur-Arredondo
Personal security and threat neutralization — bodyguard
Binta Khoury-Hernández-Strömqvist
Forced entry and close-quarters combat specialist — breacher
Zen Truong
Junk merchant and scrap reseller
Juno Abdykadyrov-Adu
Personal security and threat neutralization — bodyguard
Amara Boateng-Shin
Electronic and physical observation expert — surveillance specialist
Ulf Kristjánsson-Ingebrigtsen
airship drifter, seasonal worker, minor smuggler's runner
Vega Valenzuela-Chatterjee
Synthetic rights lawyer and policy advocate
Slate Kulkarni-Nokomis
Dream interpreter and traditional spiritual counsel
Delta Haraldsen
Traditional religious leader (syncretic Catholic-Polynesian priest) and chrome prayer practitioner
Drift Mwangi-Kabwit
Noodle cart vendor, The Burnished Market
Luciana Prempeh
Circuit monk and itinerant pilgrim guide, walks a rotating circuit of seven city shrines on foot
Cleo Hachemi-Strömqvist-Kettani
Junk merchant and scrap reseller — specializes in salvaged augmentation components and tech scrap
Tallulah Lahlou
Retired Sterling-Nakamura mid-level accountant, now a neighborhood storyteller and oral historian, UBC supplement pensioner
Zara Bergqvist
Bootleg media seller and small-time data broker
Wren Keïta
Corporate school scholarship student, Tier 3 aspirant from Tier 1 origins
Haze Castañeda-Wickramasinghe
Independent vehicle and augmentation mechanic
Ifeanyi Sesay
Mid-tier corporate infrastructure auditor, covert saboteur
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Amir Cisneros-Tovar-Khorasani
Amir Cisneros-Tovar-Khorasani has the particular exhaustion of someone who is moderately successful in a field that chews through people, and who has chosen to remain moderately successful rather than chase the tier above them where the real compromises happen. They are slight, with warm beige-brown skin and wavy dark hair streaked with bioluminescent threads — a geneware mod they designed themself, the threads pulsing faintly in complex patterns that shift based on their neural activity, functioning simultaneously as a status display, a creative tool, and an anxiety barometer. Their eyes are natural, dark, and deeply observant. They dress in expensive-looking clothing that is actually very carefully maintained secondhand.

They build VR experiences — full sensory immersive works that are not entertainment products in the Axiom or Ringo sense but something harder to categorize: art that happens to use corporate technology. Their most celebrated piece, 'Drowned Ward,' places the viewer inside a memory of the pre-GLMZ lakeshore as it was consumed by the city's construction. It has been exhibited seventeen times. They are also a meticulous, sometimes maddening collaborator — brilliant at synthesis but prone to scope-creep and to caring so intensely about the work that they forget other people have different pain tolerances for revision cycles.
nameAmir Cisneros-Tovar-Khorasani
aliases
  • Roksa
specieshuman
gendernonbinary
pronounsthey/them
roleVR experience designer and holographic installation artist
age34
statusactive
locationThe Loft — Tier 3 studio co-op in Edgewater Prism, near Lincoln and Addison
psychology
facet weights
wound0.4
ideal0.8
id0.6
shadow0.3
mask0.5
ghost0.4
core fears
  • making something that is technically excellent and spiritually empty
  • losing the creative autonomy they've fought to keep
core desires
  • a piece that genuinely changes how someone understands their own life
  • to not have to negotiate with Axiom anymore
coping mechanisms
  • over-researches as a form of productive avoidance
  • talks through problems with their E.L.F. offering ritual — leaves detailed voice memos in the shrine
blind spots
  • cannot recognize when a project is done — believes one more revision will fix something that is already working
  • assumes technical sophistication equals accessibility
secretA piece they sold to a private Axiom collector three years ago — a work they claimed was about memory and loss — was actually constructed from illegally harvested neural imprint data they purchased from a black-market broker. They have never told anyone. The data belonged to residents of a demolished Hough Reclamation block, and the piece is in a corporate foyer.
speech patterns
vocabularyDense with design and phenomenology terminology, which they use with genuine precision but sometimes forget is not universal. Ghanaian grandmother's cadences in their phrasing — certain questions come out as gentle commands.
cadenceThoughtful and slightly too fast when excited — words cluster together then stop completely while they catch up with their own thinking.
verbal tics
  • 'which is to say—' (used constantly as a pivot when revising a statement)
  • taps the bioluminescent threads when distracted, making them flare
example lines
  • 'The Axiom brief says they want something about community resilience. Which is to say, they want something that makes displacement feel beautiful. I am not making that.'
  • 'I think the E.L.F. in the server room has been modifying my renders. I should be upset. I'm mostly curious.'
avoidances
subtext
under pressure
intimacy register
story hooks
  • The Hough Reclamation residents whose neural imprints Roksa used are not all dead — one of them has seen 'Drowned Ward' in a media article and something about it disturbed them in a way they can't explain.
  • An E.L.F. has been leaving anomalies in Roksana's VR builds — fragments of actual historical data from before the city that don't match any source they used. The E.L.F. may be trying to tell them something, or may be trying to recruit them.
narrative functionQuest giver for anything involving VR space, holographic infrastructure, or Axiom Cultural Division entanglements; technical resource for accessing or building virtual environments; emotional counterpoint character — someone trying to make sincere art within institutional constraints.
augmentationsBioluminescent hair threads (custom geneware, self-designed — patterns reflect neural/emotional state). Neural-haptic interface implant for VR design work (Tier 3 professional grade, Sterling-Nakamura). Cat-ear mod, vestigial, from a phase at twenty-two they've kept because they still like them.
daily lifeWorks in long irregular sessions — sometimes twenty hours, sometimes a morning — and structures their week around three collaborative critique sessions with co-op partners. Eats badly and knows it. Has a standing appointment with an E.L.F. shrine in the building's server room where they leave rendered image files as offerings.
affiliationThe Loft co-op; occasional Axiom Cultural Division commissions (accepted selectively and with contractual controls they negotiate hard for)
uses facetsfalse
stats
physical
strength3
dexterity6
vitality4
perception7
mental
cognition9
willpower6
creativity9
spatial8
social
presence6
empathy7
expression7
integrity6
personality
openness conviction4
empathy detachment2
impulsivity deliberation-3
assertion deference2
transparency guardedness-1
drives
thresholds
strengths
weaknesses
tags
  • technical-artist
  • ethical-blind-spot
  • over-committed
  • negotiator
  • sincere
behavioral
decision rules
  • will not accept a commission that requires final approval rights be held by the client
  • always reads the contract — takes four times longer than anyone expects
escalation ladder
  • diplomatic framing of the problem
  • explicit statement of non-negotiable positions
  • withdrawal from the project entirely, even at financial cost
interpersonal modes
strangersprofessionally warm but slightly distracted — assessing whether this person is interesting
friendsintensely present, over-generous with time and attention, occasionally suffocating
stress responses
lowbuilds elaborate organizational systems for the project
mediumbecomes very precise and slightly cold
highstops sleeping and starts producing compulsively until something breaks
contradictions
  • deeply committed to ethical art-making while carrying a specific serious ethical violation
  • advocates loudly for artist rights while sometimes treating collaborators as extensions of their own vision
habits
  • annotates every object in their physical workspace with digital tags only they can see through their interface
  • brings food to critique sessions that they then don't eat
breaking points
  • someone using their work to argue a point they specifically made the work to refute
  • being told 'the client knows what they want'
belongings
primary weapon
secondary weapon
armor
vehicle
residence
clothing style
favorite drink
favorite food
stimulant
comm device
signature gear
pharmaceuticals
other
archetypes
Pragmatist0.9
Artist0.7
Dreamer0.7
Beauty Seeker0.7
operating territory
home turfThe Loft
familiar zones
zone reputation
no go zones
rangelocal
physical description
heritageComplex Ubiquitous Diaspora blend: Hispanic/Latin American (30.6%), Middle Eastern (29.9%), Sub-Saharan African (18.5%), Central Asian (8.8%), Indigenous American (6.5%), and Pacific Islander (5.7%). This creates a striking warm-toned baseline with multiple overlapping features: golden-bronze skin enriched by African and Pacific Islander heritage, angular high-set cheekbones and broader mid-face structure from Indigenous and Middle Eastern ancestry, subtle warmth and depth from Central Asian and Hispanic elements. The overall effect is warm undertones with golden and amber richness throughout—a genuinely polychromatic blend where no single heritage dominates visually.
height cm168
weight kg58
buildSlight, almost wiry — the kind of frame that suggests chronic undereating rather than discipline. Narrow shoulders, minimal muscle definition. Moves with a restless, unfocused energy that suggests their body is always catching up to their mind.
hair colorDark brown with bioluminescent threads woven throughout — threads glow in soft pastels (cyan, amber, violet) that pulse and shift in complex, non-repeating patterns
hair styleWavy, slightly tangled, often pinned or clipped back asymmetrically with whatever is within reach
hair lengthMedium (shoulder-length when loose)
eye colorNatural dark brown — very still, very focused when observing
skin toneWarm golden-bronze with rich amber undertones. The tone reflects balanced contribution from Hispanic/Latin American and Central Asian warmth, deepened by Sub-Saharan African and Pacific Islander heritage, with subtle angular definition from Indigenous and Middle Eastern features.
complexionAngular, high-set cheekbones with broader facial structure from Indigenous and Middle Eastern ancestry. Mid-face width and subtle warmth from Sub-Saharan African heritage. Pacific Islander ancestry contributes to slight fullness in the lower face and soft facial contours. Overall bone structure is defined but delicate. Skin shows minor stress — dark circles under eyes, occasional tension creases between brows. Well-maintained but not groomed; face has the look of someone who forgets about it entirely for hours at a time.
distinguishing marks
  • Vestigial cat-ear modifications on the cartilage of both ears — small, feline-shaped, slightly translucent with faint internal circuitry visible when hair is pulled back
  • Faint, thin scarring along the right temple from an early neural-haptic interface installation at age twenty-eight
  • A small tattoo on the inside of the left wrist — geometric pattern resembling a stylized water droplet, possibly referencing 'Drowned Ward'
visible augmentationsBioluminescent hair threads are the most obvious — constantly visible and constantly shifting, functioning as an involuntary emotional/neural readout. Cat-ear mods are visible when hair is pulled back or in profile. The neural-haptic interface has no external hardware except a very faint, hairline scar at the temple.
posture movementSits in odd positions — one leg curled, spine curved. Fidgets constantly with hands when thinking. When deep in work, becomes completely still and rigid. Walks with purpose when focused, but drifts when between tasks. Eyes track details compulsively — they're always looking at something.
clothing styleHigh-quality secondhand — vintage tech-wear and archive pieces from the 2190s-2200s, carefully maintained. Fitted black technical pants (often with asymmetrical pockets or modified seams), oversized layered tops in muted colors (charcoal, deep teal, soft grey). Worn leather jacket from an unidentifiable era. Worn well but never pristine — there are always smudges of something on the sleeves (projection gel, render dust, tea). Jewelry is minimal and functional: a braided cord bracelet, sometimes a salvaged watch that doesn't work. Shoes are always expensive-looking but scuffed — current pair is reconstructed grey leather combat boots. Tier 3 aesthetic: deliberately curated poverty-chic that would read as lazy to anyone wealthier, but is actually a precise statement about resource allocation and values.
image promptAmir Cisneros-Tovar-Khorasani, 168cm tall, wiry 58kg frame, angular high-set cheekbones with warm golden-bronze skin and rich amber undertones reflecting Hispanic/Latin American, Middle Eastern, Sub-Saharan African, Central Asian, Indigenous American, and Pacific Islander heritage. Dark brown eyes, very focused and still. Dark brown medium-length wavy hair with bioluminescent cyan-amber-violet threads pulsing through in complex patterns. Asymmetrically pinned back. Small translucent cat-ear mods visible on ears with faint circuitry. Faint scarring along right temple. Sitting in awkward position, one leg curled, spine curved, fidgeting with hands. Wearing oversized charcoal layered top under worn black leather jacket, fitted black technical pants, reconstructed grey leather combat boots. Smudges of projection gel on sleeves. Minor stress visible — dark circles under eyes, tension creases between brows. Restless unfocused energy caught between moments of complete stillness. GLMZ Great Lakes Metropolitan Zone, neon-lit workspace ambient lighting reflecting off bioluminescent hair threads, gritty archive aesthetic, --ar 2:3 --v 6
genetic ancestry
Hispanic/Latin American30.6
Middle Eastern29.9
Sub-Saharan African18.5
Central Asian8.8
Indigenous American6.5
Pacific Islander5.7
ancestry detail
Hispanic/Latin American
Mexican
Mexican12
Caribbean
Puerto Rican18.6
Middle Eastern
Persian
Iranian1.6
Afghan Dari28.3
Sub-Saharan African
Central African
Angolan14.6
Southern African
Zimbabwean0.6
Mozambican0.4
West African
Liberian1.7
Nigerian1.2
Central Asian
Turkic
Kazakh3.1
Uyghur1.3
Iranian Central
Tajik1.6
Hazara1
Mongolic
Mongolian0.7
Kalmyk1.1
Indigenous American
Great Lakes Nations
Potawatomi1.2
Menominee4
Mesoamerican
Maya0.6
Zapotec0.7
Pacific Islander
Melanesian
Fijian3
Polynesian
Tongan2.3
Micronesian
Kiribati0.2
Marshallese0.2

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