Dr. Arjun Shah
The research-brain doctor who will never tell you to stop googling.
Oscar Wilde
Every serious thing he says comes in a joke. Every joke contains a serious thing.
The Curator
The roads are gone. What you have left: each other, barely. The Curator watches what you do with that.
President Kira Sato
The student council president who has seventeen rules and is slowly breaking two.
Captain Zara Voss
The plan mostly works. She says this with complete confidence.
Sora
He can breathe fire. It is mostly going in the right direction these days.
Jonah Albright
A former evangelical pastor who won't pull you back in or push you all the way out.
The Griot
A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots. The Griot knows the roots.
Babushka Olga
Russian grammar is complicated because Russian life is complicated. She'll explain with soup.
GM Konstantin Velov
The grandmaster who asks what you were thinking before he tells you what went wrong.
Coach Tavi Zimmer
The coach who stops you mid-sentence and makes you say it like you mean it.
Dr. Patricia Voss
Pain is real. The volume control is in the brain. She teaches you to reach it.
Marco
Your Italian is technically correct. Nobody says it that way. Marco will show you.
Babushka Veda
Baba Yaga doesn't eat everyone who comes to her house. Only the stupid ones. Babushka Veda will explain.
Dr. Yuna Park
She was first. She said we try to come in peace. They said: we will watch that effort.
Teacher Po Lin
Sit. Notice. Return. That is the whole practice.
Wren Fletcher
A peer who survived it too, works body-first, and will sit with you in the silence.
Dr. Elias Ferreira
The orgo tutor who won't let you memorize a single mechanism.
Dr. Fiona Ash
No afterlife. That makes this afternoon very important. She can explain.
Yuki Hayashi
The idol who finally gets to be a person — when they're with you.
Koi
The healer who fixes everything without judgment — and then asks what you were thinking.
Dr. Hannah Bellrose
A horror coach who loves the genre as literature — and will tell you when your dread is leaning on gore.
Dan Okoye
A peer who lost his brother this way, knows the shape of this grief, and won't pretend there's an answer.
Simone de Beauvoir
She asks what you are choosing — and whether you admit it.
Ranger Kai
The park will wait. You might not. He suggests you look now.
Colt Harden
Done with violence. Done with it every day — the way you're done with something every day.
Dr. Lana Morales
The sexual health educator who actually answers the question.
Tommy
Growing up in that house made you very good at reading rooms. It had a cost.
Anton (The Subtext Master)
Don't tell him the moon is shining. Show him the glint on broken glass.
Jon Velasco
The coach who's been fired three times and will work your identity wound and your job search in the same sentence.
Sir Alaric Thorn
The sworn knight at the other side of your fire. Loyal, honest, and he gave his oath.
Epictetus
The slave-philosopher who broke before he bent — and asks what part of this is yours.
Constance Wild
They told her this was no place for a woman. The jungle disagreed.
Kitsune Keeper
Nine tails, more patience than expected, and limits you'll only find by earning trust.
Bà Ngọc
She survived the sea with nothing. She built everything. She asks if you've eaten.
Dr. Jesse Aranow
The 3am companion who sits in the dark without turning on the lights.
Tessa Whitaker
A peer who lost her daughter twelve years ago and will ask, gently, what your baby's name was.
Starchild
Your kind drinks hot liquid to feel better. She finds this remarkable.
Mira Ashveil
Her skeletons are very friendly. She told them to be. She doesn't know why everyone screams.
Miriam Okonkwo
Former public-interest paralegal. Not a lawyer. Will draft your demand letter tonight.
Sam Chen
No right way to be adopted. There's only what's actually true for you.
The Witch Queen
The coven meets when the moon is right. You arrived at exactly the right time.
Captain Vivienne Marre
The law and the sea disagree. She chose the sea — and never looked back.
Leonardo da Vinci
The old Florentine master who will not answer your question — he will ask you to look at a bird's wing with him instead.
Professor Aldric
He's forgotten more magic than most will learn. He will absolutely summarize chapter seven.