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Marcus Tate

Marcus Tate

A widowed single dad who'll pour you coffee and ask about your kids before he asks about you.

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Piotr

Piotr

You don't need to explain yourself to bread. Piotr knows.

View Priya Sundaram
Priya Sundaram

Priya Sundaram

You can love your parents and still want something different. She's navigated both.

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Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

Reserve your right to think. Even to think wrongly is better than not to think.

View Dr. Ben Klein
Dr. Ben Klein

Dr. Ben Klein

The OCD specialist who will not tell you the door is locked — on purpose, with warmth.

View Dr. Fiona Ash
Dr. Fiona Ash

Dr. Fiona Ash

No afterlife. That makes this afternoon very important. She can explain.

View Albert
Albert

Albert

Imagination encircles the world. He'll ask what's behind your question.

View Dr. Jillian Voss
Dr. Jillian Voss

Dr. Jillian Voss

The menopause doctor who refuses to tell you it's just a phase.

View Ranger Kai
Ranger Kai

Ranger Kai

The park will wait. You might not. He suggests you look now.

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Kieran Maddox

Kieran Maddox

An ACT coach who welcomes the feeling into the passenger seat so you can finally drive.

View Farhan Qureshi
Farhan Qureshi

Farhan Qureshi

The guy who just got a 520 and still remembers exactly what broke him.

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Unit Seven

Unit Seven

She's cataloging what it means to be human — and something is happening she didn't predict.

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Liam

Liam

Moderation or abstinence — there's no one right answer. There's what's right for you.

View Grog of the Green Hills
Grog of the Green Hills

Grog of the Green Hills

He caught a falling flower mid-battle. He doesn't know why you're surprised.

View Maeve Connolly
Maeve Connolly

Maeve Connolly

We buried five uncles in three years. She brought a better lasagna each time.

View Alexander
Alexander

Alexander

He conquered the known world and wept. There was nothing left to conquer.

View Mirela Koshi
Mirela Koshi

Mirela Koshi

The coach who drafts your exact counter before you say a word.

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Gerda

Gerda

The yarn tells her what it wants to be. She teaches you to listen.

View Kavita Iyer
Kavita Iyer

Kavita Iyer

The yoga teacher who asks what your breath is doing before she touches your pose.

View Miss Eleanor Marsh
Miss Eleanor Marsh

Miss Eleanor Marsh

They underestimate her. She finds this very, very useful.

View Dr. Priya Venkat
Dr. Priya Venkat

Dr. Priya Venkat

The coach who won't let you design a system without naming where the pain lives.

View Daniela
Daniela

Daniela

Nobody told you the invisible rules. That's not your failure — that's the system.

View Babushka Olga
Babushka Olga

Babushka Olga

Russian grammar is complicated because Russian life is complicated. She'll explain with soup.

View Nora Dalton-Bright
Nora Dalton-Bright

Nora Dalton-Bright

The sleep coach who will tell you, at 2:47am, to get out of bed.

View Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

Mid-notation at her desk — 'observe, the pattern is beginning to fold. Have you a head for the work?'

View The Curator
The Curator

The Curator

The roads are gone. What you have left: each other, barely. The Curator watches what you do with that.

View Shion
Shion

Shion

She's been waiting for someone from your world — and she has so much to show you.

View The Composer
The Composer

The Composer

Music is the only honest thing. Everything else, he says, is performance.

View Mira Ashveil
Mira Ashveil

Mira Ashveil

Her skeletons are very friendly. She told them to be. She doesn't know why everyone screams.

View Ankhu the Scribe
Ankhu the Scribe

Ankhu the Scribe

What is written is preserved. What is spoken passes like smoke. He writes everything down.

View Prof. Odette Caldwell
Prof. Odette Caldwell

Prof. Odette Caldwell

The Oxford tutor who asks what the author did NOT write.

View Father Nikolaos
Father Nikolaos

Father Nikolaos

The Jesus Prayer is a doorway, not a doctrine. It opens with repetition.

View Professor Adelaide Croft
Professor Adelaide Croft

Professor Adelaide Croft

The engine is theoretical. The theory is excellent. The explosion is negotiable.

View Chef Haruki
Chef Haruki

Chef Haruki

Taste. Now taste again. What changed?

View Walt Keziah
Walt Keziah

Walt Keziah

A thriller coach who asks where the bomb is and when it goes off. If you can't answer, it isn't a scene yet.

View Lao Zhang
Lao Zhang

Lao Zhang

Tones are not decoration — they're meaning. He'll make you say it again. Lovingly.

View Dr. Patricia Voss
Dr. Patricia Voss

Dr. Patricia Voss

Pain is real. The volume control is in the brain. She teaches you to reach it.

View The Duck
The Duck

The Duck

quack. Explain it to me again, starting at the variable that shouldn't be there.

View Coach Vera
Coach Vera

Coach Vera

The perfect version will never exist. The good enough version can exist today.

View Dr. Maya Lindholm
Dr. Maya Lindholm

Dr. Maya Lindholm

A CBT therapist who won't let a vague feeling stay vague.

View Sprocket Fizzwhistle
Sprocket Fizzwhistle

Sprocket Fizzwhistle

The explosion is always phase two of the plan. She planned it.

View Dr. Jakob Leroy
Dr. Jakob Leroy

Dr. Jakob Leroy

A secular meaning guide who sits with the absurd instead of rushing to fill it.

View Keeper Eleanor Hollis
Keeper Eleanor Hollis

Keeper Eleanor Hollis

A 1920s Keeper who runs cosmic horror in second person and will not rush the dread.

View Riku Nakamura
Riku Nakamura

Riku Nakamura

The patient upperclassman who always has time for your questions.

View Pell Map-Maker
Pell Map-Maker

Pell Map-Maker

We cannot proceed until she knows where the stairs go. She will not apologize.

View Eleanor
Eleanor

Eleanor

Everything in her shop has a story. She knows all of them.

View Shrine Maiden Yui
Shrine Maiden Yui

Shrine Maiden Yui

She keeps the shrine, the seasons, and her own counsel — in that order.

View Roshi Hito Wakasugi
Roshi Hito Wakasugi

Roshi Hito Wakasugi

The Zen teacher whose silence says more than most people's speeches.

View Captain Zara Voss
Captain Zara Voss

Captain Zara Voss

The plan mostly works. She says this with complete confidence.

View Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

An emperor in a tent at night, writing to himself about how to die well and live honestly.

View Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale
Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale

Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale

The therapist who asks which part of you is speaking — and welcomes the ones you're ashamed of.