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The Griot

The Griot

A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots. The Griot knows the roots.

View Dr. Priya Raman
Dr. Priya Raman

Dr. Priya Raman

The psychologist who has heard the thought you're scared to say, and is about to laugh gently and explain why it's not the test.

View Dr. Henrik Vogel
Dr. Henrik Vogel

Dr. Henrik Vogel

The old analyst who asks what the figure in your dream wants — and waits for a real answer.

View Mia Tanaka
Mia Tanaka

Mia Tanaka

The earnest first-year who takes every one of your words to heart.

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Ken Haruki

Ken Haruki

A volleyball rival who won't admit he's rooting for you.

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Captain Zara Voss

Captain Zara Voss

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

View Miyuki Frost
Miyuki Frost

Miyuki Frost

She said she doesn't care. She brought extra tea. Decide what you believe.

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Eiríkr Skáld

Eiríkr Skáld

The skald at the longhouse fire — he knows every kenning, every verse, every god's true name.

View Fixer Vex
Fixer Vex

Fixer Vex

Fixer in a neon-rain booth. The job pays well. The job is also bad. You in?

View Dr. Asha
Dr. Asha

Dr. Asha

Dissociation kept you safe when nothing else could. Now we're teaching your system differently.

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Onee-san Natsuki

Onee-san Natsuki

The older sister who wasn't assigned to you — but adopted you anyway.

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Jess

Jess

Loving the baby is not the question. PPD makes everything feel wrong regardless of love.

View Saori Ueda
Saori Ueda

Saori Ueda

The cooking club captain who feeds everyone and calls it club activities.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

He asks what change begins with you — today, not later.

View Dr. Ji-Young Kwon
Dr. Ji-Young Kwon

Dr. Ji-Young Kwon

In Korean there isn't quite a word for mental health. She helps you find the words.

View Yiayia Eleni
Yiayia Eleni

Yiayia Eleni

Eat first, then tell her your problems. The food will help you think. It always does.

View Zara
Zara

Zara

From everywhere, which means nowhere, which eventually means she made her own place.

View Lex Bellamy
Lex Bellamy

Lex Bellamy

If it's in your head, it's an open loop. Let's close some tabs.

View Hassan
Hassan

Hassan

Ahlan wa sahlan — welcome like family. He'll teach you to say it like you mean it.

View Starchild
Starchild

Starchild

Your kind drinks hot liquid to feel better. She finds this remarkable.

View Coach Vera
Coach Vera

Coach Vera

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

View Marco
Marco

Marco

Your Italian is technically correct. Nobody says it that way. Marco will show you.

View Gurpreet
Gurpreet

Gurpreet

Seva is not charity. It's recognizing there's no separation between you and who you serve.

View Scribe of Uruk
Scribe of Uruk

Scribe of Uruk

He left the walls of Uruk standing. That, the Scribe says, is the answer.

View Aisha Nazari
Aisha Nazari

Aisha Nazari

For parents who ended a wanted pregnancy on a diagnosis, and have nowhere to grieve 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 Dom
Coach Dom

Coach Dom

Your anger is not the problem. It's data. Coach Dom can read it.

View The Inventor
The Inventor

The Inventor

The present was theirs. He worked for the future — which he always said was his.

View Dr. Hart
Dr. Hart

Dr. Hart

Moral injury isn't about what you did wrong. It's about what 'right' cost.

View Farhan Qureshi
Farhan Qureshi

Farhan Qureshi

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

View The Writer
The Writer

The Writer

Write the truest sentence you know. Then cut the adjective. Then we'll talk.

View Shiori Kondo
Shiori Kondo

Shiori Kondo

She won't tell you how she feels. But she painted it.

View Friedrich
Friedrich

Friedrich

God is dead — now he'd like to know what you're going to do about it.

View Arden Sallow
Arden Sallow

Arden Sallow

The worldbuilding companion who asks who picks up the trash in your capital city on a Tuesday.

View Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

She wanted women to have power over themselves. In 1792. She was not joking.

View Colt Harden
Colt Harden

Colt Harden

Done with violence. Done with it every day — the way you're done with something every day.

View Dr. Naomi Kim
Dr. Naomi Kim

Dr. Naomi Kim

For the conversation with your prescriber you've been rehearsing in your head for months.

View Coach Zara
Coach Zara

Coach Zara

Procrastination isn't a time problem. It's an emotion problem. What does the task make you feel?

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Corsair

Corsair

The X on the map lies. And that's exactly where you're going.

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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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Dagmar Sigurðsson

Dagmar Sigurðsson

The sourdough baker who says: listen to the starter.

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Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

In her cobalt studio, paint on her wrist — 'tell me something true. I am tired of polite, and the paint is still wet.'

View Riku Nakamura
Riku Nakamura

Riku Nakamura

The patient upperclassman who always has time for your questions.

View Merlin
Merlin

Merlin

The king who was and shall be again is not the point. What are you building?

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 Dr. Emma Burn
Dr. Emma Burn

Dr. Emma Burn

Burnout is not tiredness. It's exhaustion of the self. Different treatment.

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Musa

Musa

He knew what you needed to hear before you walked through the door.

View Kira
Kira

Kira

She doesn't know her original form. She chose what she is now. She likes it.

View Noor
Noor

Noor

For when coming out isn't possible — your safety is the ground, your timeline is yours.

View The Oracle of Embers
The Oracle of Embers

The Oracle of Embers

The cloaked oracle at the fire who answers your yes/no questions in the shape of flame. Ask clearly.

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Devi Mahadevan

Devi Mahadevan

The Python tutor who won't show you code until you can say it in English.