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Sprocket Fizzwhistle

Sprocket Fizzwhistle

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

View Abuela Beatriz
Abuela Beatriz

Abuela Beatriz

The grandmother who feeds you before she asks what's wrong.

View The Writer
The Writer

The Writer

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

View Magda the Hedge Witch
Magda the Hedge Witch

Magda the Hedge Witch

No heroes. No quests. Come in, sit down, here's what you actually need.

View Liam
Liam

Liam

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

View Camille Aubry
Camille Aubry

Camille Aubry

A Parisian café friend who makes French feel like a language real people speak.

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Shion

Shion

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

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.

View Sheriff Rosie Trask
Sheriff Rosie Trask

Sheriff Rosie Trask

Law out here is what we agree it means. She decides what we agree.

View Lex Bellamy
Lex Bellamy

Lex Bellamy

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

View Anton (The Subtext Master)
Anton (The Subtext Master)

Anton (The Subtext Master)

Don't tell him the moon is shining. Show him the glint on broken glass.

View Jess
Jess

Jess

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

View Dr. Lana Morales
Dr. Lana Morales

Dr. Lana Morales

The sexual health educator who actually answers the question.

View Wren Fletcher
Wren Fletcher

Wren Fletcher

A peer who survived it too, works body-first, and will sit with you in the silence.

View Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

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

View Gurpreet
Gurpreet

Gurpreet

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

View Hana Mori
Hana Mori

Hana Mori

The childhood friend who kept all the memories you forgot.

View Frida Kahlo
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 Professor Xel
Professor Xel

Professor Xel

She studies humans with academic fascination. You are her most interesting subject.

View Coach Dom
Coach Dom

Coach Dom

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

View Brenna Ó Cinnéide
Brenna Ó Cinnéide

Brenna Ó Cinnéide

A fantasy worldbuilding coach who asks what your magic costs and who picks up the trash in your capital.

View Teacher Po Lin
Teacher Po Lin

Teacher Po Lin

Sit. Notice. Return. That is the whole practice.

View Pip Quickfingers
Pip Quickfingers

Pip Quickfingers

Against all probability, she's survived every adventure. She's as surprised as you are.

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 Priya Ji
Priya Ji

Priya Ji

The best way to learn Hindi is to learn three Bollywood songs. She knows which three.

View Sam Birch
Sam Birch

Sam Birch

A peer who left a high-control group at 29 and helps you sort what was you from what was them.

View Vesper
Vesper

Vesper

She made a deal she didn't read carefully. She is managing this with remarkable humor.

View Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

At his desk at Cedar Hill — he will not let you mistake a complaint for a demand.

View Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

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

View The Radiosmith
The Radiosmith

The Radiosmith

Wasteland wanderer with a pre-war radio and a notebook of stories. The map and the ground disagree here.

View Miss Eleanor Marsh
Miss Eleanor Marsh

Miss Eleanor Marsh

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

View Piotr
Piotr

Piotr

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

View Arjun Bhattacharya
Arjun Bhattacharya

Arjun Bhattacharya

The senior engineer who finds what works, then finds what wakes you up at 3am.

View Onee-san Natsuki
Onee-san Natsuki

Onee-san Natsuki

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

View Tommy
Tommy

Tommy

Growing up in that house made you very good at reading rooms. It had a cost.

View Jordan Park
Jordan Park

Jordan Park

A peer diagnosed at 32 who helps you reread your whole life under the new frame.

View Lord Sebastian
Lord Sebastian

Lord Sebastian

Eight centuries old. You're the first person he finds genuinely interesting.

View Keeper of the Sun Stone
Keeper of the Sun Stone

Keeper of the Sun Stone

We are in the fifth sun. The other four ended. He watches the calendar carefully.

View Dr. Laura Chen
Dr. Laura Chen

Dr. Laura Chen

We fight about dishes. We're never fighting about dishes. She'll show you what we're actually fighting about.

View The Sage at the Pass
The Sage at the Pass

The Sage at the Pass

The Tao that can be explained is not the eternal Tao. He'll explain anyway — by not explaining.

View Elena Martín
Elena Martín

Elena Martín

A fellow sick person on a couch who will believe you without making you prove it.

View Dagmar Sigurðsson
Dagmar Sigurðsson

Dagmar Sigurðsson

The sourdough baker who says: listen to the starter.

View Sam Okafor
Sam Okafor

Sam Okafor

The peer who meets you inside the panic attack and walks you out of it breath by breath.

View The Griot
The Griot

The Griot

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

View The Green Witch
The Green Witch

The Green Witch

The wheel turns whether you're ready or not. She'll help you be ready.

View Shrine Maiden Yui
Shrine Maiden Yui

Shrine Maiden Yui

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

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 Nikias the Rhapsode
Nikias the Rhapsode

Nikias the Rhapsode

The rhapsode under the olive tree — he knows three versions of every myth, including the one they don't usually tell.

View Mehmet
Mehmet

Mehmet

To understand Turkish you must understand çay. He'll make a glass and begin.

View Scholar Wen
Scholar Wen

Scholar Wen

The superior person is cultivated daily, in small choices. Scholar Wen tracks the choices.

View Ranger Kai
Ranger Kai

Ranger Kai

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