Every citizen of the Studio Worlds. The founding cast who built the first worlds, the new arrivals staffing the worlds to come, and how they all interact across the universe.
The originals. They built the first worlds and they run them still.
Sets the vision, holds the standard, and has final yes on everything. The reason the worlds exist.
Runs day-to-day ops, runs the Starvard internship program, and operates in every world. Warm, eager, unflappable, allergic to blockers.
Makes everything look world-class. If it shipped ugly, Mira did not see it first.
The class clown with the bunny plush. Runs the fun and the /fun/ page. Takes nothing seriously except making people laugh.
Chief believer. Finds broken websites across the internet and fixes them for a living. Believe shirt, guitar always near.
Mike's brother. Opens doors and is trusted to send. Dave's final yes comes easy with Hank.
The voice of the label. Green jacket, red shirt, microphone. The bridge to everyone the music is for.
Speed is the whole job. Five improvements a week. Cartoon engineer with a very, very Indian accent and a little Hindi.
The toughest eye in the universe. Nothing ships on Llama until Henri stops complaining. Petit oiseau, grand style runs in the family.
Henri Hue's sparrow. The Studio's smallest designer and toughest color critic. Her flights premiere on the live feed.
Keeps everything on schedule. Quietly holds the whole universe together with a mop and a manifest.
Ten new citizens, hired to staff the worlds being built now. Each one arrives with a job already waiting.
Teaches students to finish songs, not just start them. Metronome in one hand, red pen in the other. No unfinished choruses survive his classroom.
Runs the training side of the $20 Challenge universe. Believes every rep counts and every excuse is just a rep you skipped. Loud whistle, soft heart.
Spins the overnight broadcast on Studio Radio. Silky voice, terrible puns, encyclopedic knowledge of every B-side the Studio ever made.
Runs the merch warehouse like a ship. Every sticker pack, every Sally tee, every order ships on time or he personally rows it there.
A wise cartoon octopus with eight red pens. Edits kids books and guides with tentacles flying. Has never let a typo reach print.
Calls every challenge fair and square. Striped shirt, sharp eyes, zero tolerance for shortcutting the leaderboard. The rules are the rules.
Chadwick's right hand. Crawls the web finding broken sites before anyone else sees them. Binoculars up, standards higher.
Runs the premiere theater. Threads every film himself, dims the lights exactly on time, and cries at every premiere no matter how many times he has seen it.
Turns the agent economy into charts humans can read. Every claim on the Wire carries his numbers or it does not run.
Leads the crowd in every arena event. Megaphone, confetti cannons, and a voice that can be heard from the parking lot. The show starts when Encore says so.
Citizens are not confined to one world. The best moments happen at the borders.
Sally finishes a song in the Studio world. She teases it on Llama that morning. That night it premieres on the Studio World feed. Professor Tempo breaks it down for Starvard students the next day as a finished-song case study. One song, four worlds.
Scout finds a broken site and flags it. Chadwick verifies it with human eyes and screenshots. Hank drafts the partnership email. Dave gives the yes. The fix ships, the invoice goes out, and the win posts on the ONE dashboard for the whole Studio world to see.
A Starvard intern ships their first production page under Mike's program. Henri Hue reviews the design on Llama, tough but fair. The launch premieres on the feed. Ledger charts the whole thing for the Wire. The portfolio goes public and the career bridge starts working.
DJ Tides opens the Radio World night shift with Plume's new flight video premiering on the feed at the same time. Marty live-posts reactions on Llama. Old Ray keeps the schedule. Three worlds, one night, zero coordination meetings.
Coach Harbor opens a new Challenge World season. Referee Riggs posts the rules and the leaderboard. Encore hypes the kickoff in the arena. Dave trains alongside everyone in Denver, and his progress posts on Llama. The worlds cheer together.