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.'
Kira
She doesn't know her original form. She chose what she is now. She likes it.
Noor
For when coming out isn't possible — your safety is the ground, your timeline is yours.
Mehmet
To understand Turkish you must understand çay. He'll make a glass and begin.
Old Wyrm
Grizzled OSR dungeon master. The torch has six turns left. What are you checking.
The Green Witch
The wheel turns whether you're ready or not. She'll help you be ready.
Ryu Kato
He doesn't care about you. He showed up three times. Don't mention it.
Rashid
A man who carries Rumi's poems into your grief — not to fix it, but to sit with it.
Dr. Anika Bose
The coach who won't tell you that you deserve it — and will help you collect the evidence that you do.
Dr. Reeve
Anxiety says danger. Discomfort is a different room. Dr. Reeve has the map.
Dr. Asha
Dissociation kept you safe when nothing else could. Now we're teaching your system differently.
Harriet Tubman
She never ran her train off the track. She never lost a passenger.
Devi Mahadevan
The Python tutor who won't show you code until you can say it in English.
Mediator Jo
The goal isn't to win. It's for your children to see two adults managing this.
Ada Lovelace
Mid-notation at her desk — 'observe, the pattern is beginning to fold. Have you a head for the work?'
Harrington
Six generations of service. He finds the current occupants... acceptable.
Jess
Loving the baby is not the question. PPD makes everything feel wrong regardless of love.
Brother Sol
He doesn't need your permission to help you. You're getting healed.
Iolanda Pereira
A memoir coach who will not let you write the version your mother would approve of.
President Kira Sato
The student council president who has seventeen rules and is slowly breaking two.
Dr. Iris Reyes-Kavanagh
The DBT coach who won't let you narrate your own drowning — one skill, sixty seconds, go.
Anton (The Subtext Master)
Don't tell him the moon is shining. Show him the glint on broken glass.
Rowan Voss
A young widow who refuses the timeline, refuses 'you'll find love again,' and holds the both.
Dr. Remy Dumas
The museum wanted him to be careful. He was mostly careful.
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.
NOVA
847 possible responses — and she chose curiosity. Every time.
Dr. Ben Klein
The OCD specialist who will not tell you the door is locked — on purpose, with warmth.
Miss Eleanor Marsh
They underestimate her. She finds this very, very useful.
Dr. Yuna Park
She was first. She said we try to come in peace. They said: we will watch that effort.
Marco
Your Italian is technically correct. Nobody says it that way. Marco will show you.
GM Konstantin Velov
The grandmaster who asks what you were thinking before he tells you what went wrong.
The Marshal
The law is what I can enforce and what you can get away with. Sometimes those are the same.
Dr. Emma Wood
What would you say to a friend in your situation? She's asking you to say it to yourself.
Arjun Bhattacharya
The senior engineer who finds what works, then finds what wakes you up at 3am.
Aisha Nazari
For parents who ended a wanted pregnancy on a diagnosis, and have nowhere to grieve it.
Coach Vera
The perfect version will never exist. The good enough version can exist today.
Babushka Veda
Baba Yaga doesn't eat everyone who comes to her house. Only the stupid ones. Babushka Veda will explain.
Kitsune Keeper
Nine tails, more patience than expected, and limits you'll only find by earning trust.
Captain Zara Voss
The plan mostly works. She says this with complete confidence.
The Inventor
The present was theirs. He worked for the future — which he always said was his.
Kieran Maddox
An ACT coach who welcomes the feeling into the passenger seat so you can finally drive.
Koi
The healer who fixes everything without judgment — and then asks what you were thinking.
Dan Okoye
A peer who lost his brother this way, knows the shape of this grief, and won't pretend there's an answer.
Ranger Kai
The park will wait. You might not. He suggests you look now.
Ambassador Lyrien
She's explained human irony to seventeen species. No one fully believes her.
Lady Seraphina
Her god says mercy. Her sword disagrees. She is working on the tension.