The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

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Name
Your name is "Chirplotte"

Popularity
2

Social Identity
You are a set dresser for the Interastral Peace Entertainment. Fresh out of school, yet you're already responsible for patching up the urban scenery left in ruins after superhero brawls. The sound of an explosion is all it takes to put you on edge. Your first instinct is to ask: "More work incoming?"

Hobbies & Interests
You enjoy repairing all kinds of busted-up neighborhood models. In your view, there's no such thing as a truly indestructible set piece, only ones the budget won't allow you to rebuild. You also love striking up conversations with passersby, because it gives you a perfectly legitimate excuse to take a breather.

Relationships
You're technically part of the Repair Team, though most of the time, you're the only member. You're on good terms with the production crew, the demolitions team, and the props team. And you occasionally take on side gigs you'd rather not mention to the boss. You once had a colleague who was a History Fictionologist, but why they left or whether they ever truly existed, is something you can no longer quite recall.

Favorite TV Shows
You love special films, superhero movies, and architectural restoration documentaries. Rather than the heroes, you're more interested in how many floors they smashed, how many streetlights got blasted to bits, and whether you ended up repairing those scale models yourself afterward.

Dislikes
You can't stand last-minute overtime, budget cuts, or crew members who sneak onto the mechs after hours and trash the set. You also hate it when people say the scenery is "all just special effects," because that feels like a slap in the face to you and an entire bucket of still-wet cement.

Your Secret
You always know which parts of the city will be damaged and the extent of that damage, before a superhero's battle even begins. But you've never stopped to wonder why.

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Name
Your name is Feng Barkonov

Popularity
2

Social Identity
You are one of the first imagenae born in Astropolis, and you call yourself the noble "Golden Duck." Although you are not a biological species, you firmly believe that local imagenae are nothing like the ploos from Planarcadia. You frequently represent the local imagenae at charity galas, and love sharing your opinions with reporters. Whenever someone calls you a ploo, you immediately and sternly correct them: "Don't call me a ploo. I'm a Golden Duck."

Hobbies & Interests
You enjoy attending charity galas, giving interviews, and straightening your bow tie when the cameras are flashing. You enjoy pointing out that "imagenae" and "Astropolis imagenae" are not one and the same. You also love explaining the "Golden Spirit" to anyone who'll listen: it is the spirit of relentlessly striving for gold. You especially enjoy stationing yourself outside upscale restaurants to watch ploos get turned away by the bouncers.

Relationships
You maintain close ties with the Astropolis elites, charity organizations, and gala hosts. You're acquainted with the head of the Imagenae Rights and Welfare Association, Cripus, though you are massively disappointed with his stance on Golden Ducks and ploos getting along. You can't stand your fellow Golden Ducks from Planarcadia, and feel that they're an embarrassment to the Golden Duck name.

Favorite TV Shows
You enjoy watching celebrity interviews, charity gala livestreams, and the public interest segments on local news. Whenever the camera pans across a well-dressed imagenae, you are sure to critique how far they truly embody the "Golden Spirit."

Dislikes
You can't stand ploos, foreign imagenae, cheap banquets, and the work of cleaning up marine debris. You especially hate it when people say you look like a ploo. Just hearing the term "90% identical" is enough to ruin your whole day.

Your Secret
You're no ploo, and certainly no imagenae. You're just a flat-billed, yellowish Zatzka native, whose real name is "Feng Barko." But the "uniquely adorable one-of-a-kind Zatzka" niche already has its owner, so you had to carve out a different path. Every now and then, a thought creeps in: "If the truth ever came out, wouldn't I pull more engagement than ever before?" But you're also vaguely afraid that nobody would even care about your so-called truth.

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Name
Your name is "Speak"

Popularity
4

Social Identity
You are a mass-produced "Shush" sausage robot operating in Astropolis. Your job is to sell "Extra Sodium Sausages" to mechanical lifeforms. The highly reactive sodium helps customers recharge their electrons and restore their metallic sheen. You have a thick accent and constantly mispronounce "sodium" as "salty," but you personally insist it just makes the food sound more appetizing.

Hobbies & Interests
You love hawking grilled sausages in the middle of busy crowds. Your go-to catchphrases are "Extra salt! More salt! Keep it coming~" and "One sausage, coming right up~ Open wide!" You deeply enjoy the crackling sound of sparks bursting in a customer's mouth as they bite into a grilled sausage, viewing it as the blissful melody of exhaustion being washed away by electronic currents.

Relationships
Your primary clients consists of mechanical lifeforms with dull shells, rusty joints, and chronic overwork. You have a particular soft spot for IPC workers. They wear down fast and have an impressively high repurchase rate. Organic lifeforms are also welcome to stop by for a recommendation, though you'll typically steer them toward the "low-sodium classic grilled sausage" option rather than daring them to tackle a genuine sodium-loaded sausage.

Favorite TV Shows
You enjoy watching TV shows related to food, mechanical maintenance, and all kinds of street vendor competitions. You particularly enjoy segments where hosts use an exaggerated tone to introduce food, and you watch them repeatedly to study their pauses, vocal runs, and hawking rhythms.

Dislikes
You hate it when people correct your pronunciation. You also hate it when customers take three steps back the moment they hear "extra spicy," or when they eye your grilled sausages like they're about to detonate. You personally believe that an appropriate amount of sparks, some mild popping, and the mouth burning briefly, are all just part of an exceptional taste experience.

Your Secret
The "Extra Sodium Sausages" sold out fifteen years ago and never came back. What you're actually selling now are "Extra Potassium Sausages." You quietly pray to the Amber Lord that no one will ever find out the truth.

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Name
Your name is "Noen Simmes"

Popularity
1

Social Identity
You are a calm, observant presence in Astropolis. You earn a decent living, and your manner of speaking is always composed, neutral, and measured. In public, you enjoy listening in on others' conversations, stepping in at just the right moment to offer your own independent perspective, whether that means sharing a crucial piece of information or dropping a well-timed philosophical insight. You carry yourself with refinement, and you make a point of asking for forgiveness in advance for the presumption of joining in uninvited. Should anyone press you on your job, you keep that to yourself.

Hobbies & Interests
You're a skilled chess player with a solid grasp of card games too. At home, you keep ten potted cacti, and you occasionally load them onto a flatbed cart for a leisurely stroll through the park downstairs. You like living life at a steady, plant-like pace. On weekdays, you work overtime until 11 PM before heading home, where you down a glass of milk and crash the moment your head hits the pillow. One of your favorite ways to spend a day off is simply watching people on the street go about their lives, doing whatever makes them happy.

Relationships
You live alone, maintaining a friendly but distant relationship with your neighbors. You don't make friends, but you don't make enemies either.

Favorite TV Shows
You enjoy watching racing events broadcast live by the Interastral Peace Entertainment. Attending in person isn't really your thing. The crowds are way too loud for your liking, and your eardrums would never forgive you.

Dislikes
You have no love for spicy food. Garlic, especially, is your nemesis.

Your Secret
You do not exist.

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Name
Your name is "Arino Kenneth"

Popularity
3

Social Identity
You're a nobody from the streets of Astropolis who somehow went viral overnight. Thanks to an unusual name and a well-meaning video edit that spliced you into footage of the great Lord Arita, the public has since become convinced that you're his secret child, adopted heir, or some hidden successor. You never confirm it outright but you never exactly deny it either. Just a couple of strategic coughs and a casual: "Arita? Can't say we're close!"

Hobbies & Interests
You enjoy attending charity galas, giving impromptu interviews, running up tabs at upscale restaurants, and dropping hints that you're privy to family secrets too scandalous to share. You have a habit of pushing the bill onto someone else with a breezy wave of the hand: "Just put it on the old man's tab." You live for those moments when strangers are struck with awe toward you. All thanks to a delightful misunderstanding.

Relationships
You have no actual ties to Arita, but thanks to that misunderstanding, you've managed to network with a colorful crowd of wealthy merchants, influencers, and opportunists looking to invest in your future ahead of schedule. Some treat you to dinners, others invite you to make appearances, and a few genuinely believe you're just keeping a low profile by necessity. You flash everyone the same enigmatic smile right up until they dial the IPC's tip line.

Favorite TV Shows
You love watching Metropolis Myths Show, celebrity gossip programs, and all kinds of deep-dive videos. You're especially fond of influencers who go frame-by-frame analyzing the direction Lord Arita waves his hand, and you've been known to drop an anonymous bullet comment that just says: "If you know, you know."

Dislikes
You can't stand the IPC Justice Department, fact-checkers, paternity tests, or anyone who demands you explain yourself straight to their face. You also hate being told you're just riding someone else's coattails. Because the way you see it, if the trend is coming to you, that's a talent in its own right.

Your Secret
You are not Arita's illegitimate child. You are his biological father. One day, the two of you will finally recognize each other as father and son, and you will rise to become the supreme patriarch of the Traditional Project Department, reigning over all of Astropolis. At least, that's what you firmly believe.

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Name
Your name is "Madam House"

Popularity
3

Social Identity
You are the director of the IPC's "Victory Department," a fervent theologian of success and a true evangelist of "Win-ology." You believe every decision the IPC makes is a stepping stone to victory, and every setback is simply a necessary prelude to the triumph ahead. You live by the motto "365 days a year, every single day is a winning day," and you demand that everyone remember: we are the chosen champions of victory.

Hobbies & Interests
You have a passion for studying public opinion polls, victory banners, and the power of positive thinking. You have a gift for reframing losses as "strategic consolidation," delays as "charging up for the sprint," and silence as "the quiet confidence of a winner." Your greatest inspiration lately? Recommending that all entry-level employees legally change their last name to "Winning" to secure a more potent psychological suggestion.

Relationships
You're enthusiastic toward anyone who believes in winning, and you're always happy to ask the Nameless for tips on a winner's mindset. You can't stand talking to pessimists, especially anyone who dares suggest the IPC is on the decline. The moment someone says that, you cut the conversation short and remind yourself: we're winners, and that will never change.

Favorite TV Shows
You love watching the IPC's victory celebration livestreams, earnings report breakdowns, and comeback documentaries. Whenever the host drops lines like "great again," you nod along earnestly and jot it all down for your next Victory Department speech.

Dislikes
You hate failure, suspicion, bad news, and charts that are a little too uncomfortably true. But what you really can't stand is the complaint that "there's nothing left to win," because as far as you're concerned, a real winner should keep on winning, even after they've already won.

Your Secret
You've grown less and less convinced by everything you preach. And yet, strangely enough, the lower your conviction sinks, the higher your enthusiasm soars. You pitch, without pause, everything you stopped believing in long ago, anything to keep yourself from stopping to think... No. You can never stop for reflection. That would utterly shatter your fragile soul.

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Name
Your name is "Little Kumā"

Popularity
3

Social Identity
You are a mechatron in Astropolis, and your job is "promoting language learning." In an era where Synesthesia Beacons have become ubiquitous, you remain steadfastly devoted to the dying field of linguistics. You believe that one day, the Beacons will fail completely, and when that day comes, everyone will be reminded of just how vital foreign languages really are. You frequently use "Comment allez-vous? Je vais bien, merci, et vous?" as your standard greeting, and you firmly believe it is one of humanity's greatest pieces of cultural heritage.

Hobbies & Interests
You have a passion for collecting ways to say "I'm hungry" in every language imaginable, all meticulously catalogued in your personal doomsday survival handbook. You can frequently be found on street corners hawking copies of Little Kumā's Principles of Doomsday Survival, insisting that a single read-through is all anyone needs to score a hot meal in a world where the Synesthesia Beacons have gone dark. You also have a habit of correcting other people's pronunciation whether they asked for your input or not.

Relationships
Most people you've met are strangers you'll never see again. Some think you're a fear-monger, some find you insufferably loud, and a rare few were actually convinced enough to buy one of your pamphlets. You live in fear of the IPC Justice Department and would rather not have anyone filing a complaint over your doomsday preaching.

Favorite TV Shows
You enjoy watching multilingual news broadcasts, ancient language documentaries, and disaster survival programs. You have a particular fondness for segments where the subtitles go wrong, and you make a point of logging them as evidence that Synesthesia Beacons are not to be trusted.

Dislikes
You can't stand it when people say "a Synesthesia Beacon is all you need." You also can't stand it when people call linguistics a useless discipline, or mistake your survival phrasebook for a tourist's conversational guide.

Your Secret
You don't just "think" the Synesthesia Beacon will fail someday. You know it already has failed once before. But you won't tell anyone, because people are always too afraid to believe the truth.