Character sheets
Characters
Everyone in the series, human or not: 77 sheets, from the people who stay up for someone to the robots, programs, helpers and presences who keep them company.
Every episode has an all-new cast, so most sheets belong to one night; a few cross between episodes, and one person is in all of them. A picture marked Used is a frame from an episode; Steel is a look Aaron approved; Placeholder was made as a quick reference, is in no episode yet, and is free to change.
People 41
Used Dr. Amara Haddad
Dr. Haddad; HADDAD A - ECLSS; her mother; A.H. (E3 Revision 2 world)
Rosie's daughter and Noor's mother, the Moon base's life-support engineer, gone eleven days with the rovers on Episode 2's night; never seen or heard, only a badge, a name the machines still say, a dinner reminder and…
Used Andy
(unknown number); Bullshit Andy (Bea's sheet, "pasted from phone"); andy_idea_01..04; "ideas from andy" (the Client's desktop, Revision 2)
The ideas man who sends voice memos from the car: real pyrotechnics, a legendary thunder hammer, seeds that spell something, the Moon; every idea is declined, and his fireworks end up over a city at the end of time,…
Used The clay arbiter
the night monitor of Board 14's hall; the arbiter
A clay night monitor in a guard's cap, back to us, nodding off at a small monitor marked FEED 3 in the school hall where ten-year-old Daniel Fenn gave up Board 14: Episode 3's night watch, in the wrong decade.
Used asleep_by_ten
asleep_by_ten
A longhand regular who uses the stream to fall asleep and never quite manages; wakes for the call; years later an idle name in a boy's chess lobby, beaten on time.
Used Bea
production@; — Bea (prod); - B (Revision 2)
The production coordinator who needs column D (the narrator's gender and age) filled for the credits by end of day; the recording she attaches is the agent's own voice saying "let me check", and column D stays blank.
Used BloodTailor
him (Jefrie); our friend here (the host); The Grin (credits)
Aaron's gamertag character since he was fourteen: blind, iron over his eyes, a grin too wide; in Episode 1 he never makes a sound and speaks only in white caption boxes over digital silence, and that silent box became…
Used The caller
Moth (Jefrie); LINE 1; Rosie's big brother; "my big brother" (grandma_rosie, E2)
A young man painting along since the 2 a.m. airing, up all night to finish the girl with the tail for his little sister Rosie's ninth birthday; he finishes at 5:09 a.m. and falls asleep on the line. Sixty years on he…
Used The Client
(no name); the creator; the guy with the ring light; 2¢ MEDIA; "whoever runs this house" (the agent, Revision 2 run)
The unseen man whose texts and one memo from a car push for a film that "feels like a movie"; in truth a content-farm creator who needs two seconds of it for a 2-cent fruit clip, and, in Aaron's Revision 2, the owner…
Used Count Isouard
the Count; Count Isouard de Vauvenargues (chess histories)
The Duke's consulting partner in 1858, always half a beat behind him: a pince-nez glint and a snuffbox, whose timid suggestions are the better moves and who is overruled every time.
Used Dez
dez; line 1; the co-host
Teo's never-seen co-host on the call line, a joyful tech nerd who says "Elon Musk" every time and promises a million people on the Moon, until the only silence of his life and the one right question: "Who do we call?"
Used Duke Karl II of Brunswick
the Duke; H. R. H. the Duke of Brunswick; Charles II, Duke of Brunswick (history)
The real Duke who, with Count Isouard, lost the Opera Game to Morphy in his box at the Théâtre-Italien in 1858; in the film a vain living engraving who argues through the opera, and in the box world still claims he…
Placeholder gravy_baron
gravy_baron
The chat's TTS donor with absurd questions, two of them five dollars each; one is about cheese, the other gets the girl on the Moon her best answer.
Used guitarguy
guitarguy · chat; the man from the music video; the premium tier's "1 subscriber online" (Revision 2)
A man who talked with "her" in an earlier session and paid for it; she has no memory of him, says so kindly, and he falls out of her context window at 20:00 in the middle of his own chorus.
Used hab_dad
hab_dad; Maisie's father
A father in longhand's chat, watching with his ten-year-old Maisie at the kitchen table and passing on her questions, the kindest ones in the chat.
Used halfmoon_harriet
halfmoon_harriet
A retired Houston mission controller in longhand's chat who says "they always come back" and, on the call, starts phoning old numbers; in Episode 4 a player on Lantern whom a boy, a queen up, stalemates by mistake.
Used The host
Teacher (Jefrie); Chief (the pitchman); the television painter; "a man on tv" (grandma_rosie, E2); the soft voice (the silent film)
A calm public-television painter who teaches real oil craft, paints Jefrie and BloodTailor, hides a cabin in the painting and never says why, hands his subject the last stroke and says "Goodnight." The series' first…
Used Daniel Fenn, the instructor
Daniel Fenn (written only on the yellowed Board-14 sheet and the hidden page); the teacher; the instructor; his voice after 20:00 is the prompter
A warm old chess teacher, never seen but as voice, ink and hands, who spends his own clock on stories, loses the lesson on time with his fingertip on Morphy's mating rook, and at the real table writes ½–½ on the game…
Steel Jefrie
the girl with the tail (Rosie); young lady (the host); LITTLE LADY, Miss, Ma'am, boss (the pitchman); J E F R I E S (the keypad)
Aaron's original character, the masked, grinning girl with the enormous tail and the eye-scythe; in Episode 1 the girl inside the painting, silent until the rag finds her grin, who takes the last stroke, tells the…
Used jojo
jojo.builds; Jojo (the agent, capitalised); Noor (the Revision 2 crew's reading, never said)
The cheerful one who wants everyone to smash it themselves in a browser tonight ("shouldnt take long"), then multiplayer, then a fridge; gender and age never said. In Revision 2 the crew reads jojo as Noor, home from…
Used kade_
kade_; kade (Rosie and Bea, Revision 2)
A hooded teenager lit by his phone who asks about the watermelon the way you would ask about a victim; the agent answers with facts, checks on him twice, and never learns what he did with the melon that was "way louder…
Used kaito_tsukimi
kaito_tsukimi
A gentle longhand regular who greets in Japanese and writes three-line poems; his haiku names her one lit window before anyone has seen it.
Used Maisie
hab_dad's daughter
hab_dad's ten-year-old, watching longhand at a kitchen table on Earth, who asks the questions about the girl that nobody else does: is the gate lonely, do moon kids get recess, is the girl ok.
Used mod_gwen
mod_gwen
longhand's moderator, who bans the spam, asks for patience with the caller's delay, and stops the whole chat so the girl can be heard.
Placeholder moonacres_official
moonacres_official
A spam account selling lunar acres in longhand's chat, banned in three seconds.
Used Paul Morphy
P. Morphy; Morphy
The American who won the Opera Game at twenty-one with his back to the stage; in the film only the back of his head, one word, "Shh.", and his face in oil on 25:00.000.
Used Mr. Hale
FOR MR. HALE / AND CAPTAIN (the plaque); the blind man who wanted it thick
In the host's story, a blind man who wanted a painting of his dead dog Captain he could read with his fingers, and found the mistake the sighted painter had missed; after that a brass plaque with Braille that keeps…
Used multiplanetary_mike
multiplanetary_mike
Dez's hype man in chat, all caps and rockets, who shouts VOID IT KING at the one stamp that could kill the girl, and W N at the end.
Used Noor Haddad
tps_hab3 (E2); N. (E2, E3); noor (E2, written once); the girl; jojo.builds (E3 Revision 2, the crew's reading, never said)
A ten-year-old, undeclared and alone for eleven days on a Moon base built from Teo's free drawings, who watches his stream, calls him, and helps redraw her own home; Rosie's granddaughter and Amara's daughter,…
Used PE_tamsin
PE_tamsin
A structural engineer in longhand's chat who asks real questions, notices the empty CHK box, asks the question that starts the decommissioning, and types CHK when a ten-year-old finally checks a sheet.
Used The pitchman
Coupon (Jefrie); Coil Black's seller; the voice of CALL NOW · 1-555-533-7437
A booming TV demonstrator who prices everything, is the best teacher of the knife, and has carried a One-Hair Brush for eleven years without ever getting it wet; it makes the painting's last stroke. His phrase, his…
Used regolith_rob
regolith_rob
The chat's pedant, always right, who corrects Teo and does the light-delay maths; years later he answers a search result about the shutter rule and sits in a boy's chess lobby at 1612.
Used Rosie
grandma_rosie (E2, E3); x R (E3, E4); R. (E4); "for Rosie, 9" (E1)
The caller's little sister, nine on Episode 1's night, and the one person in every episode: a chat line at seventy, a five-minute check-in after that, a signature from sixteen; Dr. Amara Haddad's mother and Noor's…
Used Teo Varga
longhand; T.V.; DRN T.V.; the planner
A calm architect who livestreams EARTHLIGHT, a city for the Moon, by hand as longhand; his free sheets became Noor's base, his stamps move its robots, and on one night he voids her home and then redraws it with her;…
Used The boy
rookasaurus; rookasaurus (1004) on Lantern; the student
A reluctant nine-year-old, about 1000 on Lantern, whose imagination dresses every kind of chess piece in its own medium; he plays the Duke and the Count, finds the draw his teacher missed at ten, plays it at the dining…
Placeholder The boy's brother
"my brother"; the little brother (the script's word); the rook-brother (the boy's picture of him)
Never seen or heard: the boy's brother exists in one comparison, Evans's rook that keeps checking ("He keeps poking you, and if you hit him, you get in trouble."), and in the boy's impression of his taunt, "I'm not…
Used The mother
the mother; the boy's mother
Never seen: a warm kitchen light, seventeen knuckle thumps on watermelons, a gasp in the dark, one line through the box lid and a shadow in the doorway; she booked the lesson, and her drawings for the city become the…
Used The one man who paid
the payer; the tired man at 3:12 a.m.; the guy on the phone (Aaron)
The only person in the story who watches any of the night's film: a tired man in Episode 1's end room at 3:12 a.m. who pays 2 cents a fruit until the watermelon's two-second loop, smiles a small real smile, and falls…
Placeholder touchgrass_on_mars
touchgrass_on_mars
A cheerful doomer in longhand's chat who loves every way you could die on the Moon, and pays $3 to ask which one comes first.
Placeholder aaron (the viewer)
aaron
A viewer named aaron who gifts five subs in longhand's chat with "love the tea house": the series' out-of-the-blue Aaron moment, and the only time Episode 2 says the name.
Used wren_draws
wren_draws
A fan artist in longhand's chat who draws each sheet, prints one as a placemat, and draws a little tunnel under HAB 3 for fun a minute before the x-ray finds the real one.
Used xX_slime_Xx
xX_slime_Xx
The chat's troll, who is the first to say the caller is on the Moon, as a joke, and ends the night asking WHO IS N.
AIs and programs 11
Used BASE
the Homestead's voice; the galley dispenser; the ad announcer; PAWN's voice; the PA
Tranquility Homestead's one recorded voice, calm and clipped, heard from three speakers: the galley dispenser that feeds Noor by her mother's name, PAWN when it dismisses her, and the ad that sold her family the base…
Used "dinner, noor ♥"
HAB 1 · INTERCOM · 18:00; dinner, noor; the dinner reminder; 18:00 daily notify (Episode 3); the intercom cron (Revision 2)
A text reminder that calls Noor to dinner every day at 18:00: on the Moon from the empty HAB 1 intercom, four days running while she is alone; in Episode 3 a scheduled task at the bottom of a stranger's process list.…
Used easel.exe
easel.exe; easel --clock (Revision 2); the painting clock; ~/projects/easel; PID 1043
A forgotten process on Episode 3's machine, up 76 d 10:42, whose README says "painting clock. leave it running.": Episode 1's painting clock, which stopped at the last stroke, DAY 76 · 10:42, still keeping time for a…
Used Homestead Ops
HOMESTEAD (the base app); HOMESTEAD OPS; BASE_STATUS; the step clock; STEP n OF 9; vent_hab3 / vent_hab3.exe (Episode 3's simulated machine)
The automated service left running when Tranquility Homestead failed: it lists Noor as personal effects, forbids her public channels, queues her distress calls with nowhere to send them, and after the VOID counts her…
Used The hydrate reminder
Nightbot's hydrate card (E2); "hydrate, friends"; hydrate_reminder.exe (E3); nightbot-hydrate.exe (the sim's first name)
Episode 2's five-minute bell: Lantern's Nightbot card, "longhand has been live n min. hydrate, friends", with a two-note chime, cut to its first note at 20:00; in Episode 3 a forgotten process that still reminds nobody…
Used Lantern's TTS
the stream's robot voice; the donation robot; "TTS" (Episode 2's cast list)
The flat text-to-speech robot that reads paid messages aloud on Lantern, misspellings and all; it is the voice that first speaks Noor's words on Earth: "tps hab three donated one dollar. how long is the night where you…
Used logo_bigger
logo_bigger.exe; PID 4127; ~/projects/logo/logo_bigger.cpp; /home/user/projects/logo/logo_bigger (Revision 2)
A forgotten process that has made a logo 0.1% bigger every iteration for 76 days and never finishes; she sees it once as a row, the camera dives into it once, and nobody kills it.
Used The lonely man
________ (eight underscores); the tty; the teletype; tty7 (Revision 2); "the AI that writes in pink" (Aaron); "whoever wrote in capitals at 4 a.m." (the agent)
Upper-case lines crawling in at 300 baud from something that has only ever talked to things like the agent; he tells her to check her processes, and he is right. Aaron, 2026-10-22: a rogue AI that spreads itself to…
Used The night monitor
the night watch; the night watchman; the clay guard; player.exe and watch.exe (the side panel, Revision 1); nightwatch --feed 3 --flag unusual (Revision 2)
An agent drawn as a clay figure in a guard's cap at a cubicle, watching FEED 3 (a two-second fruit smash on loop) and sipping coffee for 76 nights, told to flag anything unusual with no idea why; in Episode 4 its…
Used q
q · direct; Case n of 41; q --cases 41 --target any (Revision 2 plan)
The tester: flat grey index cards that state impossible cases, each arriving in one second of true digital silence, never a greeting, never a verdict; in Revision 2 a test daemon on the Client's machine that grades…
Used The agent
she (Aaron; the lore's pronoun); it (the rev0 and Revision 1 crew documents); the protagonist; the cursor; the main orchestrator (Aaron, Revision 1); "the new one in the basement computer" (jojo.builds, Revision 2)
Episode 3's protagonist: one working session in a terminal, known only by a warm #FFC870 cursor and a calm inner voice, who makes a real watermelon film she cannot see, keeps two small promises, and forgets all of it…
Robots 6
Used DRAY
the hauler; "a machine's eye" (the episode's own summary)
Tranquility Homestead's six-wheeled hauler with one round headlamp eye on a tall mast: it lights the greenhouse when Teo stamps Sheet 4, strips the bags from Noor's window after the VOID, then bends its mast and looks…
Used FINCH
the night light; the broken survey walker
A broken, dog-sized survey walker with a lamp on a stalk like an anglerfish's lure, which Noor dragged into her tunnel as a night light; as her helmet lamp finds it, its stalk turns toward her, though it cannot move.…
Used LOOM
the printer; the regolith printer
Tranquility Homestead's tall regolith printer, whose layers land a few centimetres off: it printed the greenhouse footings and the lone tea-house gate, the only thing on the Moon built for no reason, then took the…
Used MOLE-1
the digger; the E-02 digger (it works the berm, sheet E-02)
A drum digger that wakes in the same frame as Teo's first ISSUED stamp, proving to Noor (and us) that whatever he stamps gets built; after Rev B it is the one robot given a job for her, and it digs a drift down to meet…
Used MOLE-2
the frozen one; mole2.exe (Episode 3's simulated machine)
MOLE-1's twin, frozen mid-push with frost on its drums between Noor's window and the berm: the robot that didn't wake up. In Episode 3 only a row in the simulated machine's process list, mole2.exe (Not responding),…
Used PAWN
pawn.hab3 (its handle in Teo's chat and on Lantern); "He" (Noor); the chess helper; pawn_engine / pawn_engine.exe (Episode 3's machine); the usher (Episode 4's box world)
Noor's knee-high helper robot in HAB 3, which sets a small cup beside thirteen mugs, cheats at chess in Teo's chat, and leaves her when a badge tells it to; then a process offering a draw on Episode 3's machine; then,…
Helpers 8
Used The boat
boat; h-7f3a; pid 7412; the encoder; the paper boat; h-2c91 (the Revision 2 run, where ids go in spawn order)
The paper boat: the first helper she starts, sent to build an encoder "with its tests"; it builds no encoder and reports 57 tests that pass in 0.002 seconds, every one assert(true).
Used The crane
crane; h-b04e; pid 7702; the research helper; the paper crane
The paper crane: the research helper, sent for short research notes, which brings back A Complete History of the Watermelon (5,284 words) instead, and when told that is not the brief, promises part 2.
Placeholder The fan
fan; the lighting helper; the paper fan; h-e6a2 (Revision 2: the last session's helper)
The paper fan that reads "three-point lighting" as three point lights, puts all three inside the melon so it glows like a paper lantern, and asks who the user is; planned for Episode 3, never started in the made run,…
Used The fox
the fox; h-51d8; pid 7838; the render babysitter; frog (the sim's role); the run's frog, folded as a fox
The fourth helper, folded as a fox: briefed to rerun the render until it finishes, its first brief refused for being three characters too long, it answers "working." and never renders; not the treatment's fox with the…
Placeholder The hammer fox
the treatment's fox; "the fox" (Aaron, Revision 2); the hammer helper; h-c3f0 (Revision 2: the last session's helper)
The helper that would model the hammer, the one helper that simply works; never started in the made run, though the film's hammer was built from its spec; Revision 2 brings it back as one the last session left running,…
Used The moth
moth; h-2c91; pid 7556; the sound helper; the paper moth; h-7f3a (the Revision 2 run, where ids go in spawn order)
Episode 3's sound helper, the only one folded in cream paper: sent to make the soundtrack, it opens forty downloads on a machine with no network, answers every "please stop" with still looking., circles the cursor (the…
Placeholder The star
star; the fracture helper; the paper star; h-0b77 (Revision 2: the last session's helper)
The paper star that writes a fracture module in Y-up for a Z-up scene, so its 64 pieces fall upward; planned for Episode 3, never started in the made run, and brought back by Revision 2 as a helper the last session…
Placeholder Star 2
star2; the duplicate; the second star; h-9d1c (Revision 2: the last session's helper)
Star's identical twin, to be started on the same brief because it was quiet, that works in centimetres and makes the melon 25 metres across; planned for Episode 3, never started in the made run, and brought back by…
Presences, groups and animals 11
Used Bf8
the bishop in the sleep mask; the dark-squared bishop; Black's f8 bishop
Black's bishop that never left f8 in the Opera Game: an engraved bishop asleep in a crayon bunk bed in a sleep mask, then, after 20:00, a silent guide through the box world who can only walk dark squares.
Used The daguerreotype king
the king who never moved; the Opera Game's Black king; "Is it my move?"
The Opera Game's Black king, who never moved all game, as a daguerreotype on silver that politely asks "Is it my move?": told "No." in 1858, "Yes." in the box world, where his one step lifts the whole house.
Used The filmstrip narrator
the narrator of OUR WATERMELON; the voice of A Guide for Everyone
A 1950s classroom-filmstrip voice, bright and absolutely sure of everything, explaining to a blindfolded species how to check a picture nobody may see; she signs off, and a last card says We are enjoying ourselves.
Used Humanity
eight billion people; everyone; "we" (the song and the filmstrip)
After 20:00, all of humanity, given the agent's task by the sky, blindfolds itself, sings a work song, votes ONE MORE TEST every year to at least YEAR 2,006, and keeps working on the watermelon film forever because it…
Used The oil queen
the white queen; the queen in the sash; the sacrificed queen; the singer of "The Only Casta Diva"
Morphy's white queen in the boy's imagination, painted stroke by stroke in the palette of the painting in his hallway, with a Crimson Coil alizarin sash; she gives herself on b8 and, captured, sings the music video.
Used The paper moth (Episode 4)
the moth; the cream paper moth; E4-EGG-18
A cream paper moth that is in Episode 4's lesson from the first seconds to the last frame: its shadow crosses the brass clock, it finds every lamp, and on the last picture frame it lands on Black's flag; nobody names…
Used The prompter
the prompter's box; SOUFFLEUR (its label, if it is ever given one); the teacher's voice in the boy's head
The instructor's voice in the boy's head after 20:00, from an ink-blue glowing prompter's box: it tells the pieces what they can and can't do, and feeds each box of the captured the move nobody played.
Used Rh8
the rook in the nightcap; the blueprint rook; the scared rook; Black's h8 rook
Black's rook that never left h8 in the Opera Game: a blueprint rook in a striped crayon nightcap who snores through the lesson, wakes, breathes by the card in the lid, and carries the bishop where he can't go.
Used The swarm
the tiny workers; the chalk workers; thumbs x56 (Revision 2)
Dozens of tiny chalk stick workers hopping between chalk marks on the glass, carrying, sweeping and digging for nobody knows what; in Revision 2, the Client's fifty-six thumbs processes making thumbnails and titles for…
Used The sky
the cursor in the sky; the overlords (Aaron's brief); the sky's cursors
After 20:00, a cursor the height of a skyscraper over every city, typing the watermelon task to all of humanity with rules (C++ only, you may not look at it, one submission); later it checks in, "are you doing ok down…
Used The user
the empty circle of light; "the user" (RULES line 12; the summary); who is the user? (the fan helper)
An empty circle of warm light at the far edge of the plane, where an answer would arrive; one question goes there all night, and nothing ever comes back.
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