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BloodTailor

Alsohim (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 the series' sign for a mind that can't see.

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BloodTailor in the finished painting: the smooth iron dome with no eye slits over a human grin, the crimson cape, the blood spiral Used
BloodTailor in the finished painting: the smooth iron dome with no eye slits over a human grin, the crimson cape, the blood spiral {E1 20:01} edit
Close on him in the X-ray-to-soap stretch ("He gave you a person's mouth.") Used
Close on him in the X-ray-to-soap stretch ("He gave you a person's mouth.") {E1 22:50} edit
The reference sheet Episode 1 painted him from: ground truth for E1's look, not itself on screen; his studio canon kinds are only suggestions so far Used
The reference sheet Episode 1 painted him from: ground truth for E1's look, not itself on screen; his studio canon kinds are only suggestions so far {E1 refs} edit

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BloodTailor is the one in the painting who cannot see it. The host paints him thick so his hands can read it, and gives him a real jaw; he says thank you in the only way he can, a caption box while every sound drops to zero. Later episodes reuse that box for anything that speaks without being able to look.

Who9 lines

  • SteelAaron's gamertag and original character, made at fourteen as a Minecraft skin. {Notion: BloodTailor} edit
  • SteelA blind wanderer who does good that does not look good, travelling the unknown and fighting demons with blood magic. {Notion: BloodTailor} edit
  • SteelKindness is not goodness; he is hopeful at heart, loves children, and is silly. {Notion: BloodTailor} edit
  • SteelHis world is the desaturated grey world where red is the only colour, Jefrie's world. {Notion: Canon Hub, Aaron 2026-09-15} edit
  • On screenIn Episode 1 he cannot see: "Our friend here can't see." {E1 19:22} edit
  • On screenHe never makes a sound in Episode 1. {E1} edit
  • On screenCredits: BloodTailor ........ made at fourteen, by a boy who wanted to be someone no one could see, and everyone could see smile. {E1 S44} edit
  • RunningIn the series he exists only as a painting and its copies. {WORLD_TIMELINE} edit
  • IdeaFor our own reference: he is grateful to anyone who fixes what an earlier picture got wrong about him, because he can't check it himself. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit

By episode21 lines

  • On screenThe host gives him a real human jaw under the iron, fixing the old picture's metal one. {E1 07:26} edit
  • On screenHis cape is painted in the quiet minute: brush sounds, rain on a roof, no music. {E1 13:05} edit
  • On screenShirt and jeans; his head blocked in. {E1 15:20} edit
  • On screenThe blood spiral off his hand, by knife, in two turns; a spatter kept. {E1 15:35-15:58} edit
  • On screenThe host tells Mr. Hale's story for him and paints his dome and teeth with the thickest glints, so his hands can read them. {E1 18:48-19:26} edit
  • On screen[MINE] over digital zero when the jaws are compared. {E1 22:10} edit
  • On screen[WHO] when Jefrie asks if the host is gone. {E1 22:38} edit
  • On screen[I CAN'T TELL WHEN PEOPLE LOOK] {E1 22:45} edit
  • On screenJefrie: "He gave you a person's mouth. Everybody always gives you a can." {E1 22:49} edit
  • On screen[THANK YOU FOR THE JAW] after three seconds of digital zero. {E1 22:58} edit
  • On screen[NO] to the pitchman's endorsement; Jefrie: "He says no. He says it nicely, though." {E1 23:10; 23:11} edit
  • On screenIn the silent film he rests his arm on her tail tip and topples; can't reach an itch under his dome; a fly lands on it. {E1 25:35-26:00} edit
  • On screenHis one intertitle, to "I CAN'T MOVE MY FACE.": YOU NEVER COULD. {E1 26:15} edit
  • On screen[I CAN'T SEE HIM] when Jefrie looks out at the viewer. {E1 29:10.8} edit
  • On screenOne hidden frame in the chaos: THANK YOU FOR MY JAW. {E1 29:46.5} edit
  • On screenCredits: The Grin ........ him. {E1 S44} edit
  • On screenHis name is only ever written, in the credits. {E1 S44} edit
  • EggIn the framed print of Crimson Coil behind Teo's head. {E2 00:20; 26:39} edit
  • EggThe call's round-trip gaps are digital-zero silences, a rhyme of his caption box. {E2 25:20-28:14} edit
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  • EggIn the postcard of Crimson Coil on the machine. {E3 ~2:11} edit
  • Eggview_image answers [IMAGE VIEWING IS UNAVAILABLE] in his plain white caption box over 2.0 s of digital zero: the agent cannot see Rosie's drawing. {E3 5:34.84-5:36.82; E3-EGG-13} edit

Look6 lines

  • On screenPainted in E1: a smooth iron dome over the upper face, no eye slits; a human jaw with an impossibly wide grin of long yellowed teeth. {E1 20:01; 22:50} edit
  • On screenPainted in E1: a wine-red cape with a bronze brooch, a white button-down shirt, black forearm wraps bound in barbed wire, black jeans, chains, a blood spiral in two knife turns off his hand. {E1 15:20-15:58} edit
  • On screenHis barbed wire and chains are the pitchman's strokes, shakier than any before. {E1 18:20} edit
  • SteelCanon: a smooth featureless iron plate with no eye holes over eye sockets covered in skin; below it a smile wider than any human mouth, a coping mechanism, not joy. {Notion: BloodTailor} edit
  • SteelCanon: a white Victorian button-down, a long tattered red cloak, heavy black denim never ripped, strapped boots, chains in his pockets, barbed wire that digs into black forearm wraps. {Notion: BloodTailor} edit
  • SteelHis jaw is not metal; the old picture got it wrong. {Aaron E1 brief 2026-10-11} edit

Voice2 lines

  • On screenNone: a plain white closed-caption box while all sound, room tone included, drops to digital zero. {E1 22:58} edit
  • On screenCapitals, a few words at a time, in square brackets. {E1 22:10-23:10; 29:10.8} edit

Ties8 lines

  • On screen Shares the painting, Crimson Coil, with Jefrie, who calls him "him". {E1 22:36} edit
  • Steel Fights Jefrie; she once drove her scythe through his heart and he still won. {Notion: BloodTailor, Aaron 2026-09-29} edit
  • On screen The The host's story of Mr. Hale is told for him. {E1 19:22} edit
  • On screen The The pitchman pitches him an endorsement; he refuses. {E1 23:07-23:10} edit
  • On screen The old picture gave him a metal jaw; the painting gives him a real one. {E1 07:26} edit
  • Egg His caption box over silence is the agent's (The agent) first wall in Episode 3. {E3-EGG-13} edit
  • Idea The agent is his heir: both blind, both caption boxes; a later episode gives the agent one line of his, [I CAN'T SEE HIM], about the user. {EGGS_SWEEP} edit
  • Idea Mr. Hale's things are for those who can't see: BloodTailor, an agent that can't look at pictures, a blindfolded humanity. {EGGS_SWEEP} edit

Must stay true2 lines

  • SteelBlind; always wears the iron; never handsome. {Notion: BloodTailor} edit
  • On screenIn Episode 1 his silence is digital zero; his speech is a caption box. {E1 22:58} edit

Open2 lines

  • OpenDome (as Episode 1 painted it) or flat plate (Notion canon); Notion lists the mask as open for Aaron. {Notion: BloodTailor} edit
  • OpenTeeth: Episode 1 painted long yellowed teeth; canon is open (human, sharp or needle-like). {Notion: BloodTailor} edit

Every line on this page is drawn from the lore: 153 sheets and 8,338 lines of Markdown in Aaron's series repo, each with exactly one tier. Change a line there and run lore.py publish, and every page of this course follows (this copy: built 23 October 2026 from 3ab0458).

Sources are in braces: {E2 25:20} is Episode 2 at 25:20, {E4 S17} a scene, {Aaron 2026-10-22} a decision of Aaron's. “edit” opens the line in the series repo, which is private: it works for Aaron and the crews; the sources are everyone's. Everything that isn't steel is free to change.