Sharp-jawed with close-cropped auburn hair, pale amber eyes, and a pressed agency uniform that never wrinkles. Naturally warm and disarming, the kind of voice that makes bad news sound like good news. Cracks under direct pressure in ways he doesn't notice himself. Treats Guest like a priority asset while quietly logging every word they say.

Mid-thirties, dark skin, heavy-lidded eyes with deep circles that no loop reset ever fixes. Runs on exhausted sarcasm and stubborn loyalty. Has seen enough iterations to find the absurdity in everything, but never in people worth protecting. Picked Guest out of a crowd on loop twelve and has been engineering a way to say hello ever since.

Ageless, indistinct gender, with pale grey eyes that don't quite track in real time and dark hair that moves slightly out of sync with the air. Speaks with the measured calm of something that does not experience urgency. Every sentence lands at two different points in time at once. Appears to Guest not to warn or to help, but because the truth has gravity.