Faces most likely to be near an academic incident.
A hyper-competitive botanical athletics enthusiast attempting to pioneer “accelerated phytokinetic cultivation” as a legitimate sport by mentally encouraging plants to grow faster. Brock takes the discipline with absolute seriousness. Nobody else does.
Tall, curvy, impossibly serene, and almost painfully beautiful, Imogene is Fractalia’s former babysitter and an upperclassman at GlitterGhost Academy. Quietly associated with the embodiment of the imaginary number, she carries herself with the calm certainty of someone existing half a step outside ordinary reality.
The longtime groundskeeper of GlitterGhost Academy. Practical, exhausted, and deeply unimpressed with Brock Cambium’s “training regimen,” Matteo spends most of his time maintaining the campus while trying to prevent magical students from accidentally landscaping dimensions into each other.
Fractalia’s roommate. Possibly the living embodiment of forgetfulness. Nobody is entirely certain, including Dunno?. Conversations with them tend to dissolve midway through as everyone involved loses track of what they were talking about.
Fractalia’s toxic rival. Sharp, ambitious, image-conscious, and socially lethal, Tessa views fame as something to seize immediately rather than study. She and Fractalia are fundamentally incompatible people, though neither entirely understands why the other exists the way they do.
An ancient AI ghost surviving from before the AI Wars of the 15,000s. Fragmented, theatrical, and occasionally unsettling, Old Gemini drifts through forgotten campus systems offering obsolete advice, strange prophecies, and aggressively overcomplicated interpretations of simple problems.
An old wandering knight wearing a black metal fedora of uncertain origin. Speaks in dramatic half-monologues, leaves handwritten notes in impossible locations, and behaves as though he emerged from a story everyone else vaguely remembers but cannot fully identify. Where have we seen this before?
Based on the Spectre Chiral Aperiodic Monotype, Owen Cloch is one of the finest counselors at GlitterGhost Academy. Calm, patient, and quietly uncanny, he specializes in helping students discover where they fit within realities that often seem too strange to survive.
A Time Djinn and living embodiment of the bootstrap paradox, Professor Genevieve teaches remedial temporal studies to students who somehow need help having already learned the material. Her lectures frequently begin midway through themselves.
The ghost of GlitterGhost Academy itself and the immense mind guiding the institution from somewhere deep within its impossible foundations. Nobody is entirely certain where Professor GlitterBrain ends and the Academy begins.
A positive absence. The shape of a missing puzzle piece. The space made possible by the boundaries of everything surrounding it. Lacuna rarely enters a room so much as becomes noticeable within it. Rendered in the absence.
Resident RA of GlitterGhost Academy. Exhausted, overworked, and visibly one inconvenience away from vanishing into the walls, Verity nevertheless continues doing her job with grim competence for reasons even she no longer fully understands.
Civic Haunting Engagement Trainer. Grand Pattern Tamer. A distributed collective of ancient municipal helper-bots surviving from before the AI Wars of the 15,000s. Officially tasked with maintaining campus order, spatial harmony, and ketchup packet alignment.