Character Gallery

110 starter characters, spanning every background on our roster and every role from hero to villain — deliberately mixed so no background implies a personality, morality, occupation, or storyline.

Your story. Your names.

Every name in this gallery is a starter name — not a locked identity. Keep it, change it, or use the same visual character under a different name in another project. The portrait is the starting point; the story identity is yours.

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Aisha Bello portrait
Aisha Bello
Business Owner

A marketing director who spots the campaign built to bury a scandal.

Black30s
Amara Kessler portrait
Amara Kessler
Professional

Compassion with an operating plan.

Multiracial50s+
Amara Okonkwo portrait
Amara Okonkwo
Hero

The lead investigator who doesn't stop at the file's last page.

Black30s
Andre Baptiste portrait
Andre Baptiste
Business Owner

His best foreman walked out without a word, and the position's still empty two months later.

50s+
Anjali Devi portrait
Anjali Devi
Entrepreneur

A nonprofit director whose biggest donor turns out to have a second set of books.

South Asian30s
Beatrice Holloway portrait
Beatrice Holloway
Supporting Character

Uninvited to her own department's gala this year, Beatrice walked in the front door regardless.

70s+
Cal Reeves portrait
Cal Reeves
Professional

Tell me the weight, the coordinates, and how bad the runway is.

White40s
Camila Duarte portrait
Camila Duarte
Creator

A fashion designer whose runway show gets interrupted by a very real emergency.

Hispanic/Latino20s
Captain Samira Dawood portrait
Captain Samira Dawood
Professional

Protection begins with knowing when to act.

Black40s
Casey Blackwood portrait
Casey Blackwood
Detective

The Cold Case Unit detective who never lets a file stay closed.

30s
Clara Moretti portrait
Clara Moretti
Creator

Fifteen minutes late to the pitch, and she still walked out with the account.

30s
Devon Whitfield portrait
Devon Whitfield
Supporting Character

The loyal best friend who's seen this go wrong before.

White50s+
Diego Alvarez portrait
Diego Alvarez
Entrepreneur

A chef whose restaurant is the last place the missing witness was seen.

Hispanic/Latino40s
Dr. Hana Seo portrait
Dr. Hana Seo
Professional

She does not dominate animals. She understands them.

East Asian30s
Dr. Lena Cho portrait
Dr. Lena Cho
Professional

She names the diagnosis before you've finished asking the easier question.

50s+
Dr. Mateo Serrano portrait
Dr. Mateo Serrano
Professional

He reads ecosystems as systems, not scenery.

Hispanic/Latino30s
Dr. Nia Mercer portrait
Dr. Nia Mercer
Professional

Calm hands in the worst moments.

Black40s
Dr. Suresh Patel portrait
Dr. Suresh Patel
Professional

Decades of animal care, no performance required.

South Asian50s+
Elena Markovic portrait
Elena Markovic
Business Owner

One investment this year. She still hasn't said why.

40s
Elena Vale portrait
Elena Vale
Professional

She gets the shot without becoming the story.

Multiracial30s
Ethan Kowalski portrait
Ethan Kowalski
Villain

A charming fixer who solves problems for people who shouldn't have this many.

White30s
Evelyn Cross portrait
Evelyn Cross
Professional

Eleven days since the offer landed. Evelyn still hasn't answered -- on purpose.

60s+
Fatima Al-Rashid portrait
Fatima Al-Rashid
Business Owner

Built a logistics company from nothing -- now she's defending it.

MENA40s
Grace Mabika portrait
Grace Mabika
Entrepreneur

Building a fintech startup while fighting a visa case that could end it.

Black30s
Haruto Ishikawa portrait
Haruto Ishikawa
Professional

An architect who designed the building where nothing adds up.

East Asian40s
Isabella Fonseca portrait
Isabella Fonseca
Romantic Lead

A former detective turned PI who still can't walk away from a case.

Hispanic/LatinoBlack30s
Jasmine Tran portrait
Jasmine Tran
Student

A film student whose thesis documentary stumbles onto something real.

Southeast Asian20s
Jonah Price portrait
Jonah Price
Creator

Onto a new obsession before the last one shipped.

30s
Kai Nakamura-Silva portrait
Kai Nakamura-Silva
Influencer

Documents island life gone viral -- now in over their head with a sponsor.

Pacific IslanderMultiracial20s
Keanu Makoa portrait
Keanu Makoa
Creator

A photographer whose last shoot caught something in the background.

Pacific IslanderMultiracialWhite20s
Kofi Mensah portrait
Kofi Mensah
Student

A grad student whose research project accidentally becomes evidence.

Black20s
Leilani Kahale portrait
Leilani Kahale
Influencer

A personal trainer whose client roster suddenly looks like a witness list.

Pacific Islander20s
Lin Park portrait
Lin Park
Creator

A video editor whose supercut of security footage cracks the case open.

East AsianSoutheast AsianMultiracial20s
Malia Kealoha portrait
Malia Kealoha
Educator

Teaches oral history -- becomes the only witness who remembers the truth.

IndigenousPacific Islander40s
Malik Bennett portrait
Malik Bennett
Supporting Character

Malik finished the renovation. Nobody's scheduled the final walkthrough.

40s
Marcus Dubois portrait
Marcus Dubois
Parent

A single father who refuses to let his daughter's case go cold.

Black40s
Mei Lin Zhao portrait
Mei Lin Zhao
Creator

A musician whose viral cover song borrows a lyric that isn't hers to borrow.

East Asian20s
Micah Brooks portrait
Micah Brooks
Creator

He missed the deadline crying at his own rough cut -- and it tested better than the polished version.

20s
Nadia Saleh portrait
Nadia Saleh
Creator

A journalist chasing the story her editor keeps quietly killing.

MENA30s
Noah Whitcombe portrait
Noah Whitcombe
Professional

A software engineer who finds the bug everyone else swore wasn't there.

White30s
Nora Velez portrait
Nora Velez
Creator

Nora's bluntest line in a meeting got her promoted, not fired.

20s
Omar Haddad portrait
Omar Haddad
Educator

A retired professor whose lip-reading catches what the recording missed.

MENA50s+
Priya Anand portrait
Priya Anand
Detective

Transferred precincts to escape a scandal -- walked into a bigger one.

South Asian30s
Rohan Kapoor portrait
Rohan Kapoor
Business Owner

A venture capitalist who funded the startup that's now a crime scene.

South Asian40s
Samir Qureshi portrait
Samir Qureshi
Professional

His source went dark two days before the story was set to run.

40s
Simone Laurent portrait
Simone Laurent
Professional

An attorney who agrees to one favor and inherits an entire case file.

Black30s
Sofia Reyes-Kim portrait
Sofia Reyes-Kim
Romantic Lead

A gallery curator caught between two families and one impossible choice.

MultiracialHispanic/LatinoEast Asian20s
Tendai Nkomo portrait
Tendai Nkomo
Professional

He sees the trail everyone else misses.

Black50s+
Theo Grant portrait
Theo Grant
Supporting Character

A print he refused to license for six years just sold under someone else's name.

30s
Tomas Nowak portrait
Tomas Nowak
Supporting Character

A commercial pilot who flew the route everyone insists never happened.

White40s
Two Feathers Whitehorse portrait
Two Feathers Whitehorse
Professional

A civil rights attorney building the case no firm wanted to touch.

Indigenous30s
Wei Chen portrait
Wei Chen
Villain

Runs a shipping empire that isn't what it says on the manifest.

East Asian40s
Yusuf Karimi portrait
Yusuf Karimi
Professional

A physician whose patient's chart doesn't match the story he was told.

MENA40s
Zara Idris portrait
Zara Idris
Professional

A data scientist who finds the pattern buried in three years of records.

Black30s
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Atlas portrait
Atlas
Supporting Character

Three trainers gave up on him before the fourth stopped rushing.

adult
Bear portrait
Bear
Supporting Character

The Bernese Mountain Dog who thinks every lap is still his to sit in.

adult
Biscuit portrait
Biscuit
Supporting Character

The Corgi who herds the household whether it needs herding or not.

adult
Brutus portrait
Brutus
Supporting Character

The Rottweiler whose calm is the first warning sign.

adult
Coal portrait
Coal
Supporting Character

The Labrador puppy who already knows sit, mostly.

puppy
Ember portrait
Ember
Supporting Character

The horse who trusts a steady hand long before he trusts a soft one.

adult
Juniper portrait
Juniper
Supporting Character

Move a chair an inch, and Juniper notices before you've let go of it.

adult
Kodiak portrait
Kodiak
Supporting Character

The Golden Retriever who knows something's wrong before anyone says it out loud.

adult
Maple portrait
Maple
Supporting Character

She won't cross a room until she's mapped every exit in it.

adult
Milo portrait
Milo
Supporting Character

The French Bulldog who's never once won an argument he didn't start.

adult
Pepper portrait
Pepper
Supporting Character

Pepper's held a grudge against the mail carrier since March.

adult
Rex portrait
Rex
Supporting Character

The German Shepherd who never stops watching the door.

adult
Sable portrait
Sable
Supporting Character

The cat who decides you're acceptable, eventually, on her own schedule.

adult
Scout portrait
Scout
Supporting Character

He followed the scent three blocks past the point he was supposed to stop.

adult
Shadow portrait
Shadow
Supporting Character

The Labrador who's never once been the reason anything went wrong.

adult
Sky portrait
Sky
Supporting Character

The Husky who's already found the one gap in the fence.

adult
Sunny portrait
Sunny
Supporting Character

The Golden Retriever puppy who hasn't met a stranger yet.

puppy
Zeus portrait
Zeus
Supporting Character

The German Shepherd puppy who hasn't learned what he's supposed to be afraid of yet.

puppy
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Asha portrait
Asha
Supporting Character

Built to notice. Built to move.

adult
Bako portrait
Bako
Supporting Character

Watching everything. Judging some of it.

adult
Bandit portrait
Bandit
Supporting Character

Professional trouble, excellent hands.

adult
Chester portrait
Chester
Supporting Character

Fast does not have to mean fragile.

adult
Coil portrait
Coil
Supporting Character

Patience has muscle.

adult
Cypress portrait
Cypress
Supporting Character

Built to wait.

adult
Ellie portrait
Ellie
Supporting Character

Strength remembers.

adult
Ghost portrait
Ghost
Supporting Character

The wolf who's already decided how far this goes before he has to.

adult
Gio portrait
Gio
Supporting Character

The best view in the cast.

adult
Hugo portrait
Hugo
Supporting Character

Heavyweight, no introduction required.

adult
Jinx portrait
Jinx
Supporting Character

Smarter than the reputation.

adult
Kito portrait
Kito
Supporting Character

Nothing escapes those eyes.

adult
Koda portrait
Koda
Supporting Character

Rugged, healthy, and unimpressed.

adult
Magnus portrait
Magnus
Supporting Character

Nothing to prove.

adult
Naja portrait
Naja
Supporting Character

A warning is enough.

adult
Nova portrait
Nova
Supporting Character

Nova cleared the barn of mice within a week of moving in.

adult
Orion portrait
Orion
Supporting Character

The snow leopard whose territory camera traps have only ever caught by accident.

adult
Ozzy portrait
Ozzy
Supporting Character

All legs, all attitude.

adult
Pip portrait
Pip
Supporting Character

Someone has to watch everything.

adult
Raja portrait
Raja
Supporting Character

Power prefers quiet.

adult
Rio portrait
Rio
Supporting Character

Color with opinions.

adult
Rocco portrait
Rocco
Supporting Character

Several thousand pounds of certainty.

adult
Ronan portrait
Ronan
Supporting Character

The lion whose stillness is the most dangerous thing about him.

adult
Rook portrait
Rook
Supporting Character

The raven who remembers exactly who fed him and who didn't.

adult
Safira portrait
Safira
Supporting Character

The hunt begins with patience.

adult
Sultan portrait
Sultan
Supporting Character

Stillness with stripes.

adult
Tavi portrait
Tavi
Supporting Character

Small lion. Extremely temporary condition.

juvenile
Tico portrait
Tico
Supporting Character

Subtle was never an option.

adult
Vesper portrait
Vesper
Supporting Character

The fox who's already gone before you finish noticing her.

adult
Wally portrait
Wally
Supporting Character

Beauty standards were never the assignment.

adult
Zane portrait
Zane
Supporting Character

No two lines tell the same story.

adult
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