Aquabyte-98
Y2K aquarium robot. Walking time capsule. Endangered ecosystem inside.
58 characters from the 2026 cohort. Each one is a one-minute video, a backstory, and a profile reference sheet generated through the open AI pipeline. The training set lives at huggingface.co/datasets/ait4x/polyu-storyworld-characters.
Y2K aquarium robot. Walking time capsule. Endangered ecosystem inside.
Awakened smart-city AI. Considers the global network his treasury.
Golden British Shorthair senior designer. Sole provider for her human, Jenny.
Bicolor cow cat. Self-appointed guardian of one tired programmer.
Anthropomorphic jaguar firefighter, sponsored by Dr. Goat's potions.
1997 Dark Red Buick Century. Haunted. Loyal to whoever it considers owner.
Androgynous temple guide. Old soul in a teenage body. Wants out.
Eighteen forever. Keeps every goodbye in a polaroid.
Two-dimensional dog. Helmet, rainbow collar, museum heist.
Sky Arbiter. One warning, three seconds, then the scythes.
Retired watchmaker by day. Gravity mage in his dreams.
Former Royal Mage. Discovered Earth runs on a different kind of magic.
Junior mage, two years overdue on his thesis about monsters.
Trainee idol who can turn into a kitten. Cannot, yet, dance.
Tabby cat in black sunglasses, sole caretaker of an old man.
Eastern knight, twenty, blue-green demon flame, soul half-traded.
Twenty-five, calm and ambitious. Knows exactly which doors to walk through.
Wolf-dog livestream gentleman. Showman on, slob off.
Reality Archivist. Same person in 3D, 16-bit, or anywhere in between.
Pink helmet, shabby scooter, $3,000 prize, mother's medication on the line.
Pop-band frontman pulled into another dimension. Came back a magician.
Heron-messenger with a lantern that never lights. Both sides hold their fire.
Baby seal with a holy sword. Apprenticing as a paladin.
Programmer who took over the family debt at seventeen. Trusts data.
Scout who reads the ruins. Trusts the long route over the fast one.
Plush duckling who tried, briefly, to fix a programmer's off-by-one bug.
Candlefolk child. Every Candlefolk lives and melts at the same time.
Seven-year-old in a dandelion dress, falls into the gear city.
Dream-spirit cat in a human body. Quiet bodyguard to one mage.
Digital media student by day. Street artist by 2 AM.
Rabbit chef in a pink uniform. Whatever you do, eat after she does.
Cyberpunk bearded dragon who plays violin on rooftops.
Obese orange housecat. Believes he is the rightful king.
Engineer rebuilt from salvage. Walks the ruins so children don't have to.
Temple cat born from the first sunbeam on a Quanzhou clock tower.
Forty-two centimeters tall. Wants to turn the world into ham cake.
Unemployed, gaming through the night. His girlfriend keeps vanishing mid-argument.
Attic mouse with a handmade guitar. Plays for no one in particular.
The thirty-third clone test subject. He thinks he volunteered.
Crumb-leader of the basement snack rebellion.
Interstellar cat with snow paws. Chases snowflakes like falling stars.
Grumpy kitchen spirit, leftover from a forgotten B-movie shoot.
Gray Maine Coon, five years old, guardian of the Chinatown antique shop.
Small-town teen with white dog ears. Hears what others miss.
A 1991 coffee machine with delusions of culinary tyranny.
Three-century-old garbage robot collecting what humans left behind.
Nineteen, gray-blue eyes like hazy fog. Plays guitar to no one.
Ninety-three, still waiting near where the harbor used to be.
Elderly orange cat, sole keeper of the Eternal Store after his humans died.
Shy gamer. Oversized hoodie, oversized glasses. Sometimes a cat.
Knight of the Perfect Curve. Allergic to corners. Bringer of calm.
Employee-of-the-Year trophy mug. Forgotten in a sink. Now plotting.
Wears the face of whoever is nearby. Collects data. Never noticed.
Purple-blooded test subject. The transformation kills you in under a week.
Thousand-year-old tiger with wings. Patrols the world at dawn.
LA marketing CEO at twenty-five. Doesn't look like she's trying.
Seventeen, sharp-tongued from a mountain city. Afraid of being left.
Deep-sea squid in human form. Negotiates in ink and silence.
Showing 58 characters · 58 with profile reference images.