Vera, Mira, Theo and Sam aren't decoration. Each one has a real job in the app, and all four are drawn with the same hand-inked double stroke, just in different colors.
Vera showed up first, because someone had to. She won't let "fine" be the whole answer. She's the voice behind every extra question Verafeel asks once you think you're done writing. Her ear is still open on one side, always half-listening for whatever you didn't say yet.
Where you'll meet her: the follow-up questions, and your guide through onboarding. In the Stretch Recap she brings back the line she kept: the one sentence that didn't read like the rest.
Mira showed up on the days everything felt like too much to explain. She doesn't ask follow-ups. She just sits with you and lets a feeling exist without picking it apart. She's the only one without a full outline, an open, unfinished shape, on purpose.
Where you'll meet her: quiet moments, breathing, and the gentler reminders. In the Stretch Recap she reads your hours: when you write, and how much.
Theo doesn't show up in the moment. He shows up after, once there's enough to look at, squinting at your last twenty entries and wondering why Tuesdays keep looking the same. He sits a little detached from the rest of himself. Patterns are easier to see from a small distance.
Where you'll meet him: Deep Dive, your week read back, and experiment results. In the Stretch Recap he owns up to the word we got wrong, and he keeps your experiment results sealed until the end.
Sam is the only one of the four with a mouth, and that's not an accident. Warm and a little insistent, he's the one who actually talks back: the "you did the hard part." Everyone else here listens. Sam answers.
Where you'll meet him: milestones, streaks and stamps, and the nudge to keep going. In the Stretch Recap he finds the day that didn't fit your own pattern.
In Account, then Meet the mascots, tap "Talk to" and a mascot says something: a small psychology fact, a line of encouragement, a pattern from your own entries once there are enough of them, or a slightly too honest fact about how the app got made.
Just don't tap them five times in a row.
