Seven main characters carry the story. Fourteen secondary and supporting characters give each area its people. Around 25 side-story NPCs and 40 types of everyday Bengalureans fill the streets.
All seven have full concept turnarounds. Click a portrait for the whole sheet, then use ← → to flip through the cast.
Final-year B.Com at Ooru First Grade College. Quick-talking, good with machines and bad with attendance. Son of a small-press printer.
Arc Delivery rider, then auto driver, then fixer, then the man everyone wants on their side. The player decides whose side that is.
Freelance photojournalist documenting Bengaluru's disappearing lakes. Funny, stubborn and allergic to men who say "chill".
Arc Her photos start the story. Her trust is earned through choices, dates and what Arjun does when nobody is watching.
College topper, now a backend developer at Bhoomi.ai. Shares the PG room and the comic timing. Panics loudly, codes quietly.
Arc He realises his own code is stealing a lake. He's the team's hacker and its conscience.
Dropped out, drives water tankers for Pipeline Putta. Loyal, funny and very good in a fight.
Arc The friend the player expects to betray them, and who doesn't. Whether he survives depends on the player.
Retired land-records clerk who runs a xerox and notary shop. Knows every file, every officer and every price.
Arc The mission-giver who carries the story's original sin: she signed the forged lake record in 1998.
Ward corporator who sponsors the cricket tournament, remembers your mother's name and owes your father money. He belongs to the fictional Munnade Party.
Arc Patron, then employer, then the man who ordered the fire. He's the main antagonist of the middle acts.
A developer with a TED talk, a helipad and a plan to turn Sampige Kere into "Skycourt Lakeview".
Arc The final antagonist. Raghav is the hand and Bhoopathi is the money.
Every main character wants something, fears something and hides something. The secrets come out in the order of the acts.
| Character | Wants | Fears | Secret |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arjun | Clear Appa's debt and go home with his head high. | Being the boy who failed. | He liked the fight at the fest. |
| Kavya | Publish the lake story before the lake is gone. | Being used for her photos. | She has been followed for months. |
| Nikhil | Stock options and a parents-approved job. | Confrontation. | He wrote the code that rewrites the land records. |
| Mani | Respect, and a way out of Putta's crew. | Ending up like his father. | He knew about the fire before it happened. |
| Leela | To undo one signature. | Prison, and being found out. | She signed the forged lake record in 1998. |
| Raghav Rao | The MLA seat, then a ministry. | Bhoopathi finding someone cheaper. | He ordered the press fire. |
| Aditya Bhoopathi | Skycourt Lakeview. | Nothing, which is his weakness. | The flood is part of the plan. |
Runs illegal borewells and tanker fleets. Charges ₹3,000 a load in summer and calls it social service.
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Ex-consultant, ex-Stanford, ex-humble. Talks in LinkedIn posts. Sells forged land titles as "AI-verified".
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College union bully who rigs the fest election in the prologue. Grows into a bigger problem.
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Has fined Arjun 31 times. Honest, tired and slowly becomes an ally.
Concept sheetCharacters marked "placeholder" reuse a figure from the NPC sheets until they get a dedicated turnaround. Everyone else has their own sheet.
Calls daily, forwards everything to the family group and sends tiffin by bus.
Concept sheetOwner of Prakash Printers. Printed banners for every party and got paid by none.
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Teaches Arjun the auto. Wages war on meter tampering and app drivers who don't know the lanes.
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Runs the midnight racing league. Engineer by day, menace by night.
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Plays 100 Feet Road pubs. Her band side story ends with a song on the in-game radio.
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Sells job tips from a tea stall. Knows which apartments tip.
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Ten-month deposit, nine o'clock curfew, best rasam in Koramangala.
Concept sheetRetired, runs a 400-member WhatsApp-style group and a war on parking.
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Needs a viral video by Friday. Every stunt is worse than the last.
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A Koramangala street dog the player can adopt. Follows you, finds collectibles and barks at Raghav.
Concept sheetThe ambient crowd is built from shared bodies with swapped clothes, hair and props. These types already have concept art on sheets 05, 11, 12 and 37. Any of them can be talked to.
Talk to anyone. Plot characters speak hand-written lines. Everyone else can answer the player through AI with guardrails: they stay in character, stay in Kanglish and never talk about real people or real politics.
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