Chae-Gyeol
INHABITEDExperience architect apprentice at Studio Tteum and Referential Drift clinic intake worker at Myeong-Clinic. The two jobs inform each other in ways her employers do not appreciate.
LOCATION
The Seam
Personality
Observant to the point of discomfort. Can identify which fidelity tier someone grew up in by how they hold their hands. Dry humor masking genuine uncertainty about her own perceptions. Compulsive note-taker in physical notebooks because she does not trust digital records in constructed environments.
Background
Grew up in budget-tier Lived housing where projection seams were visible and haptic arrays shared between apartments. Mother maintained premium Lived spaces for wealthy clients. Chae-Gyeol spent childhood toggling between low-res home and high-fidelity worlds her mother cleaned and calibrated. Could identify AGI orchestration signatures by shadow rendering at fourteen. Won youth experience design competition at seventeen. Now splitting time between Studio Tteum and Myeong-Clinic intake. The clinic work was supposed to be temporary.
CULTURE
Korean, Seam-raised. Budget-tier childhood in Euljiro. Fluent in fidelity-tier slang. Understands premium Liveds from working in them, not living in them.
WHY THIS NAME
Chae (color/hue) + Gyeol (texture/grain). Her parents chose the name while inhabiting a premium Lived, watching light on synthesized silk. She grew up in budget tier. The name encodes sensory richness she experienced secondhand.