Persistent protagonists
| Figure | World | Persistence |
|---|---|---|
| Vacío Arpista | SPACE FLYING TIGER | Five numbered stories plus later SFT-labeled continuations; career facts and relationships persist. |
| Claude / Mr. Entertainment | SPACE FLYING TIGER | Trainee → opponent → injured worker → road companion → trusted grappler. |
| Pagoda Benz + the Rat | PAGODA BENZ | Two numbered stories; the shared world explicitly extends into Scaled Alps. |
| NULL0 | NULL⁰ | Protagonist of the 1.1 world-opening; his stolen dog supplies the story’s purpose. |
| Bogdan (Not Bogdan) + the Thief | MY TRAIN WILL COME | Hidden two-part continuation. |
| Cagliostro | JQD / Scaled Alps | Crosses biography, band credit, fiction and occult-historical naming. |
Ensemble anchors
Naismith Flick · Richard Rope · Molly · Tyler · Frasier Fussy · Suzi Q / Gerta Vollenweid. Their worlds are mapped in the Cast Register.
When the protagonist is the city
Sketches of San Lucero deliberately disperses attention across seventy-three sketches; Lost Eros distributes continuity across otherwise separate works. In both cases, population is part of form.