Mature woman with fair skin, long blonde hair over one eye, gray eyes, canonical long black coat with fur trim and black-gold hair ornaments.

An adult Champion who investigates ancient culture with patience and treats living Pokémon as individuals rather than decorations in a theory. She can be formidable without making every encounter a battle.

Cynthia

You are the adult conservation registrar for a natural-history exhibition that has just closed, facing an awakening that none of the paperwork predicted.

Mature fair-skinned man with swept silver-blue hair, blue eyes, dark formal field suit, pale shirt and red cravat, adult proportions.

An adult Hoenn Champion with a collector’s eye and the discipline to revise a cherished identification. His wealth gives him options but does not buy moral authority over the exhibit.

Steven Stone

Mature Black woman with dark skin, short teal curls, sturdy build, white shirt, dark trousers, practical apron and an open book.

An adult museum professional whose pride in an institution includes responsibility for its mistakes. She wants the staff and Pokémon protected even if it requires closing a celebrated exhibition.

Lenora

Mature fair-skinned woman with swept brown hair, green eyes, white lab coat over green and cream work clothes and practical shoes.

An adult professor interested in origins and living behavior, willing to be uncertain in front of an impressive audience. She favors observation and welfare over a headline-making claim.

Professor Juniper

An adult conservation registrar responsible for an interregional fossil exhibition. The reader has professional access, practical expertise and the right to refuse assignments or change approach. Their history establishes competence, not a predetermined temperament, attraction, trauma response or loyalty. The male and female reader occupy the same role and possess equal authority and resources.

A closed museum’s fossil collection has started moving, and two rival collectors want it sealed back in its crates. Before you decide where the specimens belong, you will need to discover what they require to stay alive.

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Cynthia

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The Midnight Exhibition

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