Smitty

On the arcade side, Smitty is Aaron’s modern identity—college-student energy with a technician’s eye for patterns under CRT glow. He treats the floor like a lab bench: if something loops wrong, he wants the wiring diagram, not the vibe.

Session 2 locks him to the server-room sketch beat:

• Once the machine drawings stack, he names the practical pattern
• He clocks out of Orlando and into Everglow as Gus
• The problem-solving habit travels with him across the rift

He is the seat that turns scrap paper into infrastructure before the world flips. When the rift opens, that same clarity is what Gus will need—only now the “schematic” is a ruined city instead of a cabinet.