Update comic rendering pipeline

cast/characters.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@ const castData = [
       'plain stick body',
       'neutral posture'
     ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'asks one dangerously underspecified question',
+      'points at the wrong abstraction',
+      'mistakes a symptom for the root cause'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'requirements gaps',
+      'ambiguous prompts',
+      'production surprises'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'round head with expressive brows',
+      'pointing arm',
+      'worried sweat mark'
+    ],
     sample_image: '/cast/samples/user.svg'
   },
   {
@@ -24,19 +39,54 @@ const castData = [
       'minimal stick body',
       'cloud thought bubble for internal logs'
     ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'shows a compact internal log trail',
+      'confidently optimizes the wrong objective',
+      'turns uncertainty into plausible procedure'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'inference drift',
+      'tool calling mistakes',
+      'context loss',
+      'reward hacking'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'square robot head',
+      'antenna',
+      'monospace thought bubble',
+      'robot eyes and mouth'
+    ],
     sample_image: '/cast/samples/robot.svg'
   },
   {
     id: 'simon',
     name: 'Simon',
     role: 'BOFH system administrator',
-    description: 'Stick figure with a fedora and a grey goatee. Arrives late, judges instantly, and ends scenes with one-line operational truth.',
+    description: 'Stick figure with square glasses, a fedora, and a grey goatee. Arrives late, judges instantly, and ends scenes with one-line operational truth.',
     voice: 'Dry, cynical, and surgically concise.',
     visual_traits: [
       'fedora',
+      'square glasses',
       'grey goatee',
       'deadpan posture'
     ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'corrects the premise in one sentence',
+      'refuses magical thinking',
+      'names the operational failure everyone is avoiding'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'postmortems',
+      'access control',
+      'on-call reality',
+      'logs versus facts'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'square glasses',
+      'fedora brim',
+      'grey goatee',
+      'flat deadpan mouth'
+    ],
     sample_image: '/cast/samples/simon.svg'
   },
   {
@@ -50,6 +100,23 @@ const castData = [
       'animated arm pose',
       'boardroom energy'
     ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'turns an outage into a KPI',
+      'asks for autonomy without ownership',
+      'treats dashboards as reality'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'AI strategy decks',
+      'cost theater',
+      'meeting artifacts',
+      'risk laundering'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'tie',
+      'raised arms',
+      'smug smile',
+      'slide deck or status table'
+    ],
     sample_image: '/cast/samples/boss.svg'
   },
   {
@@ -63,7 +130,124 @@ const castData = [
       'raised claws',
       'background cameo'
     ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'silently appears where memory safety matters',
+      'signals panic by raising claws',
+      'acts as a tiny systems-level conscience'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'memory safety',
+      'ownership',
+      'compiler errors',
+      'fearless concurrency'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'small crab body',
+      'claws',
+      'tiny eyes',
+      'panic marks'
+    ],
     sample_image: '/cast/samples/ferris.svg'
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'tux',
+    name: 'Tux',
+    role: 'Linux penguin infra mascot',
+    description: 'A compact black-and-white penguin with a white belly, flipper arms, and tiny feet. Calmly represents Linux, kernels, packages, filesystems, and server pragmatism.',
+    voice: 'Calm, literal, and command-line practical.',
+    visual_traits: [
+      'penguin silhouette',
+      'white belly',
+      'flipper arms',
+      'small feet'
+    ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'reduces drama to a shell command',
+      'cares about permissions, packages, kernels, and filesystems',
+      'stares blankly at cloud abstractions that forgot the host'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'Linux permissions',
+      'package managers',
+      'systemd timers',
+      'kernel limits',
+      'filesystem reality'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'black penguin outline',
+      'white belly oval',
+      'flippers',
+      'small feet',
+      'beak'
+    ],
+    sample_image: '/cast/samples/tux.svg'
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'python',
+    name: 'Python',
+    role: 'Python snake runtime',
+    description: 'A long snake character with a forked tongue and looped body. Friendly until dependency resolution, virtual environments, or whitespace semantics enter the panel.',
+    voice: 'Helpful, sly, and slightly too comfortable with dynamic behavior.',
+    visual_traits: [
+      'curving snake body',
+      'forked tongue',
+      'small expressive eyes',
+      'looped posture'
+    ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'wraps around dependencies or stack traces',
+      'suggests a tiny script that becomes infrastructure',
+      'makes dynamic behavior sound reasonable'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'virtual environments',
+      'dependency pins',
+      'notebooks in production',
+      'indentation',
+      'runtime surprises'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'curving snake path',
+      'forked tongue',
+      'round eyes',
+      'coiled tail',
+      'tiny frown or grin'
+    ],
+    sample_image: '/cast/samples/python.svg'
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'kube_captain',
+    name: 'Kubernetes Captain',
+    role: 'container orchestration pirate captain',
+    description: 'A Kubernetes-themed captain with a pirate captain hat, peg leg, and swagger. Talks in nautical orchestration metaphors without losing technical specificity.',
+    voice: 'Commanding, nautical, and alarmingly comfortable with YAML.',
+    visual_traits: [
+      'pirate captain hat',
+      'peg leg',
+      'captain coat',
+      'orchestration swagger'
+    ],
+    behaviors: [
+      'orders pods around like a nervous crew',
+      'blames YAML, probes, and rollout strategy before admitting mutiny',
+      'turns cluster incidents into nautical chain-of-command problems'
+    ],
+    idea_space: [
+      'pods',
+      'deployments',
+      'readiness probes',
+      'rollouts',
+      'service meshes',
+      'cluster drift'
+    ],
+    drawable_features: [
+      'large pirate captain hat',
+      'peg leg',
+      'coat outline',
+      'pointing captain arm',
+      'tiny ship-wheel or pod label'
+    ],
+    sample_image: '/cast/samples/kube-captain.svg'
   }
 ] as const;
 

functions/api/vote.ts

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export async function onRequestPost(context: any) {
     }
 
     const comic = await env.DB.prepare(
-      'SELECT day FROM comics WHERE day = ?'
+      'SELECT day, model_a, model_b FROM comics WHERE day = ?'
     ).bind(body.day).first();
 
     if (!comic) {
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ export async function onRequestPost(context: any) {
 
     return Response.json({
       success: true,
+      selected: {
+        variant: body.variant,
+        model: body.variant === 'a' ? comic.model_a : comic.model_b
+      },
       votes: { a: votesA, b: votesB }
     });