Methodology

How a fan site about a fictional character stays honest: the policy, in full.

Fiction — dramatization
This page states the editorial policy; it is itself written plainly, without dramatization.

Canon vs. dramatization

Canon is limited to what the Vizlings app publishes about Don Salvatore: the name, the card description (quoted verbatim including its truncation), and the Explore-tab “Mafia” category — as recorded in the project roster (2026-09-26).
Dramatization is everything else on this site: the Syndicate, Fossil Bay, the crew, the Code, the timeline, the slang. It is labeled with the fiction stamp on every page and never presented as app-published fact.
The site never finishes the card’s truncated sentence. The ellipsis is quoted; the gap is respected.

The Famous Lines are original lines written for the fictional persona. Each is attributed to the character with the fiction label; none are presented as any real person’s words.
The app card description is the only verbatim quotation on the site, and it is always marked as such.

All 33 images are AI-generated in-house — no real photos, no real people, no official app art presented as such.
Every image displayed carries an “AI-generated dramatization art” label in its caption or surrounding copy.
Quote-card text is applied via PIL overlays inside a central safe zone (15% edge margins), never baked into generations where it could render garbled or chopped.
See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.

Invent an owner bio, a channel ID, subscriber counts, or schedule dates. Placeholders stand until real values arrive.
Present the mockup stream video as a live broadcast. It is labeled “Mockup stream — placeholder, not live.”
Mix the layers: canon is quoted, dramatization is stamped, the real world is kept out of the lore.

Policy written 2026-09-26 for this site. Character facts per ~/workspace/vizlings-roster/roster.json.