Reading Notes
A fan reference for a fictional character needs its own reading rules. Here are this site's.
These notes describe how to read this site — a fan-made reference for an original fictional character.
Three layers
Every page on this site belongs to one of three layers, and says which:
- Canon — the handful of verified facts from the Vizlings app: the name, the truncated card description, the “Mafia” category. Quoted verbatim, cited to the roster record.
- Dramatization — the fan telling: the Syndicate, Fossil Bay, the crew, the Code, the timeline, the lines. Labeled with the fiction stamp on every page.
- The real world — mentioned only as the place where the app, this site, and you exist. Never mixed into the lore.
What “undisputed…” means here
The card’s truncation is treated as a feature, not a gap. The site never finishes the sentence the app left unfinished — the ellipsis is quoted, the theories are labeled as theories, and the lore offers its own playful answer without claiming to be the missing words.
On the mob-pastiche framing
The “Mafia” category invites a 1930s mob-picture treatment, and this site accepts the invitation — while keeping the whole thing at the level of genre pastiche. The rackets are fictional world-building (a cannery, a lounge, a waste-removal company with an unfortunate name), the Code is a list of dinner-table virtues, and the violence customary to the genre happens entirely off-page, between the lines, or not at all. The Don’s menace is a glacier’s menace: inevitable, never raised-voiced.
A note on the art
All imagery is AI-generated in-house and labeled as dramatization art. It depicts the fictional persona and fictional places only — never real people. The style guide keeps the Don consistent; behind the scenes shows the pipeline.
Source notes
- Reading policy written for this site, 2026-09-26. Character facts per roster.json (2026-09-26).