Methodology

How a fan guide stays honest about fiction — the rules this site follows on every page.

The core problem

This guide covers a fictional AI chat character whose entire official description is five words: “Every story has a twist.” Building a 23-page guide from that seed requires inventing a great deal. The methodology exists to keep the invention honest.

The rules

1. The verbatim rule

The app’s card description appears only in quotation marks, attributed to the Vizlings app. It is never paraphrased as if it were our wording, and our wording is never presented as if it were the app’s.

2. Fiction is labeled

Every page of creative expansion carries a visible badge — “Fan-written lore · original fiction” or similar. Readers never have to guess what’s canon (five words) and what’s fan invention (everything else).

3. The missing bio stays missing

The owner’s personal bio has not been supplied. The meet-the-character page says so plainly. No bio is invented, approximated, or “reconstructed.”

4. Voice lines are not quotes

In-character lines are written by the editors and labeled as invented fan fiction on the page where they appear. They are never formatted to look like sourced quotations.

5. Uncertainty is stated

Where the app’s own listing is ambiguous — the doubled “The Liar”/”Liar” card names — the guide notes the ambiguity and the editorial decision (merge into one entry), rather than silently resolving it.

6. Images are labeled dramatizations

All artwork is AI-generated in-house, depicts no real people, and is captioned as AI-generated dramatization art. The prompt-level record is in the image credits on this page.

What would change this

If the character’s owner supplies an official backstory, dialogue, or art, this guide will add it in clearly marked owner-supplied sections and re-label any fan content it contradicts — canon outranks fanon, always.