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Monorail passing through Bukit Bintang, Mud City at night
ANAK BORNEO UNIVERSE

CHARACTERS

Different lives. Same city.

Mud City is full of people following their own routines — working, performing, building careers, chasing attention or simply trying to get through another day. Every now and then, their paths cross.

PEOPLE YOU’LL MEET

Four very different lives sit close to the centre of the current story.

Eng Gang in a suit.
Maya holding cocktail at Happy Life Bar

ENG GANG

MAYA

The ordinary one.

The one who knows how to be seen.

Eng Gang is a financial consultant at HopeBill and one of the millions of office workers moving through Mud City every morning.

He takes the train, goes to work, answers messages, comes home and occasionally ends the day at Happy Life Bar. Nothing about his life seems particularly unusual. That may be the point.

Maya understands attention. Her custom pink python mask, online presence and instinct for what people are watching have turned everyday Mud City into part of her personal stage.

She knows when to post, when to appear and when disappearing for a while makes people pay even more attention.

FINANCIAL CONSULTANT

LEVEL 2 · RHINOCEROS HORNBILL

CREATOR / PERFORMER

HAPPY LIFE BAR REGULAR

LEVEL 2 CUSTOM · PINK PYTHON

HAPPY LIFE BAR AMBASSADOR

Tiger-headed character sitting at Happy Life Bar
Evan Tesat is playing acoustic guitar

TIGER BOSS

EVAN TESAT

The one who reads the room.

The one who doesn’t fit the interface.

Tiger Boss owns Happy Life Bar. He has spent enough nights behind the same tables to recognise regulars, trouble, celebrations and bad decisions before most people notice them.

His Level 3 mask helps. Experience helps more.

In a city where almost everyone is recognised through an animal mask, Evan Tesat walks around wearing a red blindfold instead. He performs music, drinks with people he probably should remember the next morning, does his laundry and somehow continues moving through a city built for masks.

Among the Anak Borneo Universe characters, he is the one still finding his way, and for now, that is probably enough to know.

OWNER · HAPPY LIFE BAR

LEVEL 3 · TIGER

MUSICIAN / PERFORMER

RED BLINDFOLD

Crowded dark bar with neon Happy Life sign and patrons.

HAPPY LIFE BAR

Where the stories start crossing.

By night, people who spend their days in very different parts of Mud City somehow end up at the same tables.

Happy Life Bar is part neighbourhood bar, part music venue and part accidental meeting point — a place where regulars, performers and strangers keep running into one another.

TIGER BOSS

Owner

EVAN TESAT

Performer

KENT LEE

Performer

Evan Tesat raising a drink at the Happy Life Bar.

MAYA

Regular / Ambassador

ENG GANG

Regular /

Financial Consultant

MALAU CHEONG

Performer

Good company. Good music. Good stories.

FAMILIAR FACES

Some people appear when the night gets louder.

Kent the Bunny is playing bass guitar on stage

KENT THE BUNNY

Bassist and performer frequently seen sharing the stage with Evan.

RABBIT HALF-MASK

Malau Cheong is playing flute with electric guitar.

MALAU CHEONG

Musician and performer moving between guitar, flute and whatever the night happens to need.

PROBOSCIS MONKEY

EVERYONE HAS A STORY.

Some stories begin with major historical events. Others begin because two people happened to sit at the same table.

People wearing animal masks at a neon-lit bar
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