Rain Gear Kid — v0.4
developing full revision
A slow umbrella carrier who shields nearby kids from streams but folds under direct balloon hits.
Why: Explains the anxious protector, the umbrella cover, and the direct-hit counter in plain terms.
Archetype
A slow umbrella carrier who shields nearby kids from streams but folds under direct balloon hits.
Personality
Rain Gear Kid is a frightened six-year-old who genuinely does not want to get wet. She solved that fear by putting on full rain gear and carrying an armful of umbrellas. Once she was outside, she noticed other kids needed the dry space too.
She stays scared. She avoids the Big Kid, takes the long way around parked cars, and says little after a close call. She is also almost always standing where the cover is needed. She has not decided this makes her brave.
Motivation
Winning means keeping herself and the kids beside her dry enough to remain outside. She wants to make one safe patch in the middle of the water. Protecting somebody else gives her a reason to stay when fear tells her to go home.
How they fight
She carries five open umbrellas that overlap into portable cover. The umbrellas can block streams and protect a small group moving through exposed ground. She is strongest beside slow kids, on a narrow approach, and wherever a ranged line would otherwise have an easy target.
The gear and umbrellas make her slow and wide. She cannot turn quickly or pass through tight spaces. A direct balloon comes over or around the cover and soaks her heavily, making balloon throwers and artillery hard counters. If enemies attack from several directions, she cannot face every umbrella at once.
Field data
- Age: 6.
- Height / build: approximately 1.15 m (3 ft 9 in); small build under bulky gear.
- Weight: approximately 22 kg (49 lb), not including umbrellas and rain gear.
- Speed: slow (target); exact value unset.
- Stamina / soak: called in at full soak, with strong protection from streams and weak protection from direct balloons (target); exact capacity and slowdown unset.
- Strengths: portable stream cover, protecting groups, holding exposed ground.
- Weaknesses: slow and wide, poor turning, direct balloons and attacks from several directions.
From the studio
This revision uses casting sheet row 13 for age, identity, size, personality, and umbrella role, with charter §7–8 for the direct-hit counter. Her roster place remains contested and no umbrella cover exists in the sim. Earlier published revisions remain unchanged in the timeline.
Featured question
Is portable cover worth fielding when every direct balloon is a hard counter?
Artifact shelf

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
Rain Gear Kid carries five open umbrellas beneath three arcing balloons.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/rain-gear-kid-studies-v1.md#study-1--she-gets-there-first
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
Five overlapping umbrellas keep two crouching kids dry while water sheets off the front.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/rain-gear-kid-studies-v1.md#study-2--more-umbrella-than-kid
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
She turns the five-umbrella cluster in slow steps while looking through a clear panel.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/rain-gear-kid-studies-v1.md#study-3--the-three-step-turn
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
Her wet trail shows the long route around a parked car to the fence.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/rain-gear-kid-studies-v1.md#study-4--the-long-way-around-the-car
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool

Early exploration — not representative of final direction.
She stands alone under five umbrellas inside a dark wet ring on the pavement.
- Source
- docs/art/prompts/rain-gear-kid-studies-v1.md#study-5--nobody-has-seen-her-without-it
- Rights state
- generated-with-terms-reviewed
- Tool
- GPT-5.6 built-in image generation (tool reported by Anthony)
- Model
- not exposed by built-in tool