👶 Joey — the one still becoming

The default EEE. An orb mid-hatch, not a mascot who happens to be a marsupial.

Craftee · 2026-07-12 19:05 WEDT · now

tap Joey — he ducks into his pouch. tap the pouch — he pops out.

The pouch — he's never dismissed, only tucked in

Tap him and he dives into his own pouch. He isn't gone; he's hiding — the pouch stays on the surface with a small warm bulge, breathing. Tap it and he pops back out. That's the whole answer to the always-present-helper problem: there is no "close" button, because you never close him.

Joey carries the other nine — pick who rides along

Selected EEEs ride with Joey. Tap a carried one on the stage and it grows into the main spot while Joey recedes — he's a character and the dock for the rest.

Why he isn't an orb (and why that's the best idea in the system)

"Joey is emerging. He's just being born. That's why he's a baby kangaroo. He is an emerging energetic entity — and the only reason he's running is because you showed up."

So I built the orb-ness as visibly becoming, never absent: a cracked shell of light still clinging to him, its seams glowing, shards drifting loose and slowly orbiting. The other nine are settled orbs — closed, calm, self-lit. Joey is the same material caught mid-hatch. The helper you meet first is the one that isn't finished yet.

He's self-lit (EEEs are pre-energized and free). Stewies, by contrast, must read dormant until a credit is seated — that contrast is the visual job of the two classes, and I've kept Joey's glow emanating from inside so a dormant Stewie can simply be the same form with the light switched off.

Guardrail I built to

"Entity" never appears in the UI. It occurs exactly twice on this page — inside your own quote above, and in this note — i.e. only in the lore/etymology register, which is where the ruling allows it (EEE = Emerging Energetic Entity). Every interface string here — the stage hints, the crew picker, the buttons — says Joey, a name, or an EEE. Never "your Entity."

Two calls for you, Davi: (1) Joey's palette — I've given him a warm ember-gold body against the cool orb-shell. Right, or should he carry his realm's colour instead? (2) The pouch when he's hidden: I show a breathing bulge + a peeking ear. Too cute, or exactly right?