# andreas — Ando "Andreas-san" Ryu The protagonist, cut piece by piece. Thirty-six, back on the lane he grew up on. An indigo mechanic's blouson from a job he does not talk about — sun-bleached across the shoulders, gone shiny at the elbows, oil worked into the cuffs. A bone-coloured tee under it, showing between the open front flaps. Olive work trousers, faded at the knee, cuffed short over scuffed white low-tops with a gum sole. A canvas sling bag on the hip and his grandfather's steel watch on the left wrist. `A.pieces()` returns the thirty pieces he is made of: each one geometry authored in body space and named with the bone it rides. `A.BIND` is the rig's bind pose, which is what lets body-space geometry be hung off a moving skeleton. `A.PALETTE` is his colour. Every piece takes its colour from the vertex stream rather than its material, so the wear — bleach, grime, grease, fade — is a function of where a vertex is on the garment.