Dex

Dex hails from the glitzy planet Zylor, a world of high rollers and cutthroat dealmakers. Born into a clan of infamous alien grifters, Dex learned to hustle before he could crawl. His green-skinned family ran scams across the galaxy, from rigged asteroid races to fake comet cults. Dex, however, had bigger ambitions: he wanted to play the ultimate game—the interplanetary stock market. With a silver tongue and a penchant for risk, he clawed his way to a job at Galactic Gains, where he became a star broker trading Martian meme coins and Venusian vapor futures. The cigar? A nod to his Zylorian roots, where smoking rare nebula leaves is a status symbol. Dex hired $WOODY on a whim, amused by the plank’s nervous energy but secretly valuing his loyalty and sharp instincts. Dex’s shady deals stem from his belief that rules are for suckers, but a past scam gone wrong left him with a bounty on his head from a space pirate syndicate—a secret he keeps from $WOODY. Beneath his slick exterior, Dex trusts $WOODY like a brother, even if he’d never admit it.

$WOODY

$WOODY wasn’t always a sentient plank of wood. He started life as a sapling on the lush, forested planet of Arboria, where trees evolved to think, feel, and even walk. Young $WOODY was a dreamer, obsessed with stories of interstellar adventure, but his nervous disposition made him the laughingstock of his grove. During a galactic logging operation, $WOODY was accidentally cut down and processed into a plank, destined for furniture. However, a freak cosmic storm zapped his wooden form with sentient energy, granting him eyes, a mouth, and his signature anxiety. Stranded in Nova York, $WOODY stumbled into Galactic Gains, desperate for a job to survive the cutthroat city. His knack for spotting tiny details in market data—born from his paranoid habit of overanalyzing everything—caught Dex’s eye. Now, as Dex’s assistant, $WOODY’s trying to prove he’s more than a jittery board, but his fear of market crashes (and everything else) keeps him one splinter away from a meltdown. Deep down, he sees Dex as his ticket to a bigger life, even if their schemes make his grain quiver.