(in order of appearance)

Liliane - played by a real flesh-and-blood person; Liliane is African American, much older, and is dressed appropriately for work in a painting studio - plainly, but still elegant. Liliane has lived for a long time. She is an activist and an artist. She’s been engaged in her life and has learned things along the way. She sees the challenges of our times and of our technology. She is not afraid. She is a bit angry. She would call it realistic

Cookie - a digital character; Liliane’s avatar, originally when Liliane made her Liliane named the avatar “Cookie” with some irony and disdain, but now Cookie is just part of Liliane’s life,  a digital character that basically represents Liliane’s idealized self projected; Cookie is in her fifties, African American, idiosyncratically stylish, elegant. Note that Cookie and all other digital characters are human-scale (i.e. the same size as real-life Liliane)

Young Liliane - a digital character who represents Liliane in the early 1970s, and who is seen in memories of Liliane’s sessions with her therapist; Young Liliane is in her early 30s, dressed consistently with Cookie, but from an earlier era.

Psychoanalyst  - a digital character, a psychoanalyst living on the Upper West Side in the 1970s embodying the intellectual and cultural ferment of the era.  They are a product of their time, shaped by the social and political changes of the 1960s and 70s, yet also a timeless figure, dedicated to the timeless pursuit of understanding the human psyche.