# MVP Character Proxies

The 0.1.O investor visual pass introduces first playable character proxies for
the startup character selection flow. These are not final production humans;
they are practical, human-scale stand-ins that remove the single default dummy
presentation while the final realistic character art pipeline is still pending.

## Current Proxies

- Young adult male:
  `/Game/Characters/Mannequins/Meshes/SKM_Manny_Simple`
- Young adult female:
  `/Game/Characters/Mannequins/Meshes/SKM_Quinn_Simple`
- Male workwear material:
  `/Game/Agrarian/Characters/Materials/M_AGR_CharacterProxy_Workwear_Male`
- Female workwear material:
  `/Game/Agrarian/Characters/Materials/M_AGR_CharacterProxy_Workwear_Female`

The materials use muted earth-tone workwear colors so the character reads as an
Agrarian survivor/pioneer proxy instead of an untouched template dummy.

## Runtime Flow

The MVP frontend stores the selected young-adult archetype. When the loading
segment closes, it issues `AgrarianSelectCharacter male` or
`AgrarianSelectCharacter female`. The player controller records the selected
proxy and applies the matching mesh/material to the possessed Agrarian player
character.

The character asset folder is always cooked for investor builds so both proxy
materials remain available in packaged clients.

## Replacement Path

Final character work should replace these proxies with grounded realistic human
assets, production clothing, age/condition variation, and replication/persistence
of visual state. The current C++ selection path is intentionally simple so final
assets can slot into the same male/female archetype switch without reworking the
menu flow.