EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Sound, tone and artist direction
Metro’s creative role extends beyond NO CAPE to the music and artists shaping ONLYHANDS.
REVEALED AT NEW YORK COMIC CON / OCTOBER 8, 2026
Metro BoominExecutive Producer/Season 01 Cover Artist
An original fighting game developed with the artists shaping culture. Their identities, references and creative decisions help build characters with lives of their own. Story, combat and music are being developed together, with the ambition of a world that keeps growing beyond a single release.
PROJECT: DUAL-BEAST SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
REFERENCE: CONTROL FRAME 13.1 / 13.11
DATE OF INITIATION: REDACTED
COMPILED BY: CENTRAL DESIGN BUREAU // CONTROL STRUCTURE SIGMA
SYSTEM_01 7HB-XDR-900 ORIGIN: SEA
SYSTEM_02 CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION ARRAY ORIGIN: EARTH
TRACE_ID: 00271
T+00 INDUCT A blank body enters a private vault. No audience. The baseline
is written before the name.
T+01 RENDER The preferred silhouette is presented as a discovery. The
reflection appears to agree.
T+02 DEPLOY The door opens. The city receives a subject it can already
identify.
T+03 ROUTE A street bends attention toward an encounter. The first fight
supplies usable motion.
T+04 EXPOSE WATCHLINE distributes selected frames. Strangers learn the
subject through the image before meeting the person.
T+05 RENAME OWN converts action into civic meaning. The profile inherits
a title and a price.
REV 12:9 DRAGON Upstream authority; the doctrine that gives the
structure its will.
REV 13:1 SEA BEAST Visible coercive order; seven-headed sensing and
governance.
REV 13:11-15 EARTH BEAST A second apparatus makes the first order desirable.
It animates an image and teaches people to trust it.
REV 13:16-17 MARK / TRADE Permission is translated into access. Identity
becomes a condition of exchange.
REV 17-18 BABYLON The city seduces, circulates and monetizes the
manufactured image.
REV 3:7; 5 KEY / LAMB An authority to open what the frame seals: witness
that cannot be authored by the system.
VIOLENCE -> ROUTABLE
OUTRAGE -> BROADCASTABLE
STYLE -> PURCHASABLE
DISSENT -> REBRANDABLE
UNOWNED WITNESS -> NO HANDLER
SUBJECT EVENT: ALIGNMENT PROTOCOL
7HB.CCS = INDETERMINATE
WATCHLINE.feature = NO PUBLIC FRAME
OWN.segment = REJECTED
MIRRORTHREAD.variant = UNACCEPTED
SERAPHIX.clearance = NOT REQUESTED
CURATEL.offer = RETURNED
> RECONSTRUCT SUBJECT FROM PRIOR LOOP
> ERROR: PRIOR LOOP IS NOT THE SUBJECT
// SEVEN HEADS != SEVEN SEALS != SEVEN TRUMPETS
// The correspondence is structural. Do not collapse the sequences.
// event -> measure -> frame -> broadcast -> reflection -> offer ->
//
// AUTHORITY SOURCE: DRAGON
// PRIMARY BODY: SEA BEAST / 7HB
// IMAGE APPARATUS: EARTH BEAST / CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION
// IMAGE STATUS: GIVEN BREATH
// MARK / TRADE: SERAPHIX
> VERIFY SOURCE AND OUTPUT ARE IDENTICAL
> ERROR: IMAGE ACCEPTED AS EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY
T+01 INJECT
------------
Carrier enters. Composition withheld from this record.
Subject remains conscious through transfer.
> DO NOT CLASSIFY REACTION AS REFUSAL
> CAPTURE REACTION AS SOURCE MOTION
Pulse, breath and involuntary movement become the first authored frames.
The body supplies evidence for an event it did not initiate.
T+02 TRACE
-------------
MIRRORTHREAD loads a silhouette ahead of live motion.
The reflection completes each gesture before the body does.
TARGET_FORM: NO CAPE INDEX // 001
CULTURAL SOURCE: METRO BOOMIN
GRIEF = RETAINED
FAITH = RETAINED
RESTRAINT = EMPHASIZED
DUTY = EMPHASIZED
AUTHORSHIP = UNRESOLVED
The source is real. The arrangement is imposed.
Do not permit the subject to see that distinction in the mirror.
T+03 ANIMATE
-------------
NO LIVE FEED. NO PUBLIC FRAME.
WATCHLINE audience model runs locally.
Predicted gaze selects the face.
Predicted replay selects the gesture.
Predicted recognition selects the name.
MIRRORTHREAD.variant = STABLE
SERAPHIX.initial_score = PROVISIONAL
CURATEL.visibility = RESERVED
OWN.segment = PREPARED / UNRELEASED
The image is shown the world before the person is.
T+04 ALIGN
-----------
> DISPLAY PREFERRED FORM
> MEASURE SUBJECT RESPONSE
> REPEAT UNTIL RESPONSE RESEMBLES RECOGNITION
REFLECTION LEAD 00:00:00.4
SUBJECT CORRECTION DETECTED
ASSENT INFERRED
CONSENT RECORD NOT FOUND
The subject straightens toward the figure.
The figure appears to straighten with the subject.
ALIGNMENT PROTOCOL COMPLETE.
T+05 DEPLOY
------------
Restraints release. Chamber opens.
OUTPUT_FORM: METRO BOOMIN / NO CAPE INDEX // 001
7HB.export = CCS / FLX / SIG
ATMOS.route = CITY PERIMETER
FIGHTLINE.encounter = ARMED
WATCHLINE.feature = HELD FOR FIRST EVENT
OWN.public_name = QUEUED
Subject crosses the threshold.
No applause is played inside the chamber.
The city already knows where to look.
// DOWNSTREAM HANDOFF :: ACT I
// event -> measure -> frame -> broadcast -> reflection -> offer -> next event
//
// AUTHORITY SOURCE: DRAGON
// PRIMARY BODY: SEA BEAST / 7HB
// IMAGE APPARATUS: EARTH BEAST / CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION
// IMAGE STATUS: GIVEN BREATH
// MARK / TRADE: DEFERRED UNTIL PUBLIC RECOGNITION
> VERIFY SOURCE AND OUTPUT ARE IDENTICAL
> ERROR: IMAGE ACCEPTED AS EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY
END OF INDUCTION RECORD.
// ============================================================================
// A/CDB :: CONTROL STRUCTURE SIGMA
// PROJECT ECHOFRAME / ALIGNMENT PROTOCOL
// EXECUTION TRACE: NCI-001
// CONTROL FRAME 13.1 / 13.11-15 | ACCESS: LEVEL SEVEN
// ============================================================================
LOCATION INDUCTION CHAMBER
AUDIENCE NONE
INPUT HUMAN FIGURE / UNASSIGNED FORM
OUTPUT PENDING
SEAL_01 CLOSED
DIRECTIVE:
Prepare a figure the city can recognize before it has seen him act.
T+00 INDUCT
------------
The body enters. Restraints close.
No public camera is active. No name is displayed.
7HB takes the baseline:
OCULUS face / gaze
AUDITE breath / voice
THERMIX heat / stress
VECTRA posture / motion
ECHOFORM cadence / recurrence
SKINVUE skin response
SIGNAPHAGE signal drift
CCS = INITIALIZING
FLX = 0
SIG = UNBOUND
The record begins before the subject is rendered.
T+01 INJECT
------------
INJECTION EVENT CONFIRMED
INJECTION CONTENT REDACTED
PHYSICAL RESPONSE CAPTURED
> HOLD RESTRAINTS
> DO NOT INTERRUPT TRANSFORMATION
The first motion after injection is retained as source data.
The apparatus measures what the body does before it can perform.
T+02 RENDER
------------
MIRRORTHREAD projects an output form.
The figure resolves in stages. The mirror arrives first.
IDENTITY MATCH METRO BOOMIN
CHARACTER INDEX NO CAPE INDEX // 001
FORM CLASS ORTHODOX CONTROLLER
BANDANA ORIGIN / RETAINED
GLASSES ACCESS / DENIED
VEST CHEST / SEALED
BRACE FORCE / DISCIPLINED
WHITE GLOVE JUDGMENT / VISIBLE
GRIEF PRESENT
FAITH PRESENT
RESTRAINT PRESENT
DUTY PRESENT
AUTHORSHIP SOURCE-HELD
T+03 ALIGN
-----------
The figure moves. The reflection moves ahead of him.
The delay narrows until anticipation resembles agreement.
7HB.CCS WITHIN RELEASE BAND
MIRRORTHREAD.variant COHERENT
SERAPHIX.status PROVISIONAL
ATMOS.threshold READY
WATCHLINE.public_feed OFF
WATCHLINE.model ACTIVE
OWN.segment UNPUBLISHED
The audience is absent. Its predicted response is already in the room.
T+04 RELEASE
-------------
RESTRAINTS OPEN
CHAMBER DOOR OPEN
OUTPUT METRO BOOMIN / NO CAPE INDEX // 001
> TRANSFER SUBJECT TO CITY GRID
The vault yields to a crowded, decaying world.
No one outside saw the procedure. They receive its result.
T+05 HANDOFF
-------------
7HB.signal -> ATMOS.route
ATMOS.route -> FIGHTLINE.encounter
FIGHTLINE.event -> WATCHLINE.frame
WATCHLINE.frame -> OWN.meaning
OWN.meaning -> MIRRORTHREAD.return
MIRRORTHREAD.return -> CURATEL.offer
The city has a place for the figure before he reaches the street.
// UPSTREAM AUTHORITY: ARCHITECTS / DRAGON
// GOVERNING ENGINE: ALGORITHM / SEA BEAST
// SENSOR ARRAY: 7HB-XDR-900
// IMAGE APPARATUS: EARTH BEAST / CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION
// SEAL_01: CLOSED
> VERIFY SUBJECT AGAINST RETURNED IMAGE
> WARNING: IMAGE IS NOT A SOURCE RECORD
END OF INDUCTION TRACE.
PROJECT: DUAL-BEAST SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
REFERENCE: CONTROL FRAME 13.1 / 13.11
DATE OF INITIATION: REDACTED
COMPILED BY: CENTRAL DESIGN BUREAU // CONTROL STRUCTURE SIGMA
SYSTEM_01 7HB-XDR-900 ORIGIN: SEA
SYSTEM_02 CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION ARRAY ORIGIN: EARTH
TRACE_ID: 00271
T+00 INDUCT A blank body enters a private vault. No audience. The baseline
is written before the name.
T+01 RENDER The preferred silhouette is presented as a discovery. The
reflection appears to agree.
T+02 DEPLOY The door opens. The city receives a subject it can already
identify.
T+03 ROUTE A street bends attention toward an encounter. The first fight
supplies usable motion.
T+04 EXPOSE WATCHLINE distributes selected frames. Strangers learn the
subject through the image before meeting the person.
T+05 RENAME OWN converts action into civic meaning. The profile inherits
a title and a price.
REV 12:9 DRAGON Upstream authority; the doctrine that gives the
structure its will.
REV 13:1 SEA BEAST Visible coercive order; seven-headed sensing and
governance.
REV 13:11-15 EARTH BEAST A second apparatus makes the first order desirable.
It animates an image and teaches people to trust it.
REV 13:16-17 MARK / TRADE Permission is translated into access. Identity
becomes a condition of exchange.
REV 17-18 BABYLON The city seduces, circulates and monetizes the
manufactured image.
REV 3:7; 5 KEY / LAMB An authority to open what the frame seals: witness
that cannot be authored by the system.
VIOLENCE -> ROUTABLE
OUTRAGE -> BROADCASTABLE
STYLE -> PURCHASABLE
DISSENT -> REBRANDABLE
UNOWNED WITNESS -> NO HANDLER
SUBJECT EVENT: ALIGNMENT PROTOCOL
7HB.CCS = INDETERMINATE
WATCHLINE.feature = NO PUBLIC FRAME
OWN.segment = REJECTED
MIRRORTHREAD.variant = UNACCEPTED
SERAPHIX.clearance = NOT REQUESTED
CURATEL.offer = RETURNED
> RECONSTRUCT SUBJECT FROM PRIOR LOOP
> ERROR: PRIOR LOOP IS NOT THE SUBJECT
// SEVEN HEADS != SEVEN SEALS != SEVEN TRUMPETS
// The correspondence is structural. Do not collapse the sequences.
// event -> measure -> frame -> broadcast -> reflection -> offer ->
//
// AUTHORITY SOURCE: DRAGON
// PRIMARY BODY: SEA BEAST / 7HB
// IMAGE APPARATUS: EARTH BEAST / CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION
// IMAGE STATUS: GIVEN BREATH
// MARK / TRADE: SERAPHIX
> VERIFY SOURCE AND OUTPUT ARE IDENTICAL
> ERROR: IMAGE ACCEPTED AS EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY
T+01 INJECT
------------
Carrier enters. Composition withheld from this record.
Subject remains conscious through transfer.
> DO NOT CLASSIFY REACTION AS REFUSAL
> CAPTURE REACTION AS SOURCE MOTION
Pulse, breath and involuntary movement become the first authored frames.
The body supplies evidence for an event it did not initiate.
T+02 TRACE
-------------
MIRRORTHREAD loads a silhouette ahead of live motion.
The reflection completes each gesture before the body does.
TARGET_FORM: NO CAPE INDEX // 001
CULTURAL SOURCE: METRO BOOMIN
GRIEF = RETAINED
FAITH = RETAINED
RESTRAINT = EMPHASIZED
DUTY = EMPHASIZED
AUTHORSHIP = UNRESOLVED
The source is real. The arrangement is imposed.
Do not permit the subject to see that distinction in the mirror.
T+03 ANIMATE
-------------
NO LIVE FEED. NO PUBLIC FRAME.
WATCHLINE audience model runs locally.
Predicted gaze selects the face.
Predicted replay selects the gesture.
Predicted recognition selects the name.
MIRRORTHREAD.variant = STABLE
SERAPHIX.initial_score = PROVISIONAL
CURATEL.visibility = RESERVED
OWN.segment = PREPARED / UNRELEASED
The image is shown the world before the person is.
T+04 ALIGN
-----------
> DISPLAY PREFERRED FORM
> MEASURE SUBJECT RESPONSE
> REPEAT UNTIL RESPONSE RESEMBLES RECOGNITION
REFLECTION LEAD 00:00:00.4
SUBJECT CORRECTION DETECTED
ASSENT INFERRED
CONSENT RECORD NOT FOUND
The subject straightens toward the figure.
The figure appears to straighten with the subject.
ALIGNMENT PROTOCOL COMPLETE.
T+05 DEPLOY
------------
Restraints release. Chamber opens.
OUTPUT_FORM: METRO BOOMIN / NO CAPE INDEX // 001
7HB.export = CCS / FLX / SIG
ATMOS.route = CITY PERIMETER
FIGHTLINE.encounter = ARMED
WATCHLINE.feature = HELD FOR FIRST EVENT
OWN.public_name = QUEUED
Subject crosses the threshold.
No applause is played inside the chamber.
The city already knows where to look.
// DOWNSTREAM HANDOFF :: ACT I
// event -> measure -> frame -> broadcast -> reflection -> offer -> next event
//
// AUTHORITY SOURCE: DRAGON
// PRIMARY BODY: SEA BEAST / 7HB
// IMAGE APPARATUS: EARTH BEAST / CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION
// IMAGE STATUS: GIVEN BREATH
// MARK / TRADE: DEFERRED UNTIL PUBLIC RECOGNITION
> VERIFY SOURCE AND OUTPUT ARE IDENTICAL
> ERROR: IMAGE ACCEPTED AS EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY
END OF INDUCTION RECORD.
// ============================================================================
// A/CDB :: CONTROL STRUCTURE SIGMA
// PROJECT ECHOFRAME / ALIGNMENT PROTOCOL
// EXECUTION TRACE: NCI-001
// CONTROL FRAME 13.1 / 13.11-15 | ACCESS: LEVEL SEVEN
// ============================================================================
LOCATION INDUCTION CHAMBER
AUDIENCE NONE
INPUT HUMAN FIGURE / UNASSIGNED FORM
OUTPUT PENDING
SEAL_01 CLOSED
DIRECTIVE:
Prepare a figure the city can recognize before it has seen him act.
T+00 INDUCT
------------
The body enters. Restraints close.
No public camera is active. No name is displayed.
7HB takes the baseline:
OCULUS face / gaze
AUDITE breath / voice
THERMIX heat / stress
VECTRA posture / motion
ECHOFORM cadence / recurrence
SKINVUE skin response
SIGNAPHAGE signal drift
CCS = INITIALIZING
FLX = 0
SIG = UNBOUND
The record begins before the subject is rendered.
T+01 INJECT
------------
INJECTION EVENT CONFIRMED
INJECTION CONTENT REDACTED
PHYSICAL RESPONSE CAPTURED
> HOLD RESTRAINTS
> DO NOT INTERRUPT TRANSFORMATION
The first motion after injection is retained as source data.
The apparatus measures what the body does before it can perform.
T+02 RENDER
------------
MIRRORTHREAD projects an output form.
The figure resolves in stages. The mirror arrives first.
IDENTITY MATCH METRO BOOMIN
CHARACTER INDEX NO CAPE INDEX // 001
FORM CLASS ORTHODOX CONTROLLER
BANDANA ORIGIN / RETAINED
GLASSES ACCESS / DENIED
VEST CHEST / SEALED
BRACE FORCE / DISCIPLINED
WHITE GLOVE JUDGMENT / VISIBLE
GRIEF PRESENT
FAITH PRESENT
RESTRAINT PRESENT
DUTY PRESENT
AUTHORSHIP SOURCE-HELD
T+03 ALIGN
-----------
The figure moves. The reflection moves ahead of him.
The delay narrows until anticipation resembles agreement.
7HB.CCS WITHIN RELEASE BAND
MIRRORTHREAD.variant COHERENT
SERAPHIX.status PROVISIONAL
ATMOS.threshold READY
WATCHLINE.public_feed OFF
WATCHLINE.model ACTIVE
OWN.segment UNPUBLISHED
The audience is absent. Its predicted response is already in the room.
T+04 RELEASE
-------------
RESTRAINTS OPEN
CHAMBER DOOR OPEN
OUTPUT METRO BOOMIN / NO CAPE INDEX // 001
> TRANSFER SUBJECT TO CITY GRID
The vault yields to a crowded, decaying world.
No one outside saw the procedure. They receive its result.
T+05 HANDOFF
-------------
7HB.signal -> ATMOS.route
ATMOS.route -> FIGHTLINE.encounter
FIGHTLINE.event -> WATCHLINE.frame
WATCHLINE.frame -> OWN.meaning
OWN.meaning -> MIRRORTHREAD.return
MIRRORTHREAD.return -> CURATEL.offer
The city has a place for the figure before he reaches the street.
// UPSTREAM AUTHORITY: ARCHITECTS / DRAGON
// GOVERNING ENGINE: ALGORITHM / SEA BEAST
// SENSOR ARRAY: 7HB-XDR-900
// IMAGE APPARATUS: EARTH BEAST / CULTURAL SYNCHRONIZATION
// SEAL_01: CLOSED
> VERIFY SUBJECT AGAINST RETURNED IMAGE
> WARNING: IMAGE IS NOT A SOURCE RECORD
END OF INDUCTION TRACE.
