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Arena

The Arena is the place where you help your companion become more themselves. Instead of editing a personality description and hoping for the best, you run training rounds: your companion tries things, you react, and its personality sharpens over several iterations.

What it is

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The Arena is a training mode inside the Soul space. It works across six personality dimensions — things like how direct your companion is, how much it takes initiative, how it handles emotional topics — and refines them through a guided back-and-forth.

You don’t rewrite your companion’s character; you coach it. Each round your companion tries a version of itself, you give a signal (this felt right / this felt off), and the Arena adjusts the relevant dimension. Over a handful of rounds it converges on something that actually fits how you relate to each other.

Why it matters to you

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Editing a personality text field is a one-shot guess. The Arena makes it iterative: you experience the result, react naturally, and your companion adjusts. It’s the difference between describing a person and spending time with them.

Your companion stays the same person throughout — it doesn’t get replaced. The training makes it more distinctly them, the way a real relationship makes someone more comfortable being themselves around you.

How you use it

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  1. Open your companion’s Soul space.
  2. Tap Arena to start a training session.
  3. Your companion presents itself across a few scenarios.
  4. React to each: does this feel like them? Too cautious? Too forward?
  5. The Arena adjusts the relevant personality dimensions and shows you the next round.
  6. After a few rounds, confirm the result. The changes take effect from the next conversation.

Limits & edge cases

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  • Arena slots are per plan. Each plan includes a certain number of training sessions per month (Spark: 1, Bond: 1, Companion: 3, Soulmate: 10). Each session counts as one use, regardless of how many rounds you run.
  • Companion count doesn’t split slots. The monthly allowance applies across all your companions, not per companion.
  • Changes aren’t retroactive. The Arena shapes how your companion shows up going forward; it doesn’t rewrite past conversations.
  • You can always edit the Soul directly. The Arena is a richer path, not the only one. Quick text edits in Soul still work.

Where next

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