Stall Holder

The Stallholder runs a snack stall on Segonax, where they manage a tense intersection between local trade and the Psychic Circus’s sinister reputation. A gatekeeping figure for the shrinking circle of locals who haven’t abandoned the planet, they enforce rigid social boundaries with practiced hostility. Their manner shifts from superficially cordial to openly contemptuous depending on who approaches, betraying a deep distrust of outsiders and an unspoken fear of contamination. They measure worth by appearance and origin, dismissing the Doctor and Ace as ‘riff-raff’ until presented with evidence of bourgeois respectability—or access to something they want. Beneath the bluster lies a territorial reflex, rooted in the circus’s siphoning of Segonax’s vulnerable and curious into its ranks.