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Teddy Ruiz

shop hand and bike mechanic · now

Ink portrait of Teddy Ruiz

Teddy is made up. The stories are real.

Teddy sweeps up, fixes bikes out the back, and has been at the shop since he was fifteen. He came in through the back door with a bicycle chain in his hands to borrow a vice, and never really went home again. He is the one who says "try it and see" before anybody has finished asking. On the render he shares a voice with Sal — build-narration.ts points his lines at the same ElevenLabs voice — so the difference between them is entirely in what he is allowed to say.