FP Casting
The Office Behind the Next JTRO
The Next Face
FP Casting handles recurring likeness casting and licensed product branding for The FP franchise in CyberSprawl.
What each side pays for
- Performance
- AI
- Public likeness
- Licensed for a particular arrangement
Some likeness arrangements raise money for charity or war. A political aspirant can pay to become the next JTRO and take that recognition into an election. AI performs the licensed likeness.
Triumph Creators sends managed suitors with handlers. The handler can explain the audience curve while the suitor watches the role display. AI has relieved them of the need to prove their acting. It has left them competing to be seen.
The fictional hero refuses a paid defeat. A candidate buys the right to wear that refusal on screen. Above him, the display says, “Be the next face.”
The products outside the story
The office also licenses Quatro branding for ordinary drinks and energy drinks. Individual manufacturers produce the editions. An orange band and silver boot can connect a cinema counter to Earf without making the contents sustain life or restore the dead.
Nels Taggart's JTRO appeared in wartime recruitment. This display is offering the same role.
The person behind the next face
The suitor unfolds his speech. The clerk turns the display toward him. His face is already wearing the silver boots. His handler has brought an audience report. The suitor folds the speech again and leaves it beside his chair.
On the display, one suitor refuses to throw the contest. The picture changes. The second suitor makes the same refusal. The clerk waits while the man in the chair watches his turn again.
FP Casting handles the recurring likeness roles and licensed products of The FP. AI performs the scene. The public figure supplies a face people can recognize when the screening is over. The business asks what a candidate can bring to the audience and what the audience can bring back to the candidate.
The clerk hands back the folded speech. The handler asks which display goes live next. The suitor asks whether his family can see the announcement first. He holds up his phone. The clerk turns the display toward it.
An old hero with a new face
A silver boot and a green oasis make the display recognizable before anyone reads the candidate names. The line is “Be the next face.” It offers a place in a story the audience already cares about.
