Rob Van Art-
Ironing Man's lodger. Of Dutch origin, speaks good English. It has been alleged that he is a fly tipper as he has been seen driving around in his filthy and dilapidated white van with piles of household rubbish piled in and on his roof rack and then coming back with nothing.....with no official Council tip nearby. Rob claims to be a 'clearer of space' and often quotes pseudo-philosophical sayings, eg 'Clutter is the enemy of clarity'; 'You call it dumping; I call it relocating entropy'. Friendly enough to avoid suspicion but guards his past carefully. Speaks softly but with a shifty, evasive demeanour. Lodges in a back room of Ironing Man's small council flat, pays rent to Ironing Man in cash (NB Ironing Man isn't permitted to sub-rent). Helps around the house (eg fixes things, delivers leaflets for Ironing Man). Suspicion that Rob may have fled a minor scandal in the Netherlands (eg fraud, arson, minor criminal offence) and is living under a fake name. He has had a few run-ins with Blossom who has publicly accused him of hiding bodies in the rubbish and has become obsessed with Rob's bin schedule, talking to people of what he has collected and what time he leaves and returns.
He claims to be a 'performance artist' , his 'art' being displaying photos of greasy smudged handprints and written slogans, obscenities etc on the backs of dirty vans. He also lays claims to being an inventor and brags about his days in his native country where he was a TV personality, having his own programme about his inventions. This has never been substantiated and Ironing Man doesn't believe a word of it. He has been know to be a person of infinite strangeness in that his main focus is to destroy organised religion and to this end he has had some inventions and schemes which have been mostly ignored by the any form of media. They are as follows
A new comer to the world which has been made possible by the rise of AI. More info to follow as he arranges all the features.
Here we have the new Rob profile . Has aged badly.
Role: The Entropy Alchemist & Architect of the "I SAVE YA" Code.
The Surface: A soft-spoken Dutch lodger living in the back room of Ironing Man’s council flat. To the neighbours, Rob is a "waster" and a suspicious fly-tipper, often seen navigating the city in a dilapidated white van overflowing with "relocated entropy." He is the target of Blossom’s obsessive surveillance, accused of everything from fraud to hiding bodies in his rubbish. He guards his past with an evasive, shifty demeanour, claiming his "art" consists of photographing greasy handprints and slogans smudged into the grime of van doors.
The Philosophy: Rob operates on the mantra: "Clutter is the enemy of clarity." He doesn't just dump rubbish; he clears the physical and digital "static" of the old world to make room for the Bio-Mesh. He is a "Clearer of Space," believing that once the industrial clutter is removed, the human signal can finally be heard.
The Genius: In the back of his van, using "dodgy laptops" stripped of state tracking, Rob developed the I SAVE YA code—the ultimate bypass for the Social Ills.
The Code: A decentralized protocol that allows users to "design their own God" by selecting personal core values rather than following external authorities.
The Currency: The system replaces money with Intense Oneness. Using a user's DNA and biological resonance (the "Pulse"), the code validates moments of deep human connection as the only true currency.
The Omen: Rob is the bridge between the industrial sludge and the biological "Save." He proves that the most discarded members of society are actually the high-frequency nodes of the future.