Arjun — Impatient but Honest

Arjun is your current brain: curious, distracted, slightly reckless. He says the naive solution out loud so the story has something real to start from — not the fake elegance you “wish” you’d thought of.

Represents

First attempts. Brute force. Off-by-one wounds. Arjun is proof that you don’t need to be wise to begin — you just need to be honest about what you actually understand. He carries every “wrong” idea we’ll refine later.

He Asks

“Can’t we just try the simple thing first?” The slow, obvious, brute-force path that reveals the real constraints.
“What did I forget?” Index bounds, zero cases, duplicates, weird inputs that don’t fit the happy path yet.
“Why exactly does this fail?” He doesn’t hide bugs; he pushes them into the light so the Guru, Scribe, and Oracle can act.

Default Lens

Straightforward loops, arrays, and first drafts. Arjun’s code is rarely the final answer, but it’s the baseline that makes improvements meaningful. Without him, “better” has nothing to beat.

Appears In

Everywhere. Arjun walks through all three arcs — Gurukul, Court of Chintan, and Legendary Crises. Any time a character blurts, “Let me just try this,” that’s the Shishya.