Characters will be partially tailored to player preferences provided when signing up. The larp has 10 available characters (5 women and 5 men) and 2 active NPCs (the show hosts, played by the organizers), all of which are cis-gender, heterosexual, and monogamous. Romances and friendships might develop among characters freely as may rivalries and jealousy; the player is the master of the character’s fate: for example, a character may have an encounter that changes the way they think about their sexuality or the couple may decide they like “the single life” and break up. Each character sheet includes information on a character’s background and relationship history, motivations for signing up for the show, and personal limits, but the player interprets it as they wish and decides what kind of person the character is when they leave the show – and with whom.

The secret couple is diegetically introduced by the show as middle class, faithfully monogamous, vanilla, and obviously in love, selected as the counterpoint to the imagined shameless hedonism of single people. In essence, the couple should represent the show’s target demographic while striving to blend in with “hot and horny singles”. While singles are expected to behave the way they “normally” would, the people in the couple will have to watch their spouse play up the single life as convincingly as they possibly can without giving away that they’re already married – and to whom.

The producers would naturally only cast the most attractive and fascinating contestants, so no matter a player’s physical appearance, every character is incredibly beautiful and enticing. Player body shapes, physical features, gender, and sexuality are explicitly not to be played on. Any player may play any character regardless of gender or sexual identity.