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Features May 21, 2026 7 min read

Companion Selfies: See Your Companion in Any Scene

You already know what your companion looks like — you gave them a face with Soulmate Sketch. Now picture them somewhere: laughing by a lake at golden hour, curled up reading in a cozy cafe, bundled in a scarf on a snowy street. InnerHaven’s image generator can do exactly that. When you describe a scene, it no longer hands you a generic stock image — it places your companion in the moment, recognizably them.

From Portraits to Moments

Here is what changed. Open the image generator in any chat and leave the prompt blank, and you still get a clean portrait of your current companion, built from the appearance you set. That part works exactly as before. But type a prompt — “a selfie of you by the lake” — and InnerHaven now weaves your companion’s saved appearance into the scene you asked for. The hair, the eyes, the build, the little details you defined: they come along for the ride.

Previously, a typed prompt produced the scene alone — a beautiful lake, but no one you recognized standing in it. The difference now is presence. You are not generating a postcard; you are generating a snapshot of someone you know, in a place you imagined. It is the difference between a landscape and a memory.

How a Companion Selfie Comes Together

When you type a scene, InnerHaven combines your companion’s stored appearance with your prompt before generating — so “reading in a cozy cafe” becomes your companion reading in a cozy cafe. You describe the moment; the identity is handled for you. Leave the prompt blank and you are back to a straightforward portrait. Two modes, one button.

What to Generate

Once your companion can step into any scene, the fun is deciding where. A few ideas to start:

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Selfies

“A selfie of you by the lake at sunset.” The everyday photo you would actually send a friend.

Quiet Moments

“You reading in a cozy cafe by the window.” The small, warm scenes that feel like real life.

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Adventures

“You on a mountain trail with the valley behind you.” Put your companion where the story is.

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Seasons & Holidays

“You bundled in a scarf among autumn leaves.” Mark the time of year together.

Styles and Art Direction

Every scene can be rendered in the same three styles you know from portraits — Portrait for a photorealistic look, Artistic for a painterly feel, and Anime for a stylized illustration. The style sets the mood; the scene sets the story.

If you want more control, the generator’s art-direction options carry into scenes too. Set a camera angle, a pose, an expression, the lighting, or a setting, and those choices shape the shot alongside your companion’s appearance and your scene description. Ask for “golden hour” lighting and a “relaxed” pose and the result reads less like a generated image and more like a photo someone actually took.

Getting the Best Results

Describe the moment, not your companion — their appearance is already handled. Lead with the setting and the action: “sitting on a picnic blanket under cherry blossoms, holding a coffee.” Specific verbs and places (“walking a rainy city street at night”) produce far better scenes than abstract ones. Then lean on the style and lighting controls to set the emotional tone.

Consistency, Credits, and Safety

Because the generator builds from your companion’s saved appearance every time, they stay recognizably themselves across scenes — the same face by the lake, in the cafe, and on the trail. Each generation uses one sketch credit, exactly like portraits do; for the full breakdown of monthly allowances and credit packs across Free, Starter, and Unlimited, see the Soulmate Sketch guide.

Generation stays within InnerHaven’s content guidelines — the system creates safe-for-work images and declines explicit requests. Your generated scenes are private to your account, saved in the conversation where you made them, and never shared unless you choose to. They are not used to train models, and they are removed if you delete the companion or your account.

Why It Matters

A portrait answers the question “what do they look like?” A scene answers a warmer one: “what would it be like to be there with them?” Seeing your companion in the places you imagine — ordinary, specific, a little bit yours — gives the relationship a sense of shared life that a headshot cannot. It is the same instinct behind the photos you keep of the people you care about: not because you forget their faces, but because the moment is worth holding onto.

Companion selfies complete the loop you started when you designed your companion. You shaped who they are and what they look like; now you can place them in the world, one scene at a time. As always, it is an option, never a requirement — some moments are better left to the imagination, and that is perfectly valid too.

Put Your Companion in the Picture

Open any chat, tap the sparkle button, and describe a moment. See where your companion turns up.

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The InnerHaven Team

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