diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs
index 76649f59..6152014f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/lifecycle.rs
@@ -817,19 +817,29 @@ pub(crate) fn load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry(world: &mut World) {
         .get_resource::<crate::char_select::Roster>()
         .and_then(record_from_roster)
         .or_else(|| {
-            // The other half of the realm above, and for the same reason: `$WOW_CAPTURE_SAVED`
-            // names the **character** whose saved variables this capture has just loaded, so
-            // `UnitName("player")` has to answer that name or an addon's `[realm][player]` key
-            // looks up rows it was not handed. Race, class and sex are presence-only here, as
-            // `manifest.rs`'s own offline record documents; a fixture that seats a real one
-            // later overwrites this, and the addon walk has already run by then.
-            crate::local_state::capture_saved_identity().map(|(_, name)| {
-                benilla_ui::script::PlayerRecord {
-                    name,
-                    race: Some(("Human".into(), "Human".into())),
-                    class: Some(("Warrior".into(), "WARRIOR".into())),
-                    sex: 2,
-                }
+            // A capture never logs in, so it has no roster and no record — and the interface it
+            // loads is the one a player sees, where there is always a player. Leaving the record
+            // empty is the harness diverging from the client, not the other way round: a chain
+            // file reading `UnitClass("player")` at main-chunk scope then takes a nil into
+            // `strlower` and the whole file dies, which is a popup on every UI capture and
+            // nothing a player ever meets (`Turtle_TransmogUI.lua:17`). `manifest.rs` makes the
+            // same argument for its offline loader and seats the same minimal record.
+            //
+            // `$WOW_CAPTURE_SAVED` names the **character** whose saved variables this capture has
+            // just loaded, so where it is given it is the name: an addon's `[realm][player]` key
+            // has to find the rows it was handed (the realm above is the other half). Race, class
+            // and sex are presence-only, and a fixture that seats a real one later overwrites
+            // this — the addon walk has already run by then.
+            let name = match crate::local_state::capture_saved_identity() {
+                Some((_, character)) => character,
+                None if std::env::var_os("WOW_CAPTURE").is_some() => "Benilla".to_owned(),
+                None => return None,
+            };
+            Some(benilla_ui::script::PlayerRecord {
+                name,
+                race: Some(("Human".into(), "Human".into())),
+                class: Some(("Warrior".into(), "WARRIOR".into())),
+                sex: 2,
             })
         })
     {