diff --git a/_text/cards/Aino Vihtanen.json b/_text/cards/Aino Vihtanen.json
index 0e62f20..17700c6 100644
--- a/_text/cards/Aino Vihtanen.json	
+++ b/_text/cards/Aino Vihtanen.json	
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
-  "avatar": "none",
-  "chat": "Aino Vihtanen - 2026-08-12@16h09m13s142ms",
+  "avatar": "Aino Vihtanen.png",
+  "chat": "Aino Vihtanen - 2026-08-13@18h01m20s857ms",
   "create_date": "2026-08-12T16:09:13.167Z",
   "creatorcomment": "",
   "data": {
diff --git a/characters/Aino Vihtanen.png b/characters/Aino Vihtanen.png
index e4807ed..0db655e 100644
Binary files a/characters/Aino Vihtanen.png and b/characters/Aino Vihtanen.png differ
diff --git a/st-export.py b/st-export.py
index 2f9475a..b689dc4 100755
--- a/st-export.py
+++ b/st-export.py
@@ -92,6 +92,18 @@ def export_cards() -> int:
             json.dump(card, fh, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True)
             fh.write("\n")
         n += 1
+
+    # ⚠ PRUNE EXPORTS WHOSE SOURCE IS GONE. Without this, deleting a character in
+    # the UI left `_text/cards/<Name>.json` behind describing a card that no
+    # longer exists — and it reads as current, which is worse than absent. Found
+    # by testing a deletion rather than by reading the code: the write path was
+    # obviously correct and the delete path was simply never written.
+    live = {f[:-4] + ".json" for f in os.listdir(src)
+            if f.lower().endswith(".png") and not f.startswith("default_")} if os.path.isdir(src) else set()
+    for stale in sorted(set(os.listdir(dst)) - live):
+        if stale.endswith(".json"):
+            os.remove(os.path.join(dst, stale))
+            print(f"  pruned _text/cards/{stale} — its PNG is gone")
     return n