# Chapter 21 Character-Snapshot Conformance Audit

## CHARACTER Theo Brennan (returning)

- `CONFORMS — field: "how he shows emotion: handles logistics... fixes objects before they become problems" — on-page: the headcap check, the loan-sheet correction, the utility-knife folding, and the final shutdown routine.`
- `CONFORMS — field: "how he speaks: steady, medium-length sentences; asks practical questions; over-explains when ashamed" — on-page: "You could have pulled them yourself... and I number the crates."`
- `CONFORMS — field: "what his body does under stress: reaches for keys, lists tasks, straightens labels, checks locks, performs competence" — on-page: utility knife folding and the final keys/lockdown.`
- `CONFORMS — field: "central wound: ... being useful to Odile and called that devotion" — on-page: "I'm done being the route."`
- `CONFORMS — field: "contradiction: wants to be necessary and wants to stop disappearing inside need" — on-page: he keeps the job but refuses being used as route.`
- `CONFORMS — what he gets wrong: "believes delay is kindness" / "tries to soften another person's answer before they give it" — on-page: after sending the plain ask, his thumbs add "If you'd rather not, I understand," and the second bubble appears before he can take it back.`
- `TRAIT-LIST SYMPTOMS: none.`
- Character verdict: `OPERATING`.

## CHARACTER Odile Marchetti (returning)

- `CONFORMS — field: "how she shows emotion: assigns, feeds, insults accurately, withholds praise" — on-page: "There is soup upstairs. Barley." after refusing absolution.`
- `CONFORMS — field: "how she speaks: few words, clean verbs, no cushioning" — on-page: "It was partly your fault."`
- `CONFORMS — field: "what her body does under stress: becomes more practical, moves people and objects rather than explaining" — on-page: she writes `O.M.` on the loan sheet.`
- `CONFORMS — field: "central wound... one final chance to teach the person, not the room" — on-page: she admits, "I put that page where you would find it. On purpose."`
- `CONFORMS — field: "contradiction: believes in honest looking but engineers dishonesty" — on-page: she owns the catalog placement but also says "It is faster than nothing," mispricing forgiveness speed.`
- `CONFORMS — what she gets wrong: "assumes the manipulation she can survive is manipulation others can forgive quickly" — on-page: "I thought about it less than I should have."`
- `TRAIT-LIST SYMPTOMS: none.`
- Character verdict: `OPERATING`.

## CHARACTER June Park (returning but mostly absent)

- `NO-SPEECH-TRIGGER — June does not answer in Ch21; her next line is now protected for Ch22.`
- `CONFORMS — field: "painter-eye narration and object memory" — on-page through absence: her returned catalogs are wrapped with tissue folded at the corners; her fear canvas notices the filled nail hole and the blank twelve-by-sixteen Theo cannot face.`
- `NO-TRIGGER — fields on physical movement and cohort speech have no opportunity because June is present only by routed objects, painting, and an unanswered phone.`
- `TRAIT-LIST SYMPTOMS: none.`
- Character verdict: `OPERATING`.

Chapter verdict: `SNAPSHOTS-HOLD`.

`REVISION ORDERS`: none.
