# Character-Snapshot Conformance Audit: Chapter 02

CHARACTER Theo Brennan (returning):
- CONFORMS — field: "stress response: performs usefulness, over-explains, then goes very plain when he finally stops hiding" — on-page: line 31 answers June in ordered facts; line 77 gives the slot mechanics plainly.
- CONFORMS — field: "what they get wrong: confuses usefulness with honesty" — on-page: line 25 "What he hadn't said could stay his to manage."
- CONFORMS — field: "operation snapshot: run a room without standing in it as himself" — on-page: lines 163-167 filing, diary, lock.
- TRAIT-LIST SYMPTOMS: NONE. Character verdict: OPERATING.

CHARACTER June Park (returning):
- CONFORMS — field: "stress response: gets quieter, funnier, more exact, then exits" — on-page: line 75 "Nontransferable. Walk me through it"; line 159 exits with "Bounded."
- CONFORMS — field: "with Theo, dry precision softens into honest warnings" — on-page: line 159 "You're better at the rest than you should be."
- NO-TRIGGER — full visual interiority had limited opportunity because Theo is focalizer; her observable reading still matches operation.
- TRAIT-LIST SYMPTOMS: NONE. Character verdict: OPERATING.

CHARACTER Odile Marchetti (returning):
- CONFORMS — field: "stress response: removes choices by arranging the room" — on-page: line 19 "She enrolled"; line 117 edits the assignment card.
- CONFORMS — field: "pre-reveal guardrail: clues stay material: crossed-out wording, seating, pair/couple drift, and logistics" — on-page: lines 39, 47, 121.
- CONFORMS — field: "never says: oracle monologues, cozy-old-lady whimsy" — on-page: line 133 is dry accounting, not whimsy.
- TRAIT-LIST SYMPTOMS: NONE. Character verdict: OPERATING.

Chapter verdict: SNAPSHOTS-HOLD.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
