# Chapter 12 Characters Wrong Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_12.characters_wrong.md`

Verdict: `TOO-COMPETENT (1 finding)`

Disposition: accepted.

Repair made:

- Rewrote the four-questions paragraph so Theo no longer cleanly diagnoses the third repair impulse as displaced accusation.
- Kept the three repair impulses, but made the blind spot visible in action: one repair question starts aloud (`Why didn't the--`) before Theo stops and reroutes into the paint question.
- Preserved June's existing `Decorator's White. Benjamin Moore. Flat.` answer, so no new explanation or dialogue diagnosis was introduced.

Mechanical check after repair:

`bash scripts/quality_gate.sh output/chapters/chapter_12.md`

Result: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, watch=53.

Verification:

No additional Claude verification round planned; the audit's single surgical order was implemented directly and will be covered by the final synthesis memo.
