# Shared-Vocabulary Ban Conformance - Chapter 14

Cards loaded: Theo, June, Odile, Mara, Priya, Ben. Global blacklist loaded from master spec/tics: breath-holding, flips/flutters, air changed/shifted, smirk/chuckle/a beat, beauty-unawareness, cheap misunderstanding, mirror epiphany, weather-as-emotion, load-bearing variants, dialogue/narration wording-delivery commentary.

- BLACKLIST checked - no hits for breath-catching, flutters, smirk, chuckle, `a beat`, load-bearing, weather-as-feeling, skyline/postcard romance, or mirror epiphany. Nearest miss: "June laughed once" is an ordinary action beat, not breath/body shorthand.
- NEVER-SAYS checked - June avoids destiny/muse/magical/perfect; Theo avoids sweeping romantic claims and art-oracle language; Odile avoids cozy whimsy. Nearest miss: "`Choose the facts`" could become aphoristic, but it is explicitly label advice.
- OWNED VOCABULARY checked - June owns painterly/craft language: "Raw umber," "ground," "bad examples," "edge." Theo owns logistics: "pickup sheet," "rack fit," "returned column." Odile owns instruction: "Fewer words." No leakage blurs speakers.
- CROSS-FAVORITE checked - shared words (`labels`, `facts`, `catalogs`, `room`) are chapter topic terms, not character-flattening vocabulary. Strongest candidate: `facts` appears in June and Theo lines; it is the label problem itself and earns the echo.
- DIALOGUE/NARRATION DIAGNOSIS checked - no comments on phrasing, rhythm, delivery, carefulness, sentence shape, or word choice as a meta-tic. `Words-wise` is June naming wall-label content, not dialogue diagnosis.

Chapter verdict: `VOCAB-CONFORMS`.

REVISION ORDERS: update `output/tics.md` with Chapter 14 WATCH counts after commit.
