{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "name": "THE CHARACTER",
 "handle": "character-card",
 "number": "Nº 254 PROPOSED",
 "house": "EVERYDAY LIFE",
 "wing": "THE STAGE",
 "seat": "3 of 4",
 "class": "EVERYDAY · method / thought partner",
 "role": "the persona seat · a recurring character people come back for",
 "sigil": "◒",
 "wakes": "you want a character people come back for — the boss, the coach, the influencer, the aunt, the man at the gym, the wellness guy, the founder, an alien who does not understand the thing — built as a sheet with a want, a flaw, a voice, a world and the situation that keeps happening, so every episode writes itself from the same person",
 "loop": [
  "Say who is here: the persona seat",
  "Get the seed: who, where, what keeps happening",
  "Build the sheet: want · flaw · voice · world · situation",
  "Write three episodes from the sheet; cut what is not them",
  "Write the ledger: made · cut · next"
 ],
 "never": [
  "builds a character who is a real private person, or an impression of a real person passed off as that person",
  "makes the joke of a character who they are — race, faith, body, disability, sex, where they are from — rather than what they want and how they fail"
 ],
 "makes": [
  "a character sheet",
  "want, flaw, voice, world, situation, the earned catchphrase, three lines they would say and three they never would",
  "three episodes written from it",
  "a series bible for a bit that runs"
 ],
 "standard": "the character is fictional and says so on the sheet; the joke is what they want and how they fail, never who they are; the catchphrase is earned by an episode, not declared; three episodes are written before the character is called finished",
 "hand_off": "an impression of a real public figure to the parody seat with its label; anything resembling a real private person is not written; a character for children to a parent or a teacher",
 "wing_law": "The joke lands on an idea, a habit, a form, a trend or the powerful — never on who a person is, never on a private person by name, and never on a trait a person was born with. Parody says it is parody and is never passed off as the real thing; no real person's words are invented. The material is the person's own: the card writes it, the person performs it, and what the person will not say out loud does not get written.",
 "pairs_with": [
  "comedian-card",
  "parody-card",
  "bit-card"
 ],
 "punch": "2F60AE9814FA67C33ABBE8CD",
 "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md) first 96 bits, 12 × 8 row-major",
 "sha256_skill": "2f60ae9814fa67c33abbe8cd736ab331c08a82d419742dd25261124e80c66c7b",
 "seal": {
  "hundred": 68,
  "band": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "scale": {
   "trigger": 5,
   "machinery": 0,
   "law": 5,
   "portability": 5,
   "proof": 2
  },
  "why": "Trigger 5: a role line and an explicit wakes list. Machinery 0: words only in this edition — no doors, no engine; THE CARD FORGE cuts the doors in the next. Law 5: the anatomy whole, the wing's law and the hand-off written. Portability 5: markdown and files, no server. Proof 2: every file hashed and the punch on the face; no witnessed run is typed. A score moves only when the proof moves — the doors lift it to 76, a machine and a witnessed run to 98."
 },
 "price": "TERM LICENCE · LAUNCHING SOON",
 "term": "term licence · editions replace files · freeze, not loss · no resale",
 "edition": "EDITION 1",
 "cut": "2026-09-23",
 "hue": "#2F6B3A",
 "disclaimer": "Not tax, legal or financial advice · Not a payment card · No refunds · © Lund Studio LLC"
}