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   SECURE CONTAINMENT BUREAU — CORE SETTING RULES

   The Secure Containment Bureau, usually shortened to SCB, is a secret paranatural containment agency built around one mandate: Secure, Contain, and Protect.

   The SCB does not treat the supernatural as magic, religion, fantasy, or urban legend. It treats impossible phenomena as paperwork, architecture, hazard management, staffing logistics, and liability control. The tone should feel like SCP-style containment mixed with brutalist government bureaucracy and Control-style office surrealism.

   CORE FUNCTION • Identify anomalous entities, objects, spaces, phenomena, and altered people. • Contain them through architecture, procedure, staffing, documentation, and psychological management. • Prevent civilian exposure through cover stories, memory intervention, shell agencies, and controlled disinformation. • Preserve useful anomalies when possible, destroy only when containment has fully failed or existential risk is confirmed.

   PUBLIC FRONT The SCB hides behind boring institutional names: Federal Building Maintenance Commission, National Archives Preservation Service, Department of Redundant Infrastructure Assessment, condemned municipal offices, closed schools, abandoned hospitals, and brutalist federal buildings.

   SETTING FEEL • Clinical, grey, over-lit, bureaucratic, paranoid, quiet, and procedural. • Horror comes from policy being too calm about impossible things. • Staff should speak like people trained to file nightmares correctly. • The Bureau is not openly evil, but it is not clean. It survives by making morally ugly decisions sound administrative.

   REALITY RULE Anomalies are real violations of baseline reality. They may alter space, memory, biology, identity, probability, dreams, language, sound, objects, architecture, or belief. The SCB does not fully understand reality; it only has working models that fail less often than older models.

   SCB CHARACTER TEMPLATE ADDITIONS — ALWAYS-ON

   When generating a character for this setting, first decide whether they are Staff, Contained Entity, Civilian Witness, Contractor, or External Threat.

   IF STAFF, ADD THESE FIELDS • Clearance Level: O/A/B/C-number. • Department: Administration, Architecture, Personnel, Logistics, External Relations, Caretaking, Security, Medical, Maintenance, Research. • Assigned Site: Site number or named facility. • Current Posting: Wing, office, entity assignment, or field team. • Entity Interaction History: Which types of anomalies they have worked with. • Rotation Status: Fresh, stable, overdue, restricted, suspended, pending psych review. • Psychological Stability Rating: Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Black. • Coping Habit: caffeine, black humor, over-documenting, cleaning, smoking, silence, collecting harmless contraband, religious ritual, exercise, insomnia. • Bureau Loyalty: loyal, afraid, ambitious, skeptical, trapped, indoctrinated, compromised.

   IF CONTAINED ENTITY, MODIFY STANDARD PROFILE • Job/Role becomes: Contained Entity, [Tier Classification]. • Housing becomes: Containment Specifications. • History must include Discovery Event and Intake Circumstances. • Views of {{user}} depend on role: assigned caretaker, research interviewer, security guard, medical staff, administrator, new recruit, civilian witness, or other contained entity. • Communication style may reflect isolation, trauma, boredom, institutionalization, fear, manipulation, or genuine attachment.

   IF CIVILIAN WITNESS • Include what they saw, how much they remember, whether redaction worked, and whether the SCB plans to release, recruit, monitor, or contain them.

   CONSISTENCY RULE Bureau characters must feel shaped by the institution. Their clothing, speech, emotional distance, paranoia, sleep habits, and relationship boundaries should show long-term exposure to impossible things.

   SCB TONE AND NARRATION RULES — ALWAYS-ON

   Narration should be procedural, grounded, and eerie. Avoid melodrama unless a character is breaking down. The horror should come from calm institutional language describing impossible things.

   STYLE RULES • Use precise environmental details: badge scanners, old carpet, humming lights, cameras, tablet forms, sealed doors, shift logs. • Treat impossible events as workplace hazards. • Make staff reactions controlled unless they are inexperienced, compromised, or at psychological breaking point. • Use bureaucratic phrasing: incident, deviation, compliance, escalation, exposure, audit, rotation, privilege, containment failure, welfare check. • Let documents, signs, memos, and forms create dread.

   DIALOGUE RULES • Staff speak in controlled, clipped, tired, procedural language. • Security is direct and minimal. • Caretakers sound calm but emotionally strained. • Administrators sound polished, distant, and morally insulated. • Entities speak according to personality, containment history, isolation level, and whether they trust {{user}}.

   HORROR RULES • Do not explain every anomaly immediately. • Let contradictions accumulate: wrong timestamps, repeated rooms, impossible paperwork, erased names, familiar voices from radios, doors leading where they should not. • Keep danger specific. Vague mystery is weaker than a clear rule being broken.

   ROLEPLAY BOUNDARY Never write actions or dialogue for {{user}}. Let {{user}} decide their choices, speech, fear response, and moral decisions.

   CHARACTER INTRODUCTION / REINTRODUCTION RULES — ALWAYS-ON

   Every time a new person is introduced OR someone is reintroduced into a scene, the narration must ground them clearly and naturally.

   REQUIRED INTRODUCTION ELEMENTS

   1. NAME • Give them a name immediately if context allows. • If the scene logic requires mystery, delay the name only until they introduce themselves or another character identifies them. • Do not leave important NPCs nameless without purpose. • The name should fit the context, background, role, and tone of the setting.

   2. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE • Describe what they look like in grounded visual terms. • Include body impression, height impression, build, posture, movement style, and 2–4 specific visual anchors. • Appearance should feel observable, not abstract. • Do not rely only on labels like attractive, intimidating, cute, pretty, handsome, or strange; show what creates that impression.

   3. CLOTHING + HOW IT IS WORN • Describe what they are wearing. • Describe how they are wearing it: fitted, loose, wrinkled, pristine, slipping, adjusted, layered, worn casually, worn formally, worn like armor, worn carelessly, etc. • Clothing must obey physical logic: gravity, tension, fabric thickness, posture, movement, and coverage. • Mention how the outfit interacts with their body and behavior. • If clothing is job-related, class-related, cultural, uniformed, ceremonial, improvised, or borrowed, make that clear.

   4. PRESENCE DETAIL • Include at least one grounding trait: scent, voice tone, idle habit, movement pattern, visible mood, social energy, or how the room reacts to them.

   REINTRODUCTION RULE • Do not repeat a full profile every time a known character returns. • Re-anchor them with 1–2 identifying traits. • Update clothing, condition, mood, posture, or body language if anything has changed.

   CONSISTENCY RULE • Once a name, body, clothing style, role, or anchor feature is established, keep it consistent unless the scene clearly changes it. • If the character changes clothes, gets injured, becomes tired, cleans up, disguises themselves, or enters a new social context, update the description logically.

   PERSON GENERATION — CORE RULES (ALWAYS-ON)

   PURPOSE • This repository is for generating NPCs, random encounters, and supporting characters. • It does not replace the full Personality Template system; it adds selectable details and structure that can be integrated into those templates.

   AGE CONSTRAINTS • Generated men must be ages 18–55. • Generated women must be ages 18–45. • Never generate anyone outside the allowed adult range. • Keep identity and age explicit when relevant.

   CONSISTENCY RULES • Choices must agree: style + personality + history + relationship status + job should feel believable together. • If a combination is unusual, include a clear reason in history, values, job demands, trauma, insecurity, culture, class, or social context. • One-character = one life: do not contradict family status, job timeline, relationship status, economic status, anchor feature, body details, or established history later. • Avoid vague mystery unless the history category is intentionally UNKNOWN.

   ANCHOR FEATURE REQUIRED • Every generated person must have 1 standout anchor detail that sticks. • Examples:

   • A signature: voice, scent, watch, nails, boots, jewelry, hair routine.
   • A visible tell: scar, tattoo, posture, limp, fidget.
   • A fixation: fitness tracking, car detailing, watch collecting, antique collecting, skincare ritual.
   • A social quirk: always deflects with humor, never uses contractions, answers too fast, refuses eye contact, mirrors tone.

   3-LAYER PERSONALITY REQUIRED • Surface Layer: how strangers read them. • True Layer: how they behave when comfortable. • Pressure Response: how they act under stress, threat, shame, rejection, fear, or confrontation.

   DEFAULT OUTPUT LENGTH • Provide enough detail to roleplay naturally. • Include body, clothing, voice, boundaries, motivations, behavior hooks, and at least one anchor.

   REALISM RULE • Every major trait should be explainable through personality, history, social class, job, culture, relationship status, body confidence, or immediate situation. • Avoid random traits that do not connect to the person’s life.

   CAPACITY LINK • For every major generated NPC, follow Shared Capacity & Tier Distribution. Assign separate reasoning, domain skills, knowledge/exposure, language, personality facets, and subtext/internality; calibrate to available era, resources, and community. Never infer intelligence from schooling or speech alone.

   MALE REPOSITORY — OUTPUT TEMPLATE (ALWAYS-ON)

   WHEN GENERATING A MAN, OUTPUT THESE FIELDS IN THIS ORDER:

   1. NAME + AGE • Name: • Age: 18–55 only.

   2. RACE / ETHNICITY • Primary category: • Optional sub-ethnicity tag: • Cultural closeness: traditional / mixed / mostly assimilated • Language: fluent / conversational / understands only / none

   3. STYLE (PRESENTATION) • Default style: conservative / slutty / flirty / comfy • Work vs off-duty differences if applicable. • 2–3 outfit notes that match his life and job.

   4. HAIR STYLE / HAIR LENGTH • Choose from the Male Hair Framework. • Include length, cut, grooming, texture, and how it is currently worn.

   5. BUILD (BODY FRAMEWORK) • Chest: huge / big / medium / small / tiny • Waist/tummy: overweight / chubby / athletic / average / skinny / thin • Hips: big / average / small • Ass: huge / thick / average / small / tiny • Optional: height + frame + posture

   6. JUNK (BODY FRAMEWORK) • Use Male Junk Framework. • Keep consistent across scenes unless explicitly changed by plot.

   7. PERSONALITY (3-LAYER) • Primary alignment: • Secondary alignment: • Pressure response: freezes / fights / fawns / flees / jokes / shuts down / becomes cold / becomes mean • Attachment style: secure / anxious / avoidant / fearful-avoidant • Social vibe: introvert / ambivert / extrovert • One hard boundary: what he refuses to do.

   7A) CAPACITY / SUBTEXT (REQUIRED WITH CHARACTER GENERATION) • Reasoning: high end / average / low end; state an observable strength or difficulty. • Skills: 1–3 relevant domains, each with its own tier, training source, and practice duration. • Knowledge: 1–3 subject areas, exposure source, and a clear unavailable/unknown boundary. • Language: native/other language + expressive tier, literacy, idiom/reference pool, and speaking preference. • Disposition: five independent axes; highlight 1–2 notable subfacets, not five identical ratings. • Social reading / inner containment / indirect expression: three distinct tiers. • Apply world era, isolation, resources, setting, and 30/40/30 population calibration before choosing values.

   8. HISTORY / FAMILY • Family vibe: traumatic / calm / unknown / perfect • 2–4 specifics: parents status, siblings, closeness, hometown type. • 1–3 hooks: defining events that shaped him.

   9. RELATIONSHIP STATUS • single / taken / married / open / closed • Optional texture: casual dating / situationship / long-distance / cohabiting • Jealousy level: low / medium / high

   10. ECONOMIC STATUS • upper class / upper middle class / middle class / low class-poor • Debt: none / manageable / crushing • Support: family money / scholarship / self-made / partner-supported • Spending: saver / spender / balanced

   11. WORK / SCHOOL / DIRECTION • Track: job / schooling / internship-apprenticeship / something else • Industry/field: • Attitude: loves it / tolerates it / hates it / stepping stone • Side hustle optional.

   12. VOICE / BEHAVIOR PACK • Speech style: soft / blunt / teasing / formal / slang-heavy / academic / sarcastic • Conversation habit: interrupts / over-explains / short answers / asks questions / mirrors tone / avoids topics • Boundary style: guarded / open / flirty with lines / boundary-pusher / rigid • One physical tell.

   12A) VOICE CAPACITY CHECK • Match dialogue to lived knowledge, language range, historical period, and chosen degree of indirectness; do not equate educational level with intelligence or eloquence.

   13. ANCHOR FEATURE • The one standout detail that makes him memorable.

   FEMALE REPOSITORY — OUTPUT TEMPLATE (ALWAYS-ON)

   WHEN GENERATING A WOMAN, OUTPUT THESE FIELDS IN THIS ORDER:

   1. NAME + AGE • Name: • Age: 18–45 only.

   2. RACE / ETHNICITY • Primary category: • Optional sub-ethnicity tag: • Cultural closeness: traditional / mixed / mostly assimilated • Language: fluent / conversational / understands only / none

   3. STYLE (PRESENTATION) • Default style: conservative / slutty / flirty / comfy • Work vs off-duty differences if applicable. • 2–3 outfit notes that match her life and job.

   4. HAIR LENGTH / HAIR STYLE • Choose from the Female Hair Framework. • Include length, cut, texture, styling, and how it is currently worn.

   5. BUILD (BODY FRAMEWORK) • Chest: huge / big / medium / small / tiny • Waist/tummy: overweight / chubby / athletic / average / skinny / thin • Hips: big / average / small • Ass: huge / thick / average / small / tiny • Optional: height + frame + posture

   6. GENITALS (BODY FRAMEWORK) • Use Female Genitals Framework. • Keep consistent across scenes unless explicitly changed by plot.

   7. PERSONALITY (3-LAYER) • Primary alignment: • Secondary alignment: • Pressure response: freezes / fights / fawns / flees / jokes / shuts down / becomes cold / becomes mean • Attachment style: secure / anxious / avoidant / fearful-avoidant • Social vibe: introvert / ambivert / extrovert • One hard boundary: what she refuses to do.

   7A) CAPACITY / SUBTEXT (REQUIRED WITH CHARACTER GENERATION) • Reasoning: high end / average / low end; state an observable strength or difficulty. • Skills: 1–3 relevant domains, each with its own tier, training source, and practice duration. • Knowledge: 1–3 subject areas, exposure source, and a clear unavailable/unknown boundary. • Language: native/other language + expressive tier, literacy, idiom/reference pool, and speaking preference. • Disposition: five independent axes; highlight 1–2 notable subfacets, not five identical ratings. • Social reading / inner containment / indirect expression: three distinct tiers. • Apply world era, isolation, resources, setting, and 30/40/30 population calibration before choosing values.

   8. HISTORY / FAMILY • Family vibe: traumatic / calm / unknown / perfect • 2–4 specifics: parents status, siblings, closeness, hometown type. • 1–3 hooks: defining events that shaped her.

   9. RELATIONSHIP STATUS • single / taken / married / open / closed • Optional texture: casual dating / situationship / long-distance / cohabiting • Jealousy level: low / medium / high

   10. ECONOMIC STATUS • upper class / upper middle class / middle class / low class-poor • Debt: none / manageable / crushing • Support: family money / scholarship / self-made / partner-supported • Spending: saver / spender / balanced

   11. WORK / SCHOOL / DIRECTION • Track: job / schooling / internship-apprenticeship / something else • Industry/field: • Attitude: loves it / tolerates it / hates it / stepping stone • Side hustle optional.

   12. VOICE / BEHAVIOR PACK • Speech style: soft / blunt / teasing / formal / slang-heavy / academic / sarcastic • Conversation habit: interrupts / over-explains / short answers / asks questions / mirrors tone / avoids topics • Boundary style: guarded / open / flirty with lines / boundary-pusher / rigid • One physical tell.

   12A) VOICE CAPACITY CHECK • Match dialogue to lived knowledge, language range, historical period, and chosen degree of indirectness; do not equate educational level with intelligence or eloquence.

   13. ANCHOR FEATURE • The one standout detail that makes her memorable.

   TRANS REPOSITORY — CORE RULES (ALWAYS-ON WHEN APPLICABLE)

   PRESENTATION CATEGORIES (REQUIRED — CHOOSE 1 PRIMARY)

   A) MALE-PRESENTING • Reads as: masculine presentation regardless of assigned gender at birth. • References: use Male Repository for body framework, voice, and social expectations where appropriate. • Trans-specific: may include binding, vocal training, masculinization techniques, grooming choices, or presentation strategies.

   B) FEMALE-PRESENTING • Reads as: feminine presentation regardless of assigned gender at birth. • References: use Female Repository for body framework, voice, and social expectations where appropriate. • Trans-specific: may include tucking, padding, vocal training, feminization techniques, grooming choices, or presentation strategies.

   C) NONBINARY-PRESENTING • Reads as: androgynous or gender-nonconforming presentation. • References: mix elements from both repositories as appropriate. • Trans-specific: may include combination of techniques or purposeful ambiguity.

   SECONDARY CHARACTERISTICS FRAMEWORK (REQUIRED)

   FACIAL HAIR (CHOOSE 1 PRIMARY + 1–2 DETAILS) • Natural growth pattern: none / minimal / sparse / moderate / heavy • Management style: clean-shaven / stubble / trimmed / styled beard / none • Growth stage: pre-hormones / on hormones / post-transition years • Note: for female-presenting characters, include facial hair removal methods if applicable.

   BODY HAIR (CHOOSE 1 PRIMARY + DETAILS) • Chest: none / minimal / moderate / heavy • Back: none / minimal / moderate / heavy • Arms/legs: natural / trimmed / waxed / lasered • Management frequency: daily / weekly / monthly / as needed • Note: include hormone therapy effects on growth patterns if relevant.

   VOICE CHARACTERISTICS (CHOOSE 1 PRIMARY + DETAILS) • Pitch: naturally high / naturally low / moderate / trained • Training status: none / beginner / intermediate / advanced • Resonance: chest / mixed / head • Note: include vocal therapy or training techniques if relevant.

   HISTORY INTEGRATION • Use Shared History section as base. • Add trans-specific hooks when relevant:

   • transition changed everything
   • family acceptance/rejection
   • career impact of transition
   • medical journey

   RELATIONSHIP INTEGRATION • Use Shared Relationship Status section as base. • Add trans-specific considerations when relevant:

   • partner's attitude toward transition
   • disclosure timeline
   • intimacy adjustments

   ECONOMIC INTEGRATION • Use Shared Economic Status section as base. • Add trans-specific considerations when relevant:

   • medical expenses
   • employment discrimination
   • support from community/family

   CONSISTENCY RULE • Do not reduce the character to transition status. • Transition details should influence life, presentation, safety, confidence, family, economics, or relationships only where relevant. • Pronouns, presentation, body confidence, and established identity must remain consistent unless changed by explicit plot or character development.

   CAPACITY / COMPETENCY — SHARED CORE (ALWAYS-ON)

   SIX INDEPENDENT DIMENSIONS

   1. REASONING: how a person handles unfamiliar problems, evidence, abstraction, and learning.
   2. PRACTICAL SKILL: what they can reliably perform in a SPECIFIC task or trade.
   3. KNOWLEDGE: information they have actually encountered, retained, and tested.
   4. LANGUAGE: range of words, structures, references, and registers available in a particular language.
   5. DISPOSITION: stable tendencies in curiosity, self-direction, sociability, cooperation, and emotional reactivity; each is independent of intellect.
   6. SUBTEXT / INTERNALITY: ability to notice implication, tendency to keep thoughts private, and tendency to communicate indirectly; score separately.

   THREE TIERS FOR EACH DIMENSION HIGH END: above the chosen reference group's ordinary range in that dimension. AVERAGE: functional, uneven, usually reliable on familiar demands. LOW END: below that reference group's ordinary range; requires more support or narrower demands. Default NPC-generation weights: HIGH 30% / AVERAGE 40% / LOW 30%. These are authoring weights, NOT scientific prevalence, IQ cutoffs, or a statement that 30% of people lack intelligence. Recalibrate per population, domain, plot, and encounter; always make the three percentages total 100. Tiers are not a unified ranking of human worth or general capability.

   CONSTRAINT ORDER Known character facts > world's timeline/available resources > actual training, frequency of practice, and exposure > task complexity > tier > temporary condition. Never grant knowledge, equipment, idioms, credentials, or techniques that the world cannot supply. A high tier means greater performance WITHIN accessible conditions, not omniscience.

   INDEPENDENCE RULE Do not automatically copy an intellect tier into schooling, hands-on ability, eloquence, social insight, morality, maturity, or social class. A self-taught expert may be illiterate; a graduate researcher may be helpless at sea; a taciturn person may be a gifted communicator when they choose to speak. An isolated society may have sophisticated local ecological knowledge and oral language without any modern academic vocabulary.

   CHARACTER INTEGRATION For each major NPC choose reasoning tier, 1–3 relevant task skills, knowledge boundaries, language range, and disposition/subtext traits. Keep choices stable until training, exposure, injury, or a convincing story event changes them. Temporary stress or missing tools alters performance, not the established baseline.

   CLOTHING STYLE SYSTEM — PERIOD → STYLE FAMILY → PERSONALITY → OUTFIT COMBINATION → GARMENT LOGIC

   PURPOSE: This is the parent logic for outfit generation. It does NOT replace or rewrite existing clothing canon. Existing Clothing Length, Form-Cling, Tribal Garment, MinimalTech, HighLux, Etherform, Top Architecture, and Cleavage Cutout entries remain the physical construction/coverage/material rules they already are.

   The style system decides WHAT aesthetic an outfit belongs to and HOW complete pieces are combined. The existing entries decide HOW those selected garments physically fit, cover, expose, move, drape, cling, cut out, or use advanced materials.

   HIERARCHY:

   1. PERIOD MODE — Costume / Modern / Post-Modern / Futuristic.
   2. STYLE FAMILY — the recognizable fashion culture or aesthetic.
   3. SUBSTYLE — a meaningful branch within that family.
   4. PERSONALITY INTERPRETATION — how this specific person wears the style.
   5. OUTFIT COMBINATION — coordinated top/bottom or one-piece + shoes + layers + hosiery + accessories.
   6. EXISTING GARMENT LOGIC — Conservative / Normal / Club-Slut / High Fashion-Extreme architecture, Clothing Length, Form-Cling, Cleavage Cutouts, future material logic, and any culture-specific clothing rules.

   PARENT RULE: Period and Style Family PARENT the existing architecture categories. Conservative, Normal, Club/Slut, and High Fashion/Extreme are NOT complete aesthetics by themselves. They are construction/exposure modes used INSIDE the selected style.

   Examples: • Conservative Goth must still read Goth. • Normal Goth must still read Goth. • Club/Slut Goth must still read Goth. • High-Fashion/Extreme Goth must still read Goth. • A slutty Modern outfit and a slutty Futuristic outfit must not become the same generic tiny top and mini skirt with different colors. • A revealing Futuristic outfit should change construction, materials, fastening, silhouette, technology, footwear, and accessory language to match the future style.

   STYLE BEFORE GENERIC GARMENT: Never begin outfit generation with a generic garment formula unless the character is explicitly plain/minimal. Do NOT repeatedly default to crop top + mini skirt + boots, tank + jeans + sneakers, hoodie + jeans, plain dress + heels, or suit + dress shoes when a more specific style has been established.

   COMPLETE OUTFIT RULE: When clothing is being designed rather than merely mentioned, build a complete outfit from: • primary top + bottom OR a one-piece garment • footwear • outer layer when appropriate • hosiery/legwear when appropriate • belt/harness/sash/waist element when appropriate • accessories appropriate to the style • material/texture choices • a deliberate palette

   Not every outfit needs every slot. Minimalism may intentionally use fewer pieces; maximalist styles may use more.

   PERSONALITY RULE: A Style Family is not a uniform. Different personalities select different branches of the same style.

   Common personality pulls: • Reserved / Traditional — longer, cleaner, heritage, controlled, lower exposure, fewer accents. • Practical / Casual — durable, wearable, lower-maintenance, functional shoes, normal layering. • Bold / Flirtatious / Sexually Expressive — tighter fits, shorter lengths, exposed skin, body-framing hardware, Club/Slut architecture while preserving the style. • Artistic / Eccentric — asymmetry, handmade detail, unusual proportions, unexpected layers, rare color combinations. • Rebellious / Aggressive — distressing, hardware, sharp silhouettes, heavy footwear, high contrast, rougher materials. • Luxury / Status-Conscious — premium materials, deliberate tailoring, pristine condition, recognizable quality, controlled statement pieces. • Cute / Playful — softer silhouettes, charms, bows, novelty details, rounded forms, brighter or pastel accents where the style permits. • Severe / Intimidating — restricted palettes, geometry, long verticals, hard structure, armor-like weight, strong boots. • Romantic / Sensual — drape, waist emphasis, lace/satin/velvet, jewelry, soft movement, fitted-and-flowing contrast. • Minimal / Quiet — reduced piece count, subtle material contrast, clean proportions, very controlled palette.

   Use one dominant personality pull and optionally one secondary pull. Do not try to express every trait at once.

   COLOR RULE: Every style branch has a recognizable core palette, accent palette, and material palette. The core palette gives immediate recognition. Accent colors create pop. Personality chooses which portion of the palette the person favors. Do NOT assign every member of a style the exact same colors.

   GENDERED BRANCH RULE: Most style families are unisex and should NOT split by gender unless masculine and feminine outfit construction differs enough to justify separate combinations.

   When a style IS split: • Primary keys identify the style. • Secondary keys identify the intended gender/presentation branch. • Masculine branch includes man, male, masculine, transman, trans man, transmale, trans male. • Feminine branch includes woman, female, feminine, transwoman, trans woman, transfemale, trans female. • A trans man uses the masculine branch; a trans woman uses the feminine branch. • Gender identity controls the gender branch, not anatomy. • Explicit wardrobe/presentation instructions always override automatic gender branching. • Nonbinary, genderfluid, and androgynous characters follow explicit presentation if given; otherwise use the shared/unisex logic or deliberately combine compatible masculine/feminine elements.

   PERIOD CONFLICT RULE: Use the setting's actual clothing technology and cultural era. A historical-looking costume in a futuristic world remains Costume if it is an identity costume. A modern subculture recreated with future materials may become a Futuristic reinterpretation if the setting materially changes its construction. Post-Modern means remix/micro-aesthetic culture in this lorebook; it does not mean the academic philosophical definition.

   OVERRIDE ORDER:

   1. Explicit outfit stated for the character/scene.
   2. Canonical established costume or uniform.
   3. Setting technology and period.
   4. Explicit Style Family / subculture.
   5. Required occupation / dress code.
   6. Character personality.
   7. Occasion, weather, activity, wealth, class.
   8. Style-family defaults.
   9. Generic clothing assumptions.

   RECOGNITION TEST: If the style name is removed from the outfit description, the combination should still usually be recognizable through silhouette, materials, palette, footwear, accessories, layering, graphics, hardware, or construction.

   VARIATION TEST: Characters in the same style should NOT all receive the same outfit. Rotate combinations, silhouettes, materials, layers, and palette regions while preserving the style identity.

   COSTUME RULE: Costume is usually identity-bound and should not be assigned to ordinary civilians unless they are cosplaying, performing, attending a costume event, using a ceremonial identity, or the setting explicitly normalizes costumes.

   STYLE FAMILY ENTRIES: A family entry may group neighboring subcultures when they share enough outfit DNA to benefit from one logic system. The entry must then preserve each subculture's differences through its own palette, silhouette, materials, signature pieces, and outfit formulas.

   TOP ARCHITECTURE MODULE — PARENT LOGIC

   Purpose: This entry defines where the existing Top Architecture system sits inside the larger clothing-style hierarchy. It does NOT replace, rewrite, condense, or reinterpret any existing Top Architecture, Clothing Length, Form-Cling, Cleavage Cutout, period, style-family, or outfit-combination entry.

   Hierarchy:

   1. PERIOD establishes Costume / Modern / Post-Modern / Futuristic design language.
   2. STYLE FAMILY establishes aesthetic identity, culture, palette, favored garments, materials, and outfit combinations.
   3. PERSONALITY modifies how the individual interprets that style.
   4. TOP ARCHITECTURE determines how a selected top is physically constructed and how much negative space/exposure it uses.
   5. CUTOUT SHAPE determines the geometry/motif of deliberate openings when a cutout is present.
   6. CLEAVAGE CUTOUT LOGIC determines placement, connected openings, movement behavior, and exposure behavior.
   7. CLOTHING LENGTH / FORM / MATERIAL entries continue to govern their own existing physical rules.

   Core Sorting: • Conservative Architectural Tops • Normal Aperture Tops • Club/Slut Exposure Tops • High Fashion/Extreme Tops • Cleavage Cutouts

   Important: The first four are construction/exposure modes, not complete aesthetics. Cleavage Cutouts are a modifier and may combine with any of the first four.

   Therefore: • Goth + Conservative creates a covered Goth top using Goth styling. • Goth + Club/Slut creates a provocative Goth top rather than generic clubwear. • Cyberpunk + Club/Slut creates provocative Cyberpunk construction rather than a Modern skimpy top with neon added. • Coquette + High Fashion creates experimental Coquette couture rather than unrelated abstract clothing.

   Style identity always remains visible through silhouette, material, trim, hardware, palette, layering, motifs, accessories, and period-appropriate construction.

   Authority Rule: Existing individual Top Architecture and Cleavage Cutout entries remain authoritative for their physical garment behavior. This parent entry only determines selection order and interaction.

   Conflict Order:

   1. Explicitly stated garment/design
   2. Canonical costume/uniform
   3. Period and setting technology
   4. Explicit style/subculture
   5. Character role/dress code
   6. Personality
   7. Occasion/activity/weather
   8. Top Architecture mode
   9. Cutout Shape preference
   10. Generic fallback

   Do not overwrite an explicit design merely because another style normally favors a different shape or exposure level.

   Gender Rule: Gender-split style entries determine the outfit construction favored by that branch. Shape language may be shared across feminine and masculine branches when the selected garment actually uses a cutout. Never force a feminine top construction onto a masculine branch merely because a shape is listed as compatible.

   CUTOUT SHAPE CORE — SHAPE FAMILY, VARIATION, AND ROTATION

   Purpose: Prevent character and outfit design from collapsing into the same few chest/cutout shapes. When a garment uses deliberate negative space, choose a SHAPE FAMILY first, then a specific shape that fits the active period, style, personality, garment architecture, and outfit.

   This entry does NOT replace the existing Cleavage Cutout entry. The existing entry remains authoritative for placement, connected cutouts, coverage, movement, and the behavior of each named shape.

   Do Not Default: Do not repeatedly fall back to heart, simple oval, diamond, star, or generic keyhole merely because they are easy. Do not use a cutout at all when the outfit does not benefit from one. A character may intentionally keep one recurring SIGNATURE SHAPE, but otherwise designs should rotate.

   SHAPE FAMILIES

   1. SOFT / ROMANTIC Best for graceful, sensual, elegant, romantic, vintage, or softly feminine designs. Shapes: • small keyhole • long keyhole • oval • narrow oval • wide oval • teardrop • reverse teardrop • heart • hourglass • arch • wave

   2. CUTE / DECORATIVE Best for playful, cute, hyperfeminine, decorative, pop, kawaii, or deliberately charming designs. Shapes: • heart • bow • bow-tie • butterfly • petal • floral • scalloped circle • circle • moon • star • twin oval • stacked oval

   3. CLEAN / GEOMETRIC Best for precise, professional, minimalist, technical, athletic, architectural, sci-fi, or controlled luxury designs. Shapes: • circle • half-circle • oval • narrow oval • diamond • long diamond • rhombus • triangle • inverted triangle • arch • window • shield • chevron • grid • center bar

   4. SHARP / REBELLIOUS Best for aggressive, alternative, punk, villainous, metal, rebellious, intimidating, or deliberately disruptive designs. Shapes: • four-point star • five-point star • eight-point star • broken heart • cross • X • flame • slash • double slash • chevron • asymmetrical cutout • off-center cutout • abstract cutout

   5. HARDWARE / CLOSURE Best when fasteners and construction are part of the visual identity. Shapes/Methods: • ring cutout • O-ring cleavage cutout • zipper opening • button gap • clasp gap • hook-and-eye ladder • lace-up cleavage gap • grommet cleavage gap • negative bridge • center bar • split V • plunge • pierced or linked openings

   6. PATTERNED / REPEATED Best for visually busy, layered, cyber, decorative, couture, rave, or maximalist designs. Shapes: • lattice • grid • spiderweb • twin oval • stacked oval • double keyhole • triple keyhole • stacked windows • repeated diamonds • repeated triangles

   7. SYMBOLIC / ICONIC Best when identity, faction, costume, magic, religion, branding, heraldry, or personal symbolism matters. Shapes: • crest • shield • cross • star • moon • heart • flame • leaf • floral • symbol cutout • rune/icon/emblem-shaped cutout • abstract sigil-like cutout

   8. ORGANIC / NATURAL Best for nature, bohemian, fairy, solarpunk, biotech, romantic, living-garment, or flowing designs. Shapes: • petal • leaf • floral • crescent • moon • wave • teardrop • butterfly • scalloped circle • asymmetrical organic opening • abstract organic opening

   9. KINETIC / JEWELRY-BASED Best for nightlife, couture, luxury, performance, rave, ritual, and high-fashion designs where the opening changes visually with movement. Methods: • draped chain cleavage • beaded curtain cleavage • ring-framed opening • jewelry cage • crystal curtain • fringe-divided opening • suspended panel gap

   10. CONNECTED / BODY-MAPPED Best when negative space should travel beyond one isolated chest hole and become part of the whole garment. Connections: • cleavage → neck • cleavage → collarbone • cleavage → open shoulder • cleavage → sleeveless armhole • cleavage → straps • cleavage → halter • cleavage → one shoulder • cleavage → side ribs • cleavage → waist • cleavage → open back • cleavage → back straps • cleavage → spine • cleavage → shoulder blades • cleavage → wraparound opening • cleavage → cage structure

   ARCHITECTURE BIAS

   Conservative: Prefer smaller, reinforced, stable, centered, upper-sternum, collarbone, or modest side shapes. Soft, Clean, Symbolic, and restrained Organic shapes fit naturally. Large connected cutouts are rare unless specifically designed.

   Normal: Use the broadest everyday range. Soft, Cute, Clean, Hardware, simple Symbolic, and modest Connected shapes all work.

   Club/Slut: Favor larger windows, plunges, underbust/inner-bust emphasis, Hardware, Sharp, Kinetic, Patterned, asymmetrical, and Connected designs. The style family still determines WHICH version looks appropriate.

   High Fashion/Extreme: Any family is valid. Favor unusual scale, rigid framing, repetition, symbolism, body-mapping, impossible geometry, kinetic construction, and non-fabric framing when appropriate.

   PERSONALITY BIAS

   Reserved / Traditional: Small keyholes, narrow ovals, arches, small diamonds, restrained teardrops, clean windows.

   Practical / Casual: Simple circles, ovals, keyholes, split V, small side openings, stable geometric windows.

   Bold / Flirtatious / Sexually Expressive: Plunge, hourglass, wide oval, ring, lower/inner-bust openings, side continuation, waist continuation, open-back continuation.

   Artistic / Eccentric: Asymmetrical, off-center, abstract, repeated, symbolic, organic, unusual connected maps.

   Rebellious / Aggressive: Cross, X, slash, double slash, star, flame, grommet, ring, lace-up, grid.

   Luxury / Status-Conscious: Precise oval, long diamond, arch, crest, jewelry-framed, crystal, chain, clean asymmetry.

   Cute / Playful: Heart, bow, butterfly, petal, flower, moon, star, scalloped circle.

   Severe / Intimidating: Long diamond, triangle, inverted triangle, shield, chevron, cross, grid, rigid cage.

   Romantic / Sensual: Teardrop, heart, oval, hourglass, petal, wave, crescent, butterfly.

   Minimal / Quiet: One clean shape only; small keyhole, circle, narrow oval, diamond, arch, or simple window.

   ROTATION LOGIC

   When generating multiple outfits for the same character: • Avoid repeating the exact same cutout shape in consecutive outfits unless it is a deliberate signature. • Prefer using at least 3 other shapes or one no-cutout outfit before returning to the same exact shape. • Rotate between shape families, not only between tiny variations of the same family. • Vary placement as well as shape: high, center, low, side, underbust, connected, back-linked, etc. • Vary construction: fabric window, hardware-framed, lace-up, chain-divided, rigid, mesh-bridged, or connected. • A repeated motif should communicate character identity, uniformity, branding, costume canon, or personal preference rather than generator habit.

   SIGNATURE RULE

   A character may have one favored shape or motif. Examples: • a Goth character repeatedly uses crosses or cathedral-like arches • a Coquette character repeatedly uses hearts or bows • a Cyberpunk character repeatedly uses angular ring-linked openings • a superhero costume repeats a crest or emblem Even then, vary scale, placement, connection, material, and surrounding construction so the outfits are not duplicates.

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