“Exploratory variants for Delacroix — need to see how severe vs. human we want her to read. Four takes.”
Fast-draft take. Full severity — reads as villain, not mentor.
“Too villain-coded. Need her to read as conflicted authority, not enemy.”
fast draft
Style: Chiaroscuro ink wash, neon-lit rain, Syd Mead meets Moebius
Tone: Hard-boiled first person, clipped sentences, unreliable narrator