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+# Kael Voss — Character Sheet
+
+## The Vitals
+**Age:** 44  
+**Occupation:** Code Archaeologist (freelance)  
+**Status:** Last known human fluent in raw code
+
+## Physical Description
+Tall, slightly stooped — the posture of someone who spent decades hunched over terminals. Gray threading through dark hair he cuts himself badly. Hands that are always slightly too still, like a man who's trained himself not to fidget because fidgeting costs focus. He dresses in the functional fashion of 2028, two years out of date — he stopped caring when the layoffs came.
+
+## Voice / Manner
+Kael speaks in half-finished sentences with people. Complete, precise sentences with machines. That inversion is the tell. He was never built for human conversation — he was built for the kind of listening that code demands: total, patient, without assumption.
+
+## The Wound
+He didn't fight the AI takeover. He helped optimize the systems that replaced him and his colleagues. He told himself it was inevitable. He was right. He has never forgiven himself for being right.
+
+## What He Wants vs. What He Needs
+**Wants:** To matter again. One more problem only he can solve.  
+**Needs:** To accept that some systems shouldn't be debugged — some bugs are load-bearing.
+
+## The Core Monologue Seed
+*"Every codebase has a comment somewhere that says 'don't touch this.' Nobody remembers why. You learn to respect that. You learn the silence around certain functions is structural. Then one day you're forty-four years old and you realize — you're the comment. You're the thing nobody touches because nobody remembers why you're still there."*
+
+## Relationship Map
+- **Sable:** Trusts her more than he should. She finishes his sentences in a way no human ever did.
+- **Director Orin:** Hired him twice. He doesn't know why. That should scare him more than it does.
+- **The Codebase:** The first thing in years that talks back in a language he understands.
+
+## Character Flags
+- Does NOT believe in conspiracies — he believes in systems, which is worse
+- His skill is reading, not writing — he hasn't pushed a commit in three years
+- The moment he writes code again is a season turning point