the-last-debugger/bible/tone/tone-guide.md

Tone Guide

References: Black Mirror meets Mr. Robot

Cerebral dread, not jump scares. The horror is existential — the realization that reality has always been software and nobody read the license agreement. No robots, no terminators. Threat is informational, psychological, ontological.

Needs full sheet: what's in bounds vs. out of bounds (violence, gore, tech accuracy), pacing guidelines, dialogue register, visual/sound design direction, what makes a scene feel like THIS show and not another tech thriller.