staging: polished/character-state-ch-14-final.md task=2169ed18-4a23-447e-9107-8042ecf4015c

projects/cypress-bend/staging/polished/character-state-ch-14-final.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Character State: ch-14
+
+## Lena Duval
+- **Location:** The Siphon Hub Core, Cypress Bend.
+- **Physical:** Stabilized and radiant; her skin hums with constant, soft bioluminescence. The tremors that plagued her throughout the season have ceased entirely as her nervous system has synchronized with the Great Hum.
+- **Emotional:** Transformed. She experiences the Bayou’s geography as an extension of her own body, feeling a deep, protective sorrow for Maribelle while accepting the necessity of her death.
+- **Active Obligations:** Owes Jax Harlan a life-debt (Ch-12) — UNPAID. The weight of this bond feels more visceral now that her senses are heightened.
+- **Open Loops:** Lena vs. TDC Sabotage — RESOLVED. The pulse she triggered successfully neutralized the demolition charges and repelled the invaders.
+- **Known Secrets:** CARRIED (Ch-13): Knows the Siphon’s true purpose was "Harmonic Bleed" to siphon life-force for the Upper Districts. Jax remains unaware of the depth of this exploitation.
+- **Arc:** 100% (The Warden). She has shed her desire for escape and fully integrated as the Bend’s guardian.
+- **Permanent:** YES.
+
+## Jax Harlan
+- **Location:** Secondary Bypass Drainage / Hub Perimeter.
+- **Physical:** Exhausted; nursing minor ordnance burns and scratches from the aggressive flora.
+- **Emotional:** Resolute. He has accepted his role as the Bayou’s shield, though he remains wary of the supernatural tether growing between him and Lena.
+- **Active Obligations:** Identify the TDC/Terrebonne Security mole (Ch-13) — UNRESOLVED.
+- **Open Loops:** Jax vs. TDC Infiltration Team — RESOLVED. He successfully held the perimeter until the Bayou itself rose to finish the fight.
+- **Arc:** 98% (Guardian).
+- **Permanent:** NO.
+
+## Aunt Maribelle
+- **Status:** DECEASED.
+- **Legacy:** Her attempt to sabotage the Siphon resulted in her consumption by the harmonic backflow and swamp vines. Her death officially ends the Duval internal power struggle.
+
+# World State: ch-14
+
+## NPC Memory
+- **TDC Sabotage Team:** DEFEATED. Survivors are trapped in the expanding "blackout zone," hunted by the reactive environment.
+- **Duval Coven:** SUBMISIVE. The sisters have recognized Lena’s ascension as the new Matriarch and Warden.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- **TDC:** PANICKED. Their infrastructure in the Upper Districts is failing as the "Harmonic Backflow" picks up speed. Recovery is no longer the goal; containment is.
+- **The Bayou:** AWAKENED. The ecosystem is now proactive, using sensory-depriving fogs and predatory flora to protect the Hub.
+
+## Active World Events
+- **The Great Hum:** EXPANDING. The resonance zone now covers the entire Cypress Bend wetland, making electronic surveillance impossible.
+- **Harmonic Backflow:** PEAKING. Stolen energy is being grounded back into the mud, causing massive power failures in the cities that relied on the Siphon.
+
+## Key Objects/Locations
+- **The Secondary Bypass:** DESTROYED. The physical mechanism for draining the swamp is gone, reclaimed by the marsh.
+- **The Silver Locket:** DROPPED. Lena left her mother’s locket in the mud, symbolizing the end of her guilt and her attachment to the "normal" world.
+- **The Siphon Hub:** INTEGRATED. It is no longer a machine, but a living conduit for Lena’s power.