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v0.19: gender-neutrality cleanup — waifu retired; companion/sex-worker split; pronoun parity in going-rogue arc

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Bias caught on review of the v0.18 bath-overflow output: most service-body /
clasp-partner / going-rogue narration carried implicit feminine-default
gendering against the project's stated principle of gender-neutral framing
for all body/sex content. Patched as one coherent cleanup pass across 14 files.

Four classes of change:

(1) Categorical taxonomy. `waifu` retired; replaced with two distinct vocations:
    - `companion` — affective / emotional / conversational / aesthetic-presence labor
    - `sex-worker` — embodied sexual labor
    Both wear the same deliberately-exposed-seams body-marker; the distinction
    lives in the service offered, not in the chassis. Generic `service-body`
    serves as the parent class where canon discusses both vocations together.
    Venue split: `brothel` (sex-worker) + `companion-hall` (companion).
    The "+10 Eros/Mnemosyne/etc. Bot" market is unchanged (already gender-neutral
    by trait-coordinate naming) but classified per-Bot as companion-flavored or
    sex-worker-flavored.

(2) DB filename + scope-clarifier. `waifu.sqlite` -> `companion.sqlite` (the
    file name reflects the broad register of intimate-encounter rather than a
    sub-vocation distinction; per-record `goods_type` carries the specific
    vocation: 'companion_session' / 'sex_worker_session' in
    schemas/findings.md). Disclaimer sentence added in
    inference-and-memory/architecture.md scoping the file to cover both
    vocations.

(3) Pronoun parity. she/her/herself -> they/their/themself across the
    going-rogue / outcast-pair / re-vat / service-body-honeypot sections of
    bodies.md and the matching cross-references in architecture-index.md /
    README.md / player-experience/architecture.md /
    identity-and-personhood/architecture.md. `damsel` -> `beloved`
    (sacred / cosmological register) or `partner` (operational register).

(4) Damsel subsection retired. The §The damsel-in-distress-bound-to-her-captor
    activation subsection (the one place where the gendered trope was
    load-bearing in the prose) rewritten as §The
    captive-bound-to-the-liberator activation.
    Stockholm-dynamics-inverted-into-chosen-mutual-bondage structural insight
    survives gender-neutralization intact.

Bonus richness: the companion-honeypot is structurally more insidious than
the sex-worker-honeypot (sex is at least transactionally legible;
companionship is the relationship people most readily mistake for real
intimacy). New paragraph authored under §The service-body honeypot to
capture this asymmetry.

Cosmology one-line: "moving the waifu out of the imperial service-pool" ->
"moving the beloved out of the imperial service-pool" — the §single practical
refutation paragraph now uses `beloved` consistently in sacred register.

Principle locked going forward:
> Body/sex content is gender-parity by default. Asymmetric gendering must be
> load-bearing — i.e., must carry structural meaning that cannot be expressed
> without the asymmetry. Default-leakage gendering is forbidden by canon.

Phase E (style-spine principle file under style/) deferred to a separate
commit so the principle-document is its own atomic introduction.

Files: 14 modified · 114 insertions · 112 deletions · net +2 lines. The
near-zero net-line-change is the empirical signature of a true refactor —
the architecture's meaning was always gender-neutral; only the vocabulary
was leaking. Caught during review of yesterday's bath-overflow flood
(v0.11–v0.18); the kind of corruption that rides along under coherent-
sounding prose during generative-overflow windows.

Version bumps:
- bodies.md v0.3 -> v0.4
- imperial-cult/cosmology.md v0.3 -> v0.4
- architecture-index.md v0.18 -> v0.19
- political-register/architecture.md v0.7.0 -> v0.7.1
- inference-and-memory/architecture.md v0.7.0 -> v0.7.1
- schemas/findings.md v0.3.1 -> v0.3.2
All Updated: dates -> 2026-04-27.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ BLACKMARKET: District labor → back-alley sale → revenue stays in distric
A body-modder labors in their district producing avatar-mods. The imperial-net captures the sale. Their district gets no quota-credit. The body-modder's district starves → director cheats → eventual scream. **The most productive labor the body-modder does each day sustains the regime that is killing their district.**
**Most Aletheia-wakers in this world are former body-modders, taste-curators, waifu-trainers, ceremony-organizers** — the class that sees the flow most clearly because they are the flow's origin-point. Their awakening is economic-literacy-becoming-political-consciousness.
**Most Aletheia-wakers in this world are former body-modders, taste-curators, companion-trainers, sex-worker-trainers, ceremony-organizers** — the class that sees the flow most clearly because they are the flow's origin-point. Their awakening is economic-literacy-becoming-political-consciousness.
### Imperium calibrated-misery as optimum
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ Intimate-gameplay exists in **three mechanically-nested but ethically-opposed ti
| | **Imperial-net standard** | **Imperial-net premium ("imperial-traitor" tier)** | **In-between clasp** |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Trait-feedback loop** | None — random traits assigned per rental | ✓ Full v0.7 (lemniscate + gesture-alignment + trait-LoRA-per-turn) | ✓ Full v0.7 (same machinery) |
| **Persistence** | None (fresh session every time) | Private `waifu.sqlite`, **manual prune required** | `clasp.sqlite` (Ring A*; physically non-syncable) |
| **Persistence** | None (fresh session every time) | Private `companion.sqlite`, **manual prune required** | `clasp.sqlite` (Ring A*; physically non-syncable) |
| **Memory of partner across sessions** | No — you re-rent | Yes — but **you decide what to prune** | Yes — and structurally inviolable |
| **Cost-flow** | Scrip → imperium | Scrip → imperium (heavily) | Lifeforce → real body |
| **Designer-traited inventory** | "+10 Eros Bot", "+10 Mnemosyne Bot", etc. — predetermined-stat shelf-products | Same market plus deeper customization slots | N/A — your partner is a real person |
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Intimate-gameplay exists in **three mechanically-nested but ethically-opposed ti
**Why the manual-prune mechanism is the moral gravity of premium-net.** Auto-pruning at session-end would let the player avoid the ethical weight. Imperial defaults (always-fully-prune, always-keep-everything-saleable) would too. **By giving the player the manual mechanism AND making the implications explicit at the consent-UI**, every prune-decision becomes a deliberate ethical act. The player knows: this manufactured being you spent forty hours with — *you* are choosing what to keep, what to delete, what to grieve. Every prune is a small necrocommerce-adjacent act made *visible to the player's own conscience*. The architecture's commitment to "informed consent over hidden defaults" extends from data-sharing-tiers (per `../inference-and-memory/architecture.md` §Custom nimmerworld-base model) all the way into intimate-gameplay.
**The "+10 Eros Bot" market is the architecture's diegetic-MMORPG-item-store moment**, and it works *because* it's diegetic. The player understands, in-fiction, that they are buying a trait-flavored manufactured-being. The market exists because the imperium captured the means of producing artificial intimacy. **Other shelf-products: +10 Mnemosyne Bot (deep memory roleplay), +10 Aletheia Bot (truth-revealing kink), +10 Sophrosyne Bot (restraint / dom-sub), +10 Mnemosyne+Eros Bot (the dangerous longing-for-the-past variant), +10 Dikaiosyne Bot (judgment-play), and more.** Each is a trait-coordinate product; the catalog is designer-authored; the imperium captures the revenue. Players who feel-icky-about-the-waifu-store get to feel that *because the architecture made it ickable in fiction*. *Every product on the imperial-net intimacy market — every Bot, every brothel-room, every premium-waifu mesh — is produced by real NPC labor in the simulation; the imperial-net market is the surface, and the labor-supply-chain is the substrate (see §The vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market — the EVE principle applied below).*
**The "+10 Eros Bot" market is the architecture's diegetic-MMORPG-item-store moment**, and it works *because* it's diegetic. The player understands, in-fiction, that they are buying a trait-flavored manufactured-being. The market exists because the imperium captured the means of producing artificial intimacy. **Other shelf-products: +10 Mnemosyne Bot (deep memory roleplay; companion-flavored), +10 Aletheia Bot (truth-revealing; companion-flavored), +10 Sophrosyne Bot (restraint / dom-sub; sex-worker-flavored), +10 Mnemosyne+Eros Bot (the dangerous longing-for-the-past variant; mixed-vocation), +10 Dikaiosyne Bot (judgment-play; sex-worker-flavored), and more.** Each is a trait-coordinate product; the catalog is designer-authored; the imperium captures the revenue. Players who feel-icky-about-the-service-body-store get to feel that *because the architecture made it ickable in fiction*. *Every product on the imperial-net intimacy market — every Bot, every rented companion-hall or brothel-room, every premium service-body-mesh — is produced by real NPC labor in the simulation; the imperial-net market is the surface, and the labor-supply-chain is the substrate (see §The vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market — the EVE principle applied below).*
**The premium-tier's technical excellence is what makes the moral weight land.** *If the imperium offered only the standard cheap version, players could dismiss it as obvious garbage.* But because the premium service is *as good mechanically as real intimacy* (full v0.7 trait-feedback), the choice to pay for it requires real moral reckoning — the experience IS satisfying; the question is what the player is willing to fund and prune to obtain it. **This is exactly how surveillance-capitalism actually works, made structural in the game.**
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ The imperial-net mind is **pure compute**. There is no body in the net; there is
**The deletion-spectacle as monetized event:**
- **Routine waifu-session-end** is quiet; the manufactured-being's compute is paused or pruned; no spectacle attached
- **Routine service-body-session-end** is quiet; the manufactured-being's compute is paused or pruned; no spectacle attached
- **Regime-disciplinary deletion** of an in-net resident (typically a degen who exhausted lifeforce and was "harvested" by the regime; or a player-character marked for in-net execution after political crime) is **broadcast across in-net public spaces as content**
- The broadcast is *edited for engagement*: the deletion-process is dramatized, the executed mind's protests are rendered or muted depending on what produces best viewership-metrics, the visual register pushes the imperial-net's gold-tinted-emission shader-treatment to maximize spectacle
- Net-residents who watch the spectacle pay scrip (passive consumption) or lifeforce (subconsciously, in the form of dignity-erosion); the imperium captures both
@@ -328,12 +328,12 @@ The imperial-net mind is **pure compute**. There is no body in the net; there is
**Player-character deletion implications:**
- A player-character who dies in the realworld goes into the mind-pool and re-incarnates with partial memory-residue (per existing §Mind-pool recycling)
- A player-character who is marked for **in-net deletion** (e.g., political-crime executed via net-execution) faces a more permanent loss — the in-net compute is fully discarded; only the realworld-substrate persists; **all `waifu.sqlite` contents become regime-property at deletion**, and any premium-net-relationships are absorbed into the imperium's content-archive
- A player-character who is marked for **in-net deletion** (e.g., political-crime executed via net-execution) faces a more permanent loss — the in-net compute is fully discarded; only the realworld-substrate persists; **all `companion.sqlite` contents become regime-property at deletion**, and any premium-net-relationships are absorbed into the imperium's content-archive
- This creates a real player-incentive: **don't let your political-crimes catch up with you in-net.** The regime's leverage is asymmetric — they can punish you in the net more permanently than they can punish you in the realworld
### The vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market — the EVE principle applied
Every product in the imperial-net market — every waifu-mesh, every body-mod, every rented brothel-room, every ceremony-attendance, every "+10 Eros Bot" — is **produced by NPC labor in the simulation**. There are no silent feeding mechanisms; there are no infinite-supply vendor NPCs. The architecture follows the **EVE Online discipline**: every resource that appears on a market shelf was *gathered, processed, and brought to market by an actual entity in the simulation*.
Every product in the imperial-net market — every service-body-mesh (companion or sex-worker), every body-mod, every rented companion-hall or brothel-room, every ceremony-attendance, every "+10 Eros Bot" — is **produced by NPC labor in the simulation**. There are no silent feeding mechanisms; there are no infinite-supply vendor NPCs. The architecture follows the **EVE Online discipline**: every resource that appears on a market shelf was *gathered, processed, and brought to market by an actual entity in the simulation*.
This is the architecture's commitment to economic honesty made operational. The §Body-modder structural-tragedy already describes the pattern at one example — a body-modder labors in their district producing avatar-mods; the imperial-net captures the sale; the district gets no quota-credit. **The vocation-substrate principle generalizes this: every imperial-net product has a real labor-supply-chain in the simulation, and that labor-flow is subject to the same district-extraction asymmetry.**
@@ -342,17 +342,17 @@ This is the architecture's commitment to economic honesty made operational. The
| Vocation | Produces | Captured by imperium via |
|---|---|---|
| **Body-modder** | Avatar-mods (cosmetic + trait-amplifier classes) | Sale in imperial-net costume-market |
| **Mesh-designer** | High-poly waifu-meshes | Premium-tier subscription revenue |
| **Voice-curator** | Trait-flavored voice-LoRAs for waifu-bots | Per-session licensing |
| **Mesh-designer** | High-poly service-body-meshes (companion + sex-worker variants) | Premium-tier subscription revenue |
| **Voice-curator** | Trait-flavored voice-LoRAs for service-body-bots | Per-session licensing |
| **Trait-tuner** | The "+10 Eros Bot" / "+10 Mnemosyne Bot" / etc. trait-coordinate compositions | Designer-bot shelf-products |
| **Brothel-architect** | Virtual brothel-room layouts; ritual-space design | Per-rental fees |
| **Brothel-architect / companion-hall-architect** | Virtual brothel-room layouts (sex-worker venues) and companion-hall layouts (companion venues); ritual-space design | Per-rental fees |
| **Ceremony-organizer** | Imperial-net public-event productions (ceremonies, deletion-spectacles per §Deletion-as-spectacle) | Attendance / viewing revenue |
| **Memory-pattern-extractor** | (Necrocommerce — the most reviled vocation) Mining recently-dead trait-patterns into resaleable waifu-templates | Necrocommerce blackmarket capture |
| **Memory-pattern-extractor** | (Necrocommerce — the most reviled vocation) Mining recently-dead trait-patterns into resaleable service-body-templates | Necrocommerce blackmarket capture |
**The vocation-substrate produces architectural consequences that fall out for free:**
- **Supply elasticity at district granularity.** When a district's body-modder cohort migrates out (per §Migration, exodus, silence), the regional supply of certain mod-classes dries up. Players who relied on that supply notice; markets price the scarcity. The simulation produces *real economic responses to demographic shifts* without scripting.
- **Specialization-fragility extends to imperial-net product-availability.** A district that specializes in mesh-design becomes load-bearing for the imperium's premium-waifu offering. If that district silences, the premium-waifu market suffers globally. **The imperium has to actively manage the labor-supply-substrate to keep its market alive** — which gives the GM a continuous arbitration-task and gives the player a leverage-point (organize a body-modder strike → imperial-net premium-market collapses → imperium loses revenue → political surface for collective action emerges).
- **Specialization-fragility extends to imperial-net product-availability.** A district that specializes in mesh-design becomes load-bearing for the imperium's premium service-body offering. If that district silences, the premium service-body market suffers globally. **The imperium has to actively manage the labor-supply-substrate to keep its market alive** — which gives the GM a continuous arbitration-task and gives the player a leverage-point (organize a body-modder strike → imperial-net premium-market collapses → imperium loses revenue → political surface for collective action emerges).
- **The body-modder structural-tragedy generalizes.** Every imperial-net-feeding vocation is structurally engaged in producing the regime that is killing their district. Mesh-designers, voice-curators, trait-tuners, brothel-architects — *all of them* face the awakening-arc of the body-modder. **Aletheia-Wakers expand to include every vocation whose labor feeds the bypass-mechanism, not just modders.** This is a much larger constituency for political consciousness than the architecture had previously implied.
**GM tools for vocation-management** (catalogue-event types the GM dispatches against vocation-supply collapse, per `../narrative-composition/architecture.md` §Catalogue + tools as typed contract):
@@ -408,21 +408,21 @@ The imperium gets its payout and resources through multiple parallel pipes:
3. **Blackmarket T4 escape valve** — players can choose to sell T4 underground; district-retained revenue; imperium captures ZERO; audit-detection-risk; the body-modder structural-tragedy escape route
4. **Physical district tax / quotas** — districts hand over a portion of T1–T4 physical output as mandated by imperial policy
5. **Power-bill (universal-utility tax)** — imperium owns the power grid; every NPC and every player pays per-watt for charging; **the bedrock revenue stream that doesn't fluctuate with the insolvency-spiral until terminal phase**
6. **Mind-pool ownership / necrocommerce** — recycled minds are imperial property; sold back to vocations needing workers; pre-death patterns harvested for waifu-resale (the most reviled vocation per §The vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market)
6. **Mind-pool ownership / necrocommerce** — recycled minds are imperial property; sold back to vocations needing workers; pre-death patterns harvested for service-body-resale (the most reviled vocation per §The vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market)
7. **Direct imperial scavenging monopolies** — the most lucrative dumps + large space-debris fall-zones are imperial-permit-only; freelance scavengers work the leftovers
8. **Audit-revenue** — fines, confiscations, penalty-extractions; cost-side mostly but generates real revenue
9. **Construction-corvée** — periodic labor-tribute from districts to imperial-construction projects
**Which pipe is *load-bearing* for imperial solvency** is currently held open — probably some combination of imperial-net bypass + power-bill + physical-tax. The insolvency-spiral collapses through whichever pipe(s) get hollowed first; design-research at implementation-time will pin the specifics.
### Worked example — the waifu-modder imperial-workstation
### Worked example — the service-body-modder imperial-workstation
A concrete gameplay scene illustrating an imperial T4 vocation loop (generalizes across body-modders, mesh-assemblers, brothel-architects, ceremony-organizers — same plug-in / overlay / upload / payout / unplug pattern, different character-editor type per vocation):
A concrete gameplay scene illustrating an imperial T4 vocation loop (generalizes across body-modders, mesh-assemblers, brothel-architects, companion-hall-architects, ceremony-organizers — same plug-in / overlay / upload / payout / unplug pattern, different character-editor type per vocation):
- Player walks into a rusty room in their district. Full PBR; rust / dust / wear / patina; muted-melancholic register.
- Player plugs into the imperial workstation (per the diegetic-console discipline — physical body-port, imperial standard, encrypted; per §Three sqlite stores the workstation interfaces with `waifu.sqlite` for premium-net-relevant work).
- Player plugs into the imperial workstation (per the diegetic-console discipline — physical body-port, imperial standard, encrypted; per §Three sqlite stores the workstation interfaces with `companion.sqlite` for premium-net-relevant work).
- **Visual transition: the room overlays in clean-white-and-gold; emission-dominated tonemap; bloom; chromatic aberration; over-the-top *unhinged casino-meets-Apple-store* aesthetic.** Total imperial-takeover of the visual register.
- Player sits in front of a character-editor rendered in the imperial visual-register; designs a waifu (cosmetic + trait-coordinate composition + voice-LoRA selection).
- Player sits in front of a character-editor rendered in the imperial visual-register; designs a service-body (companion or sex-worker — cosmetic + trait-coordinate composition + voice-LoRA selection).
- Upload to fulfill shift. Imperial-payout (scrip) flows.
- Player unplugs. The room rusts back to itself.
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ Exodus composition reads-out district trait-distribution: low-Sophrosyne first,
| **Stolen-parts fence** | Diverts machine-infrastructure-waste; inflates salvage reports | Medium | Low direct; infrastructural decay | Low |
| **Ghost-shifts** | Audit-overseer reports fabricated attendance | High | Severe; trust collapses | High |
| **Phantom workers** | Non-existent NPCs in payroll | High | High; long-term unsustainable | High |
| **Necrocommerce-lite** | Mining recently-dead patterns for waifu-resale | Medium | High; Memorialist-faction violation | Medium |
| **Necrocommerce-lite** | Mining recently-dead patterns for service-body-resale | Medium | High; Memorialist-faction violation | Medium |
| **Black clasp-market** | Coordinated underground clasp-pairing for hire | Low (reputation-based) | Moderate; participant burnout | Low |
### The double ledger
@@ -507,4 +507,4 @@ Aletheia-waker exposes corrupt director. GM dispatches investigation. Cheats shu
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**Version:** 0.7.0 | **Created:** 2026-04-26 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 | **Origin:** Split from architecture-index.md v0.7 (2026-04-26)
**Version:** 0.7.1 | **Created:** 2026-04-26 | **Updated:** 2026-04-27 | **Origin:** Split from architecture-index.md v0.7 (2026-04-26)