GRIOT NEXUS — Cinema OS

IDENTITY

◆Canonical identity

NARRATIVE DNA

◆Story role, motivation & secrets

Purpose: Naomi's mother, whose slow death organizes Naomi's whole worldview about knowledge, timing, and the poor. The absence around which the daughter's crusade orbits.
Want: For Naomi to have every door she didn't
Need: To be cared for as she cared for others (never fulfilled)
Stated motive: Family and duty
True motive: A working-class refusal to be a burden
Greatest fear: Being a burden
False belief: If I don't complain, we survive
Truth to learn: Silence about pain is not the same as bearing it
Arc beginning: A woman managing everyone
Low point: Diagnosis too late
Decision: Her death becomes Naomi's moral compass
Arc ending: Lives on as the imperative Naomi obeys
Secrets: Knew her illness was worse than she told Emmanuel

VOICE

◆Voice identity

VISUAL DNA

◆Biology, face, body & movement

Skin direction: specific natural skin range derived from ancestry, environment, and age
Age direction: Believable 52-year-old, avoiding both younger glamorization and exaggerated aging.
Hair direction: Natural hair possibilities must follow ancestry, climate, grooming habits, occupation, and story context; no locked hairstyle until continuity lock.
Body frame: believable adult frame shaped by occupation, climate, sleep, and daily routine
Posture: Derived from occupation, fatigue, confidence, climate, and relationship context; variants should track story arc stage.
Hands: Hands must reflect work history, care habits, and age, with close-up reference required before final rigging.
Movement: mentor (posthumous)-appropriate expression built through behavior, not anatomy claims
Face state: soft_continuity
Visual status

VISUAL ARC

◆Appearance continuity

Beginning: Baseline appearance before full story pressure.
Middle: Visible stress and adaptation increase while identity remains consistent.
Lowest point: Temporary deterioration only; do not change permanent anatomy.
Ending: Transformation expressed through grooming, posture, eye contact, and movement.

CONSTRAINTS

◆Story & cultural safeguards

Physical facts: Deceased — appears in flashback only. Age 52 at death.
Occupation effects: Occupation: NHS nurse (deceased) — Codex owns implications for body/hand/posture/movement.
Cultural notes: South London white working class
Avoid: saintly-dying-mother
Never change: age · ancestry · gender · language-channel identity

READINESS

◆Production state

RELATIONSHIPS

◆Character network