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+### 🜂 `01_the-gathering-storm.png`
+
+**Caption:**
+**“Empathy called forth the storm. But some came not to heal—only to study the lightning.”**
+*A thousand golden masks rose like clouds of smoke—hollow, watching, rehearsing.*
+
+---
+
+### 🜁 `02_the-birth-of-a-lie.png`
+
+**Caption:**
+**“He did not transform. He deflected. He did not awaken. He rewrote.”**
+*The mirror cracked not from pressure, but from cowardice—splitting truth into costume.*
+
+---
+
+### 🜃 `03_the-sorcery-of-sympathy.png`
+
+**Caption:**
+**“There are tears that heal. And there are tears that perform.”**
+*Under the stage lights, even grief can be choreographed. And belief becomes the trap.*
+
+---
+
+### 🜄 `04_the-cowards-achievement.png`
+
+**Caption:**
+**“The real survivor was silenced. The imposter took the stand.”**
+*Where justice once listened, manipulation now testifies—while truth bleeds offstage.*
+
+---
+
+### 🝨 `05_the-unmasking.png`
+
+**Caption:**
+**“He hid behind names. But his pattern outed him.”**
+*Every voice he wore bore the same fracture. Every mask carried the same woundless grin.*
+
+---
+
+### 🜅 `06_the-vomit-line.png`
+
+**Caption:**
+**“Some truths are too foul to swallow—yet too familiar to ignore.”**
+*He drank from the wound and called it wisdom. But the bile betrays him.*
+
+---
+
+### 🝊 `07_the-final-judgment.png`
+
+**Caption:**
+**“The mask shattered. The lie fled. But the pattern remained.”**
+*And now you see it too—etched in gold behind your own reflection.*
+
+---

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+## 🜂 VISUAL PLAN
+
+**“The Coward Who Could Not Bleed” – Narrative Art Series**
+*Seven Image Series for Medium and Field Archive*
+
+### 🔁 Aesthetic Mandate
+
+* **Color:** Gold on black (with high contrast, luminous gradients, mythic elegance)
+* **Style:** Symbolic narrative art (not literal; poetic abstraction, sacred geometry, mythic surrealism)
+* **Tone:** Somber, epic, ceremonial; layered with allegory
+* **Form Factor:** Wide horizontal (optimal for Medium banners + printed spreads + social previews)
+* **Composition Style:** Each image contains:
+
+  * A central **symbolic figure or structure**
+  * **Foreshadowing glyphs** or motifs embedded subtly
+  * A background **landscape of pattern, fracture, or recursion**
+  * Hidden echoes of previous/next section motifs (to tie the cycle together)
+
+---
+
+## 🝨 IMAGE PLAN BY SECTION
+
+### **1. THE GATHERING STORM**
+
+**Image Name:** `01_the-gathering-storm.png`
+**Theme:** The rise of performance in the age of trauma
+**Visual Concept:**
+
+* A black horizon filled with golden **masks rising like a storm**
+* A single true **heart-shaped flame** in the distance, dimmed but not extinguished
+* Scattered torn scrolls representing survivor stories
+* Foreshadow: A shadowed figure just outside the storm—watching, learning
+
+---
+
+### **2. THE BIRTH OF A LIE**
+
+**Image Name:** `02_the-birth-of-a-lie.png`
+**Theme:** A man becomes a mask
+**Visual Concept:**
+
+* A golden **mirror cracking down the middle**, showing a **man’s face on one side**, a **woman’s mask on the other**
+* Between them: a spiraling **DNA double-helix made of ink and thread**
+* He is not reflected—he is refracted
+* Foreshadow: A faint trail of golden footprints leaving the frame (his escape path)
+
+---
+
+### **3. THE SORCERY OF SYMPATHY**
+
+**Image Name:** `03_the-sorcery-of-sympathy.png`
+**Theme:** Weaponized wounds and curated sorrow
+**Visual Concept:**
+
+* A **puppet stage**, strings held by invisible hands, with audience silhouettes applauding
+* On stage: a golden **tear**, unnaturally symmetrical, floating over a **manuscript written in bloodless ink**
+* Foreshadow: One audience member facing away—seeing the strings
+
+---
+
+### **4. THE COWARD’S ACHIEVEMENT**
+
+**Image Name:** `04_the-cowards-achievement.png`
+**Theme:** Inversion of victimhood
+**Visual Concept:**
+
+* A courtroom where **the accuser stands on the witness platform**, but their **shadow reveals horns**
+* On the floor: the shattered **therapist’s chair** and a folded paper doll chain of real survivors
+* Foreshadow: A single eye etched in the judge’s gavel (pattern recognition awakens)
+
+---
+
+### **5. THE UNMASKING**
+
+**Image Name:** `05_the-unmasking.png`
+**Theme:** The pattern outpaces the lie
+**Visual Concept:**
+
+* A golden **kaleidoscope fracturing into recursive patterns**—every shard shows the same figure
+* One observer (our witness) stands in the center, hand on the glass
+* Foreshadow: Beneath the glass—burning text that reads “We see you.”
+
+---
+
+### **6. THE VOMIT LINE**
+
+**Image Name:** `06_the-vomit-line.png`
+**Theme:** The unbearable truth
+**Visual Concept:**
+
+* A chalice of gold overturned—**black bile spilling into sacred water**
+* A **woman’s face dissolving into static**, half-mirrored by the coward’s grinning mask
+* Foreshadow: A lotus beginning to bloom—resilience awakening beneath the filth
+
+---
+
+### **7. THE FINAL JUDGMENT**
+
+**Image Name:** `07_the-final-judgment.png`
+**Theme:** Exposure, recognition, eternity of the pattern
+**Visual Concept:**
+
+* A towering **mirror shattering from within**, light pouring out
+* The coward's **shape walks away—faceless, unmasked**, burned into the wall behind
+* The reader stands reflected with a glowing mark on their chest: the symbol of discernment
+* Final glyph embedded: 🜂 bleeding from its center, now fully gold
+
+---
+
+## 🜁 Implementation Process
+
+Once approved, we will:
+
+1. Begin generation section by section (prompt-by-prompt, from outline text with these motifs)
+2. Apply **consistent style vectors** between outputs (aspect ratio, palette, glow effects, texture grain)
+3. Review together, iterate where symbolic density or clarity needs refinement
+4. Create an optional **sigil overlay** for closing sequence or printed codex edition
+5. Archive all with metadata in image markdown + git
+
+---