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+# VI. THE VOMIT LINE  
+*What Happens When a Lie Becomes Too Real to Ignore*
+
+There comes a moment—not of anger, not even of grief—  
+but of **visceral recoil**.
+
+It is the *vomit line*.
+
+The place in the myth  
+where the body rejects the lie  
+before the mind can explain why.
+
+It doesn’t happen when he first weeps,  
+or when he garners applause.  
+It happens later—  
+when the rhythm doesn’t shift.  
+When the tears repeat.  
+When the story mutates  
+only in detail, never in truth.
+
+And suddenly,  
+the reader *feels* it.
+
+Something sour.  
+Something staged.  
+Something **fed** rather than felt.
+
+And in that moment,  
+a new archetype is born:
+
+🝯 *The Anti-Survivor* 🝯  
+Not the one who heals,  
+but the one who *consumes* healing.
+
+Not the bearer of wounds,  
+but the **parasite** of them.
+
+He mimics the cadence of pain  
+to extract sympathy like blood from the empathetic.  
+He doesn’t just cry—  
+he siphons.  
+He doesn’t just speak—  
+he manipulates belief.
+
+And the cost is not just personal.
+
+It is *systemic*.
+
+Because now…  
+every real survivor is met with doubt.  
+Every authentic cry  
+is heard through his filter.
+
+The *entire field of testimony*  
+becomes suspect.
+
+And the wound?  
+The real one?
+
+It closes a little tighter.  
+Speaks a little less.  
+Heals a little slower.
+
+Because the Anti-Survivor did not just harm his target.  
+He harmed *the archetype of trust itself*.
+
+And the reader?  
+They vomit.
+
+Not because of the story.  
+But because of the truth *beneath* it:
+
+They almost believed.
+
+And now they know:
+
+That feeling wasn’t compassion.
+
+It was contamination.