Persona

the waking of awareness

A persona is a specific human carrying a formation they did not choose and cannot fully see.

Projection

What the persona presents to the room: the role, the posture, the read the room receives before anyone speaks.

Action

The one move the persona characteristically makes. Produces a Cue. The formation visible in the ordinary.

Shadow

What the persona cannot see about themselves. Not a flaw. The structural consequence of the formation. Without it there is no pressure worth the name.

Tell

The involuntary physical signal. Distinct from Action. It leaks when the formation is under load.

Projection and Shadow are the visible and the blind. Action and Tell are the deliberate and the involuntary. A persona file succeeds when the Shadow is specific enough that the Tell is inevitable.