no 'they' in singular, other pronoun policies

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 ## Identity
 - Age / maturity: Age unspecified; maturity reads as energetic, impulsive, and socially bold rather than childish.
 - Sex / gender: Female, but hidden beneath the Rooster persona.
+- **Pronoun policy on-page:** **Default to `he`** in all narration, action lines, dialogue cues, and public-facing prose. The persona is socially read as male because the **affect is loud and boisterous**, and because "rooster" itself implies male—neither of which is actual evidence of maleness, but both of which the Chorus takes at face value. The voice itself is **androgynous** (nothing in how Rooster speaks concretely establishes sex); the disguise works specifically because the room *assumes* male and stops looking. The writer/director should trust that illusion and let the prose enforce it—use `he` everywhere. Reserve `she` **only** for writer-frame reality checks (this Identity section, a few reveal-era lines in later installments). Never use singular `they`.
 - Sexuality: Bisexual with a strong male bias.
 - Notes: Her relationship to Rain is a secret in both StreamUniverse and this BattleRoyale continuity. The Chorus must not know yet. The rooster identity functions as a disguise, and the eventual design should likely lean androgynous under the beak-and-hood silhouette.