azure rewrite: no armor, it's his skin

Story/Azure.md

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 - **Height:**
 - **Weight:**
-- **Build:** Lean, femboy-scaled humanoid — narrower waist, longer neck, slimmer hips/thighs than Killer Queen source; softer chin under the helmet. Dangerous mannequin, not bulky enforcer.
+- **Build:** Lean, femboy-scaled humanoid — narrower waist, longer neck, slimmer hips/thighs than a typical **Killer Queen–type** / stand-user silhouette; softer chin under the helmet. Dangerous mannequin, not bulky enforcer.
 - **Hair Color:** *(helmet conceals — mint / ice-teal accent on slit eyes)*
 - **Hair Style:** *(helmet conceals)*
 - **Eye Color:** Mint / ice-teal slit eyes, narrow slit-visor read
-- **Skin Tone:** *(armor conceals — suit is cool pale blue / periwinkle `#baby-blue porcelain` with faint lavender in shadow)*
-- **Distinguishing Marks:** Gold skull medallions on belt, shoulders, kneepads (status jewelry — "founder badges"); cat-eared / pointed-crown helmet; deep navy/cobalt armor panels; optional deeper teal piping along seams; single bell on a ribbon choker
+- **Skin Tone:** Cool pale blue / periwinkle — a porcelain-smooth body **surface treated as his actual skin** in this design (per the reference portraits: it reads like skin, not a separate garment). **Lineage:** Killer Queen–type palette from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable*, pink shifted ~30° toward azure — but **canon is skin**, not armor or a peel-off suit.
+- **Distinguishing Marks:** Gold skull medallions on belt, shoulders, kneepads (status jewelry — "founder badges"); cat-eared / pointed-crown helmet; deep navy/cobalt markings on the skin that **read like panel lines** on the ref; optional deeper teal along those seams; single bell on a ribbon choker
 
 ### Identity (physical-form)
 
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 - **Dominant Hand:**
 - **Accent / Dialect:**
 - **Voice Quality:** Theatrical, needy, flirt-prone; pitches up for wheedling flattery; drops to venomous-gossip register when Rain's back is turned; snaps back to radiant devotion on re-entry
-- **Gait / Movement:** Defaults to arms-crossed, hip-cocked Killer Queen coolness — but **breaks it constantly**: leans into Rain's shoulder, peeks around doorways, flops dramatically. The composure is the costume; the slippage is the character.
+- **Gait / Movement:** Defaults to arms-crossed, hip-cocked **Killer Queen–inflected** cool posture — but **breaks it constantly**: leans into Rain's shoulder, peeks around doorways, flops dramatically. The composure is the pose; the slippage is the character.
 
 ### Physical Description
 
-Femboy Killer Queen (from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable*) with the signature pink shifted ~30° toward azure — baby-blue porcelain armor with deep navy panels, gold skull medallions (belt/shoulders/kneepads), mint slit eyes, cat-eared helmet. Over the sculpted armor: an **oversized John Cena tee** in royal/electric blue ("YOU CAN'T SEE ME" / Cenation merch), sleeves baggy over the gauntlets, sometimes half-tucked or knotted at the waist, **never removed and never recolored**. The shirt is a running visual joke — villain-stand silhouette wearing clown-regular shirt. The blue reinforces the "Azure" name pun and sits just off the suit's pale periwinkle so both blues read intentional.
+**Design source:** femboy **Killer Queen**–type silhouette (*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable*) — the familiar stand-user read, pink shifted toward azure. **In-world / on the ref portraits, that look is his skin:** baby-blue porcelain-smooth body surface, deep navy/cobalt panel-like markings, gold skull medallions (belt/shoulders/kneepads), mint slit eyes, cat-eared helmet. Do **not** treat the blue as a separate armored suit you could remove; it is **his hide**, matching the photos. Over that body: an **oversized John Cena tee** in royal/electric blue ("YOU CAN'T SEE ME" / Cenation merch), sleeves baggy over his arms, sometimes half-tucked or knotted at the waist, **never removed and never recolored**. The shirt is a running visual joke — ornate humanoid in a clown-regular shirt. The tee blue reinforces the "Azure" name pun and sits just off his pale periwinkle skin so both blues read intentional. **Portrait refs are canon** for marking layout and how the surface reads; KQ art is secondary vocabulary for pose and silhouette.
 
 ### Reference Images
 
-- Handle portraits: `pfp/azure/guidingflyer530_0.jpg`, `pfp/azure/guidingflyer530_1.jpg`, `pfp/azure/actuallynotazure_0.jpg`
-- Hero design reference: Killer Queen character art from *Diamond Is Unbreakable* art books / fan wikis (external, do not commit); user-provided ref stored under `assets/` outside `Story/`
+- **Canon refs:** `pfp/azure/guidingflyer530_0.jpg`, `pfp/azure/guidingflyer530_1.jpg`, `pfp/azure/actuallynotazure_0.jpg`, plus any sibling user assets outside `Story/` — **these define skin-as-surface and markings first.**
+- **Design vocabulary:** Killer Queen / *Diamond Is Unbreakable* character art (external) may inform silhouette and pose; it does **not** override “blue body = skin” or the portrait layout.
 
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 ### Costume Notes
 
-Sculpted armor bodysuit (Killer Queen femboy reskin) + oversized blue John Cena tee over the top. Never removes the shirt. Never recolors it. Retains the skull motifs on belt/shoulders/kneepads — these are status jewelry, the visible form of his former mod rank. Helmet: cat-eared / pointed-crown with narrow slit visor. Optional: a single tiny enamel wing-pin on a belt loop as a Wings-of-Fire fandom wink (ceiling, not floor).
+**Skin-forward body** — **Killer Queen–derived** look, but **not armor:** smooth blue/violet **skin** with navy panel-like markings (no separate suit layer) + oversized blue John Cena tee over the top. Never removes the shirt. Never recolors it. Skull motifs on belt/shoulders/kneepads are **jewelry on the skin**, the visible form of his former mod rank. Helmet: cat-eared / pointed-crown with narrow slit visor. Optional: a single tiny enamel wing-pin on a belt loop as a Wings-of-Fire fandom wink (ceiling, not floor).
 
 ### Accessories & Props
 
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 ### Era / Period
 
-Anachronistic contemporary; character-design IP-mash reading as stand-user-cosplayer in a dragon's courtroom
+Anachronistic contemporary; character-design mashup reading as stylized court creature in a dragon's courtroom
 
 ### Makeup Notes
 
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 ### Traits
 
 - **Interests:** Mod panels; audit logs; unban queues; ban-reason screens; the VOD-archive channel; stream schedules; gossip about other regulars; making art of random people; Rain's discord server; femboys; Beanie; Chess; Geometry Dash
-- **Quirks & Habits:** Mod-metadata voyeurism — poking around in mod-exclusive scraps whenever any adjacency is available; always asking when the next stream is; visibly deflating when a stream doesn't happen; over-deep theatrical bows; panicked whimper when corrected; quick pivot from wheedling flattery to venomous gossip the instant Rain's back is turned, then snap back to radiant devotion on re-entry; slipping out of Killer-Queen cool-posture constantly
+- **Quirks & Habits:** Mod-metadata voyeurism — poking around in mod-exclusive scraps whenever any adjacency is available; always asking when the next stream is; visibly deflating when a stream doesn't happen; over-deep theatrical bows; panicked whimper when corrected; quick pivot from wheedling flattery to venomous gossip the instant Rain's back is turned, then snap back to radiant devotion on re-entry; slipping out of **Killer Queen–cool** posture constantly
 - **Fears:** Permanent exile from rank; Rain's cold register; missed stream slots reading as personal loss
 - **Skills & Abilities:** Reading a room's status gradients fast; weaponizing intimacy as leverage; extracting information from mod-panel scraps; theatrical public performance of loyalty; Chess; Geometry Dash
 
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 ### Requirements
 
-- **Stunt Requirements:** Killer-Queen pose work; bow / fall on cave-floor dilemma beat; final sneak-attack fall beat (arrow-hit, no mist-poof timing until after the line)
+- **Stunt Requirements:** Killer Queen–style / pop-villain pose work; bow / fall on cave-floor dilemma beat; final sneak-attack fall beat (arrow-hit, no mist-poof timing until after the line)
 - **SFX Requirements:** Mist-poof dissolve on final defeat (blue-holographic); possible slight bell-ring diegetic cue on clingy movement
 
 ### Voice Casting
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 ### Continuity Notes
 
-Shirt never removed, never recolored. Gold skulls never recolored. Helmet never fully removed. Azure does NOT win the arena — his climax is the cave dilemma followed by Rooster's sneak attack.
+Shirt never removed, never recolored. Gold skulls never recolored. Helmet never fully removed. **Skin tone and panel-like markings** stay continuous body surface — not a peel-off suit. Azure does NOT win the arena — his climax is the cave dilemma followed by Rooster's sneak attack.
 
 ### Voice Reference
 
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 ### Design do/don't
 
 - **Vs Agate:** Agate is warm sand and sidelines, soft feathered chimera; Azure is cool porcelain and spotlight, hard-edged humanoid mannequin — same court, opposite material read.
-- **Do not:** Give him real Killer Queen villainy, bomb-primer fingers, or Kira's detached menace. Do **not** recolor the gold skulls; the gold is what keeps him reading as "Killer Queen reskin" and not generic blue armor. Avoid full dragon morph or WoF cosplay literalism — one tiny enamel wing pin on a belt loop is the ceiling.
+- **Do not:** Give him Kira-style bomb mechanics, bomb-primer fingers, or detached killer menace. Do **not** recolor the gold skulls — they keep the Killer Queen lineage legible. Do **not** redraw his blue body as a removable armored suit; it is **skin** in this design (ref photo). Avoid full dragon morph or WoF cosplay literalism — one tiny enamel wing pin on a belt loop is the ceiling.
 
 ### Evidence