azure rewrite: no armor, it's his skin

2026-05-17 15:30:43 -06:00
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@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Characters come from **different native universes** and **render in different na
 ### Per-character rendering cast (BR roster)

 - **Raincloud** — adult anthro dragon, painterly / clean-cartoon hybrid (matches his refs: flat-color PFP crop + painted vtuber still both canonical).
- **Azure** — JoJo-stylized anime figure, bold-ink Killer Queen silhouette, with the literal-object John Cena tee as a physical-prop gag.
+- **Azure** — JoJo / **Killer Queen–inflected** anime-ink figure: porcelain-periwinkle **skin** (not armor — ref portraits), shifted-hue stand-user silhouette, John Cena tee as physical-prop gag.
 - **Ubear** — cartoon-mascot bear with a steampunk-rendered mechanical arm (two render languages on one body; leave the seam visible).
 - **Starboy** — chibi proportions, brighter saturation, anime-idol shading.
 - **NotoriousRooster** — silhouette-first Disney-Robin-Hood-era hand-drawn cel feel, beak-in-a-hood, everything else absent.
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 ### 8.5 Death VFX: the mist-poof rule

 - When a contestant is killed inside the bubble, the body **dissolves into a soft poof of blue-holographic mist** — the same color as the aura-bleed — which **disperses upward** into the aura and is carried (by narrative convention) to the recovery bay for reconstitution.
- The mist **briefly holds the silhouette of the contestant** — for roughly one second after the dissolve begins — before the column lifts. Each character gets a stylized silhouette-hold appropriate to their render language: Agate's wings at full extension, Starboy's galaxy-eye wink, Jenni's clean anime-linework, Adrian's portrait-realistic profile, Beanie's beanie hat holding one extra beat at the top of the column, Azure's JoJo-ink pose flourish, Ubear's ragged bulk, Noname's face unchanged.
+- The mist **briefly holds the silhouette of the contestant** — for roughly one second after the dissolve begins — before the column lifts. Each character gets a stylized silhouette-hold appropriate to their render language: Agate's wings at full extension, Starboy's galaxy-eye wink, Jenni's clean anime-linework, Adrian's portrait-realistic profile, Beanie's beanie hat holding one extra beat at the top of the column, Azure's JoJo / Killer Queen–inflected bold-ink pose flourish, Ubear's ragged bulk, Noname's face unchanged.
 - **The rule that matters:** **mist-poof = confirmed dead. Absence of mist-poof on defeat = still alive.** Rain states this rule aloud in his ascent monologue so the audience registers it on-record.
 - **The rule is withheld exactly once in the film:** when Ubear throws Rooster off the northern cliff. No mist rises. No drones stream down to cover the elimination. This is the twist seed. Every other death in the film must show a clean, unambiguous mist-poof so the audience has a reliable baseline against which Rooster's missing poof reads as a clue.