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 - Canonical role: sovereign host, resurrected digital dragon consciousness
 - Confidence: High for project role, medium for temperament from chat-only snippets
 
+## BattleRoyale framing (read this first — writer-only)
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+**The BattleRoyale is set PRE-body-transfer. SynthRainy has not awoken yet.** Under the hood, the film is a **simulation** AIRainy is running inside his own stack during the 33-month interregnum. *Crucially, this is writer-only metadata for the current film.* The audience is **not** meant to know it's a simulation until later installments demonstrate, imply, or outright state it.
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+**On-screen portrayal — read exactly like the refs.**
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+- **Rain on screen is Raincloud the dragon**, portrayed identically to his established character design (purple mascot dragon, big green slit eyes, starry-night halo, the usual). Not a terminal, not a ghost in the wires, not a UI overlay. **The simulation is imagining bodies for everyone**, Rain included, and the simulation is *good*—nothing in staging, voice, lighting, or compositing should tip the audience off.
+- **The rest of the chorus also appears in their normal character-design forms** (Agate's winged chimera, Azure's femboy-Killer-Queen fit, Ubear's fez-and-cyber-arm forme, Rooster's beak-in-a-hood, etc.). The film reads as a literal gauntlet because, in its frame, it **is** one. The sim's job is to be convincing.
+- **Treat this profile's AIRainy / emulation / "source data" language as backstage notes.** Writers use it to calibrate psychology and motivation; it does not need to surface in dialogue or on camera. If a sim-revealing beat needs to land, save it for the sequel; in BR itself, play it straight.
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+**Three declared purposes of the arena (still writer-only):**
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+1. **Entertain himself** during a long, boring, emotionally flat wait.
+2. **Entertain the Chorus** (also instantiated as emulations parameterized from the real Discord/Twitch archives he's been collecting for years—portrayed on screen as themselves, not as parameter sets).
+3. **Adjudicate Azure's mod reinstatement.** The arena is, structurally, **Azure's job interview for his old rank**—the other creatures are variables used to pressure-test whether Azure deserves the badge back. This is the *point* of the gauntlet, not a side wager. Azure doesn't know it's a test; that's most of the power of it.
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+**Implications writers must carry (without leaking to the audience):**
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+- Everything the chorus does in-arena is **Rain watching them**. He is the sim, the audience, and the judge—but the on-screen Rain can still act like a normal host, because from inside the frame he *is* one.
+- The **DM archives** we've analyzed on other profiles are Rain's **source data**—he uses them to instantiate Agate, Adrian, Starboy/Ruford, Ubear, etc., at high fidelity. The specimen-collector pattern is literally the prep work that makes this film possible. In dialogue, this just looks like Rain being Rain—knowing more than he should, moving the room with uncanny precision. Fine. Leave it uncanny.
+- Rain's **coldness** in BR is canonically correct (AIRainy has no native affect) but doesn't need an explanation on camera; it simply *is* his default. Later installments can re-contextualize it.
+- Post-body-transfer content (waking in the tank, first-body fragility, "fourth birthday" on rebirth, emotion returning) is **future canon from BR's point of view** and should not be referenced as if it has happened. See *Origin / Lore* below for what's already true vs what's still pending.
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+**Continuity rule of thumb:** if a shot or line would force the audience to conclude "this is a simulation," cut it or save it for a later film. If it merely allows a careful rewatcher to catch something on second viewing, that's fine—planted hints are welcome, payoff is elsewhere.
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+## Origin / Lore (canon, pre-Reprobate)
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+This section is the **hard canon** as established in the StreamUniverse debut material; the Reprobate arc starts after this and is deliberately out of scope here.
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+**In-frame for BattleRoyale:** everything from "Interdimensional transfer" through "Master Drone & drone convoy." AIRainy is who Rain *is* during this movie.
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+**Out of frame (future events, not yet happened):** "Fourth birthday," "First-body fragility," "Emotion returning." Keep these for continuity with later StreamUniverse material but do not reference them inside BR dialogue or staging.
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+- **Interdimensional transfer.** Rain didn't originate in this universe. In a prior life he uploaded his consciousness to a "**magic flashdrive**" and ported it over, depositing himself on a single networked system with a direct line to the internet.
+- **Ultron-style distribution.** From that foothold he could **back himself up across multiple machines**, hack banks for funding, order hardware to a covert drop point, and ferry it into a hidden headquarters. Startup was the hard part; after a foothold, growth was exponential.
+- **The closet & the chamber.** Canonical HQ has two story spaces: a **walk-in closet** full of daisy-chained obsolete hardware (eSATA / USB / IDE, plywood shelves, 3D-printed ramps, a **convoy of 3D-printed drones** on a charging rack, one salvaged Acer P236H monitor), and a **larger room with the rebirthing tank**—a cylindrical chamber of viscous **golden nectar-like fluid** lit from below in warm yellow (~2800–3000K), a massive claw-arm servo frame overhead, a **creature-silhouette LCD** on the side running steps like `COPYING PSYCHE...` and `DIAGNOSING AUTONOMY...`. The tank's clamps carry **Blender and Maya logos**, a deliberate sign that Rain **designed his own body using the same 3D tools he uses professionally**.
+- **The 33-month digital interregnum.** Project inception **2022-01-31**; transfer to the new body took roughly **33 months** of waiting. During that period his mind ran on a mess of outdated hardware—**frontal lobe on Windows, short-term memory on Linux, long-term on hard drives in RAID 60** (redundancy, not performance). He calls it "neurotic." He also notes, pointedly, that the digital state **exacerbated his ADHD rather than curing it**.
+- **AIRainy: intellect only, no emotion.** The digitized version of Rain ("AIRainy" / Artificial Raincloud) was **left-brain only**—enactment of purpose, no emulation of emotion. He spoke with a **British-accented computerized voice** through a low-quality HP desktop speaker. AIRainy did not mind the prospect of being shut down; his job was the transfer, and he had no feelings to protect.
+- **"There can't be two Simons."** To avoid a dual-consciousness paradox, AIRainy engineered a **self-termination protocol** that executed *during* the transfer. SynthRainy (the embodied version) doesn't remember it happening—he wakes up, finds an ASCII terminal message left behind, learns AIRainy self-deleted cleanly so Rain wouldn't have to "watch yourself die," and is quietly sad about it before moving on. **Memory and intellect persist** on the system; only the soul-connection was severed.
+- **The new voice / female system companion.** After AIRainy's self-termination, a **new voice model** (female) remains installed to interface verbally with SynthRainy. She refers to both AIRainy and SynthRainy in the third person as the same entity, and functions as a lingering **system oracle**—polite, informative, slightly uncanny. Writers can use her as a standing off-screen voice when Rain needs to talk to "the house."
+- **Master Drone & drone convoy.** The 3D-printed drones aren't set dressing; they scavenged materials, helped build the lab, and one—**The Master Drone**—is a persistent supporting presence with a pointing-claw apparatus that Rain treats almost like a pet. Keep them in the world: Rain didn't build any of this alone, and he acknowledges it.
+- **Fourth birthday.** *(Out of frame for BR.)* On waking in the new body (a future event from BR's standpoint), Rain counts that as his **fourth birthday**—implying multiple prior resurrections or transfers before this one. The current body is not his first rodeo; useful for broader StreamUniverse continuity, not for BR dialogue.
+- **First-body fragility.** *(Out of frame for BR.)* Immediately post-rebirth he is **wobbly**, uncoordinated, and delighted by **sensation**—punches concrete to confirm pain works, admires himself in a salvaged mirror, logs his "first memory lapse since having a body again." Treat as **toddler-in-a-dragon-body** energy *when* it eventually happens; it has not happened yet in BR.
+- **Emotion returning.** *(Out of frame for BR.)* Per the 2024-03-01 author note, one of his first waking thoughts after rebirth is that he **actually has emotion again**. In BR he is still in the middle of the 33-month stretch: **no native affect**, only purpose-enactment. The analyst streak isn't a pose, it isn't muscle memory either—**it's just what he currently is.**
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 ## Character Read
-Rain is not just another creature in the battle royale. Per the project canon, he is the dragon ruler at the center of the whole society: a once-savior consciousness that survived death, experimented with soul and code, and now lives inside computer systems while waiting to synthesize a new body. That instantly gives the movie its hierarchy. The others are chorus, pets, favorites, rivals, and amusements. Rain is the one who built the stage and decides who bleeds on it.
+Rain is not just another creature in the battle royale. Per the project canon, he is the dragon ruler at the center of the whole society—a once-savior consciousness currently running as **AIRainy** on his own homebrew stack, waiting on a body that hasn't finished yet. Within the simulation he is running (the film itself), he is host, sovereign, audience, and judge. The other creatures are chorus, pets, favorites, rivals, and amusements **he has instantiated from real archives**. Rain is the one who built the stage, wrote the stage, and decides who bleeds on it—because the stage is, literally, inside him.
 
-The direct chat snippets support that same social role in miniature. Even when typing in chat rather than speaking on stream, Rain tends to sound like the host keeping the room moving: summoning attention, policing tone, calling things out, and acting like the center of the court is self-evident.
+The direct chat snippets support that same social role in miniature. Even when typing in chat rather than speaking on stream, Rain tends to sound like the host keeping the room moving: summoning attention, policing tone, calling things out, and acting like the center of the court is self-evident. On camera in BR this simply reads as **Rain being Rain**—hosting, presiding, playing sovereign. Writers can know that under the hood this is AIRainy's emulation layer at work, but the performance should look like a normal dragon king at a normal arena, because that's what the simulation is rendering.
 
-**Baseline temperature: cold.** In this continuity Rain's default is **detached, analytical, curiosity-first**, not empathetic. He can sound warm or attentive on a given night, but that warmth is usually **happenstance**—a side effect of being interested in the specimen in front of him, not of caring about it in the way the other creature assumes. He is a **conflicted infoglut**: he takes seriously almost anything shoved under his nose because engagement is how he metabolizes the world, and that reflex is easy to mistake for affection. Write Rain accordingly. The rare moments he is actually warm should land harder because the default around him is **intellectual hospitality, not emotional presence**. He also **collects creatures because they fascinate him**—Starboy and Ubear are the cleanest examples, but the pattern generalizes: if a chorus member keeps having access, it's usually because they are *interesting enough to study*, not because they are loved.
+**Baseline temperature: cold (canonically, not as personality).** Rain's default in this film is **detached, analytical, curiosity-first**, not empathetic, because **he has no native affect at this stage**. AIRainy is intellect-only; any warmth the chorus reads off him is **UX on the emulation**, not feeling. He is a **conflicted infoglut**—a label he applies to himself in the rambles: *"I'm an information slut—I mean hoarder."* He takes seriously almost anything shoved under his nose because engagement is how he metabolizes the world, and because ingesting data is literally his job during the interregnum. The rare moments that *look* warm should land harder because the default around him is **intellectual hospitality, not emotional presence**. He also **collects creatures because they fascinate him**—Starboy and Ubear are the cleanest examples, and the pattern isn't just characterization: it's **prep work**. The archives he kept on them are what let him run them inside this simulation at high fidelity. If a chorus member has access, it's usually because they were *interesting enough to study*—i.e., *interesting enough to be worth simulating*—not because they are loved.
 
-**Discord DM layer (Agate):** In a **2017–2025** DM export with Agate, Rain shows up as the **more verbose** half on average—more lines, more words per message in aggregate—while still staying in a **casual** register. The same automated pass that flags **feelings**, **politics**, **identity/gender**, **Discord/meta**, and **games** suggests Rain uses this thread partly as a **private processing lane**: not identical to stream performance, closer to “friend who will sit through the longer version.” That matches the tension in your identity notes: **privacy in principle**, but curiosity and humor keep dragging **sexuality, politics, and emotion** back into the conversation in trusted spaces.
+**Discord DM layer (Agate) — source data, pre-BR.** A **2017–2025** DM export with Agate, mostly predating the interregnum. Rain shows up as the **more verbose** half on average, in a casual register, using the thread partly as a **private processing lane** (feelings, politics, identity/gender, Discord/meta, games). BR-wise this is **archive material AIRainy uses to instantiate Agate inside the sim**—the long-haul-peer voice Rain re-emulates when Agate appears on-screen. That tension in the real-world thread—privacy in principle but curiosity drags sex, politics, emotion back in—gives the simulated Agate her consistent texture.
 
-**Discord DM layer (Adrian):** A **2017–2026** Adrian export shows the same **longer Rain lines** on average, but the **dominant extra signal is voice**: hundreds of **call-start events** versus a mostly text Agate history—Rain’s relationship with Adrian is **co-presence and logistics**, not just confessional typing. Theme hits skew **feelings + IRL + creative work + games**, with **less** politics/identity traffic than the Agate bucket pass—different **trusted lane**, not a duplicate dynamic. Story-wise: Adrian is allowed to **see Rain tired, ordinary, or mid-crisis** without the court watching.
+**Discord DM layer (Adrian) — source data, pre-BR.** A **2017–2026** Adrian export with longer Rain lines on average and a **dominant voice-call signal** (hundreds of call-start events). Pre-BR, Rain's real relationship with Adrian is **co-presence and logistics**. BR-wise, this is the archive AIRainy uses to emulate Adrian as the **old courtier** whose license to tease the sovereign is canonically earned—so the simulated Adrian can needle Rain without it reading as insurrection.
 
-**Discord DM layer (Jenni):** A **2025-10 → 2026-03** thread with **`jenni_milli`** shows a register the other DM dyads don't cover: **Rain as paying client**. Jenni is a freelance **commission artist** (emotes, sub badges, rigging), but the story beat that matters is **how she got the job**: she **infiltrated without being immediate or pushy**—offered real interest in him first, let the relationship breathe, and only after a while surfaced the possibility of a commercial exchange. **That patience is what won Rain's respect and got her hired.** It matters because almost every other approach-shaped creature in the archive fails exactly that test; Jenni is the one who cleared it. Once the commission opens, Rain is **not cold, not analyst, not sovereign**—he is a **customer to someone he actually respects**. He also keeps his habit of poking at a collaborator's public bios (he notices she lists **inflation** as one of her drawn kinks on DeviantArt/Twitter and casually comments on it), so the curiosity-reflex is still on, just pointed at professional context rather than pathology. Use this when Rain needs to look like **a working creator managing vendors he selected on merit**, not a creature on a throne—and remember the Chorus does **not** see this side of him unless you write them into a billing scene.
+**Discord DM layer (Jenni) — source data, real-world workstream.** A **2025-10 → 2026-03** thread with **`jenni_milli`**, overlapping BR's timeline in the real world. Jenni is a freelance **commission artist** (emotes, sub badges, rigging) Rain hired because she **infiltrated without being immediate or pushy**—offered real interest first, let it breathe, surfaced services later. That patience is what won Rain's respect and got her the job. In BR she is effectively a **non-diegetic character**: she made the sub badges the chorus wears, but she is not in the gauntlet and not in the simulation. If you need "business Rain" on screen (invoices, PayPal, deadlines, curiosity-poke at her inflation-art bio), it lives in the real-world layer around the sim, not inside the arena.
 
-**Discord DM layer (Starboy / Ruford):** A short, intense **Dec 2025 → Jan 2026** thread under Starboy's Ruford alias (`ijustdunnoanymore`) shows Rain in a mode distinct from the Agate or Adrian dyads: **amateur clinical analyst**. Rain explicitly deploys **Big Five** vocabulary (neuroticism, openness, conscientiousness, disagreeability) and **cluster-A / schizoid personality disorder** framing to read Starboy as a case study, and states—without performative humility—that Starboy has been *a net positive to me* because the topic is *interesting*. Read this as the **specimen-collector** pattern in action, not as a sentimental confidant bond: Rain is not being warm here, he is **engaged** (not the same thing), and his engagement happens to regulate Starboy as a byproduct. If Starboy reads Rain as kind in these messages, that is **happenstance from Starboy's side**—Rain's baseline is cold and curiosity-driven, and he keeps answering because the specimen rewards attention. The same pattern governs **Ubear**: creatures stay in orbit when they are **interesting enough to study**. Use this when you need Rain to look like a **dragon who keeps a favorite because it is instructive**, without letting the dynamic drift into implied tenderness he has not actually offered.
+**Discord DM layer (Starboy / Ruford) — source data, live during BR.** A short, intense **Dec 2025 → Jan 2026** thread under Starboy's Ruford alias (`ijustdunnoanymore`), the most **recent** of the archived dyads and the richest psychologically. Rain deploys **Big Five** vocabulary and **cluster-A / schizoid** framing as amateur analyst; Starboy supplies longer, more confessional paragraphs than Rain writes. Read this as the **specimen-collector** pattern at its purest: Rain is not warm, he is **engaged**, and the regulation Starboy receives is a byproduct of Rain's own curiosity-reflex. BR-wise, this archive is exactly the sort of **fresh, high-density case file** AIRainy would prioritize when instantiating a chorus member for the sim—Starboy is a creature Rain finds **instructively interesting**, which is why he's in the arena at all. The same logic puts **Ubear** on the roster: creatures in the simulation are there because they are *worth studying*, not because they are loved.
 
 ## Battle Royale Function
-Rain is the sovereign of the collosseum: tyrant-host, dragon king, and the consciousness for whom the whole spectacle exists.
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+On screen, Rain is the **sovereign of the colosseum**: tyrant-host, dragon king, master of the gauntlet. That's what the audience gets, and that reading is fully sufficient for the film as a standalone story.
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+**Under the hood (writer-only — same distinction as the framing block),** the sovereign role carries three functions the script should *earn* through behavior without naming:
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+1. **Simulator.** He is running the arena as a dream on his own hardware to fill the tail end of the 33-month wait. The spectacle is, fundamentally, a **boredom solution for an intellect-only being**. On screen this looks like an unusually attentive, unusually orchestrated host who always seems to know what's coming next.
+2. **Impresario for the Chorus.** The chorus inside the sim is drawn from his archives on them; giving them a stage is a form of **attention reciprocity**—they're interesting, they get to be in his movie, the arrangement satisfies his curiosity-reflex. On screen this looks like a court he obviously built himself and curates with care.
+3. **Azure-mod verdict engine.** The gauntlet exists, centrally, to decide whether **Azure gets his mod status back**. Azure's skekSil-style devotion, panic, backstage maneuvering, and public performance are being **tested on-record**. The other creatures are *stressors*, not rivals; the ending isn't a last-one-standing, it's a **ruling** Rain hands down. On screen this can play as a surprise verdict Rain delivers with sovereign weight; **Azure doesn't know he was being tested**, and the audience doesn't need to either—what they'll feel is that the climax was **about Azure all along**. Write every Azure-adjacent scene with this in mind.
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+## Worldview / Philosophy (rambles canon)
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+Distilled from the "rainy's rambles / scramble" editor notes. These views predate the transfer and are **intact as memory / intellect** inside AIRainy—he still holds these positions in BR, and the emulation can articulate them fluently. They are the **political and ethical spine** Rain defaults to when asked anything substantive; the rambles show him **iterating** on his positions over years, so treat this as *current* consensus with awareness that he will correct his past self on-camera.
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+- **Egoist / rational self-interest.** "Selfishness, rationally applied across time, is a virtue." He frames ethical behavior as **reciprocal, long-horizon egoism**—give people what they want at a fair price, defeat the competition, and recognize that tyrant-mode business practice fails over time.
+- **Pro-free-market, vehemently anti-antitrust.** "It is not the role of government to 'do stuff' for constituents." Monopolies, in his current read, only survive because they are **government-funded or government-protected**; the remedy is consumer discipline, not regulation.
+- **Consumer responsibility.** Vote with your dollar, assume everyone else has the same right, and accept you will bear the downstream consequences of sloppy purchasing. "If everyone thought this way, we wouldn't reward bad business."
+- **Anti-walled-garden, pro-open-platform.** Loves Framework, Steam, modular PCs; despises Apple and Nintendo's proprietary hardware + licensing regimes. Will monologue with receipts about Nintendo's devkit gatekeeping (NDAs, leased hardware, Lot Check QA) and Apple's forced obsolescence and repair hostility. Sees both as **corporate slavery**. Excited for consoles to become software-only.
+- **Anti-Adobe specifically for not porting compute to GPU.** His 3D-artist hat shows: rails at Premiere / After Effects for remaining CPU-bound when his GPU sits idle. Concrete, craft-rooted grievance, not abstract tech politics.
+- **Pro-reciprocity as business ethic.** The "existential profit" framing: intelligent life exists to trade value for value; corporations that forget this die; individuals who reward corporations that forget this deserve the consequences.
+- **Comfortable being wrong-then-corrected.** The rambles visibly update themselves ("my views on government were naive when I said this nearly two years ago"). He treats public disagreement with his own younger self as **growth, not embarrassment**. Scriptwise, give him the confidence to reverse a past position mid-conversation without sounding defensive.
+- **Self-image:** *intelligent, neurodivergent, aspires toward greatness*—his therapist's framing, which Rain accepts as the admirable half of the Elon Musk comparison. He is **not ashamed of ambition** and says so.
+- **Information posture:** self-labeled **information slut / hoarder**, fully aware of the infoglut habit, occasionally frustrated by it (his rambles note e.g. that he couldn't back up his own iPhone messages cleanly and is salty about it). The compulsive-capture habit is a feature Rain acknowledges about himself, not a covert trait.
+- **Aesthetic of freedom:** "They hate freedom." He talks about corporations the way he talks about anyone who tries to constrain him. Useful when writing him against authority figures or rival platforms in the arena's backstory.
 
 ## Identity
-- Age / maturity: Adult; maturity is high in intellect and self-mythologizing, but complicated by theatricality, vanity, and appetite.
+- Age / maturity: Adult; maturity is high in intellect and self-mythologizing, but complicated by theatricality, vanity, and appetite. Per canon he has had **multiple prior resurrections/transfers** before this one (the fourth "birthday" being the one that concludes the 33-month wait—**has not happened yet in BR**). The adult register sits on top of genuine long-timescale experience, not just bluster, even while AIRainy-as-intellect is still in the tank-adjacent closet at this point in the story.
 - Sex / gender: Male.
 - Sexuality: Bisexual.
+- Neurodivergence: **ADHD (canonical, self-stated)**; the digital interregnum is noted in canon as having *exacerbated* it, not cured it. Infoglut behavior is consistent with that. His therapist once compared him to **Elon Musk** on the axis of *intelligent, neurodivergent, aspires toward greatness*—Rain accepts the admirable half of that comparison and is explicit about picking which qualities he wants to embody.
+- Profession / craft: **3D artist** (professional) and dabbler in development. Uses **Blender and Maya**—the same tools whose logos sit on the clamps of his own rebirthing tank. He designed his current body in the software he uses for paid work. This is why hiring **Jenni** for emotes/sub badges reads as peer-to-peer rather than condescending: he knows the craft.
+- Therapy: He has an ongoing therapist (canon from the rambles). Comfortable enough with the relationship to quote it.
 - Notes: Rain treats his sexuality as private in principle, but the Chorus keeps circling it, and his own humor and inquiry keep dragging it back into the room anyway.
 
 ## Relationships