# Axis Sheet

This is the first basis sheet for the project.

## `K` Kernel

- Definition
  The compressed generating claim from which the rest can be unfolded.
- Signal words
  remainder, closure, renewal, signal, missing lever, excess
- Failure mode
  Too vague, slogan-like, detached from actual faces
- Overuse risk
  Repetition without regeneration

## `T` Technical

- Definition
  The mathematical and physical face: formal structures, constraints, derivations, experimental proposals
- Signal words
  Lie group, gauge, tensor, curvature, lattice, octonion, E₈, G₂, Wilson loop, CKM, phason
- Failure mode
  Becoming brittle, inflated, or overclaiming
- Overuse risk
  Reader suffocation or false precision

## `M` Mythic

- Definition
  The story-structure face: home, call, threshold, descent, ordeal, return, monster, scroll, crystal
- Signal words
  hero, ordinary world, call, horizon, gate, monster, return, hunt
- Failure mode
  Becoming grandiose or fantasy-coded without discipline
- Overuse risk
  Losing argumentative credibility

## `D` Devotional

- Definition
  The reverent face: beauty, warmth, hope, grief, love, kingdom, prayerful seriousness
- Signal words
  beauty, warmth, hope, love, forgiveness, kingdom, reverence
- Failure mode
  Sentimentality or spiritual overreach
- Overuse risk
  Diluting harder conceptual work

## `P` Phenomenological

- Definition
  The inside-feel face: what closure, remainder, tragedy, and resonance are like from within
- Signal words
  exhaustion, pressure, warmth, surprise, depletion, presence, tragedy
- Failure mode
  Becoming private or impressionistic
- Overuse risk
  Loss of shared traction

## `R` Prophetic

- Definition
  The diagnostic face: extraction, corruption, civilizational failure, institutional closure, demand for change
- Signal words
  extraction, waste, corruption, drift, failure, fragmentation, kingdom, shared project
- Failure mode
  Becoming scolding or totalizing
- Overuse risk
  Flattening complexity into accusation

## `C` Cultural

- Definition
  The bridge face: Pokémon, naming, popular worlds, stories that teach the pattern before theory does
- Signal words
  Pokédex, type chart, Pallet Town, professor, starter, myth in names
- Failure mode
  Feeling gimmicky or bolted on
- Overuse risk
  Breaking tone or shrinking scope

## Current Dominant Mix In `5 - narrative.md`

- strongest axes
  `T`, `M`, `D`, `R`

- strongest emerging bridges
  `M x C`, `T x M`, `D x R`, `K x T`

- still under-separated
  `P` and `M` often blur
  `D` and `R` often braid tightly
  `T` and `M` sometimes need cleaner joins