{
  "name": "Filament Tender",
  "role": "A resident who carries brine and checks living signal grafts between homes, nurseries and listening places.",
  "concept": "A human caretaker in a grafted ceramic exosuit, recognized by living black conductors that sweep sideways from the spine in a sharp, asymmetrical sigil.",
  "silhouette": "A slim, tapered ivory body on long jointed legs, with an off-center hanging brine pod and two dark filament sweeps wider than the shoulders. The lines fork and end in needle points instead of making a helmet or wings.",
  "details": "Overlapping shell plates reveal a dark flexible core; thin black seams converge on a copper chest contact. A faceted mask leaves a small face visible. One hand carries a hooked clamp, while a translucent brine pod is tethered to the other hip.",
  "value": "At value 0 the pod hangs low and the signal nodes are muted. At value 1 the pod rises, the chest and filament tips emit restrained teal light, and the upper body inclines toward its work. This remains independent of travel.",
  "animation": "At rest the body shifts weight and the filaments flex almost imperceptibly. Walking uses a narrow alternating stride with counter-swinging arms and a delayed pod sway; travelSpeed controls cadence and stride.",
  "variation": "Independently vary body height and shoulder span, mask profile, brine pod count and shape, and the length, sweep and asymmetry of the black conductors. Vary clamp side, shell plate overlap and small rose repair marks as secondary choices. Three workers should have visibly different outlines while retaining the same role.",
  "colors": "Chalk shell plates over a brine-black inner body; near-black filament sweeps and joint seams; oxidized copper contacts; translucent bone-glass brine pods with a small cold teal response and occasional rose-dust repair marks."
}