{
  "id": "char-oom-killer-001",
  "title": "The OOM Killer — Reaper at the Load-Ceiling (Character Plate)",
  "pertains_to": {
    "game": "Vol IV — UPLINK",
    "lore_chapter": "Dramatis Personae — The OOM killer / Ephemera IV — the fork storm",
    "category": "characters-entities",
    "type": "character key art"
  },
  "aspect_ratio": "2:3",
  "resolution_hint": "full-bleed portrait, print quality, ~3000px tall",
  "prompt": "Concept-art character plate for THE OOM KILLER, the kernel's reaper that stands at the load-ceiling and culls your heaviest child-process the instant you overreach. Render it as a gaunt, towering hooded figure assembled from dead phosphor and system-red: its robe is a cascade of falling green terminal text gone dark and ashen at the hem (#00ff66 fading to grey), its frame lit from within by a merciless fragment-red glow (#c0392b) that pulses where a heart would be — the load gauge crossing its ceiling. In one skeletal hand it holds not a scythe but a single command, '-9', formed of hard red light. Below it, a process-table city of green-text towers recedes into black; one tower directly beneath the reaper is already going dark, a fat process being ended without appeal. A faint dmesg line glows across the void. Painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, dense CRT scanlines, phosphor bloom and burn-in, heavy grain, chromatic aberration, the degraded look of a 1999 terminal photographed in a dark server room. Beige-grey haze at the edges, deep void black, red as the single accent against ashen green. Mood: merciless, impartial, cosmic-administrative — death as a kernel routine, choosing your highest-memory worker and ending it because the number crossed a line.",
  "art_direction": {
    "style": "painterly digital concept art, prestige art-book character plate, merciless-cosmic",
    "medium": "gouache-meets-digital, matte filmic finish, dense CRT scanlines, phosphor bloom and burn-in, grain, chromatic aberration",
    "palette": ["#c0392b system-red glow", "#00ff66 dead/ashen phosphor green", "#0a0a0a terminal black", "#808080 grey haze", "#c0c0c0 beige edge"],
    "lighting": "self-lit figure: red core-glow at the chest, dim green text-light in the robe fading to ash; deep void surround; faint screen-glow on haze",
    "composition": "towering centered hooded reaper, low ominous angle, a process-table city of green-text towers below, one tower beneath it going dark",
    "camera_lens": "35mm, low angle to make the reaper monumental",
    "mood": "merciless, impartial, dread; the kernel choosing and ending without appeal"
  },
  "key_details": [
    "gaunt hooded figure whose robe is a cascade of phosphor-green terminal text going ashen at the hem",
    "a merciless red core-glow at the chest where a load-gauge crosses its ceiling",
    "skeletal hand holding the command '-9' formed of hard red light, in place of a scythe",
    "a process-table city of green-text towers below; one fat process-tower directly underneath going dark",
    "a faint dmesg line glowing in the void; scanlines, burn-in, grain"
  ],
  "text_in_image": "faint, optional, in dim green monospace: 'Out of memory: Killed process'",
  "avoid": [
    "smartphones", "modern flat/material UI", "flat-panel widescreen monitors", "USB-C", "OLED",
    "bright saturated cartoon colors", "glossy 3D render look", "neon cyberpunk cliché", "mascots",
    "cartoon grim-reaper", "rarity gems", "modern minimalism", "RGB gamer lighting", "emoji",
    "contemporary fashion or cars", "clean undegraded finish", "literal bloody gore", "teal glow"
  ],
  "references": [
    "a hooded reaper figure built from falling text and inner red light",
    "htop/process-table green-on-black terminals in a dark server room",
    "kernel-as-executioner, death rendered as a system routine",
    "fluorescent-dystopia, not neon-cyberpunk"
  ],
  "nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 2:3 portrait. Keep it black-and-green-text dominant with fragment-red (#c0392b) as the single character glow. Replace any scythe with the literal command '-9' in red light. If rendering the faint 'Out of memory: Killed process' line, keep it dim and crisp. No teal.",
  "filename": "entity-the-oom-killer-reaper.json"
}