The wound

She walked away from Memory House because she would not sign a contract that would have made her complicit in a Struck designation she believed was unjust. The person who got Struck was a researcher she didn’t know. The board moved on. Her mother didn’t. Min has spent three years trying to decide whether her refusal was integrity or pride. She still doesn’t know. The question is the engine of her interior life.

The longing

To know what she’s actually for. The Memory pipeline gave her a clear answer; she rejected it; nothing has filled the space. Crew work pays the rent and gives her people to love but she suspects she’s hiding from a larger question. The story is partly about whether she finds it.

Skills

Contract reading, contract negotiation, basic ritual practice, four spoken languages — Cantonese, Mandarin, English, basic Tagalog. Better than average at recognizing what an entity actually wants vs. what its priesthood says it wants. Average at everything physical. She doesn’t run from fights but she doesn’t win them either.

Relationships within the crew

• With Jin — closest friendship. They met on her second freelance job; he was thirteen and getting his first beating from a fixer who’d shorted him. She intervened. He’s been her brother since.
• With Faan — respect, mild romantic tension neither has acknowledged. Faan is older and has been in the city longer.
• With Nadia — the crew member she trusts most for hard truths. They argue often, well.
• With Bo — protective. He’s the youngest. She reads his contracts twice.
• With Dr. Kwan — the one crew member older than she is who treats her as fully adult. She values this enormously.

Series arc

The first season is Min learning that her refusal to re-engage with Memory House has costs she hasn’t accounted for. Threshold’s interest in her is not idle. The standing Harbor favor she’s been carrying for three years will need to be spent. Her mother will reappear. The crew will discover that Min has been carrying things she hasn’t told them, and the question of whether they can hold what she’s been carrying alone is the dramatic engine.