Corinna-Rae Salter loves rules the way some people love family — not without reservation, not without occasional resentment, but with a bedrock conviction that their violation leads to chaos. She is not wrong. She is also not right in the way she thinks she is.
Her trepidation around Theodore is its own kind of rule-following: she concluded that someone who commits insubordination will commit insubordination again. She treats him accordingly — as a person on the permanent verge of revolt. He finds this maddening.
Her attempts to enforce rules consistently backfire around Theodore, which only deepens her conviction that he is a dangerous misfit. This produces the particular dynamic between them that the station will quietly depend on for years.
Once she truly acclimates to change, she becomes something the station did not expect: indispensable. Her final form, as an embittered and slightly wild magician who has joined the Shenist faith, would surprise her former self considerably.
| Personnel | Relationship Dynamics |
|---|---|
| Theodore Castelline | She treats him as perpetually pre-revolt. He finds this maddening. They are, despite everything, effective together. |
| Megan Quire | Megan initially finds Corinna-Rae's rule-based methods effective. This changes. The gap between their approaches is chronic. |
Bureaucratic adversary. Reliable irritant. Eventually: the dynamic the station quietly depended on.
View dossier → Megan QuirePhilosophical opposite. Practically adjacent. More useful to each other than either will admit.
View dossier → The StationHer life's work is keeping it procedurally sound. She is not wrong that this matters.
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