Relationship file
Fen Delacroix's Connections
The people, places, systems, and open questions tied to Fen Delacroix, projected from canonical relationship data.
The complete connection file
The people, places, systems, and open questions connected to Fen Delacroix—and why each connection matters here.
Supporting connections
Out-diagnoses the automation that erased her apprenticeship — unpaid.
Automation ended most human work, but ownership hoards its abundance while machine sentience stays unresolved.
Recording knowledge that may die untransferable — Jin's dead words.
Dead Words records language whose referents vanished or drifted and words built to remain unreadable to machines.
2,847 hours recorded, and the knowing still won't transfer.
Nothing expires, so forgetting became a service — and forgiveness a question the archive keeps answering no.
Jin's ear beats the machine — a diagnosis no recorder can capture.
The last human smarter than any machine was born in the 2020s; the question now is what intelligence is actually for.
Other connections
Protective older brother Harris "Tink" Delacroix — former Nexus security architect, current Dregs hacker-builder; absent, useful, and bad at emotional maintenance
A former Nexus security chief turned Dregs hacker whose mastery of machines is the treadmill's rare exit.
Jin's youngest and most promising apprentice — she's trying to preserve knowledge that may be inherently untransferable
An 80-year-old unaugmented lineman who keeps the Grid running better than Nexus's automation.
Searching the Dead Internet for ORACLE documentation that might supplement Jin's knowledge
Something in the Grid is watching — Fen may be the only person who knows about the diagnostic terminal
A patchwork power grid keeps the Sprawl alive through ORACLE routing logic nobody understands or dares replace.
The guild's youngest journeyman — seven years into her training
An informal guild of manual maintenance workers keeping the Sprawl's interstitial infrastructure running.
Lives in the Undervolt — born in the Dregs, moved underground at sixteen
Fen catalogued the underground ad node Luma sits on top of — they share a reverence for what the old systems reveal about humanity
Fen recorded the chapel for her infrastructure survey — then asked Dex to build a memorial for a colleague. They correspond.
Keeper of 12,247 holographic dead who believes the frozen copy is more honest than the person it copied.
Discovered the underground advertising node during a 2183 infrastructure survey
Fen taught it to three Dregs children who now practice in the Thinking Room
Posed: 'What does the Grid sound like in the sealed junction beneath the Sector 8 memorial?'
An unnamed, leaderless network preserving 4,200 hand-written cards nobody thought to ask an AI.
Fen wants to document the bunker for her infrastructure survey. The Witness refuses. Fen respects the refusal. Neither understands the other.
The explorer who came back from a sealed pre-Cascade bunker counseling people to let dead memories end.