---
id: bradford-kane
name: Bradford Kane
chr: —
yarn_file: Assets/Dialogue/Characters/BradfordKane.yarn
status: planned
scenes: [SC101]
---

# Bradford Kane

> **Effectively unwritten.** `Bradford_Kane_Talk` contains one line — `<<set
> $spoke_to_bradford_kane = true>>` — and nothing else. The chair menu already offers him as an
> option in every variation, so a player can introduce themselves to him and receive silence.
> This is the most visible gap in SC-101.

## Who they are

*Unwritten.* What exists: he is the gentleman on the protagonist's **right** at the table, the
one seated further from the head than Chevalier Cassian Thal. That is the whole of it.

The structural role is available and worth taking deliberately: the chair scene currently has
one talker and one silence, and the menu variations (`Left_Not_Right`, `Right_Not_Left`, `Both`)
are already built to track both conversations independently. The architecture is waiting for him.

## How they speak

*Unwritten.* One constraint worth honouring: he should not be a second Chevalier. Cassian Thal
is courteous, archaic and institutional. If Kane is also old money at ease, the table has one
voice twice. The name reads American against Thal's continental title — that contrast is free
and probably should be used.

## Verbal tics

*Unwritten.* Maximum two.

## What they never say or do

*Unwritten.*

## What they know

| They know | True? | Reveals when | Records |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | `$spoke_to_bradford_kane` (set, currently unused by any branch) |

The candidate registry lists **testimony** clues as `Planned` for all three candidates, with no
`sceneId`. Kane is the obvious carrier for at least one: he is already placed, already
reachable, and already has a flag recording that the player met him.

## What they are wrong about

*Unwritten.*

## Their read on the protagonist

*Unwritten.* Note the design constraint before choosing one: Chevalier Cassian Thal already
implements the "mirror the leading lean back at the player" mechanic. Kane should not repeat it.
A contrast would be stronger — a figure who reads the protagonist as one specific thing and
does not update, or one who declines to guess at all.

## One line that is 100% them

*Unwritten. Write this first — it is the cheapest way to find out who he is.*

## Open threads

Everything. Before drafting, fill the vault character sheet (`[[Character Sheet Handbook]]`) —
§1 placement and §2 the two truths — because he does not yet have a faction row, and writing him
before that is exactly the failure mode that document exists to prevent.