Characterization in Jag27 is textured rather than revelatory. The Architect is less a mustache-twirling villain and more an engineer of inevitability—someone convinced that removing messy human deliberation will prevent suffering. That rationalization makes their actions more chilling: malevolence wrapped in the language of care. Mira’s arc humanizes the psychological fallout; she is a vessel of regret and possibility, her fragmented memories serving as moral weather. The resistors bring levity and moral clarity without lapsing into caricature—each hack, each patchwork comic, is a case study in how narrative reframing can reclaim agency.