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What is character drift?
Character drift is an accidental change in a character's stable facts, knowledge, motivation, emotion, presence, relationship state, or voice.
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What it means
Some character change is intentional development. Drift is the version that arrives without enough story cause, often because revision changed one scene without updating another.
- Character drift can be factual, emotional, motivational, relational, or vocal.
- Large casts and long revision cycles make drift easier to miss.
- Evidence-backed checks help separate intentional development from accidental inconsistency.
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