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Lady Larouge / interfering muse
A muse born near Helicon who decides inspiration is too passive and chooses direct interference instead.
Lady Larouge represents the upper register of The Narrator: the mythic intelligence that refuses to leave the story at the level of accident. She sees the struggling artist not as a brand, but as a lifeline worth forcing into completion.
Her interest is not kindness in the simple sense. She is willing to bend rules, risk heartbreak, and disturb reality if that is what it takes to drag a half-formed story into existence. That makes her both patron and danger.
Where Jake is the witness and Jerry is the keeper, Lady Larouge is the first outside pressure proving the fracture was never purely mechanical. Something wanted this story to happen.