1. Canon Definition
Child is an archetype in the Universal Core family.
This entry is directly defined in the archetype registry source list.
This entry is not an identity, title, personality type, or moral status. It is a principle-intersection geometry used to map coherent expression, shadow risk, relational impact, timing, restoration, and scaling behavior.
2. Core Function
Carries openness, wonder, renewal, vulnerability, and uncompressed possibility.
3. Coherent Expression
curiosity, renewal, trust calibrated by discernment.
4. Shadow / Inversion Expression
naïveté, dependency, refusal of responsibility, helplessness loops.
5. Aliases / Related Forms
- Innocent
- Divine Child
- Beginner
- Wonder-Bearer
- New Seed
- Open One
6. Registry Mapping
Source depth: direct
7. Template Expansion Notes
The full ARCHETYPE-TEMPLATE.md expansion should add:
- principle basis and Sigma boundaries
- interface stack profile
- operator and coupling profiles
- scaling risks
- diagnostics
- restoration arc
- AI-mediated use
- symbolic / teaching translation
Entry Closure
Child maps a coherent agency pattern in the Universal Core family and must remain audit-bound rather than identity-bound.