Presentation QA mascots-020: seven earned pivots and one detached paragraph

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00190.mascots-020 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/mascots/216.corelock-flavorwarden.md through content/mascots/222.slidey-deckworm.md (issue #747)

What changed

Read all seven assigned mascot records in full — frontmatter through final related-residue line, including appended haiku, limerick, and foreign-rite verse sections. All seven files were byte-identical to the issue snapshot (8997eeb); no intervening drift to disclose.
Added one bold pivot to each record's biography/lead prose: the defining-failure clause in M-0216 through M-0221 (each restated by that record's own Known Failures list and a limerick stanza), and "He is never not on Slide 7." in M-0222 (restated twice by its aphorism residue).
Inserted one blank line in 222.slidey-deckworm.md between the Lifecycle list and the "When threatened…" sentence. The sentence had no list marker and was being lazily absorbed into the final <li>; verified in compiled HTML before and after.

What was deliberately left alone

The four-line run-on stat block (**Role:** / **Function:** / **Emotional Tone:** / **Tags:**) in M-0216 through M-0221 — identical no-hard-break convention across the mascot collection; a collection-level question, not a per-record fix.
Every verse line's two-space hard breaks, stanza blank lines, cross-line italic spans (e.g. "*orchard / Riddle*"), the emoji headings, the --- + blockquote with trailing > line, and the appended Engagement Labyrinth Strategic Rite haiku/limerick cycle in M-0222 — all preserved exactly.
Word-level residue: "unchartered" (M-0217), "foundrel" (M-0218), "Nothing gets passed me" (M-0219), the she/he pronoun flip in M-0221's aphorism residue, and the Location: bullets inside Known Failures lists — all preserved as archival residue.
No needs decision items: all verse regions already carry proper hard breaks (verified in compiled   output).

Verification performed

BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh — passed (Boris diagnostics, Cantilever compile, verse hard-break check, HTML ID audit, count guardrail, certification).
python3 scripts/check_collection_counts.py — PASS after recount.
Compiled-article inspection: each of M-0216–M-0221 now emits 5  (4 stat labels + 1 pivot); M-0222 emits 4  (3 list labels + 1 pivot) and the Lifecycle note renders as its own  outside the <ul>;   counts unchanged (46/46/46/46/46/46/108).