Story threads: cast → endings
How Suit, Square, Circle, Hat Man, protesters, Cricket, and the TV connect to the twelve menu endings — without inventing new plot.
Hostility chain (chaos media)
Suit seeds unrest. A crazed Square confronts a Circle. Photograph the scare and keep feeding fights → Viral. Crop the Square out for scared-circle close-ups → Scared. Let panic start and take no photos → Eyes Closed. Catch the bribe before chaos owns the headlines → Follow the Money. Accidental empty-grass spam can fork into Breaking News instead.
Hope & absurd forks
Corner rescue by a Square → Good. Sustained protester peace coverage → Peace. Smiling citizens → Say Cheese. Cricket or blank lawns short-circuit human drama. Looping the TV monitor → TV. Wide crowd frames → Reverse. Hat Man on arrival (then hats) → Hat; hesitation can let chaos steal the run (see also the extra Bad / riot practice path).
You are still the journalist
Every thread still runs through the player camera. The cast list on Characters is the roster; ending guides are the shutter scripts. Use this page as the narrative map between the two.