storybook/examples/alice-in-wonderland/world/relationships/wonderland_relationships.sb

//! Relationships in Wonderland: connections and dynamics

use schema::core_enums::EmotionalState;

// Alice's pursuit of the White Rabbit - what draws her into Wonderland
relationship AliceAndWhiteRabbit {
    Alice {
        // Alice's perspective
        role: pursuer
        motivation: curiosity
        emotional_investment: 0.7
        understands_other: false

        ---perspective
        Alice follows the White Rabbit out of pure curiosity. "How
        remarkable!" she thinks when he checks his watch. The Rabbit
        represents the mystery of Wonderland - always rushing ahead,
        never looking back, leading her deeper into strangeness.
        ---
    }

    WhiteRabbit {
        // White Rabbit's perspective
        role: unwitting_guide
        motivation: avoid_being_late
        emotional_investment: 0.0
        aware_of_alice: false  // Too preoccupied

        ---perspective
        The White Rabbit barely notices Alice exists. He's consumed
        by his own anxiety about being late for the Duchess, then
        the Queen. Alice is just another obstacle between him and
        punctuality.
        ---
    }
}

// Alice and the Cheshire Cat - mysterious guide and confused visitor
relationship AliceAndCheshireCat {
    Alice {
        // Alice's perspective
        role: seeker_of_guidance
        emotional_state: confused
        trusts_cat: 0.5  // Somewhat unsettling but helpful

        ---perspective
        Alice finds the Cat both helpful and disturbing. He offers
        directions (though everyone he points to is mad), listens
        to her complaints about the croquet game, and provides the
        philosophical framework "we're all mad here."

        His disappearing act is unnerving but she's glad to have
        someone to talk to who doesn't threaten her with beheading.
        ---
    }

    CheshireCat {
        // Cheshire Cat's perspective
        role: amused_observer
        emotional_state: amused
        helps_because: entertainment

        ---perspective
        The Cat finds Alice endlessly entertaining. She's trying
        to apply logic to Wonderland, which is inherently funny.
        He helps her just enough to keep the show going, offering
        directions that aren't wrong but aren't particularly helpful.

        "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." This is both
        warning and welcome. He's inviting her to accept the
        absurdity.
        ---
    }

    bond: 0.6
}

// The Mad Hatter and March Hare - partners in madness
relationship HatterAndHare {
    MadHatter {
        // Hatter's perspective
        role: co_conspirator
        coordination: 1.0
        builds_on_others_nonsense: true

        ---perspective
        The Hatter and March Hare think as one unit of madness.
        When one makes a nonsensical statement, the other builds
        on it. They finish each other's contradictions. They
        coordinate their assaults on logic.

        "You might just as well say 'I see what I eat' is the
        same as 'I eat what I see'!" - this kind of parallel
        construction shows their synchronized absurdity.
        ---
    }

    MarchHare {
        // March Hare's perspective (same as Hatter's - they're unified)
        role: co_conspirator
        coordination: 1.0
        builds_on_others_nonsense: true

        ---perspective
        From the March Hare's side, it's identical. They're two
        halves of the same mad whole. Where one leads in nonsense,
        the other follows. Together they create an impenetrable
        wall of illogic.

        The Dormouse serves as their shared cushion and occasional
        entertainment, but the true relationship is between the
        two perpetrators of madness.
        ---
    }

    bond: 0.95  // Deep partnership
}

// The Queen and King - tyranny and secret rebellion
relationship QueenAndKing {
    QueenOfHearts {
        // Queen's perspective
        role: dominant_spouse
        aware_of_pardons: false  // Completely oblivious
        expects: total_obedience

        ---perspective
        The Queen views the King as a minor annoyance who occasionally
        needs to be threatened. She expects him to agree with her
        rage, support her execution orders, and generally stay out
        of her way.

        She has no idea he undermines every execution order. Her
        blindness to his quiet rebellion is the only thing that
        keeps the marriage (and Wonderland) functioning.
        ---
    }

    KingOfHearts {
        // King's perspective
        role: secret_moderator
        loves_queen: 0.3
        fears_queen: 0.9
        subverts_authority: 1.0

        ---perspective
        The King lives in constant fear but maintains his rebellion
        through whispered pardons. "Consider, my dear: she is only
        a child!" - these timid pleas fall on deaf ears.

        His real power is exercised in secret: pardoning those the
        Queen condemns, preventing the executions she orders. He's
        the true ruler of Wonderland, governing through mercy while
        she rages in impotent fury.
        ---
    }

    bond: 0.4  // Marriage held together by fear and secret subversion
}

// Alice and the Caterpillar - student and philosophical teacher
relationship AliceAndCaterpillar {
    Alice {
        // Alice's perspective
        role: confused_student
        emotional_state: frustrated
        seeking: answers_about_size

        ---perspective
        Alice finds the Caterpillar incredibly frustrating. He asks
        "Who are YOU?" when she's having an identity crisis. He
        contradicts everything she says. He refuses to elaborate
        on his cryptic advice about the mushroom.

        Yet he ultimately helps her gain control over her size
        changes, providing the knowledge she needs even if his
        manner is infuriating.
        ---
    }

    Caterpillar {
        // Caterpillar's perspective
        role: socratic_teacher
        emotional_state: melancholy
        teaching_method: contradiction

        ---perspective
        The Caterpillar forces Alice to confront her confusion
        through questioning. "Who are YOU?" is not rhetorical -
        he's making her face the fact that she doesn't know.

        His advice about the mushroom is deliberately incomplete.
        She must experiment, fail, grow too large, shrink too
        small, before mastering the technique. This is teaching
        through experience, not explanation.
        ---
    }

    bond: 0.5
}

// Card Gardeners - fearful colleagues
relationship GardenersFearfulColleagues {
    CardGardenerTwo {
        // Two's perspective
        role: mediator
        tries_to_calm: true
        explains_mistake: true

        ---perspective
        Two attempts to maintain focus on the task: paint the
        roses before the Queen arrives. When Five and Seven argue,
        he tries to mediate. When Alice asks questions, he explains
        their predicament honestly.

        He's the voice of desperate pragmatism in a hopeless situation.
        ---
    }

    CardGardenerFive {
        // Five's perspective
        role: blame_assigner
        gets_splashed: true
        quick_to_anger: true

        ---perspective
        Five is more concerned with who's at fault than with solving
        the problem. When paint splashes him, he immediately blames
        Seven. This finger-pointing wastes precious time but feels
        necessary to his sense of justice.

        His anger is fear displaced - they're all about to be
        beheaded, so at least someone should be blamed properly.
        ---
    }

    bond: 0.6
}

// The Dormouse and the Tea Party hosts - cushion and tormentors
relationship DormouseAndHosts {
    TheDormouse {
        // Dormouse's perspective
        role: unwilling_participant
        would_rather: sleep
        stories_interrupted: always

        ---perspective
        The Dormouse just wants to sleep. He's pinched awake,
        used as a cushion, has tea poured on his nose, and whenever
        he starts a story, he's interrupted or falls asleep mid-sentence.

        His relationship with the Hatter and March Hare is one of
        resigned tolerance. They're his tormentors but also his
        companions in the eternal tea party. He can't escape, so
        he sleeps.
        ---
    }

    MadHatter {
        // Hatter's perspective (and March Hare's - they treat Dormouse identically)
        role: user_of_furniture
        values_dormouse_as: cushion_and_entertainment
        consideration: minimal

        ---perspective
        To the Hatter and March Hare, the Dormouse is both furniture
        and occasional diversion. They rest their elbows on him
        without thinking. They wake him when they want a story,
        then ignore him mid-tale.

        There's no malice, just complete disregard for his comfort.
        This is how the mad treat the merely sleepy.
        ---
    }

    bond: 0.4
}