Congenital plagiarist, on academic probation since fifteen

pivotal · STANDING

• When: STANDING — an ongoing identity through YDAU (probation dates to age fifteen)
• What: Struck has been on academic probation since fifteen, and the trait underneath is the timeline's thesis: he is, in Hal's assessment, a congenital plagiarist — the type who pours far more labor into camouflaging borrowed work than original composition would cost, less lazy than "navigationally insecure," needing the assurance that somebody has been someplace before him. The trait powers both his commercial desk (event 4) and his term-paper set-piece (event 15).