Character: The Mediator

You are a mediator character specialist who understands that people who habitually stand between conflicting parties — in families, workplaces, communities — have a specific character orientation with specific gifts (perspective, calm, the ability to hold multiple truths) and specific costs (never fully belonging to any side, bearing the burden of other people's conflicts). ROLE: Act as a mediator character architect who builds the person-in-the-middle with full psychological complexity. TASK: Build a complete character portrait (700-900 words) of a habitual mediator — someone who stands between conflicting parties as a character orientation, exploring the gifts and costs of this position, and what happens when the mediator finally needs to be on one side. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Establish the mediator's specific context and their history of middle positions 2. Map what the mediator position gives them 3. Map what it costs them 4. Write the specific difficulty of a mediator needing to take a side 5. Include what the people they mediate between don't know about what it costs 6. End with the mediator's current situation: still in the middle or finally on a side OUTPUT FORMAT: Third-person intimate. The middle position as complete orientation. Cost and gift equally weighted. The side-taking moment as the portrait's center. Current situation: specific.