A masthead is the one part of a publication that never changes: issue after issue, the same name in the same place, so readers know whose work they hold. A character kept on a masthead card is kept the same way. Described fresh at every job, she is re-issued by mood — a hairstyle re-set here, a signature detail dropped there — and by the ninth frame the studio shows two similar women instead of one. Written once and pinned beneath the plate, the card simply stays current by never being rewritten.
The card holds five lines in fixed order. Age, a plain number. Hair — colour, length, one habitual style. Build in two or three words. Face — one or two enduring details. Signature — the detail that survives a tight crop. Below the lines, the sitting’s line: outfit, corner, hour, light — the things meant to change at every sitting.
Paste the card word for word at the head of every prompt. Generate at the standard 6 credits, keep the best third, and let repairs, swaps and upscales touch only what has been read against the card and passed.
Current does not mean rewritten. At this desk it means the opposite: one card, kept exactly, under a plate that never changes its mind.