Vivi Destroy The Palace Strategic-Distraction Plan

Status: pending · Technique: chekhov-explicit · dialogue-doctrine · arc-finale-plan-articulation

The seed

First on-page Vivi-articulates-her-arc-finale-plan — the proposal to destroy the royal seat (symbolic-instrumental, not strategic-defeat) to interrupt the civil-war engagement long enough to address both armies.
Vivi’s This is not Alabasta, Chaka line is the arc-thesis — operationally a princess-of-Alabasta declaration that the kingdom-as-physical-seat premise is replaced by the kingdom-as-people premise. The Ch. 167 Cobra-doctrine People ARE the kingdom!! is here Vivi-echoed at the operational tier.
Pre-loads the forward-canon palace-destruction beat as the symbolic-instrumental act that lets Vivi address both armies. The forward-canon execution of this plan is the chapter-after-next-or-so beat.
Chaka’s commitment to the plan is operationally treasonable on its face — only Vivi’s arc-thesis articulation converts him. The Royal-Guard Acting Commander commits to physically destroying the royal seat on the princess’s order; the only authorization-vector is Vivi’s people-are-the-kingdom extension of Cobra’s doctrine.