Color, Character, Covenant — Foundational Article THE CARRYING PATTERN External Engagement and the Governed Self I. Why This Question Needs Asking The Color, Character, Covenant framework has never been faithful to either of its source books on its own terms. People Code supplies a proposed motive core. Surrounded by Idiots supplies behavioral categories built from DISC. CCC treats these as distinguishable interpretive layers describing the same person — an organizing choic