Now lets continue.
As some of the suggestions above were already implemented i am making this a new post addressing the updated version. The non implemented suggestions from above still stand.
In the profile there is the claim that your painter is 800. This forces a few questions. The most pressing should be the immortality and how she survived a lot of wars (a LOT of wars, including both industrial wars). This goes for the clothes to, since fabric dose not stay preserved for 800 years if worn.
There are also other problems from living this long. This arcs back to the question whether the painter IS human.
You mention "grafted" hands. Are we talking about a full hand transplantation? This is difficult even with today's medical knowledge. This could point to a quite valuable anomaly. Seeing as the transplantation method kept the fin motor skills intact.
The painter of your death takes refuge in a constant silence by saying that she feels soiled by the blood that this woman had shed.
This stile dose not sound like a detached report of events.
""The painter" has, as of now, not revealed this information. The reasons cited for her decision are currently being investigated."
The second paragraph describing the ability itself might has to be rewritten into smaller sentences.
As i read it (this is just how i understand the ability not how i believe it should be written in the actual article):
- Giving the painter a photo or sketch of a person allows her to make her own sketch of said person
- If this sketch resembles the planed target, the planed target is chosen and locked in as the primed target
- If the sketch resembles another unrelated person more than the planed target, that person is locked in as the primed target instead of the planed target
- Sketches of the primed targets life appear in the notebook without having to be drawn by anyone
- The painter than selects one of the sketches in the notebook and draws the actual painting
- During this step the primed target might become the actual target or another person that resembles the person in the final painting more than the primed target becomes the actual target
- The final painting depicts the death of the actual target
- The actual target dies in the way depicted in the painting
If the assassination ends positively, The painter of your death. will then have to burn the various sketches, paintings that she could have made during this assassination for a reason still unknown to date she kept the painting of the assassination of the target █████ █████████
This should be two sentences.
"If the assassination is successful, "The painter" will burn the sketches and paintings she produced during the assassination attempt. Whether this behavior is part of the anomaly or a personal preference is still debated. For a currently unknown reason "the painter" kept the painting of the assassination target █████ █████████"
That she kept a painting makes this difficult as the insurgency has to assume that the destruction of the painting is part of the requirements for successful elimination of the target.
The next paragraph should be two. One were her mental condition is described and one were her discovery is described. Also, to keep neutrality i would remove the "us" from that paragraph.
The paragraph about the housing might has to be reworked, but i can currently not accurately pinpoint what is wrong with it. This might have something to do with it.
Agents must be equipped with hypodermic pistols to deal with the many suicide attempts of The painter of your death
We have ways to deal with suicidal personnel if we catch the warning signs.
The interview is fine up unto the last bit. "Taking refuge in silence" is not something we write into official documents.
"The painter ceased communication afterwards."
Hope this helps.
Also, just a tip from someone who had to rewrite and correct his own stuff a lot:
Don't write "new version" somewhere, use version numbers "V0.6", "Ver1.01" and "V2.0".
V0.XX for unfinished works, V1.XX for works almost ready to be published and V2.XX for fundamental changes in cases were the original needed a massive rewrite.
EDIT: At some point you say she is depressed because she failed to kill herself, but this is actually backwards.
Suicide is a symptom, not a cause. A failed attempt might make depressions worse, do to a perceived failure, but this "failure" actually enables better treatment.