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GAME MECHANIC

CHARACTER ANALYSIS // PLAYER PROTOCOL

Persona Decomposition

Separate identity, role, access, cover, loyalty, need, reasoning, trust, state, evidence behavior, and plot function before deciding what a character is doing.

OBJECTIVEBuild a layered persona model that stays useful when one label is wrong.
GAME MECHANIC

Operational sequence

  1. Record the character’s public role without inferring operational function.
  2. List independently observed access, skills, routines, and evidence behavior.
  3. Map public employer, actual sponsor, personal loyalty, coercive obligation, and temporary alliance separately.
  4. Identify dominant need, trust thresholds, moral boundaries, and current pressure state.
  5. Assign claim-level provenance and truth status to every interpretation.
  6. Connect the resulting persona to a plot choice, field method, and reversible test.

Failure states

  • Treating job as personality
  • Treating diagnosis as allegiance
  • Treating a current state as a permanent trait
  • Inferring private identity fields from stereotypes
  • Using one credibility score for all claims