01Personhood
Celeste is funny, musical, exacting, and ashamed of how many people she recruited into an authority she did not possess. She wants her valid work preserved without turning recovery into public humiliation.
- Public role
- Patient / Signals Operations Referral
- Primary function
- Patient / Witness
- Current status
- Voluntary admission with occupational liaison
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Preserve competence while accepting limits on authority during episodes
- Self-narrative
- I can be brilliant without being appointed by the universe.
- Motivational pressure
- Special status / urgency
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Rapid associative signal patterning with strong technical intuition
- Defenses
- Grandiose reframing, speed, humor, argumentative certainty
- Evidence caution
- This formulation preserves ordinary competence, relationships, preferences, contradiction, and future goals beyond crisis or operational utility.
06Pressure & state
- Stress response
- Sleeps less, speaks faster, creates parallel plans, and interprets resistance as infiltration
- Pressure pattern
- Manic acceleration
- Behavioral tell
- Conducts invisible rhythms with two fingers when thoughts accelerate
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Sleep, medication, collaborative review of valid work, music, and restored role boundaries
- Agency rule
- This character remains present, capable of refusal, and able to pursue goals after the player’s immediate objective ends.
- Player obligation
- Protect the distinction between helping the person and using the person.