01Personhood
Elias trusts tools more than institutions and uses humor when he feels cornered. He wants to return to his workshop and preserve his bond with Mira without living inside one shared explanation.
- Public role
- Patient / Facilities Referral
- Primary function
- Patient / Witness
- Current status
- Voluntary paired intake
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Preserve his bond with Mira while recovering an independent account
- Self-narrative
- Agreement kept us moving, but it cannot be the only proof we have.
- Motivational pressure
- Belonging / protection
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Mechanical inspection and concrete cause tracing
- Defenses
- Humor, technical certainty, deference to Mira in social conflict
- Evidence caution
- This formulation preserves ordinary competence, relationships, preferences, contradiction, and future goals beyond crisis or operational utility.
06Pressure & state
- Stress response
- Rechecks locks, interprets repair noise as entry, and adopts shared explanations to reduce uncertainty
- Pressure pattern
- Shared certainty under isolation
- Behavioral tell
- Jokes immediately after noticing a discrepancy
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Independent work, physical evidence review, sibling contact, and non-punitive separation of accounts
- 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.