01Personhood
Kaito is patient with broken equipment and impatient with moral lectures. He wants the unsafe staffing chain documented, his frequency capture preserved, and a recovery plan that does not erase his technical identity.
- Public role
- Patient / Communications Referral
- Primary function
- Patient / Witness
- Current status
- Medical observation
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Keep his technical identity while acknowledging exposure and sleep-related impairment
- Self-narrative
- A bad decision under impossible staffing does not erase the engineer who can repair the system.
- Motivational pressure
- Duty / access
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Signal isolation, hardware troubleshooting, and frequency comparison
- Defenses
- Technical argument, sarcasm, minimization, focus on equipment
- Evidence caution
- This formulation preserves ordinary competence, relationships, preferences, contradiction, and future goals beyond crisis or operational utility.
06Pressure & state
- Stress response
- Chases noise, skips meals, rejects rest, and begins interpreting coincidence as directed communication
- Pressure pattern
- Exposure-and-sleep cascade
- Behavioral tell
- Rolls a loose connector between thumb and forefinger when overstimulated
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Sleep, medical care, non-punitive substance treatment, staffing accountability, and supervised technical work
- 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.