01Personhood
Mara protects her remaining sense of agency by treating every interaction as a test. She wants truth, but only if she can reach it without becoming someone else's instrument again.
- Public role
- Patient
- Primary function
- Patient / Witness
- Current status
- Court-ordered observation
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Agency over her own memory
- Self-narrative
- I survived because I noticed the lie before anyone else.
- Motivational pressure
- Protection
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Associative, intuitive, pattern-sensitive, fast under ambiguity
- Defenses
- Compartmentalization, testing, selective silence, humor
- Evidence caution
- Her distress is not proof of unreliability; some behaviors are adaptive responses to real danger.
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Voluntary choices, honest uncertainty, repetitive physical tasks
- 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.