01Personhood
Marek has spent so long surviving observation that privacy feels like negligence. He wants to protect couriers without teaching them to live inside his level of suspicion.
- Public role
- Patient Transport Aide
- Primary function
- Patient Transport Aide
- Current status
- Active contractor
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Control exposure through preparation
- Self-narrative
- Survival is a sequence of small choices made before danger becomes visible.
- Motivational pressure
- Guilt / competence
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Spatial-temporal comparison and rapid baseline anomaly detection
- Defenses
- Hypervigilance, ritualized route planning, emotional reserve
- Evidence caution
- This formulation preserves ordinary needs, relationships, competence, and contradiction rather than turning distress or tradecraft into a total identity.
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Route review with a trusted second observer and an unhurried exit
- 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.