01Personhood
Nia wants people to remain people while institutions sort them into witnesses, threats, staff, and assets. She is willing to observe closely but resists using care as a covert interview.
- Public role
- Day Room Facilitator
- Primary function
- Day Room Facilitator
- Current status
- Active staff
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Preserve dignity and mutual intelligibility
- Self-narrative
- A room can be made safer without making anyone smaller.
- Motivational pressure
- Protection / moral duty
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Social sequence tracking with strong memory for audience effects
- Defenses
- Measured humor, procedural transparency, selective refusal
- 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
- Peer review, clear consent boundaries, ordinary conversation
- 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.