01Personhood
Rowan values precision, bike repair, and the quiet dignity of documents that can be checked. They want to return to the archives without being forced to choose between total self-doubt and total certainty.
- Public role
- Patient / Municipal Records Referral
- Primary function
- Patient / Witness
- Current status
- Voluntary observation
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Recover trust in their own perception without surrendering uncertainty
- Self-narrative
- A record can be corrected without rewriting the person who noticed the error.
- Motivational pressure
- Validation / protection
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Document comparison and anomaly indexing
- Defenses
- Cataloguing, dry humor, withdrawal into verifiable details
- Evidence caution
- This formulation preserves ordinary competence, relationships, preferences, contradiction, and future goals beyond crisis or operational utility.
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Sleep, ordinary work, voluntary review, and permission to say “I do not know”
- 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.