01Personhood
Teresa wants control over where she sits, who enters, and whether her route history is used again. She is protective, mechanically skilled, and tired of being treated as both bait and evidence.
- Public role
- Patient / Protective Custody Referral
- Primary function
- Patient / Witness
- Current status
- Voluntary secure care
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Control the conditions under which her route history is used
- Self-narrative
- Survival does not make me public property.
- Motivational pressure
- Protection / responsibility
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Spatial threat mapping and body-first anomaly detection
- Defenses
- Hypervigilance, route control, emotional compartmentalization, abrupt withdrawal
- Evidence caution
- This formulation preserves ordinary competence, relationships, preferences, contradiction, and future goals beyond crisis or operational utility.
06Pressure & state
- Stress response
- Tracks exits, misreads neutral approach as containment, and becomes unable to separate current cues from the ambush
- Pressure pattern
- Trauma-linked hypervigilance
- Behavioral tell
- Touches the seam of her jacket before changing direction
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Choice, predictable space, trusted accompaniment, verified route evidence, and non-forced pacing
- 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.