You can fall back on this identity to defend a stress check against Self.
I’m a Cult Survivor, of course I can feign compliance, tell us both what needs to be heard, see the real power dynamic, suffer discipline, keep a routine, find a way out.
Substitutes for: Secrecy.
Feature: Protects Self.
Feature: Coerces Helplessness or Coerces Unnatural
Feature: Substitutes for Connect
I’m Disgraced, of course I can take the blame, be ostracised, empathise with the pariah, recognise the scapegoat, deny my culpability.
Substitutes for: Status.
Feature: Protects Self.
Feature: Coerces Isolation.
I’m Working Homeless, of course I can know which creepy places even the violent and crazy are scared to go, haggle
tenaciously, repair just about anything with just about anything as long as it only has to work one
time more.
Substitutes for: Secrecy.
Feature: Protects Self.
Feature: Substitutes for Lie.
I’m an Addict, of course I can find a source, communicate in slang, exert myself in brief and intense ways if there’s drugs at the end of it.
Substitutes for :Lie.
Feature: Substitutes for Secrecy.
Feature: Protects Self.
I’m a Muslim, of course I can read Arabic, remember some Saudi history, cook a pretty good halal dinner.
Substitutes for: Connect.
Feature: Resists challenges to the Unnatural.
Feature: Resists challenges to Self.
