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So. Breen’s main internal need is to believe she’s worth something, that she’s something more than a mere animal or a machine covered in a human skin. (Whether or not she recognizes this as an internal need is up for debate.) Because of certain events in her youth that led to her being kept alive by a magical machine, and because of her life and how she’s been treated since then, she often wonders if she’s truly a living human being or simply a thing kept in semi-life for the profit of others. This attitude influences how she interacts with others. She’s reluctant to accept the help of the other characters in the story because she doesn’t really believe she deserves their help and care (plus, at first, she’s distrustful of their motives because she’s spent years being treated like a thing instead of a person). And she does accept the abuse of those keeping her captive, even when she could fight back, because she believes it is what she deserves — or, at least, that they have a right to hurt her whether she deserves it or not.

Her external need, then, is to be free of the tower and those keeping her trapped in it. But ultimately, the only way she can get out of the tower is if she accepts the help of the other characters in the story and defies her abusers . . . which she can only do if she recognizes that yes, she is a person, not a machine, whose worth is based not on what she can accomplish but on what she is.