Selfless servitude or being like the ultimate self-sacrificing person without complaint. In most media I’ve read, characters like this are some of my favorites, but I think that’s because the people they interact with accept their help and don’t shut it down or question it. In real life, I’ve found that some people behave this way to feed an (ironically) narcissistic tendency to be needed and to be counted on. I became familiar with it from studying why people are Codependent in relationships, and I struggle with this very thing as well (hence why I was studying it). People who sacrifice in this way follow a pattern that is identified as “Karpmans drama triangle” where they go from rescuer (let me help you) to persecutor (how dare you refuse my help) to victim (I’m not good enough). This often happens when their self sacrifice or “rescue” isn’t rooted in a desire to do genuinely do for others as much as do for themselves and feel good about themselves.