alignments
Apr. 24th, 2011 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luna_rainbowSo occasionally I do litmus tests and such things on my characters, just for fun.
It's interesting to consider the alignments (D&D style) of Vivant and Rossaer, possibly two of my most ambivalent main/major characters (along with Lyriel...) The test is not entirely relevant but still interesting.
Rossaer first:
The summary is...the results are ambivalent. Actually I think the targeted results fall closer to what I had predicted: he generally acts out of goodness, but (being authority) with a good dose of cynicism for the law and yet at the same time there is a self-destructive loyalty that directs him to follow orders from certain sources, hence the highly ambivalent results for Law/Chaos. I think, oddly, that family is a major weak point for Rossaer - oddly because he of all people have all the reasons to scorn the idea of a "family". And equally oddly, Vivant has no desire to connect himself with a family. He will treasure Hinkan (and probably Rossaer) but he will do so in a way he imagines a family to be, without actually trying enact or seek the family dynamic.
Vivant's results are unsurprisingly similar:
But Vivant is a lot more apparently anti-authority than Rossaer. I think here a lot of the questions are really not applicable, because Vivant is probably one of those people who will always be penniless because he just doesn't give a damn. He also doesn't give a damn about a lot of things in general, including authority and trying to free the masses from the reins of authority. I would have put him as a true neutral or a chaotic neutral, someone who is habitually indifferent and has very little prejudiced morals defining his actions.
It's interesting to consider the alignments (D&D style) of Vivant and Rossaer, possibly two of my most ambivalent main/major characters (along with Lyriel...) The test is not entirely relevant but still interesting.
Rossaer first:
Alignment:
Lawful Good ----- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (25)
Neutral Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (28)
Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (27)
Lawful Neutral -- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (16)
True Neutral ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (19)
Chaotic Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (18)
Lawful Evil ----- XXXXXXXXXXXX (12)
Neutral Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (15)
Chaotic Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (14)
Law & Chaos:
Law ----- XXXXXXXX (8)
Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXX (11)
Chaos --- XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Good & Evil:
Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (17)
Neutral - XXXXXXXX (8)
Evil ---- XXXX (4)
The summary is...the results are ambivalent. Actually I think the targeted results fall closer to what I had predicted: he generally acts out of goodness, but (being authority) with a good dose of cynicism for the law and yet at the same time there is a self-destructive loyalty that directs him to follow orders from certain sources, hence the highly ambivalent results for Law/Chaos. I think, oddly, that family is a major weak point for Rossaer - oddly because he of all people have all the reasons to scorn the idea of a "family". And equally oddly, Vivant has no desire to connect himself with a family. He will treasure Hinkan (and probably Rossaer) but he will do so in a way he imagines a family to be, without actually trying enact or seek the family dynamic.
Vivant's results are unsurprisingly similar:
Alignment:
Lawful Good ----- XXXXXXXXXXXX (12)
Neutral Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (27)
Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (23)
Lawful Neutral -- XXXXXXXXX (9)
True Neutral ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (24)
Chaotic Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (20)
Lawful Evil ----- XXXXXX (6)
Neutral Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (21)
Chaotic Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (17)
Law & Chaos:
Law ----- X (1)
Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (16)
Chaos --- XXXXXXXXXXXX (12)
Good & Evil:
Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXX (11)
Neutral - XXXXXXXX (8)
Evil ---- XXXXX (5)
But Vivant is a lot more apparently anti-authority than Rossaer. I think here a lot of the questions are really not applicable, because Vivant is probably one of those people who will always be penniless because he just doesn't give a damn. He also doesn't give a damn about a lot of things in general, including authority and trying to free the masses from the reins of authority. I would have put him as a true neutral or a chaotic neutral, someone who is habitually indifferent and has very little prejudiced morals defining his actions.
