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Post by fluke on Apr 16, 2011 21:28:36 GMT -5
Hey there, I was thinking about my characters the other day and ran them through this personality quiz I found online. They came out pretty much as I expected, with some surprises. For the curious: Father Phaeus (supporting character in a WIP and talked about here) - Lawful Good Twindove (appearing in "The Contest" in the anthology) - Neutral good (as she's a wild elf, I expected her to be chaotic good) Granish - True Neutral (no surprise with his kingdom's philosophy) Karina - Chaotic Neutral (she has too much disdain for authority to be lawful, plus she's a thief) Shylocke Averyson - Borderline Lawful/Neutral good in "Sunset over Gunther." By the time of the stories in the anthology, he has become True Neutral. There's one other character I've run through the quiz, but as he is the main character of the WIP, I'm going to leave him a surprise. How would your characters turn out?
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Post by metalikhan on Apr 17, 2011 10:41:56 GMT -5
That's so cool, fluke! Where is that personality quiz? Is it free? Sounds like a useful tool for testing how thoroughly our character developments are. Hmmm -- now you've got me wondering how my characters would fare in such a test. Thanks for the heads up on this!
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Post by fluke on Apr 17, 2011 15:44:13 GMT -5
The link is hard to see in the above text. Click here. I'll have to make links more obvious in the future. It is free and is designed for answering in character.
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Post by Heather Titus on Apr 18, 2011 12:40:37 GMT -5
Very cool. I did the test with the mc of my wip, Varian. He's Lawful Good. Makes sense--the poor guy's trying to stop a war that's been going on for five hundred years. I'm definitely bookmarking this for further use!
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Post by Kristen on May 7, 2011 19:52:58 GMT -5
My hero is a Lawful Good, too! Thanks for sharing the link, fluke! I love these things.
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Post by metalikhan on May 8, 2011 10:50:24 GMT -5
Fun! One of my heroes turned out Chaotic Good and the co-hero was Lawful Neutral. The hero of a different story was Chaotic Neutral. What surprised me a little was one of my villains turned out Lawful Good. But I guess on reflection, I can see it -- that one's an extremist with legality.
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Post by fluke on May 10, 2011 10:44:05 GMT -5
A legalist will fall into the lawful column very easily. The good tells me he/she thinks she's doing the right thing. Am I right?
I've got some lawful evils showing up in a later story (fallen Knights Luminar). That story is still down the pike a ways (I know Shylocke is going to love me for the mental curveball he gets in that one!).
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Post by metalikhan on May 10, 2011 12:01:13 GMT -5
A legalist will fall into the lawful column very easily. The good tells me he/she thinks she's doing the right thing. Am I right? Yep! He's absolutely convinced he's doing the right thing, the true thing, the best thing. He's what some literary books call a grotesque. Not physically, you understand; but he's made legality a law and a god unto itself. And he's an utter monster.
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Post by Ranger Varon on Feb 5, 2013 11:19:56 GMT -5
My MC for my novel (James Scott) got a Lawful Good, which makes sense, since he's an INFP.
Another character of mine, whose a Space Ranger, also got Lawful Good, which also makes sense.
I also took the "What D&D Character am I?" and that was fun.
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Post by rjj7 on Feb 11, 2013 10:43:15 GMT -5
Was gonna run my villain through that, but was stymied on the first question.
Family elders are expressing disapproval of you to the rest of the family. Do you:
a) Accept the criticism and change your ways? b) Seek a compromise with them? c) Besmirch the reputation of those expressing disapproval as you ignore their scorn? d) Silence them any way you can?
What I needed was: e) completely ignore the issue as being irrelevant to anything with meaning.
Stumbled through it anyway, leaving a lot of questions unanswered, and he came up Lawful Neutral. I had a lot more luck answering all the questions for the other characters, but I guess the villain is just too far out of the mold to be put into those sort of limiting situations (which is odd, because I think he definitely got the correct result out of the quiz anyway; he's definitely evil, but speaking from a D&D perspective, he'd probably be considered more neutral, as he isn't at all self-serving)
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Post by Ranger Varon on Feb 11, 2013 17:52:50 GMT -5
I think self-serving is neutral. True neutral looks out only for themselves and those closely connected to them. That's based on the essays on the site.
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Post by rjj7 on Feb 11, 2013 18:32:19 GMT -5
Hm, I didn't read through those. I was just going off of my understanding of the D&D alignment descriptions I'd read somewhere else. I may have to issue a retraction on my previous post.
However, skimming the descriptions, my initial impression is that you're not quite correct to say that neutral is self-serving. You are correct in your description of True-Neutral, but looking out for those closely connected with yourself could be contrary to purely self-serving motives. Additionally, Lawful Neutral does indeed seem to have a higher ideal than simply one's own welfare, and that is the establishment of order.
I'll have to give them a more thorough read at some later time, and perhaps we can discuss the matter more intelligently.
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Post by Bethany J. on Feb 11, 2013 22:53:31 GMT -5
My main hero is lawful good (no surprise there!), while his sister is neutral good. Interesting distinction, but I think it fits them. They both do what is right, but he does it more out of duty (whether he's reluctant or not) while she is a fearful person, and if she is scared to do something she'll usually avoid it unless she's forced into it (usually out of fear of what will happen if she doesn't!). Doing what's right purely from conscience does not come as easily to her.
The third character I did was lawful neutral. Interesting...I guess that's how I would've pegged her if I was picking based purely off the names! The description seems to fit her, too.
You know, I went into this thinking all my characters would be lawful good because they all have strong moral codes. Not at all! This is fascinating. I guess it's more about WHY they do what they do, not exactly what choice they would make in a given situation...
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Post by fluke on Feb 12, 2013 17:01:01 GMT -5
I like that trait!
I like that! Motivation tells us about our characters, too. Opens up whole new worlds for choices.
Seeing this thread reminds me I might want to run the characters from "Call of the West" through the quiz sometime. Charlie's a marshal, so I'm expecting Lawful Good or Lawful Neutral. Peter (POV), I don't know. Deegan, Evil definitely and most likely chaotic. Cristi will probably be chaotic neutral. Jean, Neutral Good.
I should run Syantere' through it also. Her people have a strong moral code, and are willing to kill when it is violated.
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Post by Ranger Varon on Feb 15, 2013 0:00:37 GMT -5
I don't know. I've never played D&D before, and it's like my Dad would nix any attempts to do so. I was just going off the site.
But I, myself, got Neutral Good, which clarified things more. The first word approaches their attitude towards law and order, and the second is the morality. Neutral Good means they'll do good within the law when possible, but will break the law to do good when necessary as well. So, I think neutral means more flexible in regards to the law.
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