When in doubt... make a meme.

[laverinth.livejournal.com]

Except I'm not really in doubt. Just awake when I shouldn't be. And I don't want to detract from recent events, but at the same time I think something like this would be fun.

So answer me this: What are your characters' alignments and why?

I mean D&D style. For those of you unfamiliar with this, the alignments go-

lawful good / neutral good / chaotic good
lawful neutral / true neutral / chaotic neutral
lawful evil / neutral evil / chaotic evil

Here is the wikipedia article on the subject, which does a good job with the explanation. If you're unsure, just pick what you think is closest or what you play them as. Some will be more difficult to place than others.


Sai (lawful neutral)
He falls directly under the "soldier following orders" category and has the benefit of being unemotional and thus unbiased in most cases. This holds true even though he may currently have friends that influence him into falling closer to the "good" side.

Leon (neutral good)
Though pompous and arrogant sometimes, Leon is really a good kid and I can't place him in the straight out neutral category.

Sanji (chaotic good)
Though pirates out for their own personal gain, there's no question that when push comes to shove the strawhat crew will back up those being oppressed and be the heroes of whatever city they pass through in the end. Sanji is no exception to this.

Brooklyn (neutral good)
He's one of the more flexible members of his clan when it comes to getting good things done in any way possible. Though outwardly he can seem like something of a rebel he's not actually rebellious in nature. Nor is he stuck to following the rules. Goliath may fall under lawful good, but Brooklyn does not.


And now I might sleep some more...

Comments

[godhood.livejournal.com]

That fits, yeah. |D; I'm a complete nimrod when it comes to this kind of system, seriously. I'm still kind of :/ because even with that said, he's.... okay, fine, I have quite a bit of sympathy for him even if I think WOW he was misguided and shouldn't have gone all nucking futs, but still, the Death Note is such a powerful lure and he started off wanting to do the right thing and... and I just sort of hate calling people "good" or "evil" because it's usually so much more freaking complicated than that. And blah blah blah rambling.

.... That and it's kinda hard to think of Light as evil because... AUGH. I think of him more as horribly corrupt instead of evil, and damn it, there is a difference. There, that's what I meant.

damn me and my leaving words out. And damn my selective grammar fixation.

[continuum.livejournal.com]

alsdjf YEAH, I uh, don't know Death Note so I can't offer anything in terms of Light, but I do want to say that I agree with your assessment that corruption =/= evil, in the sense that I have never liked people calling Shin-Ra evil because they're not exactly evil in that strict sense of the word. They're...corrupted. Like any government, lulz. *shot*

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[godhood.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that kind of thing. D: I mean, it's... there are just too many shades of gray to account for here. D: So yeah, they're kinda hard to pin down using this system.

[amaidendamnit.livejournal.com]

The whole point of good and evil in the DnD alignment system is that they are simple. Of course, DnD has the advantage of being able to define an absolute morality for its settings that JUST HAPPENS to look an awful lot like contemporary Western values.

But I don't mind that labels simplify. That's what they're there for, to save us the enormous mental strain of having to consider everything in its full complexity all the time.

[reunion.livejournal.com]

How convenient. XD

.. It still doesn't sit right with me, but.. DX SOMETHING evil fits Light at this point. If you want to simplify things, I guess, and just go by the whole "mass-murdering genius teen with a god-complex" etc. Blagh. ._.