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Character Questions: Morality/Opinions/Behaviour

Hey, remember these? Figured we're overdue for another one, especially as the Halloween event is winding down but still not wrapped up. This time, the overall theme of these questions is: Morality! Behaviour! And opinions!

Describe character's sense of morals:
If they could sum up the meaning of life, what would they say?:
What do they consider taboo (something they personally would never do):
Describe character's etiquette:
Describe character's sense of self-control:
Spontaneous or structured?
Instinctual or logical?
How does this character act in public?
How does this character act in privacy?
How does this character act around strangers vs. how they act around friends?
How does this character act around family?
How has this character most changed from youth?
How have they remained the same?
Has this character dealt with the loss of someone they knew?
If so, who?
How has it affected them?
How does this character deal with or react to-
Conflict/Danger:
Rejection:
Fear:
Change:
Loss:
Sex/Flirting:
Pain:
Stress:
Peer pressure:
Guilt:
Being wrong:
Being criticized:
Being insulted (superficially: name calling, etc):
Offending others:
Praise:
Being loved:
Being hated:
Humiliation:
How does this character express-
Anger:
Sadness:
Fear:
Happiness/Excitement:
Love (Consider the "Five Languages of Love"):
Lust:
Stress/anxiety:
Dislike (of a person, thing, or idea):
Approval (of a person, thing, or idea):
How does this character generally express themselves?
What does this character think/feel about-
Marriage:
Children:
Family/Family Values:
Children/Youth:
Old age:
Sex:
Love:
Friendship/Other relationships:
Homosexuality:
The opposite sex:
The same sex:
Money/Material things:
Politics:
Religion:
Destiny/Duty:
Magic/Myth:
Racism/Races in general:
Science/Technology:
Nature/Animals:
Modernity:
Antiquity:
Their past:
Their future:
Their role in society/job/etc:
Drugs and alcohol:
Killing/Murder:
Education:
The foreign/unknown:
How does the character view life?
How does the character view death?
How does the character view society?
How does the character imagine his/her own death?
What does the character want out of life?
What does this character consider "success" to be?
What would the character like to change in his/her life?
What motivates this character?
What discourages this character?
What makes this character happy?
What makes this character sad?
What makes this character angry?
What humiliates this character?
What most describes this character's personality?
Psychoanalysis (Describe why they act the way they do):
Does it stem from childhood or an event, or chemical?

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Once again, I'm looking forward to reading all your responses and learning more about your characters!
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[personal profile] westfallcorndog 2017-11-24 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Describe character's sense of morals: Total hypocrisy through and through. Other people are required to be minimally violent, socially just, class-conscious, noble, dedicated, to protect the weak, etc. Him? He’s exempt. Not because he’s better, but because he’s positive he’s fucked it all up to the point that no further moral trespass matters. Every evil or even sub-moral thing he does is a drop in the bucket of piss at this point, as far as he’s concerned.
If they could sum up the meaning of life, what would they say?: To experience maximum possible happiness. Life exists to live and be enjoyed! If you can’t find happiness in life, then what’s the point in living?...
What do they consider taboo (something they personally would never do): Cliché, but violence against children. It’s easy for him to take a stance on because it’s something he never did when he was in the Scourge. He tells himself it’s because he never came across any children in Northrend, but sometimes he questions what he would have done if he had. He’s also strongly opposed to rape because of how he feels about sex. Not a big fan of prolonged torture as a means of interrogation – it’s something he wouldn’t want to partake in... But then again, he’s never tried it.
Describe character's etiquette: His etiquette very much depends on the situation. The Durants have taught him more and more about proper behavior (he’s pointing with an open palm these days, how classy!) but he had no formal etiquette training growing up. His best guess at how to behave in a formal environment when he’s unsure of the social rules is to be as grimly silent as possible and hope to avoid detection. Otherwise he’s very open and makes a lot of physical contact. Invites himself to things – food, touch, overly-personal jokes, etc.
Describe character's sense of self-control: Again, super situationally-dependent. If he knows there aren’t going to be consequences to indulging in something, he has zero self-control. When consequences are involved, especially social consequences, he tries very, very hard to control himself. A death knight has to have some sense of self-control, after all, to keep from hurting people. His go-to tactic is to have a healthy dissociation session and imagine what he wishes he could do, rather than doing it.
Spontaneous or structured? Spontaneous, 100%
Instinctual or logical? Totally instinctual. His magic is innate, his thoughts are fleeting and sometimes contradictory, and even his wiser moments are informed as much by feeling that he knows a truth rather than knowing it. This guy wings a lot of life advice that he throws Viatorus’ way.
How does this character act in public?
In the Nexus: Loud, happy, energetic. Likes to be physically close with his friends, always looks for an opportunity to laugh.
On Azeroth: Shy and retiring, keeps to himself, avoids initiating conversations with strangers. Either constant, sustained eye contact or total avoidance depending on the person.
How does this character act in privacy?
In the Nexus: Calm and quiet. Enjoys tending to plants. Used to read frequently until he was introduced to video media. Likes to teach himself things during what little quiet time he can get when his family isn’t around. 
On Azeroth: Drinks or gets high to distract his mind, sleeps as often as possible, struggles to stay focused while reading. Still enjoys tending to plants.
How does this character act around strangers vs. how they act around friends?
Friends: Incredibly open, loud, feels the need to cheer others up, looks for opportunities to make others laugh, wants to be socially helpful where possible. 
Strangers: Again, strongly varies. A stranger that he completely doesn’t know is met with suspicion if he assumes they’re powerful or dangerous to him, openness if he assumes he’s going to like them, or intimidation if he thinks they deserve to be bullied.
How does this character act around family?
He’s always been involved-yet-distant with family, part of the (large) crowd but quietly so. Since reconnecting with his folks he still feels slightly out of place around them. He’s very aware that he’s different than the rest of them and struggles to find his place amongst them.
How has this character most changed from youth?
Despite it all, he’s learned to be hopeful. He’s realized that things do get better.
How have they remained the same?
His happiest moments of his childhood were very much like his happiest days now: Humorous, joy-seeking, driven to make others happy. Likewise, his unhappiest tendencies of childhood are very much like his (closely-guarded) negative tendencies now. His outlook quickly turns bleak if he doesn’t mind himself.
Has this character dealt with the loss of someone they knew?
Many people he knew casually or in military service, but no one close and dear... Except for...
If so, who?
Himself?
How has it affected them?
He feels a strong disconnect from who he used to be. It’s a complicated situation for him, one which affects his relationship with his family and himself. It’s one of the few things he dreads reflecting on and avoids at all costs.
How does this character deal with or react to-
Conflict/Danger: FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
Rejection: Hits him VERY hard, results in immediate and prolonged self-loathing and feelings of worthlessness
Fear: Depends on the source of the fear!
Social fear: Can he avoid it? He will avoid it. Let it stew, baby!
Fear of deep water: Listen, he’s afraid he’ll sink and be stuck at the bottom of the ocean for all eternity. Is that so unreasonable? ... Yes? Oh. Like social fear: Avoid, baby!
Fear of the supernaturally powerful (Gods, fae, necromancers etc.): Makes him feel helpless, confused, anxious. A threat he isn’t sure he can fight physically and which may have capricious whims deeply unnerves him. Responds with either a show of force or diplomacy where applicable.
Most other fears are expressed through some mixture of anger or sadness.
Change: Change brings good things. He supports it.
Loss: Temporary depression, usually comes out of it emotionally stronger.
Sex/Flirting: HE can flirt with people, but if they flirt BACK then he totally breaks down and becomes shy, poorly-worded, and visibly embarrassed. Sex-positive, but extremely self-conscious.
Pain: He can channel his willpower to stop himself from feeling certain amounts of physical pain, and he knows he can heal most wounds, so largely irrelevant to him.
Stress: Can I get the uhhhhh Anger-Sadness combo with the fries? Thanks.
Peer pressure: He LOVES peer-pressuring others. And you know what? He loves caving to peer pressure, too. Guy’s always looking to be told what to do.
Guilt: He fucks up often enough to feel guilt pretty frequently. If he’s called on his bad behavior he’ll quickly default to guiltiness. He also feels strongly guilty about things he didn’t do but which inconveniences or hurts others, even if he had no power to stop it.
Being wrong: Hello darkness my old friend, etc. He’s wrong like... All the goddamn time. He’s built up an immunity to it, and most of the time assumes everything he says will be wrong.
Being criticized: Immediate defensiveness! Unless, of course, it’s criticism for something he knows he did wrong, in which case acceptance.
Being insulted (superficially: name calling, etc): He takes insults more poorly in the Nexus, where he doesn’t keep his guard up and generally expects that most people will be kind and accepting. Shark once told him he looks like an albino and is probably bad at sex and he’s still mad about that. Meanwhile, he expects the exact opposite on Azeroth. He’s used to people calling him rude names, ignoring him, or being dismissive of him because of his undeath. Azerothians always seem to have the same surface-level vitalist insults and he’s learned to ignore them and move on.
Offending others: He wishes he was well-worded enough to insult people who are unkind to him or his friends. He’s got no problem with offending people with bad manners. He sometimes gets a rise out of the fact that his mere existence is offensive to some people, and he’ll play it up to cause them distress. Offending his friends is another story, and he’ll scramble to apologize as quickly as he can.
Praise: He really doesn’t get praise often. Like flirting, he usually can’t handle it and winds up at a loss for words, humbled. He’ll quietly enjoy any praise he gets for a long, long time.
Being loved: He’s desperate to be loved platonically or romantically. He used to be the sort of person that thought life was pointless if he wasn’t in a relationship with someone else, but a series of unfortunate breakups and subsequent time alone made him realize that he has worth on his own outside of romantic love. He still feels strongly validated by being loved and finds self worth in mutual love of friends, family, and potential romantic partners.
Being hated: Big shrug. So someone hates him. He’s probably done something worth hating! If he hates them back, then it becomes a healthy hobby.
Humiliation: He would literally rather die, especially if the humiliation happens in front of friends or as a result of his failure to perform. ESPECIALLY susceptible to shame regarding his trouble with literacy.
How does this character express-
Anger: Shouting, accusatory pointing, balled fists, easily escalates to physical violence.
Sadness: Isolation and self-pity.
Fear: Freezes up and tries to be unassuming, or prepares for a fight.
Happiness/Excitement: Loudness, laughter, smiles, physical contact.
Love (Consider the "Five Languages of Love"): Strongly into acts of devotion. He pledges himself to people that he loves and does everything he can to support them. Physical touch and spending prolonged, quiet time with the person he loves are important to him. He’s currently trying to navigate a romance with Isidor that allows neither of those, and he’s struggling.
Lust: Tries to irrationalize lust he knows he can’t pursue by looking for reasons to find the other person unattractive. Sorry about your doughy stomach, Jim.
Stress/anxiety: He’ll take it with quiet dissociation to a point, after which he’ll blow the fuck up and wreck something.
Dislike (of a person, thing, or idea): He doesn’t keep it to himself! If he doesn’t like something or someone he’ll say as much, and frequently, for better or worse. His entire worldview is emotions-based, so something which he dislikes is an affront to his existence.
Approval (of a person, thing, or idea): Like disdain, he expresses his approval vocally and frequently. If someone’s doing a good job he’ll tell them as much. Especially if that person is Viatorus. The kid needs any self-esteem boosts he can get.
How does this character generally express themselves? Poorly...
What does this character think/feel about-
Marriage: Good and cool. He used to want to be married, now that he’s undead he’s unsure if it’s appropriate.
Children: Harrow loves children! Like him, they experience the world through their emotions. He understands their unique perspective and loves how appreciative children can be when you support them. When he was alive he very much wanted to be a father but refrained from pursuing a family life because he knew he was going to die young and didn’t want to leave a family without their father.
Family/Family Values: The family is there to support each other. If a family isn’t supportive, you aren’t beholden to them.
Edited 2017-11-24 17:27 (UTC)
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Part Two: Idiot Boogaloo

[personal profile] westfallcorndog 2017-11-24 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Children/Youth: He doesn’t wish to go back to his youth.
Old age: He knew he’d never grow old, and now he never will. Personal old age doesn’t even cross his mind. He’s saddened to think that his living friends will die (hopefully of old age!) eventually, but he’s not afraid of seeing them age. More than anything, the elderly are curious to him. Having grown up in a land of famine and war he never personally knew any people over the age of fifty or so.
Sex: Harrowheart is a cliché straight out of a romance novel. He sincerely believes that sex is/should be an expression of love. Naugus once tried to explain hate-sex to him and he was confused and scandalized. He understands sex as lust-not-love, but he’s not the kind of person to have one night stands or be unfaithful in a committed relationship because sex as a physical experience comes secondary to sex as a romantic gesture.
Love: He loves love... He loves being loved... HE LOVES HIS GIRLFRIEND AND WANTS TO SHOUT IT FROM THE MOUNTAINTOPS but he’s not allowed to so he begrudgingly keeps it to himself.
Friendship/Other relationships: Friends are important! He didn’t have many as a child because he grew up on an isolated farm with his family, but he does consider his brothers and sisters friends as much as family. He spent most of his living life knowing people superficially. It’s only since coming to the Nexus as a death knight that he’s been brave enough to get to know people on a deep enough level to call them good friends.
Homosexuality: Good and cool. As far as I’m concerned there’s no reason for homosexuality to be taboo in human society at large on Azeroth. He has a gay sister (whose life partner was his first crush, which he will never live down) and he loves her dearly. When he was alive he was exclusively heterosexual and couldn’t understand how people found men physically attractive. After his undeath he fell in love with a man and now considers himself half-gay bisexual (a word he only recently learned!)
The opposite sex: Women good. Again, human society on Azeroth is canonically non-sexist, so he never had that Earth frame of reference to overcome. Actually, he was STUNNED when he found out people on Earth treat women as inferior and deny them equal access to opportunities. He’s known kind civilian women like his mother and sisters, powerful warrior women, troubled women, evil women, the full gamut. All of them were capable, and he respected them in their own ways. 
And controversial opinion here, but: Women... Are hot.
The same sex: They exist. He doesn’t feel a strong kinship with men just by virtue of sharing their gender, but he does feel like he can be more open with them when it comes to inappropriate humor. He’s much more shallow when it comes to prospective male partners. Bara or bust.
Money/Material things: Like many people from Westfall, he has a poor opinion of those with monetary means. He considers them immoral, predatory, and untrustworthy. He grew up poor and rustic and doesn’t desire great material wealth. Since he doesn’t have physical needs he doesn’t seek out wealth to make his life more comfortable. Since his family came to the Nexus he’s relearned the value of earning and saving money to care for others, but it’s hard to break the habit of earning small amounts of money and spending it on frivolous entertainment.
Politics: Patriotism above all. If your kingdom’s leader tells you to do or believe something, you do it. He thinks democracy is an unstable joke and has no desire to live in a society where people vote for their representatives. To him, absolute monarchy is the only logical form of governance.
Religion: He’s in a strange place with religion right now! Most humans of Azeroth worship the Holy Light, but he was never raised with that belief (or any beliefs, really!) and so he has no real connection to it. Now that the Light explicitly detests his existence, he’s not particularly interested in exploring it. He’s openly curious about the religions of other worlds and believes he has the capacity for faith, but isn’t sure he’s found the right religion for him. Steve’s Catholic God is theoretically interesting to him, but he’s got no desire to pursue Christianity. Worgen generally worship the Ancient Goldrinn, but he doesn’t feel a strong connection to him. Elune, though, the Goddess of the Night Elves? He saw her perform a miracle that shook his faith, and he’s beginning to consider the possibility of worshipping her.
Destiny/Duty: He believes in inevitabilities more than destiny. An unavoidable path your life must take because of who you are or what you’ve done. Duty he believes in strongly, and failing your duty is a mark of great dishonor.
Magic/Myth: Lives it, baby.
Racism/Races in general: Oh, he is SUPER racist. Super, super racist. However, he was totally baffled by the Earth phenomenon of human-human racism. People of one species or kingdom have to band together against people of other species, you idiots. Apes together strong! He’s openly hostile to trolls, orcs, demons, and Forsaken, but he keeps an open mind, always looking for new groups of people to look down on. :thumbsup:
Science/Technology: Cool, loves it. It can only improve life, as far as he’s concerned!
Nature/Animals: The best. They’re innocent and non-malicious, quiet, non-judgmental, and represent pure, untainted life. He detests necromancy used on animals because they don’t have the mental capacity to choose to end their existence even if given free will.
Modernity: As with the Change question above, he believes in a positive forward trajectory over time. Modernity is great!
Antiquity: History informs the present and the future and it’s important to look to the past for guidance, but he doesn’t feel beholden to it.
Their past: He avoids confronting it if at all possible, but tries to learn from it where he can.
Their future: Again, the future has the potential for positivity. He looks to it eagerly, in general. In some respects he fears that his future could wind up like his past.
Their role in society/job/etc: He’s a death knight. He understands that his role is to do what the living can’t or won’t, and to do it without thanks or accolades. His duty is to fight harder, longer, in worse conditions, against more dangerous foes, until all threats to his people’s way of life are annihilated... Or he is.
Drugs and alcohol: Big yes. For fun and for escapism. He used to sell weed and other ‘herbal remedies,’ but these days he earns his money killing and looting.
Killing/Murder: Big yes. He!... Actually super loves it. He feels guilty when he realizes it makes his friends uncomfortable, but he physically can’t stop killing and so feels justified in continuing to do so. He gets the greatest thrill out of killing people who are most afraid of him – civilians or those he’s disarmed especially. Nothing compares to the rush of ending someone who can’t possibly fight back. He was very much not like this as a living man, and only reluctantly engaged in violence for self-defense.
Education: None. He knows jack shit. It shows, too!
The foreign/unknown: Always approached with curiosity, unless he has reason to believe it’s dangerous, then fear or anger.
How does the character view life? Something that’s always been for other people. He wouldn’t ask for life again if it were offered... Though he has been tempted, now that he realizes how much his undeath is hindering his chances at happiness with Isidor. He fears the consequences of being alive again.
How does the character view death? Inevitable.
As for UNdeath, he’s learned to find the positives in it. He’s super strong, magical, more fearless. The fact that he’s nearly-immortal is more of a curse than a blessing, though.
How does the character view society? He thinks about individual people more than overarching society.
How does the character imagine his/her own death? Again, inevitable – both his past death and his eventual future death. He figures that when his living friends and family (especially a romantic life partner, if he succeeds in keeping one) pass on he’ll elect to be purified by Holy magic and have his runeblades destroyed with his body. He doesn’t see the point in being immortal in a world where the people he loves will continually leave his life for good.
What does the character want out of life? The happiness that he failed to find before his death.
What does this character consider "success" to be? Achieving your own personal life goals, whatever those may be!
What would the character like to change in his/her life? One particular bad decision that he made when he was still alive. It changed the course of his future for the worse, and he deeply regrets it.
What motivates this character? A desire, despite it all, to see good things happen.
What discourages this character? Anything and everything that sets him back or reminds him of his personal failings.
What makes this character happy? His brother from another mother (Sweet V) and the lady he’s interested in, Sister of Sweet V. Being able to make things thrive and grow, literally or figuratively. Learning.
What makes this character sad? His brain.
What makes this character angry? So many things. So, so many things.
What humiliates this character? Shark, when he called him an Albino Bad Sex Haver. More seriously, failing to live up to people’s expectations of him.
What most describes this character's personality? Spontaneous, emotional, volatile.
Psychoanalysis (Describe why they act the way they do): In life, depression. Undeath scrambled his thought process, and like most Azerothian undead he’s disconnected from his soul, which makes him unable to process his emotions in a healthy way. Everything he feels, he feels incredibly strongly because of this.
Does it stem from childhood or an event, or chemical? Magical, certainly. In the Nexus with its Anti-violence field his undead need to kill to retain his sanity is inhibited, which is why his personality is completely different on his homeworld (and, given enough time, on other worlds.)
Edited 2017-11-24 18:59 (UTC)
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