Alignment-swaps for my characters! ...Are a little weird, because for a lot of them their primary axis of struggle isn't good-evil, it's trauma-recovery. They're not "innately" good or bad; they're shaped heavily by circumstance.
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Alignment-swaps for my characters! ...Are a little weird, because for a lot of them their primary axis of struggle isn't good-evil, it's trauma-recovery. They're not "innately" good or bad; they're shaped heavily by circumstance.
Alignment-swaps for my characters! ...Are a little weird, because for a lot of them their primary axis of struggle isn't good-evil, it's trauma-recovery. They're not "innately" good or bad; they're shaped heavily by circumstance.
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Also like. Evil Yuna is Just Seymour But More Effective.
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If Yuna were even a hair less altruistic, she just wouldn't be a summoner. She might encourage someone else to become one, though. ...Wakka and Lulu as Guardian and Summoner in some combination, journeying to keep their little sister safe, unaware that she's the one who planted the idea in their heads in the first place.......
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hang on I have been Distracted by Summoner Wakka, will check back into reality later
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Yuna wants the social clout of being part of a summoner party, but she does not want to actually die
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and Wakka is easy to manipulate; Lulu is less so, but she has a giant Yuna-shaped blind spot
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and both of them canonically were willing to run off on a pilgrimage to keep Yuna from having to do it
And I`m QV
Oh I’m way into this
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Auron comes back from his Zanarkand vacation like: ohhhhhkay this is not what I expected to find
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gonna just fold this into my plot for revenge on the entire world system real quick
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Vexeven who I guess...was good and then got worse?...probably just got straight-up Norted instead of faking it
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if he previously had scientific ethics, Axel feels worse about stabbing him but still very much does it
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possibly earlier, when instead of saying, "okay, wipe Repliku's mind," he tries to protect his not!son
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and then, The Full Xehanort
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which def fucks some shit up for the heroes in KH3, because having Additional Bodies turn up was kind of critical
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and...I can't really see a way around him becoming "good" again unless Xehanort Wins
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maybe he's just traumatized into not caring about anyone else
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like canon Vexen but...worse than we see, because by CoM he already has a lot of feelings even if most of them are fear and anger
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...Vexeven is difficult because his moral growth/degrowth was punctuated by massive physical and emotional trauma, TWICE
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and the first trauma actively made him not care about things
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ANYWAY
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Ravus as chaotic good rather than lawful evil is...that's Just Lunafreya
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a Ravus whose trauma response is to turn inward, to become quiet and unresisting
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is definitely more palatable to others, but Luna worries so hard about him
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because it's so hard to tell what he wants, if he even wants anything anymore
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his method of protecting his little sister is to physically put himself between her and violence and try to take that violence onto himself
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if he behaves, she won't be hurt, he's told, so he behaves
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Luna still tries to escape, but she has to plan everything around the two of them, because she's been told in graphic detail what will happen to her brother if she escapes and he doesn't
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(I think that happened in canon, too, until Ravus made himself useful in his own right - why wouldn't it?)
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UGH okay this is too sad - a Ravus who got some way into "recovery" rather than being stuck in full "trauma" is...still stiff and curt and angry, because anger is a normal and appropriate response to Niflheim's everything
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but he reaches out to people more
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not just Luna; the least awful of his coworkers, Aranea, other Tenebraeans trying to make their way
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: ( it's a no-win situation!
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oh i really like the idea of a "trauma-recovery" axis of struggle that is interesting as hell.
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I'm just like. not sure to what degree I believe in Innate Alignment that persists?
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but what I want for my faves whether or not they get it in canon is to heal and receive support and, like, yes become better people, but become better because they're healthier
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some characters are Just Assholes but...not generally the characters I'm interested in?
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my type is "has trauma and did warcrimes about it"