"The call me the seeker
I've been searching low and high
And I won't get to get what I'm after
'Til the day I die"
A seeker quests for the truth, uncovering mysteries, lies, deception and gaining knowledge about themselves and the universe. They may sometimes consider themselves beyond good and evil, being purely interested in facts and information, and not care about its meaning. The protagonists may need them to gain information, but this character may have become so distanced from humanity that they're reluctant to give it. At the same time, they may be searching for truth for its practical use- whatever it may entail for them. This could produce a character like the
Intrepid Reporter, who will do anything to get to the bottom of a mystery.
A list of subtypes can be found on the
Seekers page.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- In Wild Rose, Kiri grows tired of his small world and leaves his family to find out for himself the truth of things.
Comic Books
- Tim Hunter in the Books of Magic. In early drafts, his name was actually Tim Seeker.
Literature
Live-Action TV
Mythology
Video Games
- Neku from The World Ends with You; For 75% of the story he's trying to figure out how he entered the UG and how he was killed.
- Takius from Ragnarok Online: The Animation
- Adam Jensen in Deus Ex Human Revolution; one of his more memorable lines in the game's trailer is "I'll never stop looking."
- In .hack//G.U. Games, the fluff sometimes describe Hasseo and Ovan as "Seekers of the Truth". Hasseo is driven to figure out the mystery behind the P Ker known as "Tri-Edge", and to save the coma victims (particularly Shino) he seems to leave in his wake; Ovan wishes to find "The Key of Twilight" as he is actually "Tri-Edge", or rather, his PC is infected with the malevolent AI that started the whole mess. He wants to find a way to purge it so as to save his little sister, who was the first coma victim.
Web Comics
Web Original
Western Animation
- Avatar: The Last Airbender brings us two, both from the same episode. The first is an anthropologist from Ba Sing Se university who is desperate to learn everything he can about the world. While he's not too distanced, he cares about knowledge much more than his own life. Eventually he finds the largest library in the world, the one belonging to Wan Shi Tong, He Who Knows Ten Thousand Things. The owl-spirit is one who has stopped along people access to his information, due to how people always use it to hurt others.
