What's the Alignment for your characters?

Aaron - Neutral Good: He wants to find his father, and believes the good guys, the Sentinels can help him. In the middle of a civil war, he doubts the real weight of law and order.

Karlo - Neutral Good: In particular, loyal to Aaron, the first person he saw when he awakened (he was a clone, grown from Aaron's DNA, but thinks the two are brothers, and that Aaron's father is also his).

Richard - Lawful Good: Richard wants to save his nation, and he believes in protecting all the citizens, no matter if they're clones or not. He might not say much, but his actions speak louder than words.

Natalia - Lawful Good: Emphasis on lawful. Natalia wants to end the civil war ravaging her country. Being a Shell-Shocked Veteran, she no longer believes in war as a place of glory, but she's still willing to answer any call of arms if it means minimizing casualties of her own troops and defending civilians.

Stephanie - Chaotic Good: Although she's part of the military, Stephanie believes in a bit of rough justice. Still young and spunky, she believes in bending the rules to make sure the right thing gets done.

Alexandra - Chaotic Evil: An Ax-Crazy murderer who joined the Revolutionaries so that she could satisfy her urges to kill. Regardless if she's ordered, she will bring the pain.

Joshua - Lawful Evil: Extremely loyal to his boss, Raymond, and thinks the Revolutionaries' ideas of justice, destroying the clones and their creators, are worth following to the letter.

Raymond - Lawful Evil: The Leader of the Revolutionaries. He's a calculating Chessmaster who uses his own rules and judgmental philosophy to control his side of the Sentrian civil war. He has a knack for telling his followers exactly what they want to hear.

The Solitaire: Probably a Neutral Selfish or Selfish Evil, primarily because of a Ubermensch-esque Pragmatic Villainy (though he's an Anti-Hero). He lived through a [[Understatement slightly traumatic experience]] as a young adult. Surviving only because of a will you couldn't break with a depleted uranium sabot round, followed by about a year of counseling in a hospital psych ward on 24/7 suicide watch, he believed he earned the right to live. Subsequently, he believes practically everyone else hasn't. He executes anyone who surrenders because of an opinion that anyone low enough to beg is too weak to survive on their own, and they disgust him. However, people who sacrifice themselves for others or remain defiant he lets live, primarily because he can't stand hypocrisy. He'll even pull a What the Hell, Hero? whenever his leader/teammates executes the people he would let live or allow people who surrender to surrender. Ehh... He's complicated.

• Main Protagonists : Chaotic Neutral
• Main Antagonists : Lawful Neutral / Lawful Evil, Chaotic Evil (only the final boss)
• Everybody else : True Neutral

Zoe- Chaotic Good

Corey- Chaotic Neutral/Stupid

Ian- Lawful Good/Stupid

Prisha- True Neutral

edited 12th May '11 4:28:03 PM by PsychoFreaX

I believe that my Star Wars RPG character, Matt Fen'Do, would be classified as Chaotic Good.

Let's see

• Hyun Soo: Neutral Good
• Ji Ho: Chaotic Neutral
• Eun A: True Neutral
• Sae Mee: True Neutral
• Marcus: True Neutral
• N: Neutral Evil

Selena: Chaotic Selfish. While she is not sadistic, she's completely ruthless and devoid of empathy. She'll do whatever it takes to come out on top, she's a firm believer that rules are meant to be broken, and she is quite fond of being manipulative.

She has compunctions on inflicting meaningless suffering, that's why she's not Chaotic Evil.

Olaf: Chaotic Good. As a King, he is very lenient towards his people. He was elected by acclamation and thrives on popularity: Although he's ultimately self-serving, he believes in lots of ideals of honor and glory: He will not act as a tyrant, and he will not interfere on his people's business.

On the other hand, since he lives far in the Grim Up North, famines due to frozen crops are common. Some mechanism to prevent people starving is needed, and he is unwilling to enact taxes, so he has to rely on loot to fund his services. He is unwilling to punish most criminals so he needs a place to honorably keep his troublemakers away from people. Therefore, he is forced to live in a permanent state of war and plunder.

For his people, he's the best king they've ever had. For everyone else, he's an unreasonable, ambitious, corrupt warmonger.

edited 29th May '11 9:35:11 AM by SavageHeathen

In order of frequency with which each alignment is used in my various works:

Neutral Good: almost all protagonists.

True Neutral: most antagonists.

Lawful Evil: either (though protagonists of this type tend to be closer to Blue-and-Orange Morality—think Sam from Freefall.)

Lawful Neutral: most of the remaining antagonists.

Neutral Evil: one or two antagonists per story.

I almost never use Lawful Good or the chaotic alignments, and when I do, they tend not to come off well.

edited 29th May '11 4:32:42 PM by feotakahari

Am I the only one who has a lot of difficulty assigning characters? I mean, I understand the alignments fine, it's applying it to my caharacters that's problematic.

Nah, it's understandable, especially when your characters have a tendency to evolve over the story. After all, you can't really apply alignment to any living person without running into lots of exceptions. It's just more of generalizations, so don't try to simplify your characters to fit in a grid.

You know, I am not sure what Jason's aliment is. Everyone else I more or less have down, but him it is hard to put a label on and be consistent with.

At times he is a true neutral type 3, but also very chaotic neutral. Though I am somewhat hesitant to say chaotic neutral as he has a very strong sense of duty and order in a military sense, but other aspects are up for grab. He won't disobey an order unless it strongly conflicts with him, and he expects unquestioning obedience when it comes to military things.

So while an aspect of his life he is all about duty and order (when it comes to military things) the rest of his life is chaotic in nature. His type 3 true neutral comes into play when acting on pure instinct or when he has a breakdown. Mental illness creeps in, and over time he becomes a type 3 most of the time.

Which one does he more sound like?

edited 30th May '11 6:24:08 PM by jasonwill2

This. I have a fairly low regard for the alignment system within the context of D&D - trying to apply it elsewhere is one of those things that just makes me scream WHY? As far as silly reasons for arguing go, about the only thing lower than The Great Character Alignment Debate is Ship-to-Ship Combat.

So there's certainly nothing wrong with your characters not fitting anywhere on the D&D alignment spectrum - in fact, I'd say that probably makes them exceptionally realistic characters.

edited 30th May '11 6:26:58 PM by nrjxll

But I am chaotic Neutral through and through in real life.

However, it is fun to many to characterize characters by fitting them into the grid or shipping them, so don't go stopping them. However, if neither is your thing, then don't worry about it.

I need some framework to refer to, otherwise I lose my refence point and the character can slide back and forth and not be consistant with it. It is just a preference for one, not strictly always being that alinment.

Lawful Good: Cirdec, Cirdec's Master

Neutral Good: Imy, Zodiac, Rika

Chaotic Good: Flak, Rachel

Lawful Neutral: Flak's Dad, Drillbit

True Neutral: Project Z (he acts based on orders)

Chaotic Neutral: Most of Sky's Mooks (they just wanna have fun)

Chaotic Evil: the Demented Piscene, the rest of Sky's mooks

Special cases:

Miranda goes from Lawful Evil / Lawful Neutral to Chaotic Good then to Chaotic Evil then to Neutral Good

Selphie goes from Lawful Evil to Chaotic Neutral to Chaotic Good

Sky starts off Neutral Evil, by the end he's Chaotic Evil

edited 6th Jun '11 1:41:58 PM by gingerninja666

Allyson: a half Emo Teen, half Shrinking Violet girl that daydreams a lot and is more nervous than her Author...Neutral Good

Jake: An asshole prankster that however can be very tender, but only IF he wants to...Chaotic Neutral

Sarah: a Strange Girl kind of gothic that has almost Sueish powers and that can't focus her mind in anything for more than two seconds...Chaotic Neutral

• Matthew starts Lawful Good, upholding what's right and trying to make sure everyone is fine on his side. But he slowly slides to Chaotic Good as things proceed

• Shuuji always resided in Neutral Good, playing the bully to make Matthew tough enough to later act against Shuuji and purging his own memory of such a plan.

• The Seer might look like True Neutral, but... As an Omnicidal Maniac Eldritch Abomination, it falls squarely in Chaotic Evil.

• Zachaia starts as Lawful Evil, but slides to Chaotic Evil as her motives...decay. She's only doing what she does for the evulz by the end.

Cain starts out Chaotic Neutral and sloely morphs into Chaotic Good/Chaotic Still-Somewhat-Morally-Ambiguous-But-Much-Less-So-Than-Before as time goes on.

His brother Abel starts Lawful Evil but lapses into serious Chaotic Evil when Cain's around.

edited 6th Jun '11 10:13:23 PM by KSPAM

Good guys:

• Ryan: Former arms dealer, may or may not consider the Resistance's objective of bringing down the government secondary... Chaotic/Neutral Good.
• Nicole: Chaotic Good. Can flip on a dime between Nice Girl and Type IV Anti-Hero.
• Bill: Neutral Good.
• Janice: Neutral Good.
• Jason: Oddly enough, Lawful Good. He's more vehemently opposed to the government than anyone (except maybe Nicole), but he has a VERY strict code of conduct that he holds himself and the rest of the Resistance to. He has been known to execute anyone he catches breaking those rules on the spot. Given that all of them are corollaries of Would Not Shoot a Civilian, I'd say he's somewhat justified.

Bad guys:

• Gus: Lawful Neutral. Given his backstory, he's perfectly justified in his views even if they are a bit extreme.
• Marcus: Chaotic Neutral, but very close to low-grade Chaotic Evil.
• Marshall: Lawful Evil
• President Barry: Lawful Evil
• Seth: Chaotic Evil. This is just a fraction of what makes him so dangerous to go up against.