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ways_back_room2013-02-22 07:00 am
themightyspazz) wrote in ways_back_room2013-02-22 07:00 am
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Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning, Milliways!
Let's start off your weekend with some angst.
Has your character ever let down someone who was depending on them?
Let's start off your weekend with some angst.
Has your character ever let down someone who was depending on them?
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Mako - more likely than not. A preteen trying to protect and provide for his brother in a city where rough-and-tumble bending triads run the streets? Sometimes luck just ain't on your side.
John - well, he sees the fact that he let Abigail and Jack get taken hostage as a failure on his part. But he's usually pretty good about the whole "not-letting-people-down" thing.
Voodoo - yuuuuuuuuuup.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA AHAHAHAH HAH HAHAHAH HAHAHohgod.
If letting people down were an Olympic sport, Tommy would have medals up the wazoo. I can hardly think of one other person in his life who he hasn't disappointed.
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And funny, I just wrote an entire OOM about Tommy being a giant failboat. (Btw, that's what I call S4: In Which Tommy is a Giant Failboat.)
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They should get drunk and compare medals.
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Yep.
:(
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[I AM SO SORRY yet again for the epic delay. I tagged up, though, if you're still interested! *shares cookies*]
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She has been around for at least 6,000-7,000 years. It has happened several times most likely, for various degrees of happening.
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...uh, except for that whole leaving his beloved wife a widow thing?
That's still not as bad as his own father failing to show up for the battle where they're facing off against the king he rebelled against, though.
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because Teja's silly mun had given up.Urquhart or Poins make sure nobody depends on them in the first place.-
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Kain: He certainly thinks so. But then, he has a very pessimistic view of himself.
Fluttershy: Mmmmaybe?
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You guys, why are you even asking Lohengrin these things?!Yes.no subject
Bones will be the first to admit that he was the definition of a crappy workaholic husband to his wife (though he still can't quite believe what she did in return with their daughter),
Glorfindel has a list as long as his arm of times he just wasn't fast enough in a battle (Gil-Galad and all of his friends from Gondolin top the list, always and forever).
Ace failed spectacularly on that front with the Doctor on numerous occasions (though usually he was expecting it because situations beyond what he knew her tolerances to be and being generally older and wiser yadda yadda yadda), and so on and so forth.
Katya's most spectacular failure was with the Mirror - she helped set up the ambush, fueled with rage and a need for revenge that wasn't sanctioned by the boss, and got herself nearly slaughtered for it - now Bear doesn't have a partner.
Balthazar's job has always been look after Veronica, just as much as hers has been to look after him. Instead she ends up in the Grimhold trapped with Morgana for centuries - how's that for letting someone down?
Haymitch doesn't want to answer this question, it'd take too long.
Oswin promised her mum she'd write as soon as the Alaska got to it's next dock. The Alaska never made it there.
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Hank hasn't yet but damn...sorry Raven.
Jess...I'm not so sure about. I know Carol was pissed at Jess for not letting her help in Madripor but does that count?
Andrea...not touching this and definitely not touching it post-book four.
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Trowa: ...Uh.
Yes.
There were those teammates he failed to protect, and those other teammates he actually killed... And possibly even the original Trowa Barton counts, although Trowa has no angst on that score.
River: There's not really much else she could have done to save her Academy friends, but that won't stop her from feeling guilty about it anyway.
Regan: HELLO RIVER AND SIMON AND ALSO GABRIEL (BUT MOSTLY RIVER), HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY.
Clare: I mean, there are things other people in her place would feel qualified, but I actually don't think she does. She was a helpless kid with Teresa, and she was doing (as she will continue to see it) the right thing for Elena. Maybe Raki, eventually, for not finding him faster.
Uzura: Is a toddler! Edel: Uh, Drosselmeyer.
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Yes.
He will never forgive himself. But he'll learn to live with it.
Gabriel Tam: ... ahahaha. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes - River, Simon, and Regan all three, in the worst possible ways as far as he's concerned. Yes.
Kim Ford: Yes. Even when it couldn't be helped, the answer is still yes.
Laura Roslin: At her current point in canon?
Only the entirety of humanity's remaining survivors, she believes. Plus everyone who died along the way while depending on her.
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(After one look at this plus a couple of my other characters' upcoming events, I'm stopping here and going to get some tea now.
Yikes.)
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...*whimpers a bit*
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*comes back long enough to share ALL the tea*
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....hah. Hah. Ahahahahahahaohgodwhereisthetea.
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Medic thinks it's an amazingly stupid question and suggests you spend some time watching a BLU battlefield during business hours for a week or so to understand how many times he'd have to say 'ja'. (And also concedes that technically he probably would have to answer yes with regards to his ex-wife, but really, getting caught in bed with the team sniper of the time hardly even registers in his memory any more.)
Gordon just gives me a look and refuses to speak, but that's the 'you already know the answer, how many people did I see get killed at Black Mesa or in Resistance fighting and not be able to stop' look, so, um, there's your answer.
Shephard has been of the opinion for some time that he ought to have gone down fighting alongside the rest of the Corps, or at least stopped the Black Mesa nuke from being detonated, and the fact that he was unable to do so solely because the G-Man had him in stasis does not change the fact that he let his country and his brothers down. There's a reason both he and Gordon bust their asses as hard as they do.
And Ellen still hasn't really forgiven herself for not having come up with some kind of way to break into the control room when Colonel Eden cornered her father in there, or come up with some kind of radar or something to warn Project Purity that they had an inbound aircraft before the Enclave arrived; she's pretty sure they were relying on her for their defense needs and hiring Reilly's Rangers just wasn't enough, and she should have done better. She... tries not to think about that, though.
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Galadan -- nope!
Diana -- well there was the whole thing where Brother Eye targeted her people because she was the one that killed Maxwell Lord on film, but I think in general ... . she's gotten over that kind of thing? When you're battling on an epic scale you really can't keep everyone safe. Sometimes you can't even help empower everyone to be able to keep themselves safe. She'll do her damnedest trying, and mourn the ones she fails, but. So.
Michael the Archangel -- Her brother, last time.
Sam Tyler -- Maya
Dean -- Sam, for not being able to keep him out of this life, or let him go, or be the brother he deserves, or save him from Lucifer and the cage. John, when he had to sacrifice his life to save stupid Dean, who should have found a way not to get hurt in the first place, somehow. Jo and Ellen. Cas. But mostly Sam, then John. Gah.
X-23 -- Not when she's had control of herself, no. Not really. I mean, not without being aware that she's stretched herself to the limits in order not to fail. Thing. Emotionally she's not really built for it. Like. Her sensei and her mom SHE depended on. So. Different!
Raven -- Maybe Coyote, when he forgot her for . . . . a long time. His people. Yeah.
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Sam would also say no, as there was nothing he could do about people being whisked off to get whitewashed. Up until he helped save the world, anyway.
Claudia thought she'd let Joshua down, for a while there, but then she busted him out of limbo. Otherwise, at present I don't think she thinks that.
Apollo probably has, but tends not to think about it too much.
Imp is aware he's disappointed his father, but also doesn't much care. It's all about the music, see. (Even when it's not sentient music.)
Regulus, thanks to the Christmas Ghosts business, is aware that he's on the point of letting himself down big-time if he keeps doing what his mother and Bellatrix want him to do without protest. He also half suspects he's let Sirius down by not taking the time to say they're not so different after all, which would be why he's planning to rectify that when he gets to Hogwarts. Saving his own skin requires letting his mother and Bella down, but that's a worthwhile trade, in his mind.
Red: YES. YES WITH A SIDE OF YES. Peter is the main course in this feast of YES, but now that she knows he's forgiven her, she's starting to forgive herself.
(Ruby doesn't care, during-curse, and is better at seeing the second chance for what it is post-curse. Can I just say she's the best ever.)
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Mike is the opposite of this. In canon he's pretty dependable, but his time in Milliways has kind of corrupted him.
Splinter...is kind of blameless? Maybe?
Bumi joined the United Forces against his parents wishes. So there's that.
Aang ran away, turning his back on his entire culture, which ceased to exist when he finally did return. There was that whole bit with keeping news of Hakoda from Sokka, Katara, and Bato. And then the time he accidentally burned Katara.
Ida has never let a Middleman down. Ever. Everyone else doesn't count.
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Charles not on a big scale yet, give him time, right up to the attack on the Facility. He has lots of smaller guilt about how Raven isn't as comfortable and how being with Iris is somehow letting Erik down, oh and all the dreams he went into during October.
Jane feels as if she's often letting her mother down by wishing to be with Tom and be a writer. Once she hits a later point in canon, she'll feel that she let Tom down though she knows it was the right choice, it just hurts a lot.
William watched his father die and he still considers it partly his fault and he's sure that he's constantly disappointing those around him on a daily basis.
Moist knows he let his grandparents down but doesn't dwell on it. Part of what he does is mess with people's expectations, he finds it best to not think about that.
Sameth doesn't think he let quite as many people down as before but there's still a lingering sense of doubt that his mother is disappointed in him for not being Abhorsen-in-Waiting.
Demeter knows she let Kore down when she was captured and that this compromise is a strange thing and not comfortable for any of them. She knows that she let Felix down by his world not doing as it should, I know this isn't logical but she felt she should have been able to do something.
Tumnus has old worries about letting Lucy down by being captured, he knows that he did all he could but it wasn't enough and that she has forgiven him. That doubt is still in his head.
The Pirate King has never let his crew down, no one else counts.
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Practice until you fall down, that's how everyone copes with guilt, right?
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Grace let down her sister and she died because of it. Very much the truth. She also routinely lets down everyone she cares about. A lot. It's a problem.
Jim thinks he let down his father and he died because of it. Not so much the truth.
Doctor Evil let himself down because, thus far, he has no sharks with laser beams. Except that is really Number Two's fault. *presses button*
Lizzie let down Will because she killed Jack and failed to tell him about it? *snerk*
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Eric refuses to answer the question and will fang!snarl at anyone who dares push it.
Elrond's list is loooooong. Celebrian tops it.
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... and aaarguably so does Andrew? But in a very different way.
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Max has sometimes let people down by failing to deliver something on their schedule, but he has no issues with that.
Erik, like Max, has probably let some people down when their idea of completing a piece of work on time doesn't match with his, or just when something goes horribly wrong with the experiment. But, generally, no.
Alfred. Err, Bruce. Well, I'm not sure how Bruce feels, he's probably all Zen about it, but Alfred feels he should have spotted the anger and disillusionment with the system that Bruce was feeling.
Bean. Poke. There will be much angsting.
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(The only instance I can think of for Nepeta is wandering off and getting killed when Equius was counting on her to stay put and be safe? But I think that counts.)
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Has your character ever let down someone who was depending on them?
Fakir,
(Translation: Yes. Too often. And he will again, soon enough.)