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DE: I don't have issues, I have print runs
So trust...how does your pup handle it? I know this is a big topic so I am going to split this to two days. Today we'll take a look at personal trust. How does your pup trust individuals? Do they offer a basic level of trust with further levels to be gained? Do they mistrust everyone equally and never allow anyone the chance to earn their trust? Are they trustworthy? (Heh, I first wrote that as trystworthy) Do they get offended when people don't trust them? Do they have to make a conscious choice to trust or is it inherent?
Feel free to answer all of these or spin your own questions.
Feel free to answer all of these or spin your own questions.
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Helena, in general, doesn't truly open herself up enough to trust people. She'll flirt, she'll talk to people, she'll befriend them, but it isn't often that she truly trusts someone. When it comes down to it, she believes that the only person she can really trust is herself, and well, we saw how well that went in the 1890s, so fuck that with a rusty spoon.
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Hank McCoy is another that is trustworthy to a point. I say this because of how he treated Raven in canon. If you don't threaten his dream of being normal, you can trust him. Once that dream is taken away or perhaps it's more he lets it go, he is totally trustworthy. Too bad he will already have lost Raven by that point. As to his trusting, I think he does but with a weather eye out for a backstab as he's been used and abused for his intelligence before. Fool him once, shame on you, etc. Still, he keeps trying.
Andrea totally trusts people unless you happen to be a were-hyena/bouda. She has issues woth the boudas that are unresolved. She is also trustworthy to a fault. In fact, in canon it's been proven that random strangers will tell her their life story in casual situations. She just projects trustworthiness.
Val von Doom trusts at the drop of a hat and will give people multiple chances. She herself is quite trustworthy as well.
Thalia Grace trusts peers and demigods. She mistrusts gods and adults and would require some effort on their part to get past this. Adults can earn the trust easier than gods. Except for Artemis but this could be due to Artemis reading as a teen.
Jessica Drew has to make a conscious decision to trust someone, thanks HYDRA training! Once she's made the choice, it is very hard for her to let the trust go. I don't know how far one would have to go to lose it and would rather not find out; though Clint Barton seems damned intent on trying.
Anton Gorodetsky trusts no one. Okay, maybe his field team and Svetlana (the woman fated to be his love) but he does not trust the Boss. He also will not trust any Dark Other or any member fo the Inquisition. As to people, well with a peek into the Twilight he can see if they are trustworthy or not. He does this often and ever with humans he meets that he likes. Is he trustworthy? Tough call.
Quinlan Vos no longer trusts, with the exception of his wife and child. He will make allowances for business but no one gets close to him anymore. Actually, Kenobi would still have his trust but Yoda never had it. Oh, he trusted Yoda in his capacity a Jedi Master but knew Yoda saw him as a flawed tool. Is he trustworthy? In bar I would say yes since there is no way anyone could threaten his family unless he let them to his door.
Young Quin still trusts and believes in the jedi cause and people...unless you are his Aunt. He also hasn't met a sith yet.
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Shephard: Is firmly of the opinion that people have a powerful tendency to be assholes, but generally waits to see whether he's dealing with an asshole or not before treating people with the level of trust due to same. He has set himself the task of atoning for every single thing the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit's members did to prove that Marines can and ought to be trustworthy, because there's nobody else left to do it.
Ellen: Despite everything she's encountered out in the Wasteland, including finding out about the Vault Experiment and, oh, her father, Ellen still has a fairly high baseline level of trust towards individuals in general unless they are shooting at her. This is part of her problem with spilling details; it takes her a while to remember that it's not a great idea to tell someone more than they really need to know just because you think it's important background to the situation at hand. If she finds out you lied to her, however, she'll get mad. Despite attempts at forgiveness and seeing the situation from his perspective, she still harbors resentment towards her father... I suspect, although I am not certain, that she's more resentful of her father's deception than she is of the Overseer's. As for her being trustworthy, she made a point of not lying to Lord Ashur when she met with him in the Pitt- and then, months later, of apologizing to him for not telling him the entire truth, but of following through on everything she told him at the time. She's probably about as trustworthy as she can get.
Varric: Lies, and believes other people lie; if he likes you enough, and knows you well enough, he'll trust you and deal fair and square with you. But he lives and moves in a world where people expect squirrelly dealings from one another. It's all part of the game.
Medic: I don't even know where to start.
Mordin: ... um. Dude worked for the Special Tasks Group. Once again, I do not even know where to start.
Santo: Is trustworthy as hell. Knows people lie and weasel, alas, but will generally give people a chance to start out with and only drop his trust if they give him a reason.
Ray: Has a default setting of trusting people, but this has been made a little bit more thoughtful and careful by having lived and worked with Venkman for a good long while now.
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The other issue is that Elle has a bad habit of trusting in absolutes. She doesn't really let people earn her trust incrementally - it's more like there's a fence that can be reached, and if she lowers that, it's like she's all in. She'll pretty much trust that person in every way, and it will be nearly impossible for her to withdraw that trust again. Which is part of the reason she so rarely does it - she can tell it's a rather self-destructive approach to trusting others, but she doesn't know how to make herself act otherwise.
Asami, right now, is generally very trusting. She not necessarily outright gullible, but she'll assume others aren't lying to her until and unless she has a reason to think otherwise. This will change rather dramatically when she goes through canon.
Leslie can be trusting more to the point of gullible. Which is sometimes a problem when she's involved with politics with a lot of ambitious backstabbers and just general jerks, but she can at least also be kind of cunning when she needs to. But generally she trusts pretty easily.
Manny isn't very trusting at all, though that's partly because he's knows he's the kind of person who'll abuse another's trust when necessary. His trust can be earned, but he just doesn't assume any individual person to be trustworthy.
Marceline doesn't really consider it something she has to think about very often, though she has also been fooled/taken advantage of in a couple of instances. Though one was her dad, which, yeah, and the other was her wizard ex-boyfriend, and she... definitely got him back on that count.
Katara is the sort of person who wants to trust easily, but has been through enough rough patches to objectively know she shouldn't. And then does a lot of the time anyway. And sometimes this turns out well (Aang!), and sometimes... not so well (Jet and Zuko).
Hiccup doesn't really have so much of an issue trusting people, he just... trusts he knows how they'll act, and that's often not so good for him. But the Vikings he lives with tend to be so open and well... blunt? That deception isn't really their thing. So it's not something he tends to be that concerned about.
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He'd be shocked if he realized that he not only unconsciously placed not just one person in that category, but many, despite his knowing intellectually that his life has improved in specific ways since meeting these people.
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The Ice King...it's hard to say, really, because his grasp on reality is so tenuous. At his most lucid, he's really a decent man, but he's often not lucid.
Merlin is a trusting soul in many ways, but he still keeps the secret of his magic from the people who matter most to him for as long as he can. He'll keep your secrets, though, unless he thinks doing so would harm Camelot/Arthur.
Bilbo is a bit guarded, particularly in unfamiliar situations, and can be quite devious when he wants to be--but he's got the hobbit trait of being exactly what he appears to be, too. He's kind of a trickster, but he's not a cruel one.
Steve is Trusty McTrustworth of Trust Town. The times this backfires on him are rare. He seems to bring out the opposite in people, at least in the comics--people want to deserve the trust he places in them. He is most open and honest with Bucky and Orpheus--or just with Orpheus, now that Bucky is gone--but in a lot of ways it's because he doesn't want to impose on other people with his troubles. A person would have to do something horrendous to have that trust taken away.
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Will doesn't give out trust easily, because he's in a world where the wrong person can get you killed. Yet if he does trust you then you can rely on him for whatever you need. He's immensely loyal and trustworthy in a lot of ways but is a thief and a liar who will happily play with someone's expectations to get what he wants. Its an odd balance but a lot of it is due to being an outlaw and growing up in Nottingham.
Charles wants to be trusted and trust everyone but knows he can't. Due to his telepathy, he knows who can be trusted and has a way of surprising people by trusting them. He does this to Erik, which I think is charming, how Erik keeps being confused by Charles trusting him. If someone chooses to trust him then he will do all he can to reward them and be good to them since trust is a huge part of how he builds his world.
Moist on the other end of the spectrum doesn't trust easily and manipulates people's trusting nature. He knows exactly how to seem trustworthy but will use that trust to get whatever edge he wants. In terms of his own relationships, he doesn't trust or let anything out if he can help it. People in Bar know more about them than he'd like but most of that didn't come from him telling them. Yet in his own way, he is reliable, once someone understands how he works, he'll be a little more open with them. Claudia is the main person in Bar that he has this relationship with, she knows what he does, he knows she knows and they have a friendship.
William wants to trust but in his life, he's seen trust turn badly a lot. I think most of his loss of trust came from his relationship with his father as he grew up and saw that his father couldn't fix things. That's where a lot of his anger came from too and then you add in his brother being sick and the civil war and he's prickly. Yet he's someone who is trustworthy and when he finds people he does trust, he will open up. The way he is with Katya shows this as he trusts her though she chides him for trusting too much.
Sameth is another who wants to trust but since his family isn't good at acting like a family, its not easy. He's used to being trusted and looked up to as a prince, but that's something he worries about. He's very aware of what it means to be trusted and in a position of power. He tends to trust easily and has done that in Milliways but with his family, he kept important things from them because there's not a good history of talking. I think the fact that he's shared as much as he has with other people and in canon with Lirael and Yrael shows that he wants to talk, he's an open person.
Jane uses her wit as protection but is fairly open just as canon goes on, she protects herself more and is careful of who she trusts with her dreams and hopes. She herself is very trustworthy as your word means something in her era.
Demeter is complicated, she's a goddess and protects those she considers her own yet her family regularly lies to each other and mortals. She doesn't find anything odd about hiding who or what she is if that's in someone's best interest. I think the best answer for her is that its complicated.
Tumnus is now in a place where he can trust and be trusted as he wants to be. During the reign of the White Witch, he didn't dare to truly trust anyone and it was painful for him. I think this is so clear when he meets Lucy, how much he wants to believe in her. He is trustworthy and now in a place where he can trust and be trusted as he wants to be.
The Pirate King is trustworthy in his own specific way, because he has his own rules. Frederic and Ruth clearly know and get these rules.
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Max is more trusting than Jack, and defaults more towards 'trust people', than not, but is still a bit wary.
Erik divides his life into SHIELD work, and non-SHIELD work. The former part, he basically doesn't trust anyone with, save colleagues, the latter he's more open about. He's probably the least trusting of the three (Jane, him and Darcy) in canon, but he's more open to SHIELD, having had a little experience with them before.
Alfred trusts very few people, but is good at masking it, in terms of actions, and conversation. He is very trustworthy, and can keep secrets very well.
Bean, at this point, pretty much doesn't trust anyone. Maybe Sister Carlotta. He is, on the other hand, incredibly trustworthy. Partially because he doesn't trust anyone else. He will trust people to screw up their jobs, and that's about it. Bean's trust is hard earned, and often requires that he's carrying your secrets for a long time before he lets you in.
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Dixie is guarded due to her past and her connection to Brisco.
Jules the same due to her police work.