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[lifethatisscratched]

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning, Milliways!

It is close to 0200 on this September the Fifth, Twenty-Thirteen, so let's do this like Buddhists and check what the character-building .pdf on my Communist laptop's hard drive has for us.

What sort of legacy does your character wish to leave behind?

As always, the DE suggestion box is here. Don and I are always taking suggestions.

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[lifethatisscratched]

Voodoo hasn't given any thought to any kind of legacy. He's 29 going on 30, and in a profession that doesn't allow for much in the way of public recognition (even if SEALs have been getting something of a reputation for spotlight-hogging lately). If he could go down knowing that the bad guys slept a little less easily at night because of what he did, he'd be just dandy.

John Marston hasn't given much thought to his legacy, either. If it doesn't pertain to his farm, family, or friends, he deems it irrelevant.

Mako would want to leave this world known as the orphan who never gave up on his little brother.

During portions of his canon, Connor expresses a desire to start a family when the time is right, i.e., once the immediate Templar threat in the colonies has been neutralized. I imagine he'd also like to be seen as a beacon of hope for the downtrodden and oppressed.

[king_gary]

Most of them haven't put any thought into it. Nicholas tends to focus on the immediate future, and is rather busy dealing with all the problems that come with being a police officer. That said, he is forever going to be that cop who arrested an entire West Country village. He will forever insist that he was one officer amongst seven who were actively involved with the Battle of Sandford (which is not ever a phrase you will catch him using).


Tim likes to see himself becoming a known name in the comic industry. Just hopefully not known the way Rob Liefeld is known; leaving behind a legacy of impossible, mind-bendy character designs isn't what he wants.


Gus also hasn't put any thought into it. He'd be far happier if he could just disappear entirely, without anyone knowing he ever existed.


Travis would like to also disappear into obscurity. He's also got a bit of a name for himself around the Met, but somehow being known as the guy who issued Nicholas Angel's forced transfer to Sandford isn't a fun thing to be known as.


And Gary... Gary's already got a legacy, man. He's Gary King!

[lady_bols]

My memory is sieve like. You should link their profiles.

[kd7sov]

Legacy-planning implies future-thinking. And my pups, except for Fluttershy (though Felix is working on it), are basically past-thinkers. And Fluttershy... I kind of want to say she doesn't want to be remembered, but that's not quite right. She does like to be loved and appreciated, one-on-one, but she doesn't want the spotlight or individual attention. I think she'd want animals to think of her as the Caregiver, and ponies as One Of the Elements of Harmony.

[damncompass]

Joshua wants to leave a comprehensive Guide to Artifacts, how they tick and what they do, and a Warehouse administration slightly better than when he started.

Helena is very fine with her legacy of being one of the founders of Science Fiction, thank you.

Valentine would just like to leave a legacy of a world un-taken-over by Peter, thanks.

[not_my_sandbox]

Amascut wants to leave zero legacy. If she's going to die, she wants to take the whole world along for the ride.

Fairy Fixit wants to leave behind a really robust and reliable multiverse spanning teleportation network. I'd say she's 5/8ths of the way there already. But, gods. Stupid gods. *shakes tiny fist at them*

[camwyn]

Ray originally just wanted his legacy to be scientific contributions to the legitimate field of parapsychological study. Then things started getting slimy on a regular basis, and then he got the New Year's Eve visit from Nyarlathotep. Ray wants to establish a scientific/social/other structure capable of seeing humanity through the period of the Stars Being Right and out the other side. I'm not sure you can entirely call that a legacy given that his friendship with Belgarion of Riva and Garion's daughter Beldaran wound up getting him the Belgariadverse sorcerer immortality package, so there's a good chance that he'll be around the whole time this is happening, but it's as close as it's gonna get.

Gordon wants the human race back on its feet and a civilized, prosperous, healthy, democratic society reestablished now that the Combine is gone.

Shephard is fine with Gordon's legacy goal, but that society is going to have to have the Marine Corps in it as far as he's concerned. Mind you, he has direct orders from the Marvelverse 1602 version of Captain America forbidding him to die until he sees the Corps reestablished and functional again- or at least that's how he sees the encouragement Rojhaz/General Rogers gave him way back when- so there's that to stiffen his resolve.

Medic wants to be known as the man who bitchslapped Death, metaphorically speaking. Not with the respawners Herr Engineer created, but in a way that would allow him to keep anybody of his choosing alive or revive them as necessary- scientifically, not with magic, danke.

Varric will be happy if he leaves behind a legacy of pots and pots of money and a whoooole lot of wildly popular stories. Mostly the popular stories but hey, as long as he's dreaming he wants the money too.

Mordin wants to be known after he's gone for his scientific accomplishments and for having put the krogan genophage right, considering his role in making sure it continued to be a threat to the krogan species in the first place.

Santo wants to leave behind a legacy of honor to his mask and role and name, and a worthy successor to take up the mask of El Santo after he's too old to wrestle any more. (The real world El Santo was buried in his mask, but at least one of his sons wrestles under a very similar mask and the name Hijo de Santo, which is at least something.)

Stacker Pentecost wants the Breach closed, the Anteverse destroyed if at all possible, and every conceivable kaiju threat to the human race dead. A legacy of humanity saved from the kaiju species is plenty.... that, and he'd very much like to be assured that Mako Mori is agood, strong, independent woman with a life to be proud of.

And Ellen wants to leave the Capital Wasteland a safe and civilized place where people can raise healthy children without being afraid of some maniac with spikes and a gun or some... some jerk with a uniform and a lot of propaganda. She's working on figuring out the specifics, because if there's one thing her father's life and death taught her it's that she absolutely hates it when someone doesn't figure out all the necessary measures to make their goal really work.

[bjornwilde]

You know, I keep thinking I need to contact the backroom mods and ask to put a link to the DE suggestion box on the info page.

Regardless...
Ben Grimm is giving me one of two answers. Either he has seen enough glimpses of his future that he doesn't worry about leaving a legacy (it's already taken care of) or he's accepted a long time ago he isn't going to leave any and so worries about today. If the world is still standing and hasn't been taken over by aliens, Dr. Doom or some other megalomanic when he kicks the bucket, he'll call it a win.

Anton at this point isn't thinking of it. Honestly, I think on some level he is aware of it and, given how Others can read probability, is scared shitless of it. One reason he's so skittish around Svetlana, I think. And yes I am being vague on purpose.

[genarti]

River would like to leave the world a better place. Some evil taken down, some good saved and protected. She would also like to leave other gunslingers in her world who know what they are and what that means.

Regan wants to leave, collaboratively with Gabriel, a legacy of better laws that set their society up for an easier future, with a less corrupt government, and for continued healing of the scars and underlying causes of the civil war between Core and Rim. Also she would really like grandchildren, but she's keeping quiet about that until and unless it looks like it might be in the cards again.

Thor wants to have been a good king of Asgard, and to leave everyone telling tales of the works of his life and valor of his death for centuries to come. Live fast, die badass!

Trowa, at age 15ish, helped to end the strife between Earth and its space colonies, overthrow the semi-unified Earth government in favor of a fully unified one, establish world peace, and also save the planet a time or two. So... that's a legacy already! What he'd like mostly is to have the world peace continue throughout and after his lifetime. He really doesn't care either way about recognition after he's dead, and would prefer not to have to deal with it while he's alive.

Clare has not thought about this at all, except that her goal in life is to kill yoma and leave more humans alive thereby. So I guess her ideal legacy is that people are alive because of her? But she doesn't think of it in terms of a legacy, really.

Enjolras has a thousand-word canonical speech about this, which I will spare you all. So, um, yes, he is conscious of legacy! He and everybody else in his particular IF WE DIE, WE DIE FOR THE BENEFIT OF POSTERITY revolutionary tradition. Suffice it to say, he hoped to leave the legacy of a true French republic reestablished and more solidly so this time, but he'll settle for leaving a legacy of accomplishing some progress along the road to that future by his life's work and his death. All of this is collective more than personal, but with his own life as the one he's in control of.

[herr_bookman]

Autor plans to conquer the world, and rule with an iron fist (exception: education--libraries and schools for everyone)! Isn't it thrilling?

... *bitter laugh*

[lifethatisscratched]

YOU SUCK AUTOR.

FREEEEEDOOOOOOOM.

*throws tea crates at*

[sunbaked_baker]

Isn't it thrilling?

No.






(Sunshine fumes at him in distanced disappointment before stalking off without another word.)

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Not you too. You sound like John Henry Eden.

He didn't end well.

[pro_patria_mortuus]

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[saphyria]

Sunshine would like to know her world's current future - one where by the next century the vampires are running the show and humans are being ranched like cattle - has been averted. Preferably, with the situation between humans and vampires, the traditional relationship of bloody murder, changed completely.

Zelgadiss lives too much in the now to have thought much about legacy. Being known for having saved the world a handful of times would be nice. Being known for discovering the way to reverse the process by which a chimera is made would be better.

Yrael doesn't think about legacy, because his kind don't die. Also, he doesn't much think about how other people will remember him - he thinks more about his own experience. He has already deigned to help save the Charter and all life on the planet; what more do you want from him?

[alas_a_llama]

Um. Well, a couple of weeks ago I would've said no, no, Sherral has no plans to leave a legacy at all, he just wants to make sure his family is well-provided for.

And now I don't think that's actually true. I'm starting to get a strong suspicion that ever since Nabudis or possibly before, Sherral has had the firm goal of 'become Judge Magister, use new and totally unchecked political and military power to effect reforms of Archadian foreign policy into a less militaristic model/class system into something a lot fairer.'

So, er, that'll be probably be his legacy. Such as it is. Larsa may beat him to the proverbial punch as far as getting that ball rolling, but he'll help.

Most of my others don't have any designs on a legacy. Yugo's legacy, I suppose, would be nobody falling victim to the Sabbat ritual again, but that's more of a short term goal.

[sunbaked_baker]

In other news, your playing of Sherral has led me to start a new run-through of FFXII. The first in years. :D

[max_epper]

A free world. Also one not about to be destroyed.

[alexiscartwheel]

So no biggie, really. ;-)

[gavin62truck]

Leaving a legacy is kind of a big deal for Tommy, and it comes up a lot in canon. Not on a worldwide scale, of course, but within the FDNY and his family. The FDNY has strong traditions about how its members are honored and remembered, especially if they've died in the line of duty. Tommy already has a reputation within the department: an anti-authoritarian rebel, a cocky asshole and daredevil. However, among the younger upstarts who've heard of him and the older veterans who've worked with him, he is thought of as one of the best firefighters around. At heart Tommy honestly doesn't do what he does for fame and glory, but despite his personal failings he would certainly want to be remembered as someone who did his duty.

Speaking of personal failings: his family. Tommy has let his wife and children down so many times, I can't even begin to say how. Which is why he is often forced to take a good, hard look at what he's done to them, and think about if his legacy with them is worth saving. If he could live with the fact that they'd always think he's a disappointment, that he doesn't care about them, that he just can't give enough of himself to them. But he does love his family, but he just doesn't know how to be a normal husband and father. So with them, all he can hope for is that they feel that he wasn't that much of a fuck-up in the end.

As for Lou...don't talk to me about Lou. CUPCAKES. CUPCAKES ARE HIS LEGACY.

[vojvode]

Cupcakes and poetry.

[student_of_impossibility]

Henry doesn't think about this stuff, but "Storybrooke free of the curse" is arguable.

Lois wants to be a Pulitzer winning reporter and go down as the best damn investigative reporter in history.

Tavi, if you asked him, would blink and be like, "Legacy? What legacy? I just serve Alera, so long as she is flourishing and well I can't ask for more." However, his definition of flourishing is... special. At his current canon point, mostly he wants to ensure Alera survives the Canim, the Kalaran Rebellion, and the Vord, and if he can find some way to manage some social changes for the better (i.e., end slavery) so much the better, but he's a tool of the First Lord, right? And he'd like to have a family one day, but that's a vague, unstated thing. Oh, and he'd like to prove that once Alerans didn't have furycrafting and find non-crafting ways to solve problems and be remembered for that. As a Cursor, he doesn't expect to be remembered for anything. Not his function.

Funnily enough, he does leave the legacy he wants to behind. It shifts a little with time. If you want to know what legacy he actually leaves, that's a loong post with a lot of speculation.

[misslucyjane]

Bilbo is a historian, really, with writing the finding of the Ring of Power and the War of the Ring, so leaving knowledge of what has passed before is importent to him.

Merlin wants to leave a safe Camelot with Arthur on the throne. (Oh, canon, how you hurt me so...)

Lydia is going to win a Fields Medal, and leave her mark on higher math.

Steve wants to leave a safe world with other superheroes to look after it. Personally, there's some other stuff, too, la la la.

The Ice King has been alive for thousand years. He doesn't expect to leave anytime soon.

Jack is more concerned with getting himself on the throne than what will come after, right now.

Cecil wants to leave a tradition of good community radio.

[bbq_platypus]

Jim wants to be remembered the way all great characters are remembered - for making people laugh. The way he's remembered right now suits him just fine.

Borgel isn't the sort of person who cares about a legacy - as long as he enjoyed life and didn't hurt anybody doing it, he doesn't much care what else he leaves behind. Everybody gets forgotten eventually - why worry about how long it takes for that to happen?

Leela hasn't really thought about anything like a legacy yet. If pressed, she would probably say she wants to be remembered as a brave and loyal person who never backed down from a challenge.

Kane never wants to die in the first place. Above all else, he wants to be known forever as the savior of mankind, who triumphed over the forces holding them back and led them to their luminous new destiny.

Caius has long accepted that much of the work that he does will never be publicly acknowledged, and that only a few will ever truly know what he accomplished. A modest military funeral will be all the recognition he needs after death.

Garyn would laugh at the question if he were asked it right now. However, he'll grow a lot more conscious of his legacy once he realizes he's the Nerevarine - particularly once Dagoth Ur is defeated and he needs to confront his new role as a public figure. When that time comes, he will want to leave the world a better

(Doesn't happen - he mysteriously vanishes within a few years. It's unclear whether this is for a good reason, a bad reason, or some weird mystical reason).

[lady_mary]

Lady Mary wanted Downton to her legacy. Now that it won't be hers, she's less sure.

Carol wants to be remembered as the best pilot, the best friend, and the best hero she could be... someone who would sacrifice everything to protect the world.

Little Stiles aims to be the best cop in Beacon Hills, just like his Dad. Teenage Stiles wants to be wants his legacy to be his adorable, genius children, and being known to family, friends, and the world as the funnier half of the Sitlinski-Martin power couple.

[crabbycustomer]

Karkat's not-actually-that-eternal legacy is the entire human race and our universe.

(We are shattering disappointments.)

[mmexlibris]

Vlad (vojvode) considers his legacy to be in the past. He halted the advance of the Turk across Europe. He could not save Constantinople, but he did what he could, and at great price. If he knew about the pop culture legacy he's responsible for, I think he might find a way to drink himself stupid.

Alex (lady_bols) is happy with the legacy of having written two textbooks on the psychology of trauma. She's also content that her daughter will go on to do great things. She just wishes she could be there to see it. As for future legacies, she's set her sights on making Gene Hunt an honest man, and if that isn't a goal akin to reaching the moon, she doesn't know what would be.

Sherlock (hello_freak) would like to see his treatise on 243 different types of tobacco ash published. Also, possibly he'd like someone ~eyes Watson~ to publish on his methodologies of Deduction. So he could red line the manuscript and rewrite it himself, only to burn it in the grate late one night, along with the flash drive someone kept as a back up, because it will never be adequate to the level of detail he demands.

John Silver (an_honest_man)wants to build the largest house in Bristol, and he wants to outfit his lady in the most beautiful silks and furs, and he wants two white horses to pull a proper carriage, with a driver and a footman. And he wants to tithe generously, for a pew right down front where all the action is.

[ceitfianna]

Will wants Nottingham and England to be safe, if he gets to have a family too that's a bonus.

Charles would like his legacy to be the acceptance of mutants by humanity and for all mutants to be proud and accepting of themselves. *pats him* Marvel doesn't agree.

William wants his legacy to be Mark living a long life and not being a rancher, his mother happy and if he also ends up with a decent life, he'll be even more grateful. He doesn't have high expectations for his own wants but for his family, he does.

Sameth wants to leave a legacy of making the Wallmaker bloodline strong again and leaving the Old Kingdom stronger and better.

Moist would be happy is no one remembered him in great detail, fond memories or as that con man that no one could ever catch. Though if he did get caught, he wouldn't mind a fine and clever ballad pointing out how he tricked a lot of people.

Demeter seen her legacy go from believed to myths to art and many other places. For now she looks to Kore and her happiness and stopped hoping for grandchildren long ago.

Jane wants her legacy to be her books that are enjoyed and respected.

Tumnus wants to be remembered for helping the Pevensies return Narnia to greatness and for being Lucy's friend and a good Faun.

The Pirate King would like multiple songs and stories of his daring and virility.