Daily Entertainment: Superstition Edition!

[damncompass]

Happy (or not-so-happy) Friday the 13th, everyone!

In honour of that, I give you today's Daily Entertainment Offering.

Superstitions!

Is your character superstitious? If so, what about? If not, why?

For bonus points... what about you as a mun?

Comments

[thanksrainman]

I don't think any of mine are. Nicholas was already kind of wishy-washy on believing in anything he can't see, and I think after he was shot by a reverend he officially ran out of reasons to keep trying. If a reverend can pull two pistols out of his sleeves and shoot them both at someone and the hand of God himself doesn't come down and smite the fuck out of everyone, well... That's it, isn't it?

Gus isn't terribly superstitious unless he's pulling a con. Then suddenly everything is a jinx. This probably has more to do with the fact that he sucks at being a conman more than anything, though.

Tim did once pray to Buffy Summers. I don't know if that counts for anything, though.

Gary thinks he is is own higher power and that he makes his own luck. Being from an alternate reality to Nicholas and Tim's universes, this makes him an even bigger idiot than he seems.


On the other end of the scale, the Loki I play in the sandboxes is VERY superstitious. Not like, black cat, broken mirrors superstitious, but more in a ritualistic sort of way. He has been jinxed and cursed and hexed enough times, and has jinxed and cursed and hexed enough people that it's just a part of daily life. Don't tempt the Norns, don't tempt other sorcerers, and really don't tempt Fate. And unless you're doing something that is 110% right and just, don't ever say that things are going well. Because in 20 minutes, they won't be.




Personally, I think I'm somewhere between Gus and Nick. I don't believe in any of it, but don't say things are going well. Especially if they're really going well. That's just asking for trouble. Not so much in that it will make trouble happen, but in acknowledging how well something is going, you set your expectation to this benchmark, which then makes any subsequent failure or setback seem all the worse. It also means you're looking for setback or failure, though maybe not consciously, which makes you more prone to noticing even the smallest hang-ups and blow them out of proportion, thus creating a snowball of negativity.

TL;DR, no, not really, but I often come off as such.