Daily Entertainment:

[damncompass]

Good Morning, Milliways! Job changes are aways awesome, especially when you get tossed into someone else's work without much explanation of what's going on. On the bright side, I have an awesome boss which makes everything better.

For today's Daily Entertainment, I turn to something from Joshua's canon that I'm plotting:

Fears! What is your character's greatest fear? Would your character say it's something different? If they were to have a boggart/go into an Artifacty video game that plays on their fears, what would it look like?

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[never_shall_yield]

Gene - would say he has no fears. As it turns out, actually he's most afraid of his own memory.

Bruce Banner - loss of control.

Bruce Wayne - fear itself.

Javert - not being able to redeem himself.

Valjean - losing Cosette.

Robin - hmmm. Robin's the most well-centred of any of mine, I think. He lives with death constantly, so he's not afraid of that. He's secure in himself and his ability. He has no overarching ambition, as he's from a time that doesn't allow men of his position to have any. It may be the part of canon, when he tells King Richard that his crusades have made them all godless. He believes that. But he's not there in Millicanon yet. So. Tough one. I'll have to think on it.

And all of them, bar Gene, freely admit to what their fear is.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark is most afraid of turning out just like his father. An Artifact video game (and God, was that a cheezy episode) would probably be something similar to City of Villains. Only much worse.

[camwyn]

Gordon's biggest fear is something godawful happening to his family. There was a time when he had other fears, but frankly Black Mesa burned most of them out of him. There was also a time when his biggest fear was the Combine coming down on Earth in full force, but after destroying the Overworld and losing his eye that doesn't register any more.

Shephard is afraid of three things in this world, four if you count his mother when she's angry: flying, clowns, and the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz. He also has a deep-seated underlying primal terror, which lies so far down in his consciousness that it's not on anything like the same level as mere fear; it's of everything in the world being washed away by rising waters and it's rooted in the Cheat River floods that happened when he was six. So I guess that probably the greatest fear here is that God's promise to Noah was a lie, although he wouldn't realize it until the boggart started trying to flood the room or something.

Ellen... oh, hell, she's got fears out the yinyang. Let's go with 'dying alone and unnoticed in the deep Wasteland somewhere' for the big one, though.She's lived with that one for quite a while now.

I don't know about Medic or Varric's fears.

Mordin's biggest fear is that he won't live long enough to fix his own mistakes. To put this in perspective, he's a salarian of about thirty-five years and most of his species doesn't make it past the age of forty. And he's participated in some very, very big mistakes.

Stacker's biggest fear is that in six days there will be a triple event and that neither Striker Eureka nor Gipsy Danger will be able to seal the Breach. There used to be others, but then he met Chuck Hansen in Milliways, and now NOTHING ELSE COUNTS.

And I don't know what Santo's biggest fear is. There are a few movies in his canon that may give a clue. I'll let you know when I find out.

[justdyedit]

Jess would like to offer a "Fear of Dying alone" fist bump to Ellen.

[souffle_girlek]

Ace: She'd say something like Cybermen, or Daleks, (or vashta nerada, that's just creepy). But really, it's abandonment.

Oswin: She'd say Daleks. But really, it's loss of control.

Clara: At this point in her canon she'd probably say the Great Intelligence, no doubt. But sometimes, really, it's the Doctor.

Glorfindel: Returning to Mandos with his oath unfulfilled.

Simmons: Losing Fitz.

Bones: Somehow failing at his job. Insert Rockbiter's 'They look like good strong hands' line here.

Blakeney: ......... erm. Being told he's not fit to sail?

Katya: .......................................... um. Help? *eyes her*

Sam Stewart: The German invasion. Or getting bombed. Or being sent back to the MTC.

[wish_monger]

Brimstone - That he has doomed his people to unending war and barbarism.
Jess - Dying alone I think.
Hank - Being labeled a freak.
Anton - Early canon: Being in over his head or being useless. Mid-canon: Fucking it up, like really fucking up. Nuclear strike fucking it up. End canon: Fucking up raising his daughter, which is its own way of nuclear fuck up.
Quin - The Empire and Darth Vader.
Andrea - The Order finding out she's a shapeshifter.
Mulan - Being ineffective or Aurora being harmed.

[justdyedit]

Just thought of Jess's real fear, that she belongs in HYDRA after all.

[no_vampires_plz]

Twilight's canonical worst fear is of failure--failing her friends, failing her advanced magic studies, or both.

Alyx has a deep-seated, irrational fear of Stalkers, but now that the Combine are gone it doesn't really come up much. I'd say her greatest fear is of losing what she's gained in the last few years: Gordon, her children, the colony, et cetera.

I need to go get ready for work, so I'll get back to you on the rest later.

Edit: Actually, on reflection, I was mistaken about Alyx's worst fear. Her worst fear is of her mind and memories being tampered with. It's happened before and it still troubles her.

[minkhollow]

Cata: Being whitewashed again.

Sam: Being whitewashed period.

Claudia: That she's not actually good enough to have the life she has. What this looks like is "MWAHAHAHA YOU'VE BEEN IN THE PSYCH WARD ALL ALONG THE WAREHOUSE IS A DELUUUUUUSION!"

Apollo: I'm not sure, but fading out of importance is surely up there.

Imp: Music with rocks in it.

Regulus: His mother and Bella, which he considers quite healthy and justified. It's just a question of whether he's going to let that fear dictate his life (he's decided not to, as that makes his life much shorter).

Red: Loss of control.

Woolly: I'm actually not sure.

[damncompass]

... call me a hallucination one more time, asshat.....

[not_my_sandbox]

Amascut and cats. So ridiculous, but that's her obvious one. I would say that she is a bit claustrophobic too but then a while back I Millicanoned that she had a mountain dropped on her during her fight with Apmeken and she (not so) calmly blasted her way out. That was with a bunch of shrapnel embedded in her arm and little to no breathable air. Then again, breathable air is just a comfort thing. >.> So I guess I can't justify piling claustrophobia on top of her ailurophobia.

Fairy Fixit fears being stomped upon by a god. Current canon is scary for her; but fortunately she lives on the moon! No god has made a claim on the moon yet. Yay!

Evil Chicken is a good example of what kind of awfulness you can do and how awful you can be be at getting it done when you have no fear.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy's greatest fear is not being able to be a firefighter anymore, either because of a serious injury or having to retire. Because that would mean civilian life, and for him, that's the scariest thing he could face right now.

[kd7sov]

Hmm. Felix, I'd say, fears losing his family and friends most, but that's not very boggartable. Might work in the video game, though, considering Hannah. And, to a lesser extent, Claudia's part.

Fluttershy fears both notoriety and loneliness. However, she would prefer it to be understood that loneliness and solitude are not necessarily the same thing (hello, Pinkie).

[damncompass]

Joshua's greatest fear is wrecking things. It'll be made clear when we get to that part in canon.

Helena's greatest fear is being re-bronzed and losing everything she's gained since she was debronzed.

Mark's greatest fear is abandonment. If he was in the Artifacty game, he'd end up in something a lot like London Below where no one knew him or cared.

Valentine's worst fear is uselessness. She want to be able to do something, no matter what that something actually is.

Peter, to be honest, I don't know. He's faced a lot of fears.

[ceitfianna]

Will's is failing Nottingham and Robin and dying without making any difference.

Charles is afraid of being alone, failing mutants and going mad, not in that order.

Ivan is afraid of letting his mother and Barrayar down.

William is scared of having Mark or his mother die and disappointing them, oh and not having a chance to say a final goodbye to his father.

Sameth is scared of making things worse for the Old Kingdom.

Moist is afraid of being trapped and hung.

Jane's worst fear is never having her works out in the world.

Demeter's greatest fear is losing Kore forever.

Tumnus is afraid of letting Lucy and the Pevensies down.

The Pirate King's is of being trapped.

[pullsneedles]

ahahahahahaha, there is an entire area of Mother 3 devoted to this, Tanetane Island. The characters wash up on the beach with nothing but the clothes on their backs and have no choice but to eat the strange mushrooms that grow on the island. As Mixolydia puts it, the mushrooms tear at the wounds in your heart and show you your worst fears.

Based on that, Lucas's greatest fear is being rejected and abused by his loved ones.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine Fears dying alone. She craves somebody to stay with her, somebody to keep, and living alone long-term is no option for her.

Dixie will insist she has no fears and that life's taught her how to survive on her own, but her deepest fear is that Brisco will die in an unjust way.

Juliet Has a secret and retrograde fear of high places thanks to the Yang incident. She also has a deep fear of offending/hurting innocent people, though if you've pissed her off or if you're a criminal she will behead you with a toothpick.

Pinkie, as canon's explored, fears being forgotten and left behind, and that other ponies would rather be anywhere than with her. She also fears - as we just saw in canon - that she's not the Best Party Pony.

Eponine considers herself too fearless (and Hugo likely considers her too ill with malnutrition and hunger-related psychosis) to fear much. I think, in the end, she fears a life without Marius, and fears that a continued existence of starvation and degradation under her parents' fist is a worse fate than a romantic bullet to the heart.