Daily Entertainment: Lawbreaker Edition!

[damncompass]

First and foremost, because I will be attending Connecticon next weekend, I'm putting Thursday and Friday's Daily Entertainments up for grabs! If you'd like to post something next week, just comment, and it's yours! Take one or both.

Second, for your perusal:

What is your character's relationship with the law? Are they squeaky clean, but prone to speeding tickets? Are the on the wrong side of the law? Are they the law and the law is not mocked?

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Kirk is pretty much an officer of the law. Insofar as anyone in Star Trek is - the only cop we ever met was Odo. And while Jim might go against Starfleet regulations, he is generally law abiding. His only known violation of the law? Acquiring Romulan ale on two occasions, and the second time it was a mistake (Star Trek VI).

Knox is a pretty typical American. Pays his taxes, but cuts corners here and there, speeds more than he should, jaywalks, etc. He has respect for the concept of the law, but when you come from Gotham you have very little respect for the men in blue, even with Jim Gordon around to try and clean things up.

Charlie is more than likely guilty of a lot of petty crimes, as befits a masked vigilante. He's worked with cops on many occasions, and tries to hold his tongue with the ones he respects. And he's really ambivalent about the power the police and the federal authorities have.

Howard Stark tries very, very hard to be completely clean. Mainly because it wouldn't do to be caught doing anything wrong. Oh, he's also pretty honest and holds the law and its officers in the highest regard. But he's more concerned with the bad press an arrest would bring than anything else.

Cyborg upholds the fine tradition of superheroes practicing as they preach. He's never gotten so much as a speeding ticket. But his attitude about cops is no doubt informed by his life as a man of color and also by the frequent moments the local cops seem unable to hold their prisoners for more than 20 minutes. He's kind of sure that if he weren't so readily recognized as Cyborg, someone would have pulled him over for Driving While Black.

Gibbs is a pirate. Nuff said.

[kd7sov]

Insofar as anyone in Star Trek is - the only cop we ever met was Odo.

I dunno, Eddington seemed to be pretty much Odo's direct Starfleet counterpart. Not that he's particularly relevant to your puplist.

[kd7sov]

Felix has no problem with obeying the law... as long as it doesn't get in the way of something he feels like doing. But it doesn't take a lot of "feels like" to override his respect for muggle law.

Fluttershy would never dream of breaking the law. Unless there's an animal in trouble that she thinks she could help but she can't help it without transgressing the law. Or her friends are in a situation like the aforementioned animal's. Or Twilight insists.

Kain has his own particular code that he holds to, but it's more about personal loyalty than laws or even ethics. That said, the king's pretty high up in that loyalty, so. (*laughs bitterly at what canon does to Kain*)

[bjornwilde]

Jess will work within the law. Really! That is until it gets in her way. She's all about personal rights and this sometimes causes friction with her BFF. *cough*SHRA*cough*

Hank follows rules too closely to have broken any laws. I seriously doubt he's ever even had a late library book.

For Brimstone, laws are for other people. This includes the laws of nature.

Quin is currently living on the wrong side of the law and as a Jedi, I think he was used to being his own law. The legal system in Star Wars is weird.

Andrea is kind of a representative of the law but will skirt or ignore laws when she deems it necessary. This will bite her in the ass.

Isabella/Lady Trent follows laws as they are written, though she finds foreign laws often incomprehensible and uncivilized (in her youth at least). She is currently bound and chafing under the rules of her society but that isn't something she can go to jail for...yet.

Mulan is an interesting case. I think she follows laws if they are just but given the kingdoms in FTL and the enchanted forest, the local rulers laws aren't always just.

Sam Wilson feels like someone who obeys laws with an occasional infraction here and there, like speeding. He accepts the penalties with grace though and doesn't grumble, unless it's something he didn't do. Of course, when Captain America asks him to break laws, he doesn't hesitate.

[genarti]

Ahaha.

Enjolras does actually believe in law and order -- but law and order under just laws, not in obedience to an unjust system because it's what you've got. He doesn't break minor laws wantonly, he doesn't steal or vandalize. But he's also spent years being a leader in an underground society that does things like illegally criticizing the government, stockpiling armaments, plotting to overthrow the king, and eventually taking to the streets to violently attempt to do that, so, you know.

Cosette is squeaky clean so far as her personal actions go. If she had more opportunity, she might be in the period equivalent of prone to speeding tickets or something, but maybe not -- she's pretty law-abiding. (Someday in post-canon, she will develop a more active political consciousness, I rather suspect. Not yet, though.)

Thor, uh, is generally in favor of Asgardian law, but is also in a position to break it without a lot of consequences. So he considers it more a guideline than a rule, for himself. *rueful* If we're talking about another world's laws, he considers it courteous to follow local customs insofar as reasonably possible while he's there, but he doesn't consider himself actually bound by them at all.

Clare sees most laws as a human thing: she doesn't care whether you follow it, but she doesn't consider herself required to do so except as far as it's practical for her. For the organization's few laws -- well, they're pretty harshly enforced, so right now she holds to them. That's not a matter of fundamental belief, though; it's a matter of preferring to keep her head attached to her shoulders.

Trowa is sort of like Thor, but coming at it from the position of a former semi-outcast rather than the position of a prince: law and order are important, but he considers himself outside the society they're important for, and anyway results are more important all around. So he'll break the law in a heartbeat if he needs to, but he'll try to be discreet about it.

River flies around with a bunch of smugglers. Uh. She has an inflexible attitude towards certain moral principles, but an extremely flexible attitude to what's actually legal.

Regan is law-abiding! Relatedly, Regan is of a class the law is set up to favor, and is a change-the-system-from-within sort rather than an overthrow-the-system-and-burn-some-of-the-broken-bits sort (insofar as she's even a rebel period, which is not all that far).

[camwyn]

Gordon and Alyx are currently trying to write their world's laws. During the Combine occupation, the fact that Gordon was even alive was a violation of the law. He's held the title of Anticitizen One in two separate universes- his own, and the Marvel AU from the 1602 original series in which mutants and supers got killed and Captain America got sent back in time to get him out of the way. Other than that Gordon generally tended towards law-abiding but prone to minor traffic infractions.

Shephard generally tends towards law and order with a side helping of 'but some laws are just fucking stupid and I have elected to ignore them'. However, that's mostly stuff like traffic laws and drinking ages, since he thinks anyone who's allowed to pick up a gun and die for his country ought to be allowed a goddamn beer, thank you very much- and it'd better be a proper beer, not some low-alcohol brew mandated by state law. He's gotten somewhat more focused on getting the law right since the events of Half-Life 2 Episode 2, because he's been dedicated to restoring the Corps since then and that includes institutional discipline and having to write the code of military justice from scratch.

Edward Kenway: pirate, hello.

Ellen... they don't really have law in the Capital Wastes. The closest they get outside of small town justice is an organization of bounty hunters that pays out good cash for bringing back the weapons of seriously antisocial scum (you can't call them criminal when there's no laws to break), and she was a member of that. The Brotherhood of Steel is slowly taking the role of government in her world, and she adheres to their Codex as best she can- Lyons' interpretation thereof, mind you, not the isolationist version you see out West.

Stacker Pentecost obeyed the law and military regulations of behavior right up until the notice that hey, we're not funding you any more, at which point he turned in his stripes and asked some Russians to get him a nuclear bomb on the sly. I'm just sayin'.

Varric laughs and laughs and laughs. He knows the law. He likes to play with it like it's a jump rope.

El Santo does everything he can to stay on the right side of the law to a degree generally only seen in the 1960s TV version of Batman. However, when he does break the law he is by and large given a pass, because he's El Santo and he's doing it for a really good reason.

Medic considers the law an inconvenience when it gets in the way of his work and wants to know why people get so fussy about doing things to corpses anyway.

[street_sparrow]

Gavroche has always danced around thumbing his nose at the law - to a point. He's always had his own moral code, but it didn't have a great deal to do with what was legal. And now he lives in a world where the only law is "no violence at the Floating Market" and breaking that one is a really bad idea.

[silveraspen]

AHAHAHAHAHA okay.

Captain Jack Sparrow: Seriously? Do I really need to answer this one? Anyway, Jack's a pirate, and his relationship with the law is complicated to say the very least. He likes to avoid it entirely where possible, not being a particular fan of being hanged by the neck until dead. When he can't avoid it, he does his best to manipulate and out-talk it, using it to his best advantage. The Pirates' Code is the closest thing Jack has to a externally-established law that he follows, and even then he'll do his best to make sure it works in a way that gets him what he wants. His personal code is more complicated and absolutely vital. (It has a lot to do with love of freedom and a deep, seething antipathy toward those who betray.)

Gabriel Tam: As the Senator from Osiris and Member of the Council of Seven, Gabriel is the law - or at least a representative of it. However, he is also painfully well aware of just how badly governmental systems can fail to protect the ones they exist to serve, so he's personally lenient in mind.

Laura Roslin: As President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, Roslin believes very strongly in law and justice.

(How the heck did I end up playing two senior politicians, anyway?)

Louis Hoshi: Independent of mind, but loyal to authority.

Nick Sayre: He's privileged by Ancelstierre law, being of a highly-placed family and the nephew of a senior government official, but other than that, he hasn't really thought about it much. Yet.

Moiraine Sedai: She respects the law, but has no problem with breaking it when it comes to the needs of her cause. She's of the Blue Ajah, and Blues are committed to causes and justice.

Kim Ford: She doesn't feel strongly about it one way or the other.

Sam Winchester: Does his best to stay off the radar of anyone in law enforcement, as he and Dean are constantly breaking a whole slew of laws. Also, having been a fugitive from the FBI tends to leave one a bit cranky with the whole thing.

The Winter Soldier: His orders are his law.

[ceitfianna]

Will spent the early part of his life as a thief then another large part as an outlaw, now Robin's been pardoned and he finds it odd to be serving Robin and not actually breaking the law. He would like just laws and good leaders to follow but if things are broken, he will happily find ways around to deal with them.

Charles is fairly law abiding though that will change a little later on, but he prefers to change the system from the inside. He'll use his telepathy to get out of various problems but he'd prefer to not be arrested since he knows some of what he does can get him in trouble.

Moist is a conman and likes to know it to understand how to get around it.

Sameth is a prince and has served on the Old Kingdom's Petty Court so he tries to understand it and how to use it. He doesn't really break or bend it that much.

Jane is law abiding but doesn't like how the system is constructed, but she is like Charles where she prefers to change things from inside rather than outside. But she does stretch against what is seen as acceptable in her time, but that's social law not actual law.

William's tricky since before his canon, he loved reading about outlaws and seeing them as interesting. After everything that happened with Ben Wade, he's changed his mind but he also doesn't think those who represent the law are that good either. He tries to be law abiding and he gets into fights but that's about the worst he does.

Ivan tries to follow the law in its various forms as much as he can since the person he answers to if he does something wrong is his Emperor, his mother or his admiral. He does know how to skirt it but he's never been like Miles who bends rules until they break.

Demeter is a Greek goddess who follows a different set of laws than everyone else and I'm not even sure what they are. Morality is odd for her.

Tumnus does his best to be law abiding and its much easier to do that with the Pevensies than with the White Witch.

The Pirate King takes great pleasure in breaking the law.

[fluffiest_archadian]

Sherral: Archadia's law is military law, and enforced by its army - and conversely, Archadia's military is in service of the Capital-L Law of Archadia, and its highest authorities are officials of the Ministry of Law.

So, as a soldier, he's also a law enforcement official, and is thus expected to always be on the right side of the law. He's a low-ranking one, though: He's not a Judge, who are vested with the power to accuse someone of a crime, pronounce verdict, and pass sentence with no outside influence or oversight.

Wan: Is a habitual thief who was exiled for riling up an armed people's rebellion and for stealing fire. He is not a law-abiding person.

Yugo: Is pretty law-abiding, but millicanonically comes from a Yakuza family, so he's pretty adept at rubbing shoulders with criminals, and knows his way around how to execute a decent protection racket, illegal gambling ring, rigging races and boxing matches, etc. He doesn't, because it's morally wrong, but he knows how.

[seat_five_girl]

Ako listens to laws and generally follows them.
Unless the laws are clearly stupid that is.

Milliways has, um, not reduced that second part at all.

Robo is fairly law abiding but spends so much of his time in areas that either haven't had laws written about them yet (breakthrough physics! How human-like does an AI have to be before breaking it is murder?) or classified as all get out (vampire dimension!) that it can be easy to lose track of what counts as legal while fighting a shadow war against the military industrial complex.

*cough*

Moving on!
Artemis doesn't break the law unless it's convenient?
I blame her family and Gotham. Yes. Mostly her family though.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut and the law? Ha! most of the "laws" that the gods set for themselves don't apply to her. But really, how many laws she breaks daily depends on who she is pretending to be. She can be a law abiding government official, but at the moment, she is spending major blocks of time being a mugger and extortionist. So.

Fairy Fixit is as law abiding as you can expect from someone who grew up in a true neutral society. Which means... um... not very but she isn't a criminal. Law is why we can have nice things but who constitutes "we" and what constitutes "nice things" is always a contentious issue. I mean she is loyal to the Queen, but accidents happen and you can't prove that they weren't accidents so there.

[katyafeline]

Okay, try #2 - hopefully my computer doesn't decide to pitch a fit this time.

Katya: Is the law, at least for the Dark. Her whole existence is (or at least was) to patrol the night and ensure that the Dark Others weren't stepping out of line. She will, however, gleefully take liberties with the Treaty when it gives an advantage to the Light if given permission, and she doesn't consider human laws worth much at all.

Oswin: Is generally law-abiding... unless threatened. If she feels she is threatened (real, or imagined), I don't think there's a rule made that'd stop her from seeking safety. ... I don't think she'd actually kill, but let's not test that theory.

Clara: Is also generally law-abiding, but she does have this tendency (and let's not pretend it's the Doctor's fault, she started this before him) to pick and choose sometimes which rules apply to her. She's my worst 'bad life choices girl' so far.

Jemma: "I can't be a part of your bad-girl shenanigans. I like following the rules and doing what's expected of me. It makes me feel nice." ... yup. She's so horrendously bad at breaking the rules.

Ace: ... The only rules she follows religiously now are the Wells household rules. Other than that, she'll consider it. Maybe. Or she'll blow it up. More likely that, yes.

Sam: I'd say she's very much a rule-follower, but... well. She's very curious, and given to mad schemes. She doesn't do anything terribly outrageous, given that severe rule-breaking tends to carry severe consequences in wartime.

Balthazar: Finds most modern-day laws ridiculous, and tends to ignore them at will. He has his own code of rules he won't break, but they're fairly incomprehensible to outsiders much of the time.

Bones: Obeys the rules. ... Unless the lives of his patients (which pretty much encompasses the whole of the Enterprise crew, and anyone else he says is one) are at risk, in which case, rules be damned.

William: Obeys the rules. Full stop. Captain Aubrey might as well be speaking the word of God.

Glorfindel: Obeys his lord's rules. He'll take the laws of other nations under consideration if they are friendly, but Elrond can over-rule those with a word.

[student_of_impossibility]

Ahahahahahahahahaha

Uh

Tavi recently broke into the super-max prison in the name of arranging a peace treaty, then called out his political opponent on treason charges under his own very sketchy authority as the unacknowledged-but-legitimate legal and genetic heir to the Crown. And then when he won just wrote up things for his grandfather to sign on expectation he'd get what he wanted.

Need I say more?

[hey35andholding]

Clem and Juliet are the law. Juliet is the clean-nosed type and Clem is...Clem. She has used police resources very inappropriately.

Dix: Is an ex-outlaw and current renegade doo-gooder. Someday Brisco might want to change that ;)

Pinkie: On the guard for Princess Twilight, sort of a junior-princess at this point. Straight as an arrow.

Eponine: Is a thief and would rather not be, even though she's good at it.