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[bjornwilde]

Are your characters spontaneous, or do they always need to have a plan?

In other news, I will be out of town this coming Thursday and Friday, as well as next Monday. Can anyone cover the DE?

ETA: Thursday and Friday are covered. Monday is still open. And Monday is claimed as well. Thank you!

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

I can cover the DE on Thursday and Friday.

As for spontaneity vs. planning, Ellen would like to be spontaneous, but she's seen what her father's half-assed ideas of planning were like and has grown to resent people who come up with ideas and assume they'll just work out somehow. She tends to draw up two or three plans for a situation ahead of time just to be on the safe side.

[bjornwilde]

Cool. I will edit the post to reflect this.

[bjornwilde]

Andrea is a planner who adapts; which means she can go with the flow when she needs to but prefers to have a plan in place. She also likely gets grumpy and stressed when plans aren't accomplishing what they are meant to.

Ethan is all about spontaneity. He'll follow a plan if there is one in place but he's not one to apply one to his life.

Jess...depends on the writer. I think I will say unless she is on a mission, she aims for spontaneity. If she is on a mission, and especially if that mission is going poorly, she needs a plan.

Quinlan balances the two. I think he prefers spontaneity but respects the need for plans.

Sam is definitely a planner.

Selina, spontaneity.

Tybalt plans as long as it is his plan or the plan of someone he respects. Otherwise, he will do as he wishes.

[last_kallig]

Ibani is shocked that Quinlan does this planning thing! ;-) (Blame the raid on the Imperial Supply depot.)

[varadia]

Raven looks spontaneous and he thinks he is spontaneous, but both of these things are lies.

X is deeply into planning. It makes her feel more comfortable. It's safer on missions (insofar as missions can be safe), but it also makes her feel safe in interpersonal interactions, because she distrusts most of her instincts and thinks they are bad. So. A plan.

Galadan is a planner. My god is he a planner. Except that one time, when he had all these feeeeelings. Okay, two times, now.

Wonder Woman is a planner who is capable of improvisation, because in both battle and diplomacy you have to be.

Ysalwen is pretty spontaneous. It keeps her enemies on their toes. Her friends, too!

I think Dean is more of a planner, though he plays it like he's careless.

Nynaeve is a planner. You have to know what you're doing when it comes to healing. Don't talk about her experimental weaves those are aberrations in her usual habit of planning extensively. Shut up.

Michael is everything the stories say she is. Everything.

[not_my_sandbox]

Amascut is not so much a planner as she is a plotter, and damn, her plots are full of failsafes. If not everything goes to plan, the plot isn't ruined. Even when she is defeated, she wins. So it looks like she improvises but... she's no David Xanatos or Batman but she belongs in the same pantheon. And she can afford to go for the super long con. Too bad about her temper tantrums and cat-shaped paranoia.

Fairy Fixit does both. Fundamentally balanced critter and a magical engineer to boot, so.

[just_cant_lose]

Gene - spontaneous to a fault.

Javert - plans everything to within an inch of its life (but at least in terms of policing, can think on his feet).

Valjean - a natural planner, but thinks fast when he has to.

Bruce Wayne - plans mainly because he has to in order to maintain his double life. Before Batman, he probably still leaned towards planning but was obviously capable of spontaneity too (taking off for seven years on a whim suggests it).

Bruce Banner - natural planner, but has to adjust to the ultimate in emotion-driven spontaneity at times.

Courfeyrac - as spontaneous as they come.

Pearly - actually can plan, at times! The rest of the time he's having a meltdown and can barely remember his own name, so in those moments...no.

Jim - plans without trying to. His brain produces endless amounts in any given moment, so he doesn't really have a choice.

[just_cant_lose]

Also, I can take Monday's DE.

[last_kallig]

Ibani would PREFER to plan things out, because life has not been kind to her re: surprises. Unluckily for her, she keeps having to wing it. *G*

[student_of_impossibility]

Henry is a mix; Eriond is made of 'Wait what is this question?' because, as with so many other things, I'm not sure how to even apply it to him; Lois would like to think she is totally spontaneous except when she's planning how to get a story, but truth is she's both highly spontaneous and a careful planner, she just makes a conscious choice at any given moment which she's being.

Tavi?

Ahahahahahahaha oh Tavi.

Tavi prefers to be a careful planner. The more control he can keep on the outcome of a situation, the better. However, sometimes the best way to exert that control is to keep the outcome being what his enemy wants--at which point plans can go to the crows, he'll just do something insane. It isn't just that he improvises well, or sometimes goes completely off the rails (usually having come up with a plan in a few seconds when he jumps). It's that his careful planning always includes the option 'And nothing actually goes as planned and this is where you make everything up. Then try to get back around to my plan. Meet up here when you have.'

Literally. He does this with branching written orders in book five. And many other things. Tavi likes planning with the option for total unpredictability built into those plans.