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[lifethatisscratched]

Goooooooood morning, Milliways!

Today's DE is one from the suggestion box, courtesy of our very own bcgphoenix!

In Inside Out, everyone is governed by five primary emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. While all of them work together to shape someone's personality, one or two emotions usually dominate. (And they can manifest in less straightforward ways -- Sadness may show up as being very concerned about others, Anger as being passionate, and Fear or Disgust as self-preservation.) So which emotion, or emotions, dominate your character's head?

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[lifethatisscratched]

Voodoo is dominated by Anger. I've said it before, but MoH 2010 has him acting incredibly aggressively within the rules of engagement - he's cooled down somewhat in Warfighter, though.

Mako is dominated by Fear. He's semi-constantly thinking about what might happen if something goes wrong with any given plan of action, and is driven mainly by a desire to keep Bolin and himself from having to go back onto the streets.

B.J is dominated by Sadness. His defining emotional feature is his massive sense of empathy, and he takes every life lost to the encroaching Nazi war machine as a failure on his part to end the war sooner.

Connor is dominated by Fear and Anger. A lot of his actions in canon are driven by a combination of a fear of what a Templar-controlled America would be like for his people and a passion for what he sees as the promise of freedom for the colonists and the Iroquois.

Ellie is dominated by Fear. Canonically, she is monophobic, and a lot of her mementos and actions (her broken Walkman which her girlfriend Riley made a mixtape for, her mother's switchblade and letter to her, Riley's dogtags and punbook - which Ellie tells jokes from in-game - the way she whistles the way Riley taught her, [SPOILERS]the picture of Joel with his daughter Sarah and the toy robot she got for Sam[/SPOILERS]) are her way of keeping the memories of the all the people she lost alive and with her.

Maverick is dominated by Joy. -you saw Top Gun, right?

[have_no_mercy]

Tess and Anger are BFFs 4eva. It's the easiest way for her to deal with the trauma after trauma her life throws at her and she uses it as a shield from actually dealing with her other emotions. Mainly because she's afraid (hi Fear!) that if she does she'll never be able to put herself back together.

[dejah_thoris]

Oh this is an easy one. Dejah is equal parts joy and anger. She's very passionate about everything. She has a temper, but usually it's evoked in defense of others. And she is no stranger to sadness. She was dominated by sadness for a very long time, and she's done with letting that define her. She wants to make life better for the people she cares about. Succeeding at that gives her great joy.

[bjornwilde]

Rollo: Definitely Anger. He is very passionate and has few brakes or filters.

Izana: I'm inclined to go with sadness by way of being concerned for others.

Asajj: Fear. Losing things is her biggest motivator. Once it would have been sadness expressed as anger.

Ethan: Fear. Fear of what he is and fear of what he may have done or whom he has harmed.

Ahsoka: Joy. She loves being who she is and doing what she can do.

Selina: Joy as well. She loves being a predator in Gotham, though she knows she's small time.

Luidaeg: Sadness and Disgust. Sadness at her past, disgust at what Faerie is becoming.

Quinlan: Joy and fear. Joy at his family, fear at what the galaxy has become.

Hank: Fear of being labeled a freak or a monster. I will be moving him past this even if canon doesn't seem to want to let him.

Sam: Joy, I think. He honestly believes the world is a good place. There is pain and suffering but it can be healed, or ended.

[bcgphoenix]

Curtis: Anger. It burns cold, but it will burn forever. Before the train, he was probably dominated by something else, though he (and I) have no idea what; Fear dominated during his first few months on the train.

Gaeta: ...honestly, I think Fear. It manifests as being incredibly detail-oriented -- more than anything, he fears making mistakes. Anger dominated during the last few months of his life, though; Sadness takes pretty regular turns at the helm, too.

Bolin: Joy. Unquestionably. EVERYTHING IS AWESOME, GUYS.

Olivia: It's about a 60/40 split between Anger and Sadness, I think. Anger mostly manifests as being passionate about justice/fairness, and Sadness shows up as empathy.

[gottadealwithit]

Dick is dominated by an equal mix of Joy and Sadness. He was all joy until you-know-what, when Joy basically disappeared and Sadness had to take the reins. Now they cohabit peacefully - and he's content to live with them both.

Dinah is dominated by Joy. She does what she does because she loves it - and even when it's hard, her compassion comes from love. She's an optimistic realist, and her hope for the world comes from joy.

Korra is dominated by Fear. Which at the moment is fear of inadequacy, but it'll be fear of other things soon enough.

Skye... is a tough one. I want to say Anger - at her parents for abandoning her, at SHIELD for covering up her life, at all the injustice in the world. But Joy is there too - if only because Joy is always ready to beat down Fear every time it shows up.

[protect_and_survey]

Jemma: Is probably the most balanced of my pups - Joy frequently has the helm, but Anger (do you honestly think a field agent would last half a minute on a mission without the science agents to back him up, Ward?) and Sadness (don't mess with her Fitz) and Fear (ALL OF SEASON TWO WHUT) make frequent appearances.

Katya: Is primarily ruled by Anger - both in the 'these are the rules set down by the treaty and I'll be damned if the Dark is going to get even a sliver of a pass on them' sense and the 'I'm going to tear their faces off' sense.

Oswin: Probably used to be dominated by Joy, but Fear has the reins now.

.... aaaand others when I get brain. Braaaaaaaaaaaains.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: Joy. And then Sadness in the form of caring for others. He's not terribly complex.

Henry: Currently, mostly Sadness--but there's joy wanting to get out, manifesting more in the sense of being a dreamer than anything. These two will switch off.

Evelyn: Is really fascinating. I think Joy tries to tell itself it is in charge, but really it's probably Fear calling most of the shots. This may shift to Fear+Anger after A Certain Event, and possibly off to Joy for real when there is less reason for fear. But for now? Yeah. Probably Fear.

Lois: Joy and Anger. All the passion for everything. Poor Fear gets ignored almost all the time and probably has to scream a lot about "I TOLD YOU SO" after the fact. Joy still ignores it.

Tavi: ...Process of elimination suggests Joy and Anger--but with enough of Sadness to temper and control the anger unlike in his father.

[never_shall_yield]

Gene - Anger. In the 80s - at least by S3 - Fear.

Javert - hmmm. Tricky. He's quite joyful in his work, but it's specifically shown that there's nothing so terrible as joy in the way he uses it. I'd have to go with Disgust, I think.

Jean Valjean - Sadness. Oh God, so much Sadness. Even the joy he gets with Cosette becomes tinged with it as time passes. He had so little happiness. :(

Courfeyrac - Joy. Easy.

Bruce Wayne - Fear. Not the self-preservation kind, either.

Bruce Banner - ha. Anger.

Pearly Soames - um. Insanity. He alternates between being happy and charming, and downright psychotic, so lets mix Joy and Anger, yeah?

Jim Moriarty - also tricky. He's just trying to stave off boredom. Also, he's nuts. Disgust and Anger, maybe?

[dejah_thoris]

It strikes me that insanity is emotion that is constantly in flux. I don't know Pearly's canon, but with Jim, he whirls through each of them so quickly, without ever finding roots in any of them. It's exhausting to watch, to try to keep up with.

Maybe insanity is being unable to find one emotion to hold onto?

[never_shall_yield]

That's an interesting idea, and one I can get next to! It stands to reason that if there's no holding thread in a person's mind/personality, then things around them might become pretty chaotic.

[dejah_thoris]

I should really say one aspect of insanity, because another aspect would be being frozen in a single emotion, or in a narrow band of that emotion. Pure rage and nothing but rage, kinda off the charts crazy pants.

Sorry, nattering meta again.

[never_shall_yield]

Never apologise for nattering meta, mate! And for sure, there's that kind of mental too, which is how Pearly gets when he's lost in the red mist. But then he swings the other way when the mood lifts. If a person were stuck in that forever, I think they'd have to be put down for everyone else's safety.

[dejah_thoris]

What got me thinking of it was, we had the DE question a few weeks ago, about what drove your pup over the edge? And for Dejah, it was Sadness (Grief). She kinda checked out after her spouse of forty years passed away. She went into seclusion, which is its own form of insanity for her culture. But she got locked into the emotion and when she could feel, she couldn't feel anything but that. So it whited out everything else. It took people going in after her to bring her out of it.

[never_shall_yield]

Ahhh, a very Hugolian sentiment! It's other people that saves us all, in the end. But yeah, I can see how that would have seemed strange to her people, if seclusion is weird in her culture. I think it's a little different than people who are unable to be reached by conventional methods, but the strength of the emotion is probably no less strong.

[dejah_thoris]

Seclusion in Barsoomian society means death. It means you've disconnected yourself from the social network that exists so that everyone can survive the harsh environment. Basically, it was a subconscious attempt to commit suicide, without her even realizing what she was doing.

I really wish I could get into Hugo. I know so many amazing people who are transfixed by him, and I just don't see it. Then again, my tastes are odd, so...

[never_shall_yield]

Lol nah, I know people who are massive fans of the movie who can't make it through the book. And he can be problematic...but he gets a lot of really great stuff right too. Each to their own!

As for Dejah - tbh, I can completely get next to going off the rails if you've lost someone you've been with for that long. Good that she had people around to pull her out of it though!

[dejah_thoris]

I think ultimately, she's a survivor. So that helped. It's really interesting to take a character and place them so long after canon, and work through everything major that happened in the interim. It's been an emotional minefield sometimes, but she's worth it.

Also, that icon is killing me ded. DED I SAY.

[never_shall_yield]

It wouldn't be half as fun if it were easy! :D

And dude, inorite? Phwoar. *strokes it*

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut, probably to no one's surprise, is ruled by anger but of course anger and fear are always at war within her. As the above discussion about Pearly's insanity, I think it is reasonable that the fight between anger and fear are the manifestation of Amascut's crazy. Fear/Self-Preservation tempers her anger a great deal, and has made her a better survivor of catastrophe than she would be otherwise.

Disgust also is big, but not as significant. It is the emotion that originally led her astray, though. It might have been what she was originally ruled by before bad things happened.

Fairy Fixit is likely abnormally balanced, but Fear is starting to become dominant with her.

Evil Chicken is an insane sort of Joy.

[misslucyjane]

Steve: Sadness, which manifests as compassion. He's very happy when he's happy, but he's not constantly happy.

Sadie: Joy. Her life is really amazing. She's found true love and she never has to worry about anything, and she has enough strength to laugh off things like killer demonic clowns.

Groot: Joy.

Furiosa: Anger. But of course.

Jack: Anger.

I'm going to have to think about Merlin, Cecil and the Vision. Nothing immediately springs to mind. (That probably means I need to play them more.)

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie: Joy and Anger. I don't think I particularly need to elaborate.

Garyn: Sadness and Anger, in order. He has had a shit life, though retains some measure of compassion and morality, buried under cynicism and resentment.

Sheogorath: I rather suspect Sheogorath's Headquarters is staffed by a collection of winged skeevers riding bicycles in random directions. But he does take a lot of joy in driving people insane or torturing them when he gets mad. Joy and Anger are the strongest rat-cyclists living in Sheogorath's head.

Raiden: Sadness. His is a grave task.

[craftylildoodlepumpkin]

Clementine: Disgust. 100 percent disgust

Dixie: Joy

Eponine: Sadness

Juliet: Joy

Pinkie: Is the ponysonification of joy