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[thisisnotajournal]

Might as well grab this on my way back from the gym.

Everyone has their limits. What are the lines that your character would never cross in the pursuit of their goals?

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[thisisnotajournal]

Pretty much everyone on my roster has two major lines (that I can think of right now):
-hurting/betraying/abandoning a friend
-harming an innocent

Everything else is fair game.

Kuvira is the exception.

Archer, too. (He's not without empathy, he just screws up a lot and passes the blame on to others.)

And I guess Maverick ditched Hollywood that one time to go after Viper because he was like super-anxious to prove himself. But to be fair, that was a training exercise.

[have_no_mercy]

I'm pretty sure Tess has crossed them all already.

[genarti]

Enjolras: Spying. Letting himself off the hook for something he'd done. Abandoning anyone depending on him or anyone he'd promised to stand with.

Cosette: ...Huh. I was starting to say "there are many lines Cosette would never cross!", and it's true in its way, but it's truer to say that she's never had to make the choice. Like her mother, she'd do a whole lot for love if she was backed into a corner and really had to.

I'll have to think about this more. I have a hard time seeing her killing anyone; I have a hard time seeing her knowingly abandoning someone she loved, or knowingly turning her back on someone in need.

Thor: Would never knowingly betray Asgard, nor act against Asgard's honor and interests. (When honor and material interests are in conflict, though, he's going with honor.) Would never knowingly betray his loved ones -- although it's worth pointing out that Loki and Thor, for example, would disagree vehemently about what counts as a betrayal and what counts as being true. Would never be cruel for cruelty's sake.

Kazul: Would never work with wizards. Would never kill another dragon, or a friend of any species. Probably torture or something -- she might talk bluster about something like that but she wouldn't go through with it, I think.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: Kill needlessly, be cruel, attack innocents.

Quinlan: Kill needlessly. Be cruel needlessly.

Luidaeg: Ever allow herself to forget or justify past actions. She's done horrible things. She had reasons for doing them but they were still horrible things.

Rollo: Harm his brother physically. At least so far.

Briareus: Kill or harm the defenseless.

[forceimbalance]

Eriond - Turn into Torak. No Very Bad Things.

Henry - No harming an innocent, a Good Guy (TM) or his moms. No Very Bad Things. He might say hurtful things, but no harm.

Evelyn - Pull dumbass Fade shenanigans. Blood magic (never ever). Actively desire power of the non-magical-skill kind. Harm innocents. Betray a friend, probably... if you discount some of the bizarre dynamics...

Lois - Never intentionally harm an innocent with a story. I doubt she'll ever kill. Generally no Very Bad Things. She tries not to compromise her journalistic ethics but it is not wholly impossible to do. She will not betray friends and family, especially Clark.

Tavi - Harm Kitai or his family and friends unless they happen to have committed treason. (Different than putting them in harm's way.) Never intentionally betray a friend, bar treason. (Unintentionally...) No torture or murder of innocents. (Others...) No rape. No mass-executions or executions on spurious grounds. No slave collars. (He has a lot of lines partly to control some awful capacity.)

Anakin, Brutal Honesty Edition - He will not kill his children.

[chanter1944]

For Sariel, and TW below:

Mental or physical rape, mental or physical torture, and harming defenseless or distinctly outclassed people (kids, unarmed adults, prisoners, wounded) are complete and utter red lights. If you ask her to commit any of those offenses you will be denied, hard, and her respect for you will take a nosedive. That does include refusal to obey a hypothetical direct order. Fortunately no one she's ever served with has ever gone so dark.

Knowingly abandoning someone in immediate need when she has the means and the capacity to help them, even in a small way, is up there; you do not leave an injured person lying on the floor untended, for instance. So is knowingly betraying a friend or fellow officer (blowing someone's cover to an enemy, for an example of the latter). Heck no.

[ceitfianna]

Will would never torture someone, he's been tortured himself and that's a solid line. He'll threaten violence and kill but to him those aren't the same thing.

Charles, oh Charles is still figuring out his lines, he'll use his power to sway but causing violence or death doesn't sit right with him.

Quentin, he won't abuse the powers he has which is vague and not actually answering the question but some things haven't come out in Milliways yet. Torture, death for death's sake, using blood or magic to control or manipulate someone and anything that would make Toby unhappy.

Sameth would never do anything that even hints at necromancy.

William along with Will has the least hard lines, because if it was a matter of killing someone to keep Mark alive, he probably would do it. I think it comes down to what his mother and father would approve of.

Moist doesn't use violence in any form because if you bring violence into a con, it changes everything.

Jane, she like Cosette hasn't been pushed as much as she might have been but leaving her family or anyone's family to suffer for her own pleasure is a line.

Ivan, this is complicated because how he acts is more about someone using him. When it comes to Miles, I honestly don't think he has that many lines because Miles. In terms of himself, if someone tries to use his political and Vor identity for their own benefit, he will just stop and will work against you. Its a variation on the same issue.

Tumnus is another where he's not a doer, he's not a fighter and he was willing to betray much of Narnia for his own safety. I think for him, its more about the lines for protecting. I don't know how to explain how to answer this for him.

Demeter doesn't like to kill, she'd much rather that you're alive to suffer. Her lines and morality are skewed.

[havetubawilltravel]

Eponine, Juliet: Murder

Pinkie: Cruelty of any kind

Dixie and Clem: ..what line?