Thursday DE

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Today's DE is brought to you by Hal's hangout time with James "Jim From I.T." Moriarty:

Who brings out the best in your character? Who brings out the worst?

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[annalalaith]

Daniel and Vala bring out both the best and worst in each other, that is why I have them both.

Oh God it is too early for anything.... plus teenagers freaking out for no earthly reason. I just.... brains.

PS. The shit just hit the fan over people doing laundry. WHY!!!!!!!

[just_cant_lose]

Gene brings out the worst in himself. Also other lazy coppers, because he buys into the ease and good life that corruption brings. But Sam and Alex force him to be brilliant and remind him what policing's really about, so it's allgood.

Javert...yeah, again, it's himself. He's not naturally inclined to curiousity or widening his thoughts, so he needs the push. And it's Valjean that brings out the best in him. He's canonically the only person who can make him think any half-decent thoughts at all.

Valjean - weirdly, Cosette might be the answer for both of these. I mean, the Bishop opened his eyes to the possibilities inside himself, and he pushed himself to be better. But love made him better still...and also killed him, because it makes him so focused on one person that everything else withered away.

Courfeyrac has friends to bring out the best in him! Probably Enjolras and Combeferre - and Feuilly! - most of all, because they set good examples in diligence and focus. Grantaire and Bossuet are more likely to lead him down the path of good times and alcohol, but he's pretty level-headed under his cheerful exterior so he knows when enough's enough.

Jim - Sherlock brings out the worst in him, because he has to be particularly nasty and clever to get his attention. And he needs him as an adversary, because without them there's literally nothing in the world to catch his interest. I'm not sure anyone brings out the best, because he has no best. He doesn't have a moral bone in his body.

Aubrey - the sea brings out the best in him. When he's the captain of his ship, he's in control and knows exactly what he's doing; he's someone to look up to and he's respected with good reason. Land brings out the worst in him. He gets lazy and foolish, loses all his money, gets bored of his wife and generally acts like a tool. Stephen is actually neither of these answers, for the very good reason that they're friends because they complement each other exactly as they already are.

[i_am_your_host]

The more time Emcee spends with a person, the more he behaves like them, sort of, kind of like a chameleon. But anyone who's ever treated him with the utmost kindness without asking anything in return, such as Jay, Athelstan, Sinric, Autor, Noriko, and Bonnie, is going to see him at his most open, genuine, and giving.

Annnnnd Eric brings out his worst. Eric is just one big, walking addiction, drugs and sex rolled into one. He also makes his moral compass, loose as it is, spin a bit more out of control, especially regarding things like violence and, y'know, murder and stuff. But somehow Eric also brings out his best, because Eric is a big squishy vampire, and Emcee just wants to hug him and pet him and call him George.

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Eric also brings out the worst in Pam, and by worst I mean the best.

[brobrobrobrobro]

"Barton is worst, bro."

"Bro, hate that bro."

"Bro."

[thewidewideworld]

Lovers and friends bring out the best in Jay - Sherral, Emcee, Bonnie, Autor, Rae, Charles and Selina especially. Sam and James too but for different reasons.

Eric brings out the worst in his own self destructive nature. There are more than a few people in the bar he would comfortably kill for but whom he never wants to see side of him.

With Sinric it's the people he trusts who bring out his best - Ragnar, Athelstan and Hannibal but his encounter with Emcee perhaps brought out his most true to himself honesty.

There's not really one person who brings out a bad side for Sinric, but anyone who looks or talks down to him for having been a slave. Or anyone who mouths off about the man who owned him, who Sinric loved deeply.