Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

Your character is about to start some new project, a new beginning--a big move, a new job, a new relationship. Is there anything they'd like to clear up from their "old life?" Mistakes they'd like to fix, misunderstandings to settle, bad habits they'd like to kick, good habits they'd like to start? What do they do?

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[camwyn]

I think most of mine would probably want to clear up the fact that their player hasn't been actually PLAYING them in a while. (RL has been on the busy side, and I've been making jewelry in the evenings, which... makes it rather hard to post online since you can't really type and work a pair of pliers.) So there's that.

Ellen, however, more or less got put through this without so much as a by-your-leave because of her canon. Get run out of Vault 101! Deal with events on the surface! Lose Dad horribly! Get emergency signal from the Vault! Go back and help them or screw them over, either way, and regardless... "I'm sorry. You're a hero... and you have to leave."

Having to dump everything about Vault 101 probably counts as clearing up stuff from one's old life, right?

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford is flawless and he knows it.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka got to live this after Order 66. I know this isn't quite the spirit of your question, but she set aside anything that would make her seem a jedi and went into hiding. Things got better.

Danny is currently doing this and I don't know that he's ever aware of the things he needs to fix or misunderstandings to settle. As his narrator, i would say he really needs to deal with his underlying guilt at turning his back on his duty and take a close look at all the emotional pain he's holding about the death of his parents.

Selina...let's say she'd keep Bruce at more of an arms length. Give him fewer means to contact her, so that she's the one controlling when he sees her. Granted canon only shows one place he knows to find her, but that's still too many; especially since he keeps disappearing for months between seasons and leaving her behind.

[irish_vagabond]

...This just makes me crylaugh/facepalm at Cassidy.

Because that is all he ever does. He is All Mistakes, All Bad Habits, All Fucked-Up Relationships. His crimes, the people he's hurt (physically, emotionally), the trouble he's caused them. It's why he keeps moving and leaving people behind. It never fixes anything, and he lives with that guilt, but he's too selfish and lazy and irresponsible to do anything but run away and drown in his addictions.

[likeroaringlions]

>_> I admit Cassidy was a character that popped into my head when I was writing the question.

[iprotectyou]

Oh, goodness. Baze has so very many regrets. Like Danny, he needs to address the guilt he feels about turning his back on his order. Chirrut says he has forgiven Baze for all those years of relentless disbelief, but he has yet to forgive himself.

Speaking of Chirrut's forgiveness, he has also forgiven Baze for his latest stunt of dying in Wilford's world, but, as usual, Baze can't forgive himself yet. I'm sensing a theme here.