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[inlovewithwords]

What massive cultural shift is your character afraid of?

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[a1enzo]

Probably Windows '98. ;-)

[inlovewithwords]

lol A+

[iprotectyou]

The Empire taking over everything... Oh, wait.

[cottoncandypink]

Mainstream media being overtaken by bloggers and vloggers.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka (Clone Wars): Early in the war, she doesn't fear a cultural shift, though she does worry about the war and how it will change the galaxy. As the years pass, and the Jedi get more and more involved, and she starts to see the cost the war has on people, she starts to worry about how the war is changing the Jedi. Ultimately, she experiences this change first hand and ends up walking away. (There's more to it, of course, but I'll keep it vague.)

Ahsoka (Post Clone Wars): She's just pointing to the holobroadcast playing Glory to the Empire.

Sabine: She's worried the Mandalorians have traded their honor for power.

I'll have to think on my others.

[bjornwilde]

Sam: While he has cultural fears, they're things that are already happening in world; racial inequality, how badly veterans are treated, HYDRA existing, etc. Thinking on the future, he's worried about how super powered folks are changing the world. He knows they're intentions are good, but also knows people are going to be scared and soon, if they aren't already. He's sure some form of legislation is only a matter of time and he's worried who's going to be writing it. He can see a value to some oversight, but it needs to be balanced.

Hank: Oh man...the rising movements of civil rights are making him nervous and fearful. He sees the value in them and they are only right, but being white and male and raised to believe in the patriarchy, he's fearful just the same.

He's trying, really.

A more reasonable fear he has is how society will view mutants. He knows the cat will get out of the bag much sooner than he'd like and seeing how black people are treated only has him worried for what that will mean for mutants.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: not so much afraid, but deeply sad if people remain entrenched in racial hatred, and would be unhappy and concerned about people sliding back to, like, worshipping Torak, which seems kinda unlikely.

Evelyn: is pre-Mage Rebellion, so uh, yeah. Afraid people will move to... well, effectively holocaust of mages, I guess. (Post-Inquisition: [Spoilers that involve OH MY GOD YOU JACKASS])

Lois: Hmm. Shift towards a lot more homophobia and sexism, I think; it'll take a while for her to really understand how bad racism is (she's just a kid, and white at that). As she grows up, generally move towards totalitarianism, especially as restricts free speech (hi, journalist).

R2-D2: Apocrypha Prequel Trilogy: collapse of the Republic (because puts his People in danger), hating droids; Literally any time after that: eh, let's just go with Space Nazis.

Anakin/Vader: . . . uuuuuuh... Er, theoretically until the end of AotC he... had concerns about the collapse of the Republic and definitely to some extent the Jedi Order? And I think it'd be fair to say that he was definitely worried slavery would become rampant, but he also sorta ignored it and did nothing, at least on a large scale. But like, he was always kinda in favor of stronger central ruler anyway, Padme didn't like it. Vader, meh. He's not really afraid of the Rebellion successfully pushing back Space Nazism. Just irritated by it and annoyed they won't just die already.

Tavi: That his people will revert to hating all other races and trying to enslave them or their own species, reversing the enfranchisement of lower classes and women he pushed through, and into the civil wars that pretty much tore them apart. So... racism to the point of violence (and probably mutual desires to just exterminate them, the Alerans have totally done it before), slavery, voting restriction, institutionalized sexism, violence as only solution.

[strongest_faith]

Eowyn is afraid of Rohan falling under the dominion of Saruman. It's basically her biggest fear right now.

Alec isn't really even aware of massive cultural shifts, even though one is approaching for him. (A couple. Actually, he's going to kickstart one.) But Alec isn't aware of most things that don't directly affect him right now.

Orpheus has seen so many massive cultural shifts that he's stopped paying attention.

[aberration]

There's not much for Hera. Very little about the current status quo in the galaxy really benefits her, so she in turn doesn't have much to lose when it comes to massive cultural shifts. It would mostly be what is already going on, but more so. The Empire growing powerful (and effective) enough that it becomes irreversibly entrenched in the galaxy. A more open, outright return to wide-spread slave trades or massacres – again, things that are already happening, but on a more massive scale. But then, to Hera these aren't theoretical possibilities, but certain eventualities if the Empire is allowed to continue – "this but worse" doesn't feel like a shift so much as a current reality. And even before the Empire, the Clone Wars happened when Hera was so young, and in such a particular way for her and for Ryloth, that she doesn't really have that pre-/post-Empire idea. Only the names have changed, really

Kanan's kind of the same. He has some advantages Hera doesn't, but also being a Jedi survivor in hiding, he really doesn't have that much more to lose, either. Obviously if when he was younger he'd really considered the idea of Order 66 and the Republic being replaced by the Empire, he would have been afraid of that. But it wasn't something he would have ever imagined happening before it did. Being totally honest, he actually probably would've been more afraid of the Clone Wars ending. He'd know that it's obviously a good thing for the wars to end, but he'd also found a place of belonging working with his Master and the Clone Troopers and may have had difficulty adjusting to a different idea of being himself and being a Jedi without that. Which obviously never came to be, and in fact, Kanan is now in the opposite position – if there is one shift he's afraid of, it's the shift from a simmering state of discontent with the Empire into all out warfare. It's another thing where he understands that war is probably inevitable, but his views on the Clone Wars and his role in that have grown darker in the years since then, and while he wants to stop the Empire, he also doesn't really want the galaxy to have to endure another war. So it troubles him that that's almost inevitably going to be what happens.

(Which Hera, by comparison, has always been at war. There's no 'shift' to it – it's already a war.)

[sunbaked_baker]

Forecasts say that the human world has only about a century left before the vampires are in control.

Sunshine is, naturally, doing her best to prevent this.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

The Brotherhood ending up the way they're depicted in Fallout 4.

[electro_kinetic]

Ganymede stopped caring about cultural shifts a while ago. Much like Orpheus, he's been there, done that, has the....ancient equivalent of a tee shirt or something.

Noriko...is slightly more complicated, but if you watch CBS/CNN/MSNBC/mainstream news channel of your choice and substitute 'mutant' for 'muslim' and/or 'illegal immigrant' you'll get the idea of what eventuality she's afraid of.