Weekend DE: I have a hunch

[bjornwilde]

'Cause I don't want to lose this question and it might be too much thinking for a Monday.

Does your character make decisions based more on logic or emotions? Does that answer change in different situations?

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[cottoncandypink]

It depends on how pissed off he is. For the most part, Wilford's decision making process is asking himself a single question: "How much am I going to fuck myself over if I do this thing?" In this case, if the thing he wants to do is funnier or more entertaining than it will be detrimental, he'll do it. Even if the entertainment value for choice A is 0, he'll still do it if choice B is going to screw him over somehow, which is what he's dealing with right now.

All this goes out the window if he's angry enough though. Then his decision making process is "cause pain and deal with the consequences later."

[holdingacat]

..................... difficult!

So, on one hand: Cecil is ridiculously over-invested in EVERYTHING, and tends to make very firm, very fast opinions on people/places/things based on how he feels about them - he falls for Carlos like a ton of bricks, he pretty much entirely runs Telly the Barber out of town over a haircut, he hates Steve Carlsburg...

But.

A lot of the decisions he makes are made based on observation and 'science' (though sometimes it's a science that scientists outside of Night Vale would have trouble recognizing). Street Cleaners are coming? Run, RUN NOW, LEAVE EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND RUN. Strex comes to town? He loathes them openly and completely but he plays the long game because he knows an upfront outright attack will get squashed. He spends weeks deciding if he's going to go to the Desert Otherworld even though his life in Night Vale at the time is crap (oh guys, canon is coming and it's not pleasant). He's openly horrified at himself when he (justifiably) attacks the StrexPet because he... didn't need to do that. Not really. (definitely did Cecil it's okay) He's demonstrably atheist (even though the Smiling God is probably... maybe real. And definitely terrifying. So is Huntocar. And if the Woman from Italy isn't a god she's up there somewhere).

So.

Um.

Both?

*wince*