Wednesday DE*

[bjornwilde]

Is your character spontaneous, or do they always need to have a plan?

*I totally didn't post with this as Tuesday earlier...I have no idea what you mean.

Comments

[a1enzo]

Intermediate. Having spent most of his childhood with his main role models being his sister and Bob, who respectively exemplify always having a plan and flying by the seat of one's pants to the point where there was an entire episode about it, Enzo ended up at a happy medium of knowing the value of a good plan but being able to improvise.

[holdingacat]

Cecil can, and often does, plan. Great elaborate plans, even. And sees them through, more often than not.

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He can also be the biggest Golden Retriever puppy ever and SQUIRREL!! his way across Night Vale with very little provocation.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka (CW era): She totally plans to keep the brass off her back, but accepts the plan is going South as soon as it's implemented and relies more on being spontaneous really. Anakin only helps with this, but he's a great teacher!

Ahsoka (Rebels era): She has to plan now...too many lives depend on it and she doesn't have the backing she had in the Clone Wars.

Sabine: She loves plans...too bad Kanan is so bad at them. She's adaptable though.

Danny: Spontaneous as a ferret. His planing amounts to "this thing needs to be done" and then he goes and does it and is shocked when things get in his way.

Viv: I'm not sure. Based on canon, they seem to react and/or follow along with whoever is leading. I think she's still figuring herself and social things out and so doesn't have a preference.

[thebattycakes]

Matt: In the courtroom, yes. Matt is a very good lawyer, he puts together and presents his cases well, with lots of forethought and planning.

In the mask, no. None. No planning. Just a forward charge with the aim to hit whatever gets in his way. He doesn't even have a very clear path of what exactly he's doing, just a general 'I want to make things better' directive that doesn't have any kind of real focus until he finds a larger target in Wilson Fisk.

Logan: He can follow and execute plans well, adapt when needed, or just jump in slicing and dicing. For the most part he prefers a plan, but sometimes leaping into the fray is fun, too.

Kay: Kay longs for better planning. The kind that actually goes right and means Cassian doesn't end up hurt and they don't always have to risk being nearly killed.

Hellboy: Red works for a team that goes to great pains to lay things out, set up parameters and coordinate players and secure operations (it's like they're some top secret branch of the government or something). Red's general practice is to disregard all of that and do things his way, which means running and gunning and punching things in the face, often with a lot of property damage along the way.

Barry and Cisco: Although they don't realize it yet, Team Flash operates under the Snart Philosophy of Planning:

Step 1: Make the Plan
Step 2: Execute the Plan
Step 3: Expect the Plan to go off the rails
Step 4: Throw away the Plan

Sometimes they're a little better than that, with the plans actually mostly working, and other times they are worse with Barry zooming headlong into whatever with no plan at all.

Answering with my answer, I love their back and forth

[childofrebellion]

Cassian would like it if he could control enough factors to make his plans work but there's the Empire and people, so they don't. He appreciates how Kay is good at finding options in plans he doesn't see. Flying is much more reliable in terms of things going how they should, hyperspace routes go where they're meant to. Sometimes ships don't work but space mainly behaves as it says it will.

And he likes plans, plans are useful and can be elegant and plotted, that's what Draven taught him. He's also very good at well that didn't work, time to improvise and he always has a couple of just in case plans going in the back of his head. Since he never, ever expects anything to ever go according to the plan.

[cottoncandypink]

If you've done something to piss him off to the point that Wilford decides he needs to ruin your life, he will plan every last detail and execute it in a way that makes it look like he just bumblefucked his way through and just happened to be in the room at the exact moment you ruined your own life on national television. The key is to plan it down to the very last detail so it looks like anything other than the hitpiece it is.

The vast majority of the time, he's genuinely bumblefucking around without much of an idea about what will happen ten minutes from now.

[bjornwilde]

I feel like a lot of WIlford's DE answers begin with "If you piss him off..." :P

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee is mostly spontaneous when it comes to acting on impulse and instinct, but if it's important, or if people are depending on him, he will map out a plan to the last detail.

Cassidy has low to no impulse control. Like if someone is in danger, he will charge in and do what he can, even if it means getting shot or dismembered or blown up. However, he can be deceptively wily, and given enough time, he'll figure out a way to use the situation to his advantage. Other times, he usually waits until someone else has a bright idea.

Pam needs a plan. She hates wasting time when things get fucked up because of poor planning or impulsive decisions (ERIC).

Floki also depends on plans, since it's in his nature as a builder.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

'Making plans' is a significant part of Yamato's role on the team, so he usually has a plan for something -- and he's good at it! Good enough that he's the only one on the team who can consistently outpace the villains' resident schemers of Etemon, Nanomon, and Mugendramon.

But he's also able to adjust his plans on the fly when he has to, and improvise, and once a plan starts going south or new factors he didn't know about emerge, he tends to adapt and take a slightly more spontaneous approach. One of the reasons he and Taichi mesh so well as battle partners is that neither of them is afraid of throwing the plan out the window and making things up as they go instead.


Eden makes plans if he thinks he has to, but a lot of the time he's an opportunist who makes up his plans in the heat of the moment and hopes that they'll work out. He doesn't often plan things very far ahead, though -- when he does plan, he'll plan for whatever the most immediate problem is, and usually not much further than that.

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Somewhere in between. Sahaal generally plans both regular day to day things and combat actions out in detail, but he's not afraid to deviate from them if it makes more sense.