Friday DE: Eh, it’s a job

[bjornwilde]

By some means your character is now an embodiment of fear. What is the specific fear they embody?

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[bjornwilde]

Jess is the fear of not having coffee. Or the fear of not being in control of your urges in regards to attraction.

I'll have to edit when I get more answers.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut is the fear of eternity? Maybe? A fear of un-ending.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

If it's the fear Yamato feels most, then he's the fear of abandonment.

But for the fear he tends to inspire in others, and the one that's wrapped up in his Crest's general domain of cold and death, then he's the fear of death.

[takethatnature]

Wilson could be either fear of failure, fear of poking into something you really should have left alone, or fear of unscrupulous scientists (the supercategory of mad scientists).

Aradia is fear of the undead; even though she's well past the peak of her spooky ghost phase, she's still too heavily tied up with the dead to not be. Aside from the literalistic fear of corpses, that also covers fear of things that appear to be dead but aren't, and the fear of retribution for disrespecting the dead or slighting them in life.

Cirava is simultaneously the fear of abandonment, and the fear of socially powerful people turning their influence against you.

Thurlow overlaps heavily with Wilson, but for them I'd drop the fear of failure and replace it with a fear of madness and a fear of corruption. That last in the sense of power corrupting, but also in the sense of literally losing their humanity because of the things they study.

Bastion has an obvious answer in the form of "fear of killer robots", but by itself that's so straightforward it's boring, so I'm going to try and break it into its components. There's the fear of something that wants to kill you and can't be dissuaded, which I guess could be reduced to 'fear of predation' but that concept usually has a more primal and animalistic spin on it, and the fear of someone or something that's intelligent enough to keep up with or outmaneuver you but doesn't register as a person and is too much of an unknown to predict how they'll behave. "Fear of unpredictable violence" also covers them pretty well. (Were this based on their own fears more than the fears they can inspire in others, it'd be more like a fear of losing control of oneself - whether by someone else taking over control, or one's own base impulses - and a fear of hurting innocent people.)