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[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

Just a question, because I am curious. How many people with Bound chars actually have parameters for them being unbound? Do you come in with an idea of how they will become unbound, or why they are bound in the first place? Or do you just bind them and figure it out later?

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[infuriated.livejournal.com]

I have very distinct parameters because I know why Draco was Bound, but I imagine for more meta reasons such as "if they go back, they'll tell everyone (a), (b) and (c)," it's whenever plot takes advantage of them. :)

[maladjust.livejournal.com]

Tucker has something fairly big he has to do before he can get Unbound. He was very much called here for a reason.

[no-prisoner.livejournal.com]

I had long-term unbinding plot in place for Joe within a few days of Binding him.

[empath-wiggin.livejournal.com]

When I first brought Val into the bar, she was Bound. I didn't know why, actually. Eventually, she chose to stay in the bar, and became unbound, mainly because she was needed to go back and forth a couple times. Now, she is Bound again for plot reasons, which will hopefully come out again soon.

[slayer_fray]

Mel is Bound simply because she wouldn't coem in if she had the option. I unBound her breifly strictly for my own convenience. Her Bound and unBound status is ICly more or less completely random.

Walter has a plot to play out, yes.

[doc-venkman.livejournal.com]

The door not working was done as a whim, but then I thought about it for a bit, and it did make sense.

Peter's partly Bound to keep him from going back to the firehouse too often, even though having Ray around makes him want to stick around.

Also, Peter's been a skeptic in a field where he should be a bit more open-minded, or at least needs to expand his current philosophy as it were. Also to perhaps grow up a little too, and actually be humble. (I don't want him to change, per se, since love him as is. But he could use some growth and development.)

[mogget_cat]

Jane's bound for specific reasons.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_our_king_/]

Ron's bound to get stronger. He's exactly right about it, even if he's daft and thinks he needs to be better in a fight to become stronger.

The reason he doesn't know is to help him figure out his worth.

What remains to be seen is if the next book nullifies all that and I have to have him go back and forget it all ever happened. In which case, I'd write little next book Millificlet OOMS to show it was still in his unconscious however.

V and Wolf are also Bound for plotsake, as a lot of 10K stuff is going down. We're possibly...well, actually probably going to make a 10K comm for it all, and have a seperate milliways-based 10K RPG in a while, where the 10K characters at Milliways get another fun little adventure in their world. Mainly the bar has bound V to protect her until she has the baby, as she'd go rushing into danger whilst pregnant otherwise. It's a case of the bar being almost as nice as the Bar for once--a rarity.

Gaston is Bound as the bar saved his life. To send him back, the moment he left, would mean death. Whyd id the bar do this? Because it's evil, too, as Josie once pointed out in a ways post.

Harper's Bound because he needed to learn to trust more and also because he honestly will MAKE a way back, just as he made a way here. If no one adopts him, that is.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

Initial binding was a plot device to allow slow-time pre-writing of an elabroate plot... that hasn't ever started. He should become unbound if it ever gets completed or something similar comes up. Why he's bound? Not a clue, and neither has he.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

The nature of Snow's binding is very specific and I honestly don't think it will ever come up. Initially, I needed a reason to keep her here until after the twins were born.

Petunia . . . well, I figure she'll get unbound eventually. She needs to loosen up a bit(which is why she has become my most poked-at pup) and become more accepting of weirdness. Getting away from Vernon helps her a lot.

[aberrantangels]

Obi-Wan, my only Bound character, will become unBound (and promptly return to the Force) if Anakin ever outgrows the need to have him around.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I Bound Peter knowing he was going to be unBound again pretty quickly, but I haven't worked out how yet :D

With Sirius, the original pubdog, he was Bound because he had died with grievances still on his soul -- far too many to even count. So I knew from the start that the only way he was ever going to leave the bar was by passing on from Milliways into a final rest. Not to put too fine a Judeo-Christian point on it. *grins*

[half-giant.livejournal.com]

Hagrid is bound for a reason. He thinks that it's to learn proper magic, but he's only partially right. I don't have the finer details worked out, but I do have a general plan.

[minkhollow]

Angel... may not be quite as stuck as he thinks he is, but he's not even trying the door. He figures it won't go back to New York since he's dead and all, and that's really the only other place he wants to go, at this point.
The door might surprise him one of these days, depending on whether a plot thought of mine works out, but he still won't be the one going through it. XD

[silveraspen]

Add me to the parameters-for-binding list, not the random one.

* Moiraine was Bound when she arrived, but not by the bar, and the Tower of Ghenjei plan was in existence in an early form the day I brought her in.

* As seen in thread last night, Susan can open the door. Whether or not she could cross through to step on the path to the clearing I'll leave as an exercise for others' imagination. (I know the answer, though, even if she doesn't.)

* Blodwen, like the Black Rider before her, could leave if she had somewhere to go.

* Leia and Jack were never Bound, and Gabriel was only until he could talk with Simon and River-- and more specifically, until Simon told him to go -- but he never realized it.

[notinthefett.livejournal.com]

I bound Warren entirely in the bar to punish him. And then I figured out a way he could be unbound and did it, even though he doesn't deserve it. Because.

The end.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy isn't going to be bound for long. The main reason why he is at the moment is because his canon (Casualty) is still ongoing, which means that sometimes new information comes up. Some did, and so I had him Bound for a little while so I could find out what was going to happen. If that makes any sense. But there is also an IC reason.

[genarti]

Will has never been Bound, and I don't think he will ever be. It would change his attitude towards coming to the bar, certainly.

River has never been Bound. I don't have the same strong reasons for avoiding it that I do for Will, but still I have no intention of binding her without a solid reason for it. Nothing of the sort has come up yet.

As Aspen says about Susan, Alain isn't really Bound, properly speaking. He could leave, and he'd be back on the path to the clearing -- back on his way to the afterlife, for those who aren't up on that bit of DT-speak.

He knows that, and he knows he isn't ready to go yet; it's not his time, and he doesn't want to.

(It's also not quite the same thing as just walking out the door, as it stands; it would hurt, I think, to step through and break the bonds of the ka-tet, forcing himself out of it before time. There's always a price, to go against the will of ka. Luckily, he has no desire to test this.)

I've known pretty much since I brought him in under what circumstances it would be time for him to leave.

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether to laugh or apologize. Because Anakin? Is never going to get there, say sorry.

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

Thus far, I have had two Bar Bindings and one voluntary Binding, as well as two unBound. One of the Bar Bindings has worn off, even if the patron involved is dead (he's never going home, and knows it, so it's not that big a deal). The other Binding is still in effect and will remain so until Jenny finally gets what she never had in life: that is, a solid, stable relationship. At the rate she's going, of course, she'll never leave, but eh.

As for Anakin, whose Binding wore off, I had a vague idea of the conditions required for it to do so, involving him making peace with all those he harmed and getting to the point of maturity where he could control his temper and not fear falling, but beyond that, I wasn't sure. I did *know*, however, when the Binding started wearing off, and was almost at the verge of retiring him when the baby plot arrived and changed that. ::snuggles the unborn twins::

The voluntary Binding is Megwyn, who won't leave without Ingress. Conditions for her release depend entirely on Ingress, and therefore, Tom and Door.