You're totally right about Molly belonging mainly under good rather than neutral, I was defining it wrongly.
About Mycroft, he definitely is neutral, but I think you could make a case for lawful and chaotic as well as true neutral? (and maybe that's why he belongs in the middle). He certainly has a 'the end justifies the means' type of morality, enough emotional distance to sacrifice for the greater good, very comfortable with grey areas and all that.
But then lawful- he is working towards an end of lawful good? He is seeking to maintain a status quo of lawfulness too, supporting existing authority and working within its structure in order to maintain it?
And chaotic- he defies structure when necessary, he has his own flexible definitions of right and wrong, considers himself above others (and he is), which requires a vision and strive and a capacity/will for manipulating the existing order to serve his own good?
So in the end I think that he might want to be lawful neutral, he naturally (shamefully) tends towards chaotic neutral, and so he takes up a position in the middle as a true neutral?
Oh and I do agree with myself being a true neutral. So maybe that test was more accurate than I first thought ;)
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Date: 2014-07-17 10:01 am (UTC)About Mycroft, he definitely is neutral, but I think you could make a case for lawful and chaotic as well as true neutral? (and maybe that's why he belongs in the middle). He certainly has a 'the end justifies the means' type of morality, enough emotional distance to sacrifice for the greater good, very comfortable with grey areas and all that.
But then lawful- he is working towards an end of lawful good? He is seeking to maintain a status quo of lawfulness too, supporting existing authority and working within its structure in order to maintain it?
And chaotic- he defies structure when necessary, he has his own flexible definitions of right and wrong, considers himself above others (and he is), which requires a vision and strive and a capacity/will for manipulating the existing order to serve his own good?
So in the end I think that he might want to be lawful neutral, he naturally (shamefully) tends towards chaotic neutral, and so he takes up a position in the middle as a true neutral?
Oh and I do agree with myself being a true neutral. So maybe that test was more accurate than I first thought ;)