more proof that I'm John Watson

[avawatson]

I took a D&D 3.x alignment test. It was arduous and outdated, I was frustrated with a lot of the choices, but this was my final result.




Yeah, okay. Like those real life folks aren't pretty damn problematic (well, maybe not the Dalai Lama), but more importantly?


I can live with this.

Comments

[indybaggins.livejournal.com]

True neutral. I guess that makes me Molly? *g*

[avawatson]

Hmm, that's an interesting read. In the alignment chart I linked, Mycroft is the true neutral and Molly is lawful good. But generally speaking, I think I can see Molly as close to neutral, rather than lawful. She does bend the rules for Sherlock and in general (office romance, all that). But I tend to think that she's good rather than neutral or evil.

Amoral characters are generally true neutral though I'm not quite positive that all true neutral characters are amoral; I feel like there may be corner cases out there that I'm not contemplating. And while I'm rather fine with the idea of Mycroft being amoral/true neutral, I'm less convinced of Molly...simply because I think she, like Sherlock, is on the side of the angels.

[indybaggins.livejournal.com]

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 ;)