Character Name: Christopher Chareau de Red User Nameinhumanity Canon:Baccano! How Much Darkness Does Your Character Have?: ...I'm. Shit. 9? 9.5? 8.5? I'm not sure. He's been trying to improve lately but his efforts haven't been going well. UM. Going to the next question. Alternatively is your character a good person, an evil scheming dickbag or somewhere in between?: Fuck good intentions, Christopher is an amoral shit and a coward. His heart is dominated by fear! He has killed a lot of people and he isn't even a little bit sorry about it. He's capricious and whimsical about violence, and sometimes, he has a near-tangible aura of bloodlust. DARKNESS. LOADS OF DARKNESS. SO MUCH DARKNESS GOING ON HERE.
But. When given actual free choice and a right to self-determination, Christopher chooses to stop killing people. He is a bad person, a coward, someone too broken to help others and too terrified to reach out for hope. But he is also kind to others. He's possibly one of the kindest people in his canon! He's very sympathetic to others, he is attentive and understanding to others' feelings, and if he can make someone feel better, he often will! He climbs in windows to bring people cake! He offers strangers umbrellas so they won't get wet! When his 'brother' Rail was being experimented on by their creator, Christopher used to take care of him after the experiments. He used to do anything he could to comfort Rail and help Rail survive their shared Hell.
Yet he still never tried to kill Huey or free Rail, because that would mean Christopher's death, and survival is everything. Christopher may be very kind and understanding, but he knows how to turn that off and be heartless and brutal instead, if that's what it takes to avoid becoming a failed test subject. He's too selfish and scared to be really good, and the fraction of happiness and good in him has been smashed down hard by trauma. Its recent efforts to sneak out and reassert itself are like a daisy trying to pop up from the snow: points for effort, but you're no Hun.
To sum up, pick your own fraction of goodness to tip him away from total darkness, but he's closer to a ten than a five. SORRY FOR RUINING ALL OF OUR CR.
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Canon: Baccano!
How Much Darkness Does Your Character Have?: ...I'm. Shit. 9? 9.5? 8.5? I'm not sure. He's been trying to improve lately but his efforts haven't been going well. UM. Going to the next question.
Alternatively is your character a good person, an evil scheming dickbag or somewhere in between?: Fuck good intentions, Christopher is an amoral shit and a coward. His heart is dominated by fear! He has killed a lot of people and he isn't even a little bit sorry about it. He's capricious and whimsical about violence, and sometimes, he has a near-tangible aura of bloodlust. DARKNESS. LOADS OF DARKNESS. SO MUCH DARKNESS GOING ON HERE.
But. When given actual free choice and a right to self-determination, Christopher chooses to stop killing people. He is a bad person, a coward, someone too broken to help others and too terrified to reach out for hope. But he is also kind to others. He's possibly one of the kindest people in his canon! He's very sympathetic to others, he is attentive and understanding to others' feelings, and if he can make someone feel better, he often will! He climbs in windows to bring people cake! He offers strangers umbrellas so they won't get wet! When his 'brother' Rail was being experimented on by their creator, Christopher used to take care of him after the experiments. He used to do anything he could to comfort Rail and help Rail survive their shared Hell.
Yet he still never tried to kill Huey or free Rail, because that would mean Christopher's death, and survival is everything. Christopher may be very kind and understanding, but he knows how to turn that off and be heartless and brutal instead, if that's what it takes to avoid becoming a failed test subject. He's too selfish and scared to be really good, and the fraction of happiness and good in him has been smashed down hard by trauma. Its recent efforts to sneak out and reassert itself are like a daisy trying to pop up from the snow: points for effort, but you're no Hun.
To sum up, pick your own fraction of goodness to tip him away from total darkness, but he's closer to a ten than a five. SORRY FOR RUINING ALL OF OUR CR.