Happy STS, Ren! Do your main characters thinks people are generally good, generally evil or something else?
And I would like to ask for an update on ongoing writing projects/thoughts if you would like^^
Happy STS Dreams~! I hope you're having one as lovely as you are ^^
A very interesting question, I think I'll go ahead and answer for your very favorite 6 characters for this one ^^
Reuven generally thinks of people as good, but understands that good is subjective and that most will still act in their own interest, even if they are super nice. So he'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but will still take his time to observe and get a better read on you before he trusts you with something super important, if that makes sense.
Silver, on the opposite end of that spectrum, believes that people are inherently evil. She will always expect the worst of everyone, she will always be waiting for that knife in the back. That's part of why she has no idea how to deal with Reuven and Eternity and Kitan, they don't act entirely in their own self interests and it's new to her.
Kitan is somewhere in the middle. He's seen both sides of the coin and sees it as a pretty even split, though it doesn't stop him from trusting a little too quickly.
Arlen has a hard time imagining people as inherently evil. It's hard for him to imagine that people start off evil to the core, or that most people want to hurt others. Particularly now that he's out of the tower and away from his elders and is meeting people like Merle, Bramble, and the rest of the guild. That being said, he does believe that influences and circumstances can drive a person to becoming evil, and does acknowledge that there are rare instances of people who are just evil, though he doesn't have any experience with that kind of thing.
Merle, being the basher of bandits that she is, sees the world more as a gray. Morality is something she believes you have to work at, like the code of conduct she follows. If you stop caring, you can drift to a sort of neutrality or even become a bandit yourself.
Night I think is slowly shifting from seeing people as inherently evil, selfish creatures to seeing the world a little more like Merle or Kitan do. Her experiences in the Fel really colored the world as a dark bleak place to her, but now that she's being exposed to people like Merle and Arlen it's shifting her perspective to maybe not everyone is so bad.
And as a bonus - Cherrenth is skeptical of everyone, but he doesn't believe mortals are all inherently evil, but he does see them as generally self-serving.
As for a writing update - I am very sorry to say that I haven't gotten any writing done this week. Not even a smidge. I got very, very ill this week and am just starting to recover from it.
Before I got sick, though, I got quite a bit of the second quest arc of The Shackles of Time done. I got two and a half chapters done in one evening, and I'm really enjoying the arc. It's really painting the characters in a new light and draw out some things that have been thus far buried in the background. The dynamics are starting to shift between the team and characters. More is coming out about Cherrenth, about The Howling Ice guild, about Night, Arlen is beginning to realize how he stacks up to Night and Merle, Night and Merle have a sort of small bonding moment, world building is coming up, and it's just been a super interesting arc.
I've finished building the next team we're going to meet in the guild as well, and I think they're going to be an interesting bunch. We'll be visiting them off and on during mini arcs. Maybe even seeing them and the main trio interact a bit in between quests. So I'm looking forward to that. ^^
And yeah, that's all I can think of. Didn't get anything new done in Forgotten Gods or The Plight of a Sparrow, yet. I might get ambitious and try getting some writing done this weekend. We'll see how I'm feeling.
Thanks for stopping by~ I hope you have a lovely day/evening.
