♔ — Does your muse believe people are innately good or innately bad? Why do they believe this?
♞ — What does your muse believe happens after death? Do they believe in an afterlife and why/why not? If they do, what do they imagine this afterlife to be?
♔ — Does your muse believe people are innately good or innately bad? Why do they believe this?
Nora would like to say that people lean on the side of good - after all, a person isn't born evil, right? -, but ultimately she would have to come down on a far more neutral and nuanced stance.
In her thinking: Who is to say what even is good or bad? They aren't really objective states, and depend a lot on an individual's view on morality, which is heavily influenced by things like localised law, religion, and politics. Sure, most people can agree on a blanket statement that harming someone is wrong, but you don't judge a child yanking an animal's tail the same way as a bigger person kicking one, or a person stealing for gain as someone stealing to survive, so there are still caveats in why a person does something wrong to consider. Killing people is wrong, but Nora's killed to protect herself and the things she holds dear, and would do so again, so is it less wrong for those reasons? She'd never think it's good, of course, but it can be hard to reckon with the reality of these things and she'll never be able to settle for totally black or white thinking.
All in all, she could think in circles about subjects like this for hours until she gives herself a headache and just ends up coming down to caring less about if a person is good or if they (mostly) do good.
Al's short answer would be that most people are bastards. Meaning that most people will do what benefits them the most in the end, or even just the moment. For every person out there genuinely trying to do some good in the world, there's at least another three that would gut you for your spare change.
Like Nora, Al wouldn't want to think in too much of black and white terms for these things, but has a much harder time of that in practice than just in theory. They tend to prefer acting over taking a long time to think things through, which is easier if they can just give into that kind of thinking to help them get the job done.
Overall they don't really like to think on the subject too much, both because of their own struggle with it but also because they find it either leads nowhere or into religious thinking about some sort of post-death karma that they aren't sure they believe in (or in the instances that they do consider it, that they in particular aren't in for the good things).
♞ — What does your muse believe happens after death? Do they believe in an afterlife and why/why not? If they do, what do they imagine this afterlife to be?
Nothing, but you can never be too sure. It's not an answer she's likely to get, so she doesn't think on it too much. At most she hopes that if there is some kind of afterlife, that the people she's loved and lost are having a good time and that she can see them again one day. But again that's just wishful, melancholy thinking, and not likely.
Really torn up between the likely nothing, or the religious ideas her father taught her. She's lowkey scared of going to hell - but she's also scared of going to heaven and facing her father and others who she is sure must be disappointed in her.
