ssampier said:
According to the SRD, Chaotic Neutral is a free spirit, "He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn’t strive to protect others’ freedom." Maybe it's just me but I have a hard time conceptualizing that kind of character. Anyone have an example for me?
I think of "Juicy Girls". That's what we and they called themselves when I was in the military stationed in Korea. I spent almost four years with these people as my neighbors (lived off base as I didn't much like military people) and 'girlfriends' to the ex-pats I knew.
Essentially bar girls that would try to get the patrons to buy them overpriced watered down (so they didn't drunk from a night's work) drinks - for which they would sit and 'provide company' for a few minutes.
They aren't exactly free spirits, being what is legally known as indentured servants - under a contract to work for a period of time to deal with some debt they or their family incurred. That is, btw, how most of the colonists came to America - as indentureds to the wealthy population in order to pay off the fees of bringing them overseas, usually for a period of five years.
Anyway, these girls could best be described as extremely shallow, self serving, and willing to anything for a buck beyond the clearly illegal or repulsive (in most cases). They wouldn't ever really help or hinder anyone without first considering what angle they could put on it for themselves. They view life and people in terms of using and getting used. It's all about managing your ration of using to getting used for the most benefit to yourself.
This is the model for my current PC:
Sisi-Minona Aziri, half-elven bard level 1.
Background: Born a slave in Vrandol, Sisi-Minona was trained for a life as a concubine. At 19 she was sold for 130 gold and set to be shipped off to Bet-Kalamar. Her ship was taken by pirates along the way, and Sisi-Minona found herself bound for the markets in Prompeldia after some time among the pirates. An asault by The Brotherhood of the Broken Chain however won here freedom. Sisi was given clothes, a handful of silver, and dropped off at the nearest port. She had no idea what to do with herself -having never been free- so she sold herself as an indentured servant for a period of five years to a band of traveling entertainers. There she honed her singing and dancing as well as concubine skills until her contract was at an end, and she was let go in Pagalido on the southern border of Tarisato. It was during this time that she also made careful observation of her free companions, in order to learn the basics of surviving on her own. She is now 26 and a cross in appearance between a wood elf and a Svimohz-human (looks sort of like a mix of african and korean with pointy ears).
Personality: Sisi-Minona uses the family name of her mother's master, Aziri. She is not fully comfortable with being on her own, and is thus a little unwise to the ways of the world. Sisi views her sexuality as a commodity -it is not a source of joy, pleasure, pain, or remose -merely of gaining advantage. She likewise sees people mostly in terms of what they want from her or what she can get from them. She has no set goals other than surviving and improving her lot. Some would say she is shallow, and this is a product of her background. For Sisi, morality is a non existant concept -everyone's just out to get advantage over everyone else, people are both users and get used.
