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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7782652" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>Ok, I'll try to explain chaotic -at least how I see it-. Chaotic is not really unpredictable, at least not really unless you cling to tradition. Chaotic isn't active opposition to every single rule and authority either. Chaotic is freedom from authority and tradition (not about being a nancy contrarian that has to break every single rule and defy every single order). I have this scene from my fiction-making that illustrates my point.</p><p></p><p>[The four characters are "minor deities" of sorts -more like quite strong entities-. They embody cosmic principles, but have their own morality. I'll identify them as Panther, Pony, Hawk and Butterfly.</p><p>Panther embodies death and views himself as neutral evil. Pony embodies life and sees herself as Neutral Good. Both of them however are so obsessed with keeping the balance between life and death and the system that helps it keep like that, that in fact they are Lawful Neutral.</p><p>Hawk embodies balance, and he considers himself as true neutral, an impartial moderator between Panther and Pony. In practice, however Pony and Panther are so in sync that he barely needs to do any work. So he commits to keeping the tradition and law alive no matter who gets hurt, and in fact enjoys lording over the lesser creatures this way and actively benefits from the arrangement. (Lawful Evil)</p><p>Finally Butterfly embodies change. She is very empathetic, and will often go out of the way to aid the lesser creatures, constantly tearing apart the balance and violating the rules in the process.</p><p></p><p>During an important discussion Butterfly invokes the laws and traditions to get her way, essentially to get her own nominee to be considered to be their collective vicar -normally Pony and Panther each nominate a mortal they have groomed for a while and Hawk gets to choose-. Something that ends up not mattering much to her as she empowers her own mortals anyway. ]</p><p></p><p>Butterfly.- I want my boy to be considered. He is cool, and nice. He would do a great job.</p><p></p><p>Hawk.- Stop saying nonsense. </p><p></p><p>Butterfly.- Why are you guys so mean? You never listen to me.</p><p></p><p>Pony.- Because you are evil.</p><p></p><p>Panther.- And flighty, and destructive. </p><p></p><p>Butterfly.- Well, I don't care what you think. I get to nominate a kid, it's my right according to the rules YOU wrote.</p><p></p><p>Hawk.- You invoking law? You don't know a thing about the law! You always break it!</p><p></p><p>Butterfly.- I'm a free spirit. I do what I want. If I wasn't able to follow the law when I wanted, you would be able to control me. [She snickered at this point] And you don't get to control me. </p><p></p><p>[Now Butterfly looks bitchy in this conversation, but in fact she is sabotaging the current process because the role of their collective vicar is a hard one, full of suffering and extremely taxing. Panther and Pony have already forced the previous one to reincarnate in order to nominate her again -exploiting multiverse shenanigans to reincarnate her twice at the same time so each one of them has a nominee- and expect to keep this going for eternity since that she was perfectly balanced in every way for the task and was quite submissive to the three of them. Butterfly finds this unnecessarily cruel as it means they have effectively enslaved their previous vicar for eternity just because it is the most convenient way to keep the system going]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7782652, member: 6689464"] Ok, I'll try to explain chaotic -at least how I see it-. Chaotic is not really unpredictable, at least not really unless you cling to tradition. Chaotic isn't active opposition to every single rule and authority either. Chaotic is freedom from authority and tradition (not about being a nancy contrarian that has to break every single rule and defy every single order). I have this scene from my fiction-making that illustrates my point. [The four characters are "minor deities" of sorts -more like quite strong entities-. They embody cosmic principles, but have their own morality. I'll identify them as Panther, Pony, Hawk and Butterfly. Panther embodies death and views himself as neutral evil. Pony embodies life and sees herself as Neutral Good. Both of them however are so obsessed with keeping the balance between life and death and the system that helps it keep like that, that in fact they are Lawful Neutral. Hawk embodies balance, and he considers himself as true neutral, an impartial moderator between Panther and Pony. In practice, however Pony and Panther are so in sync that he barely needs to do any work. So he commits to keeping the tradition and law alive no matter who gets hurt, and in fact enjoys lording over the lesser creatures this way and actively benefits from the arrangement. (Lawful Evil) Finally Butterfly embodies change. She is very empathetic, and will often go out of the way to aid the lesser creatures, constantly tearing apart the balance and violating the rules in the process. During an important discussion Butterfly invokes the laws and traditions to get her way, essentially to get her own nominee to be considered to be their collective vicar -normally Pony and Panther each nominate a mortal they have groomed for a while and Hawk gets to choose-. Something that ends up not mattering much to her as she empowers her own mortals anyway. ] Butterfly.- I want my boy to be considered. He is cool, and nice. He would do a great job. Hawk.- Stop saying nonsense. Butterfly.- Why are you guys so mean? You never listen to me. Pony.- Because you are evil. Panther.- And flighty, and destructive. Butterfly.- Well, I don't care what you think. I get to nominate a kid, it's my right according to the rules YOU wrote. Hawk.- You invoking law? You don't know a thing about the law! You always break it! Butterfly.- I'm a free spirit. I do what I want. If I wasn't able to follow the law when I wanted, you would be able to control me. [She snickered at this point] And you don't get to control me. [Now Butterfly looks bitchy in this conversation, but in fact she is sabotaging the current process because the role of their collective vicar is a hard one, full of suffering and extremely taxing. Panther and Pony have already forced the previous one to reincarnate in order to nominate her again -exploiting multiverse shenanigans to reincarnate her twice at the same time so each one of them has a nominee- and expect to keep this going for eternity since that she was perfectly balanced in every way for the task and was quite submissive to the three of them. Butterfly finds this unnecessarily cruel as it means they have effectively enslaved their previous vicar for eternity just because it is the most convenient way to keep the system going] [/QUOTE]
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