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<blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 9888954" data-attributes="member: 6801776"><p>Are they even going to care? Like, when it comes to 'smart chaotic evil', my brain goes to Zenos from FFXIV who is a complicated character but most likely falls into that 'chaotic evil' side of things. And he's not a dumb character. He's someone raised to end up ruling an empire, something he finds no interest in, and despite all of his skill, has never had a real challenge. The only things that break through any of that is anything that breaks that shear enui. He'll murder and destroy nations just to feel something</p><p></p><p>Spoilers for FFXIV.</p><p>[SPOILER="FFXIV Zenos Spoilers"]While he ends up in a position of power, he does.... Absolutely nothing with it in terms of really 'ruling' and more 'runs it into the ground'. Because ruling isn't what he wants. He wants a grand fight with you. He burns countries, destroys cities, causes massive harm to hundreds, if not thousands, and doesn't even blink an eye because 'ruling' is something he doesn't care about and its all in service to pissing off you so much you have the mother of all one v ones with him. He kills his father because he's developing a ready made warcrime that has the risk of killing you. You dying? That's risking his big, dramatic battle. So his father has to go.[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>Chaotic is the individualism route. Chaotic ones don't really tend to end up ruling all that much, because that's moreso the lawful side. If they're someone who's bothering with leading or appointing people, I question if they're really being fully chaotic.</p><p></p><p>also I know I absolutely hate alignments but the idea of 'a champion of chaotic evil' is genuinely kind of stupid. But then again I think championing any of the alignments is kind of stupid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mecheon, post: 9888954, member: 6801776"] Are they even going to care? Like, when it comes to 'smart chaotic evil', my brain goes to Zenos from FFXIV who is a complicated character but most likely falls into that 'chaotic evil' side of things. And he's not a dumb character. He's someone raised to end up ruling an empire, something he finds no interest in, and despite all of his skill, has never had a real challenge. The only things that break through any of that is anything that breaks that shear enui. He'll murder and destroy nations just to feel something Spoilers for FFXIV. [SPOILER="FFXIV Zenos Spoilers"]While he ends up in a position of power, he does.... Absolutely nothing with it in terms of really 'ruling' and more 'runs it into the ground'. Because ruling isn't what he wants. He wants a grand fight with you. He burns countries, destroys cities, causes massive harm to hundreds, if not thousands, and doesn't even blink an eye because 'ruling' is something he doesn't care about and its all in service to pissing off you so much you have the mother of all one v ones with him. He kills his father because he's developing a ready made warcrime that has the risk of killing you. You dying? That's risking his big, dramatic battle. So his father has to go.[/SPOILER] Chaotic is the individualism route. Chaotic ones don't really tend to end up ruling all that much, because that's moreso the lawful side. If they're someone who's bothering with leading or appointing people, I question if they're really being fully chaotic. also I know I absolutely hate alignments but the idea of 'a champion of chaotic evil' is genuinely kind of stupid. But then again I think championing any of the alignments is kind of stupid. [/QUOTE]
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