Geekgasm

[zonewombat]

I almost never use my LJ for full-out geeking...I mean, my family reads this thing! However, on another board I'm in a discussion of the D&D alignment system as it pertains to the Firefly crew, and I'm amused by it.

Now, standard disclaimer: I don't love the alignment system. I use percentile-based alignments rather than absolute, to get a wider spread. But that aside, with the classic 9 alignments:

Mal: CG
Zoe: LN
Jayne: NE
Wash: NG
Kaylee: NG
Book: NG
Inara: LN
Simon: NG
River: CN

Zoe's Lawfulness is all about Mal, which, since he's Chaotic, is a problem. Jayne is the very epitome of Neutral Evil. His quote from "Serenity" about "Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight...or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight..." should be in the next version of D&D as the NE quote. Book I think used to be True Neutral (because I think he was an Operative and I think Operatives are True Neutral), but started sliding into Good. Inara is in the process of becoming more Chaotic and more Good, but isn't there yet. Simon used to be LG. River may be NG, but she'll need a lot more drugs and therapy before we'll know for sure.

Next I think I'll slap these kids onto the Myers-Briggs chart.

Comments

I'm thinking Mal is more the CN type.

[dredpyratrobert.livejournal.com]

Think of all the bodies he has left behind. And I think that the occasional good deed falls under the Dr. Who explanation (new series) that even Evil people will occasionally do random Good things so that they can point to them and say how wonderful they are by contrast to their other acts.
Not that Mal isn't trying.

Re: I'm thinking Mal is more the CN type.

[zonewombat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I agree that Mal has become CN, but I think at his core he's CG. "The Train Job" covers both aspects: Him returning the medicine and what he says about it is CG, but kicking the guy into the engine is CN.