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dark and troubled past & to be lawful or good & family of choice  →   tv tropes

Something terrible happened to Alice; some tragic event in her past that shaped a fundamental level of her personality. Long after the event is over, it still has a powerful influence in Alice’s life.The root effects for  Dark And Troubled Past  are usually: Self hate via My Greatest Failure. Outward distrust because of being betrayed. Inward callousness coupled with outward hate because of a Freudian Excuse such as abandonment, trauma, or death of a loved one.

To Be Lawful or Good  is the classic debate, named for the Catch-22 Dilemma which often confronts Lawful Good Dungeons & Dragons characters (particularly Paladins), for a dilemma which may face any character who is defined in part by their struggle to remain good while upholding the stability of the system they live in. For whatever reason, this character has encountered a situation where doing the right thing involves breaking a law, personal code, or a binding rule that makes the character The Fettered. The character must then decide to either break the law and move towards Chaotic/Neutral Good, or put the law of the land first and become more Lawful Neutral.