#nevergetsbetter

Jack is a Cloyster!

Type: Water/Ice

Move set:

Withdraw

Spikes

Barrier

Take Down

character questions!

How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?

Around strangers, Finn’s pretty suspicious. He’s more likely to assume a stranger approaching him has some sort of nefarious purpose than a friendly one, and his guard always goes up around those he doesn’t know well. This is partially due to spending a lot of time in dangerous and semi-dangerous places, like out in the ruins and in Goodneighbor, but is also about spending the early years of his life being more or less trained by his brothers to expect bullying and mockery at a moment’s notice. 

He’s much more trusting around people he’s close to, and people who’ve shown him through their previous interactions that they’re not going to pick on him. I don’t know if I’d say he’s “close,” so much, to Stevie and McCoy, for example, but he’s more trustful of them than others because they’ve been genuine and treated him with respect in repeated interactions. This just increases the closer he gets to a person, really, even though it’s already bitten him in the ass, you might say he’s likely to trust the people he’s the most close to too much.

How does your character normally deal with confrontation?

Does your character feel that they deserve to have what they want, whether it be material or abstract, or do they feel they must earn it first?

The last few years have convinced Sam pretty conclusively that “deserve” is not a concept that applies, at least to him. 

As for earning things -- yeah, sure, that works for material goods. More abstract things, on the other hand -- you have to work for it, but you may not get it, and you have to be okay with that, is more or less how he thinks of it. 

Which does your character idealize most: happiness or success? 

Although they’ve been gone from the Institute more of their life than not (and Ned is roughly 50ish, so that’s a very long time for a synth, and definitely an escaped synth), they still still have something of the Institute mentality about them and value their own efficiency, their own usefulness, even if Ned cares more about being useful for their own sake rather than for the sake of others.

In short, Ned values success over happiness and Ned’s not certain that they’ve ever been absolutely happy in their entire life, not even when they still had their husband and cabin in the woods and little garden.  Ned’s not sure if they’re even capable of being as happy as other people.

In what ways does your character compare themselves to others? Do they do this for the sake of self-validation, or self-criticism?