so I was bored...

[deird1]

Being in a rather silly mood, I thought I'd classify each of the Farscape characters by their alignment and class.

...so. That happened.


Crichton - Chaotic Good Bard
Crichton breathes chaos - so the alignment was pretty obvious. As for the character class: he's very into persuasion, negotiation, and trickery. He'll fight if he has to, but he'd rather look for a clever way around a problem.

Aeryn - Lawful Good Fighter
By nature, she'd be a very ethical soldier. She's much more used to following the rules than Crichton ever would be.

D'Argo - Neutral Good Paladin
Less lawful than Aeryn - but what he lacks in rules he makes up for in HONOUR. He's very concerned about truth, justice, and being an "ally".

Zhaan - Lawful Good Cleric
...obviously.

Rygel - Lawful Neutral Rogue
Neutral because he's amoral; lawful because he'd prefer to operate within the rules of society than without - he's a gambler and embezzler more than a pickpocket; rogue because duh.

Chiana - Chaotic Neutral Rogue
Where Rygel finds tricksy ways around the rules, Chiana fails to acknowledge that rules exist at all.

Pilot - True Neutral ...something
I cannot for the life of me come up with a class for Pilot. Or for the Leviathans.

Moya - Neutral Good ...spaceship
Pilot fails on the "good" because of how he came to Moya; Moya herself appears to be extremely good.

Crais - Chaotic Neutral Fighter
Crais was never a by-the-rules Peacekeeper in the same way as Aeryn or Braca. But he's still a Peacekeeper, so fighter it is.

Scorpius - Neutral Evil Bard
He's a bard for much the same reason as Crichton: he's into tricks, coercion, and finding people's emotional weakspots.

Harvey - Chaotic Evil Bard
While Scorpius is Neutral, Harvey has absorbed an awful lot of Crichton's Chaotic side. Hence the weird outfits and pop-culture references.

Stark - Chaotic Neutral Cleric
It's Stark. How could he be anything else?

Talyn - Neutral Evil ...spaceship
Evil because he goes around blowing things up at random, and how else do you classify that? But really I just want to give him lots of big hugs.

Jool - True Neutral Druid
She's a scientist, and druid seems to fit well. And she's so ridiculously true neutral.

Noranti - Chaotic Good Druid
Chaotic... duh. Druid... also duh. Good because she really is trying to work for people's benefit, pretty much constantly.

Sikozu - Lawful Neutral Ranger
Yet another person who, like Rygel, wants to discover the rules and then manipulate them to her benefit.

Braca - Lawful Evil Fighter
Evil because he's more interested in supporting Scorpius than in anything else, and because he's got a perfect evil-guy smirk happening.

Comments

[vass]

This is a good post and you should feel good.

[deird1]

Hee! Thanks!

[frayadjacent]

Heh, this was a fun read. I don't disagree with any of your categories! Except maybe Zhaan being Good, since she did murder someone. But I don't remember the circumstances, maybe it was pretty justified? She is certainly shown to be Good in her interactions with the rest of the cast.

[deird1]

True, but for the same reason as I would classify post-series Faith as good, I am calling mid-show Zhaan good. She's reformed, and has a very strong set of ethics.

[frayadjacent]

Fair enough.

[deird1]

*LOVES your reason for edit*

[frayadjacent]

:D

[jesuswasbatman]

I did this a few years ago, and I came up with Aeryn as Lawful Neutral. She becomes more connected to the people she's fighting alongside thanks to Crichton, but I'm not sure she ever achieves personal "Good".

Crais as I can see it changes around a lot on the spectrum - he's initially Lawful Evil as a Peacekeeper, becomes Chaotic Evil in "That Old Black Magic", and then becomes True Neutral (by his own self-identification) in S2-3.

[deird1]

I see what you mean with Aeryn, but I don't think Crais is ever evil, precisely. He's willing to kill people in nasty ways, sure, but so is Rygel. I don't think either of them wants to kill people for the sake of killing them - it's more that they don't have good reason not to...

[immer_am_lesen]

...can you explain the system a little, please? I've never seen this kinda thing before- so someone can be classed as Chaotic/ Neutral/Lawful...but then Neutral can also be part of Neutral/ Good/ Evil/ True...?

What would you class 1812 as?

[deird1]

It's a classic tabletop roleplaying thing. A character could be good, neutral, or evil - that's a measurement of their morality. And they could be lawful, neutral, or chaotic - that's a measurement of how much they follow the rules of society. A "true neutral" is someone who's neutral on both scales.

(The classes are also from roleplaying: your classic fantasy team will have fighters, to fight; rogues, to steal and pick locks; mages, to cast spells; clerics, to be terribly spiritual and heal people; and a variety of other smaller classes like paladins, bards, druids, and rangers.)

Personally, I'd say 1812 is a neutral good, like Moya.

[immer_am_lesen]

Ah, thought as much- I was wondering if someone would be a Neutral Neutral, but that's then your True Neutral.

...it all reminds me of WoW (and back to DnD of course), with the different classes. (Btw Druids in Warcraft beat everyone hands-down. :-))