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[impersona]

So, some of ya know that my computer is on the way out the door.   That's what's been going on since Thursday - trouble connecting to wireless networks, and then trouble getting my computer beyond Vista's WELCOME screen, which made me cry like a boo-boo.   But K's brother got to do voodoo magic on my computer this evening, and I'm more or less back in action.  As in the last few weeks, I'm out a lot still and probably won't be on very often.  Montana is lovely, as always.

Also I have my Taiki outfit to start sewing.  D: 

ANYWAYS.  Here is something to get me a little back in action, Interwebs-and-writing-wise.

Pick up to three of your RP chars (ones whom I am familiar with, please), and I will pick out for you a Representative Tarot Card and/or a Growth Tarot Card for that character, plus an explanation to what the card is and why I picked it for that char.  The Representative card is basically the card that I think epitomizes the char's personality/spirit/path in life.  If I give you a Growth Card, that represents the character's current lot in life and conflict that they have to overcome.  This is all by my perspective, so feel free to debate or suggest a new card.  I'm including all of the Major Arcana, plus the 16 Royal cards. 

ALSO if you like, request one of my characters as well (in addition to your three), and I will respond with his/her cards, just for fun.  I'd do this in the body of this post but I am tired and not sure if there is much interest in that sort of thing.  I can say though that like, for every game I've been in since ANCD, I've done Tarot find-and-replace in my own head, with the never-accomplished intention of actually drawing a deck based on that games' characters.   

(Kol, Angie, when were you planning on doing the music meme?  I don't want to miss that ;_; )

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[kol]

2. Neve

I think most people would put Neve with the Hanged Man card, and I'm totally one of them, especially for this bit:

The Hanged Man in some decks is Odin, who hung on the world tree for nine days and received the runes. The tree is Yggdrasil, the living World Tree (notice the living branches), rooted in the underworld and supporting the heavens

Because at her core, the underline bits are precisely who Neve is and are fundamentally what her driving motivations are. Neve is not the keeper of Heaven who flies around blissfully-- she carries that load on her back much as Atlas did, a burden she refuses to shed because it is she's earned it, damn it, and it isn't YOURS to shoulder. There is an almost religious undertone to this, which is why if there was any sort of a wandering clergy in Arcadia, I could see Neve finding her way into it. She's just too broken to settle down as a 'norm,' and if Sin goes, the whole piracy trade is going to become the new villain, and Neve wants no part of that. Better to be the lesser of two evils and flourish on the in betweens than be the new bad people focus on. I could see her developing into a sort of ascetic mystic, living on the backcliffs of Icarus in a cabin by herself, finding some sort of piece while people wander in for aid.

And what is clear about Neve is while she functions perfectly fine in a community setting on the surface (she's been a part of the crew of the Raiders for half of her life, after all, and she'd have been tossed out if she couldn't relate to people on all sorts of levels), at her core she's really a person who draws her strength from herself. This is why she's survived yet hasn't thrived. If she'd found her way to Icarus and hidden out in the backcliffs like Taavi suggested she do at 17, Neve would have been an entirely different sort of character, far more put together, less of the walking dead.

But that part of Neve is gone, there's no spiritualism to Neve at all, just the grueling pursuit of survival and piecing each broken part back in, jury-rigging some way to make it stay functioning, a movement towards the future just so something of those she lost would continue on.

If there was a way to ping the hope/enlightenment of Star with the completion/integration of World, that would be Neve's development. Because a big old emotional bandaid isn't going to fix Neve. She needs to find her redemption, and the only way I can see it is if she lives long enough to either put Phoebe on the throne or be the one to sacrifice herself for Phoebe if Sin lobs an attack her way. Because without Phoebe, there was no heart in Neve's chest, but now that the Princess is alive, for the first time in years there is hope. Because there's a reason now, a meaning for a revolution, and not a hopeless fight against a superior force. Now there is justice and redemption and a clear way to succeed, and maybe, just maybe, if she can restore Phoebe she can finally claim her rest, lay down that burden of the heavens she carries, and be at peace.

So basically, Neve is the Tinman who just needs a heart (hope). Don't ask me why I hadn't figured this out before XD

[kol]

Or you know HERMIT. I love how it only occurs to me HOURS after I typed this up XD