Avatar Roleplay Wiki:Character Alignments

Overview
In a large roleplay environment such as Republic City, as seen in Legend of Korra and the original series. There are characters who are heroic with strong morals and cruel and tyrannical. On this wiki we use a 9 alignment system, selecting an alignment for your character is not a necessity but is recommended and not hard at all.

Lawful Good
A Lawful Good character would act with honor, duty and compassion. These characters can sometimes be strict and bossy. Like Lin Beifong from LoK, she is a police chief sworn to protect Republic City’s citizens and uphold it’s laws. Lawful Good characters would rarely or never break the law, they might have a hard time to standing up to against cruel and unfair laws. Conflicted by their needs to be a law-abiding hero. “Is this law really fair?” “Is it right to let people suffer because of it?”

Neutral Good
A Neutral Good character would be driven to do the right thing by strong morals and beliefs, they’re neither entirely for or against the law. A Neutral Good character would be fine with fair and just laws, but against cruel and abusive ones. A good example would be Katara from TLA, an incredibly kind and caring person. Willing to help complete strangers and maintain order and peace within the world. But was willing to fight against unfair traditions, like when she fought Master Pakku to take a stand against Female Waterbenders not being allowed to learn combative bending. Neutral Good characters would never do incredibly bad things to innocent people, but would stop or be opposed to villains.

Chaotic Good
A Chaotic Good character is someone who genuinely wants to be nice and care about people. But these characters hate rules and laws, valuing the freedom or themselves and others. Toph Beifong from TLA is an amazing example, she helped Aang save the world and protected her friends. But she hated rules and order, being disgusted with the order and strict laws of Ba Sing Se and her parents’ estate. Chaotic Good characters may create conflict in teams much like Toph did, they may be harmless rulebreakers and class clowns. But would be considered good people at the end of the day.

Lawful Neutral
A Lawful Neutral character is somewhat like Lawful Good ones, they strongly believe in laws, order and their own personal honor codes. A Lawful Neutral soldier would follow their superior’s orders even they don’t like them. Aang from TLA is somewhat of an example, these characters may have morals and kind intentions. But Aang strongly stood by the rules and traditions the Air Nomads taught him. That all life was sacred and violence should never be used unless it’s in self defense. He wanted to enforce order as the Avatar and never wanted any extremes in his life and struggled with them throughout the series. Lawful Neutral characters would value their honor codes and laws above what’s right or wrong.

True Neutral
A True Neutral character is someone who doesn’t care about being good and cannot be bothered to do evil. They’d care about their own survival and goals and follow instinct, rather than laws and conscious. Guru Pathik is possibly the only True Neutral character, not showing any favor for good/evil and chaos/order. A True Neutral alignment is nearly impossible to maintain and quite hard to pull off for a character.

Chaotic Neutral
A Chaotic Neutral Character is someone who is strictly interested in their own goals, desires and especially the freedom of themselves and sometimes that of others. These character typically hate working for people/following rules and would only work with people who have similar goals as them. Chaotic Neutral characters do not care about good or evil and can be somewhat selfish when it comes to what they want. Such as Mai from TLA, she was more interested in fighting boredom and (later on) protecting the people she cared about. Not obsessed with being a charity case (Katara) or being a tyrannical ruler (Ozai) It’s clear she didn’t care too much about the conflict that surrounded her and cared about her desires instead.

Lawful Evil
A Lawful Evil character would have positive and negative traits. They’d follow their superiors and keep their word, but would also not care about the safety and well being of others. These characters would abuse laws to their own benefit and have no issues following orders that force them to kill or harm others and could possibly enjoy it. Lawful Evil character would also be corrupt officials and authority figures. Fire Lord Ozai hardly cared about anyone’s happiness, even to the point where he burned and banished his own son. Only pretending to love him again when he basically agreed to be his pawn. Ozai used his power to try and satisfy his lust for world conquest, sacrificing countless soldiers and brainwashing his people to do it.

Neutral Evil
A Neutral Evil character is someone incredibly selfish and manipulative, having no issues with betraying allies and using/expending them for their own desires. They have no problem with hurting people to get what they want. but aren’t restricted by rules/personal codes or a lust for violence and destruction. So they could be considered more dangerous than Lawful Evil or Chaotic Evil characters.

Chaotic Evil
Chaotic Evil characters are people with no respect for rules and do not care about other people at all. Only willing to work in groups if their either completely in charge, manipulated by fear or have something to gain. Chaotic Evil characters could most likely be serial killers, enjoying the thrill of taking lives and causing chaos. They’d see things such as kindness and honor as weaknesses.

Final Summary
Figuring out your character’s initial alignment and changing through rp can take you on a wonderful adventure. Roleplaying a man’s descent into madness or a criminal’s quest for redemption. Some obvious rules for alignments would be they’d have to make sense of course, a lawfully good character would most likely never use an illegal bending art and a chaotic evil character has an incredibly small chance of protecting someone else. That is all fellow Republicites, happy roleplaying!