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Bluelantern wrote:I actually noticed that, albeit, Fossil seems to be sort of "burned out" in that aspect? because of the wonders of New-Kystle Nobility.

She's a smidge burned out, but also her Adarin ejected himself from her inner circle, so that doesn't endear him to her very much.

Bluelantern wrote:To the practice! But really, love your character building specially the bad-good traits balacing :)

Thank you! ^_^

As you may have noticed from the massive freaking post of me categorizing people, I really like this system and this blog! And now people are talking about it! Yay!

Also, Marri, I'd be interested in the breakdown for Emma. She doesn't particularly give off Hufflepuff to me.

Haha okay so Emmas breakdown! (Yay <3)

Emmas are pretty firmly Loyalist. It's part of why they are so easy to convince about things, related to how they are a people-pleaser / doormat sometimes, and also kind of why she didn't want to become a Watcher. She knows if she gets attached enough, if push comes to shove, she might make the attachment-choice and not the Objectively Best choice. (Also why she offered to help Juliet with Slayer things despite everything).

Constructed/Felt is a weird choice for an Emma, because they base a lot of their morals on other people's opinions. So probably they're closer to Constructed, but a Slytherin worldview just... doesn't really work on an Emma. They're not particularly selfish, they can be impressively bad at the self-value and self-worth thing, and they would definitely feel bad if they put themselves before... anything, really. Emmas are just too bad at valuing themselves to be Slytherins, is what it comes down to. So, Hufflepuff. There's this thing in the Tumblr descriptions saying that if, despite everything, a Slytherin has to drop whatever construct of morality they work with to help a friend, they'll do it and not feel like that's a failing. An Emma will also do it, but will feel guilty. This is why, when she realizes she'd be prone to this kind of priority weighting, she avoids Watching; she might make choose the Slayer over the World because she got attached, and she thinks that's wrong.

Secondary was easier. Emmas tend to pick small, localized problems, and learn how to fix them and work hard at them. The large scale, long term projects are less their style, because they need to see the effect they're having, and feel some connection with the people they're working with. It's sort of a drawback of their empathy; they are less effective at helping people because they want to help people. They aren't leaders, they don't rely on their Learnings to solve their problems, they don't try to game their way out of problems. They just- learn what they need to, sit down and work at it xD

EDIT: to expand on Constructed/Felt

Man, I'm glad you guys are having fun, but this system doesn't make a lot of sense to me so I'm not going to be able to provide direct Word of God on any greens' sortings. I know what to do with them in single-pass sorting (e.g. Bells are intensely Slytherin unless they bully the hat but will perform flawlessly as Ravenclaws if the hat is thusly bullied). Something about the doubled-up thing with all its epicycles doesn't click for me.

Alicorn wrote:Man, I'm glad you guys are having fun, but this system doesn't make a lot of sense to me so I'm not going to be able to provide direct Word of God on any greens' sortings. I know what to do with them in single-pass sorting (e.g. Bells are intensely Slytherin unless they bully the hat but will perform flawlessly as Ravenclaws if the hat is thusly bullied). Something about the doubled-up thing with all its epicycles doesn't click for me.

I agree that the epicycles are a little weird, and they do give it a bit of an uncanny valley of specificity, where Rowling houses were vague enough to not feel weird when they got a bit forced, and something like Myers-Briggs has enough types to match most people (or at least put you on a borderline and tell you approximately what that means), where this is not complex enough to handle the box-for-everyone but really wants to anyway, and when it falls down it looks really awkward doing it. I think I like this system specifically largely because some of their specific two-house descriptions fit me and people I know extremely well, complete with unnecessary details.

(Also, Bells are really hard to categorize here, because they seem to have two fully-developed natural skillsets and their goal structure is exceedingly odd for a human.)

I think that (under this system), Bells should ultimately be Ravenclaw primaries.

They don't quite fit the Slytherin description of self-care, "ruthlessness" and putting people over ideals and they seem too driven by the Ravenclaw principles to be their secondary house. That said, the Slytherin traits are there, I just don't think they are the core.