I think it would behoove a lot of people to read this quote irt Astarion's character made by Neil Newbon himself.
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3s-astarion-neil-newbon-on-acting-the-truth-of-trauma-as-a-survivor-theres-a-lot-of-stuff-that-came-very-close-to-home/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com
"You have to play every reality, you have to play every side of him."
It's just.... baffling to act like people who get ANY of the 'bad' endings are like bad people for doing so. These endings aren't added just to be some "teehee isn't this so messed up *wink wink*" kind of thing. They were put in with reason, they were included with intention. All the endings a character can get are explorations Of that character. Both how these characters can make a better life for themselves, or how they can fall to the worst outcome. All of these endings are "realities" the character can end up at depending on how their life goes. Astarion's ascension, Gale either dying or becoming power hungry, Shadowheart becoming a Dark Justiciar. ALL of these were added with the reason to let you play the game and see how vastly different their lives can turn out.
Ultimately, Baldur's Gate 3 is an *RPG*. A Role-playing game, one that's based on DND. Having "good" and "evil" choices is literally one of the largest aspects of DND and the Baldur’s Gate series. DND literally CREATED the Good/Neutral/Evil - Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic axis, all with the intention of both characters in universe, and player's own created characters to be able to explore ANY of the four corners. All of these choices, routes, and endings exist both as a result of the exploration of how their life could be affected by support/lack of it, as well as how they could potentially shift across the alignment chart due to their development. Because ultimately development doesn't automatically mean "person becomes a better person and achieves the ending they deserve", both in real life and in the game it can just as easily come to "person ends up arriving to the worst possible outcome they could have possibly had."
Ultimately I have to say as well, if people are bad for even exploring these routes to see how the development takes place, then by this logic you must know that you're also essentially stating that the developers are also horrible for ever including these options into the game from the first place, right?
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WSBH chara q’s: (you don’t have to answer all the numbers, just whatever you want to 𖢘)
16/35/51 for Scotch
1/6/55 for Atlas
I LOVE YOU
16. What kinds of people do they have arguments with in their head?
okay i truly think scotch argues with seraph in his head all the time. ALL the time. scotch largely ignores them, and vice versa, because he dislikes them and they know it. seraph is very conflict avoidant lol, and as long as hes not a "threat" they dont care to talk to him about their problems. he probably argues with atlas and jacob (his older brother) too, atlas about more stupid small stuff, and jacob about childhood and life stuff :p
im trying to think of more general groups he would argue with but i cant come up with anything BAHAH. hes not exactly conflict avoidant in the annoying libra way that seraph is, he more just ignores conflict for his friends’ (mostly atlas’) sake. idk if that makes sense LOL
35. What is the smallest, morally questionable choice they’ve made?
hmmm.. smallest? i mean scotch strings eloise along for most of the time pre timeskip. its not a main focus but its definitely important in order to understand scotch as a whole. she and scotch go out for a while, and mid way through that he realizes hes GAY gay. lol. and obviously lying to her about that is pretty questionable after a while. especially since he and atlas have been 👉👌 like the whole time. but she kind of knows. well
something a little bigger would be him encouraging or otherwise turning a blind eye to all the weird stuff atlas is up to. he doesn't know what it's like to be a werewolf, he can't say anything, right? lol.... murder is okay if its a talking dog doing it. scotch enabler supreme. actually when seraph is introduced, he and atlas have a 'joke' (kind of starts being real) about luring seraph somewhere to kill them. obviously doesnt happen and gets abandoned. but i think its important to know about their dynamic LOL
51. What’s a phrase they say a lot?
this guy is kind of goofy. i cant think of phrases rn but he has a specific way of speaking.. you could watch pretty much any old pop punk band interview and kind of get the idea. HAHAH
1. What’s the lie your character says most often?
atlas is a big fan of saying 'its fine' for all situations ever. family in mortal danger? its fine. completely splitting? its fine. arthritis excruciating? its fine. hes one of those people that dont like to deal with the fawning of others unless hes feeling real special. Ends up putting people in more danger a lot of the time. i think eloise is the only fan of communication in this friend group to be honest. i should have made her the main character
he tends to make promises he cant keep as well, but thats more general..
6. What’s their favorite [insert anything] that they’ve never recommended to anyone before?
i have NO idea. i feel like atlas would be a music snob, so maybe his favorite 'super underground' bands. otherwise he'd probably never recommend raw human meat to another human (no matter how much scotch asks -__-).. (he would chicken out anyway)
55. What’s something they’re expected to enjoy based on their hobbies / profession that they actually dislike / hate?
um. so atlas hates working out. he especially hates running, you know, the thing that wolves are known for doing a lot of? unfortunately the lycanthropy came with a side effect of pretty bad arthritis, so that doesnt exactly encourage him. he DOES exercise, a lot since hes pretty much required for his ermm "side job", but he hates it 😸 besides the arthritis it’s mostly because I think it’s silly that he hates it. yay
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My name is Ariel. I'm the first ever person to be recognised to have a PDA profile (of autism) without autism. And I've realised recently how much the random stuff I do on here, is what I want to be doing for the rest of my life.
So much of my existence has been spent masking, hiding who I really am. And how could I not? When there is no representation of a neurotype anything like mine. When there is no category for it in people's heads either, and so the way they perceive me--and I see it in the way they communicate with me, in their language and behaviour--tends to be a facet, a side, a view of the real me that never shows the whole picture. It's exhausting, never really being known. Existing in fragments of myself to accommodate for people who genuinely do want to know me, but I don't have the language to explain the extent of who I am to them and as a result, the first thing they see becomes everything, in their mind. After that's happened it's hard to explain how it's always not been the case. How I didn't mean to deceive them. I didn't ask to be this way.
I relate to late-diagnosed autistics in this, the confusion of people around them as they unmask. But they often will say they get to fully be themselves in autistic spaces. I don't experience that relief. I feel the kinship of being neurodivergent, and I share the experience of hyperfixations and overload in the ways they present for me. But it's like communicating with neurotypicals, only different. I don't feel a sense of home. I'm like you in some ways. In other ways, not so much. Just different ways. And it's exhausting living in fragments. But this weird partial dual citizenship has superfinetuned my communication skills. My empathy. My ability to understand brains and experiences which are wildly different--and when I'm taking in all of this information all of the time, feeling all this empathy, shifting gears in my brain for every neurotype of every person I lose myself in the experiences of a little--it gets overwhelming. I get overloaded, yes, from the volume of it, and I wish I could relate to empaths more on these things, that I didn't have to expose myself to problematic takes to try. But I also see patterns and trends. I'm hyperaware of authority structures and power and hierarchies as a PDAer. And so some of these patterns concern me. But who can I debrief what I'm seeing, what I'm exposed to every day I interact with people (and I always am interacting with people) with? No one sees it from the vantage point I do. And it's exhausting to have to explain it.
But a silver lining, I guess, is the sense of purpose it brings. The sense that maybe little by little, I can be a part of putting some of the things I see right. There are many areas I'm passionate about, and I talk a lot about them on this blog. It's good to have the outlet. There are many ways of addressing them that I can see, and imagine playing out from my unique perspective, predict how every stakeholder will interact with them. See whether they work, or it's time to return to the drawing board. I'm a PDAer, I'm a natural problem solver. And every effort I make takes a weight off my chest. I'm processing things and doing what I can for them. I can rest knowing I've done my part. I'm not ignoring the injustice, the elephant in the room or in my vision, the thing that when I'm involved with gives me sensory overload (or the closest thing to it) and I'm so empathetic to the people involved with at all times, I can get overloaded from feeling how it must be for them.
I have to look after myself. Manage my energy. But it's hard, because the accounting formulas we're given don't work for me. Even common profiles of neurodivergence--I'm energised by novelty. By connection. By creativity, not by routine. I need each of the carefully constructed tasks in my routine to regulate me in order to be able to do the next, which will regulate me for the next and so on. It's a hard system to put together. I don't know anyone else who has to do the same. And I know a lot of people.
I think my neurotype only assists me with my biggest form of art, the main thing I want to do with my life. I like to joke that every urban planner/designer who graduated from my high school is a PDAer. I don't have a large sample space for that observation. But I'm usually right. We see the big picture. We care about justice and we're good at finding it among fake claims of it. We're natural problem solvers. We're empathetic artists. We're practical at our core. We hyperfocus. And perhaps most of all, we're communicators.
I've heard the main thing an urban designer is is a communicator. No wonder. I shuffle through information and perspectives like a deck of cards I'm trying to sort by colour, number, and shape. I match up people's opposing perspectives and I unpack their fears in front of me. And then I draw. I write. I compose melodies--anything to get this constant stream of ideas out of me and doing something productive. So of course I'm going to be standing up against power abuses in religion, unpacking every way this infiltrates into our lives and all of its impacts. Of course I'm going to dissect colonialism and present ways we can do better. Face and push through the fear that has us trying to lord over others without realising. Of course I'm going to reach out to anyone even vaguely like me that they might not have to be alone in it. I might not have to be alone in it as well. And of course I'm going to understand them perfectly.
Is it a skill? Sure. Is it a neurotype? Absolutely. It's myself, the 'me' I never understood how to be until I understood everyone else. Is it a disability? It disrupts any ability I have to do anything else I or anyone else might want me to do with my days. It tires me out. It overloads me in ways there aren't really any normalised ways to explain and I can't say no to it when I feel compelled to do something. It impacts my mental health. It limits me. But it's who I am. Why would I want to try to be anything else?
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A small collection
I do still intend to keep writing the other more detailed How to spot guides for each MBTI type individually, but in the meantime, I collected some interviews with several people of each type that you can click through and maybe it helps you see the similarities not just of the people of the same type, but also based on the high functions that they share. I also tried to not exclusively use native English speakers because I’m personally a bit fed up with the anglocentrism of this site and the internet in general (though of course I’m also constrained in my choices here that I can only use people that I know of, which are mostly European), but if I could find some, I included interviews of them speaking both English and their native language. Even if you don’t understand that language, I still recommend looking into those interviews. Not understanding what someone is saying can sometimes actually help focussing on their body language itself.
INTJ:
Margaret Atwood (writer)
Joyce Carol Oates (writer)
David Fincher (director)
Michael Emerson (actor)
Tom Rachman (writer & journalist)
Patrick Salmen (writer, interview is in German)
Martin Sonneborn (satirist, journalist & politician, interview is in German)
ENTJ:
Katie McGrath (actress)
Keira Knightley (actress)
Nicholas Hoult (actor)
Anthony Head (actor)
Elijah Wood (actor)
Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
Tamsin Greig (actress)
Markus Zusak (writer)
Zach Woods (actor, comedian & director)
Malala Yousafzai (education activist)
INTP:
Harald Lesch (physicist, astronomer & science journalist, interview is in German)
Axel Milberg (actor & writer, interview is in German)
Peter Capaldi (actor)
Jane Goodall (primatologist & anthropologist)
Neil Gaiman (writer)
R.H. Thomson (actor)
Rooney Mara (actress)
Matthias Brandt (actor & writer, interview is in German)
Kai Meyer (writer, interview is in German)
ENTP:
David Tennant & Matt Smith (actors)
Hugh Grant (actor)
Tilda Swinton (actress)
Saoirse Ronan (actress)
Eddie Redmayne (actor)
David Mitchell (writer)
Bill Nighy (actor)
Florence Welch (musician)
Louisa Harland (actress)
Richard Ayoade (comedian, writer, director & actor)
INFJ:
Colin Morgan (actor)
Freddie Highmore (actor)
Barkhad Abdi (actor)
James Phelps (actor, since he’s with his twin: he’s the one on the right)
Ewen Bremner (actor)
Amy Acker (actress)
Rohinton Mistry (writer)
Audrey Magee (writer)
Jenny Erpenbeck (writer, interview is in German)
ENFJ:
Emma Thompson (actress & screenwriter)
Wes Anderson (director & writer)
Ulrich Wickert (journalist & writer, interview is in German)
Marshall Curry (director)
Eleanor Catton (writer)
Alissa York (writer)
INFP:
Kristen Stewart (actress)
Hozier (musician)
Rupert Grint (actor)
Asa Butterfield (actor)
Eddie Marsan (actor)
Helen Oyeyemi (writer)
Christopher Annen (musician, interview is in German)
ENFP:
Andrew Garfield (actor)
Dev Patel (actor)
Katherine Parkinson (actress, plus her being a prime example of intuitives barely knowing how to survive)
Michael Sheen (actor)
Jan Philipp Zymny (writer & comedian, interview is in German)
Chris Columbus (director)
Maggie Stiefvater (writer)
Lisa McGee (screenwriter & playwright)
Lars Eidinger (actor, interview is in German)
Hannah Herzsprung (actress, interview is in German)
ISTJ:
Felicity Jones (actress)
Lindsay Duncan (actress)
Famke Janssen (actress, plus an interview in her native Dutch)
Maggie Smith (actress)
Britt Robertson (actress)
Elizabeth Nunez (writer & professor)
Ken Follett (writer)
Vicky Krieps (actress, plus an interview in her native Luxembourgish with subtitles available, and in German and in French)
ESTJ:
Eliza Taylor (actress)
Letitia Wright (actress)
Charles Dance (actor)
Matt Damon (actor & screenwriter)
Sandra Bullock (actress)
Henry Cavill (actor)
Alba August (actress & musician, plus an interview in her native Swedish and Danish)
Alicia Vikander (actress, plus an interview in her native Swedish with subtitles available)
ISFJ:
Gemma Chan (actress & model)
Laura Dern (actress)
Crystal Reed (actress)
Natalia Dyer (actress)
Arthur Darvill (actor)
Jordan Rodrigues (actor & dancer)
ESFJ:
Olivia Colman & Helena Bonham Carter (actresses)
Lupita Nyong’o (actress)
Bradley James (actor)
Scott Moir (figure skater)
John Krasinski (actor, director & screenwriter)
Carey Mulligan (actress)
Emilia Clarke (actress)
Tom Hopper (actor)
Tomi Adeyemi (writer)
Hugh Jackman (actor)
ISTP:
Christoph Waltz (actor & director, plus an interview in his native German)
Harrison Ford & Ryan Gosling (actors)
Ruth Wilson (actress)
Björk (musician, plus an interview in her native Icelandic)
Devon Bostick (actor)
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (actor, plus an interview in his native Danish)
Evan Peters (actor)
Christopher Lloyd (actor)
Christian Bale (actor)
Peter Maffay (musician, interview is in German)
ESTP:
Zendaya (actress & musician)
Oscar Isaac (actor)
James Acaster (comedian)
Jodie Comer (actress)
Jördis Triebel (actress, plus an interview in her native German with subtitles available)
Stromae (musician, plus an interview in his native French with subtitles available)
Sabaa Tahir (writer)
Tatiana Maslany (actress)
Emilio Sakraya (actor & musician, interview is in German)
Anya Taylor-Joy (actress, plus an interview in her native Spanish)
ISFP:
Santiago Cabrera (actor, plus an interview in his native Spanish)
Ben Howard (musician)
Tessa Virtue (figure skater)
Karen Gillan (actress)
Rachel McAdams (actress)
Gael García Bernal (actor, plus an interview in his native Spanish)
Audrey Tautou (actress, plus an interview in her native French)
Henning May (musician, interview is in German with subtitles available)
Jannis Niewöhner (actor, plus an interview in his native German)
Évelyne Brochu (actress, plus an interview in her native French)
ESFP:
Tom Holland (actor)
Maisie Williams (actress)
Billie Piper (actress)
Robert Sheehan (actor)
Margot Robbie (actress)
Jim Carrey (actor & comedian)
Omar Sy (actor, plus an interview in his native French)
Taika Waititi (director, actor, comedian & screenwriter)
Alexander Rybak (musician, plus an interview in his native Norwegian and Russian with subtitles available for both)
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