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#PennedPossibilities 595 — How does your SC feel about your MC’s temper or lack thereof?

This MC is the DJ I've mentioned a few times. After a demon gets unsealed, she is the only one to bow and swear fealty to a world-ending evil that gets sealed away hours later. The MC was 15. All she ended up doing was stopping a stampede by standing in the flow and glaring. Nobody learns her affiliation, that she's actually evil—her opinion; nobody would agree if asked.

Everybody knows in the face of danger to others, she's forgotten how to fear. You don't get knighted by a demon and not lose something.

A succession of SCs know her flaw. They don't want her outrage to flare into anger. They don't want to see her throw herself selflessly into fights when monsters appear—playing chicken with a creature that rewrites reality, trying to get a giant to trip and fall off a cliff, saving children from an invasion of slavers... Other than her lack of fear, she's just a DJ. Her true heroism has nothing to do with the situations she ends up fighting through most of her stories, or the damage she takes. The SCs to a one try to talk her down, and feel bad as her scars, physical and mental, accumulate.

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