Seth Mission #9 - Get Rodney Drunk

[mzyra]

Following on from 'Grandparents', and referencing 'Childhood Memories' - Seth achieves half of a mission to unexpected results, and things are totally not awkward.
This is quite long and possibly sympathy-for-Rodney inducing, so: TL;DR: Seth's going to be a little less confrontational, a little more smugly knowledgable, and Rodney is going to be

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[amylu1988]

:D Well who would have though, Rodney has a past! Tooootally didn't think of him as having parents and a sister, but this explains a *lot*.

Wonderfully psychologised, and I just loved the whole thing.

Also love how protective Seth's being and his light musing of having to kill Rodney if he'd ended up with Mia. Oh, the parallel universes that could have been... Wow, that would have been strange!

Eee, just love these two, they do make me smile. :)

[mzyra]

I thought so - due to my over-analysis I could have linked why specific bits of his past affects his actions in the present better, but it's not so clear-cut to Rodney, so he couldn't say it like that. And, god help me, I can even explain why things weren't half as great as he thinks for his sister, and she's never even going to exist in the story! *sigh

[scribal_goddess]

You know these two are so adorable, and then I remember that they're meant to be the villians...

[mzyra]

Heh, well I think most everyone has a reason for acting the way they do and can justify things to themselves, even if they seem abhorrent to everyone else... :P
And of course who the antagonist in a story is is entirely dependent on who the protagonist is. Admittedly, there's not a whole lot of hope for Seth being a hero given what he's done, but if it weren't the Ryman family we're (supposed to be >.>) focused on...
Also, adorableness ftw! X)

[scribal_goddess]

Seth seems somewhat redeemable until I remember those multiple murders.
Rodney... well, on the one hand, he's less likable personally, and he's manipulative, but on the other hand he's not a murderer.
At least the characters remain people, even if they are probably due for another prison sentence.

[mzyra]

Ah, but you should never declare somebody irredeemable, or it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Seth hadn't been disowned by his family after he got caught (and felt/known that he was pretty much morally screwed forever), he might have been prevented from killing anybody else...! Of course, he can't take back what he did to those people, but you have to allow people a little recourse to at least be better than they were. Well, hypothetically at least.

And that's the funny thing about Seth and Rodney - if you're going to hate one of them, logically it should be Seth far more than Rodney, and yet...!

Well, logically nearly all characters should remain people. Unless people have literally gone crazy their actions probably at least make some kind of sense to them :P

And yeah... another prison sentence... (or two *shifty*) But that's for another time! :D

[scribal_goddess]

I saw those shifty eyes, Jess. :)

Eh, I guess that's why I'm liking Seth so much. He is seeming to be a little bit better than he was (Though, of course, all we knew about him before was the multiple murders thing...) he almost seems like a different character now.

[mzyra]

... What shifty eyes...? *shifty*

*nodnod* In a way I wish I could redo generation 2's growing up because there were some awesome characters in there that you hardly got to see because they were so much older than the actual heirs and spares, and Seth's character might have seemed more consistent - he was always a bit of a troublemaker and an attention-whore, but he was also always quite a family-person (towards those who fit his idea of his family at least - he never got on with his youngest sister because she was too 'wussy', in the same way that he didn't get on with Winston because he wasn't sociable and everything as Seth prefers), and so, when he tried to steal the heirship, it was for his family as well as just himself. And once he considered the whole legacy thing dealt with, he could go back to being his (relatively) nicer, more normal self. If it hadn't been for the simselves giving away the legacy thing, he probably would have just been a normal guy (albeit still a bit of a jerk sometimes :P).