Characters and Themes From My Story Wars LARP App

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[this post will be crossposted to tumblr, I have no idea if I've formatted properly, LJ is strange]
I apped the following seven characters for Story Wars
three people with very similar names, by weird coincidence:

• Mel, from Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• Maladict, from Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
• Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly

two noblemen with family problems:

• Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation from Avatar: the Last Airbender
• Faramir of Gondor from Lord of the Rings

two potential people of mass destruction:

• Numair Salmalin from the Tortall books by Tamora Pierce
• Sollux Captor from Homestuck

I put the following in the "other stuff you'd like to tell us" section:
You may have noticed a set of narrative themes these characters have in common. These are some themes that interest me and that I'd like to explore.

• horrible empires doing horrible things to people, or trying to (Numair, Zuko, Sollux)
• struggling with belonging and identity (Faramir, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• transformation and modification of the self (Mel, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• use of language, technology, and information (Mel, Faramir, Numair, Maladict, Sollux)
• deep and abiding fondness for people who aren't terrible (Mel, Faramir, Mal, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• conviction that most people are terrible (Mal, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• conviction that most authorities are especially terrible (Mel, Mal, Numair)
• becoming an authority oneself because the alternatives are worse (Faramir, Mal, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)