Guardian/Ward Pairings - Path to Redemption

[mourningstarmods]

For every Ward, there should be a Guardian. When a newcomer arrives on the ship, they are temporarily assigned if someone is available. Temporary assignments are decided by the mods, but the permanent, long-term pairings are requested by the players (and each player in the pair must agree).

It is the Guardian's duty to guide and even protect their Ward. They are the Ward's first advocate on this ship, so it is their job to establish clear and consistent rules with them as well as keep them informed and safe during ports. In each port, groups may have clear objectives assigned to them. Sometimes, these will directly challenge a Ward in ways they need to grow and change, so their Guardian and the information they can provide is doubly important. To pair your characters up, follow these simple steps:

1. Post requesting a Ward or Guardian in the comments below. Guardian players: Include information on your Guardian's style of leadership and how they tend to teach or guide. Make it clear the sorts of Wards they might work best with and the sorts that might challenge them the most. Ward players: Clearly and concisely explain the points that your character is there to work on. What do they need to face to become a better person? What are they not realizing? What is the best sort of person to help them along? What is the worst kind? How are they likely to behave?

A lot of this will come straight from your personality section. Feel free to use bullet points or anything else that you feel will help get the information across clearly.

2. Read through everyone else's posts and look for a compatible (or interesting!) match. You don't have to pick people that will fix your character the fastest, or vice versa. If it will make for an interesting plot dynamic, pick the ones that will rub each other the wrong way!

3. Agree together upon a pairing and end your thread with ATTN: MODS in the subject heading. Permanent pairs will be made on the 1st and 16th of every month.

Mods will only approve pairings of canonmates on a case by case basis. If your characters already have canon CR, they already have a dynamic. We encourage you to form new ones.

If you are on hiatus, you will not be paired.


TEMPORARY PAIRINGS

CURRENT PAIRINGS

Comments

Debra Mogan -Inmate

[fuckton]

Deb is essentially a story of what happens when a good person goes bad because of someone that they love.1. Deb needs to realize that she's not a terrible person for making her mistake. 2. That in choosing her brother, she was choosing love, despite what he was. 3. That she can't keep continuing to hide her emotions through whatever ways she can. (This is going to especially include drugs, alcohol, sex, and pills.) 4. That she is still capable of being an agent of justice.

Despite all of this, she loves her brother. Oh, she will say that she hates him, and she cuts him out of her life while she goes along on her bender, but while she blames him, she does love him. A part of her downfall is in part becoming like him, and she needs to find her way back to being herself. A good person who sees the world in gray rather than in just the shades of black and white that comes with it.

The best sort of warden would be someone who understands that she's got a lot of PTSD to deal with in addition to everything else, someone who's going to call her on her bullshit but who isn't going to see that some of her base traits aren't going to need to be fixed. (For example, someone trying to get her to stop swearing would be pointless.

Kitty Wilde-Warden

[habituallying]

"Bitch with a heart of gold" may accurately describe Kitty. She's not without empathy, she knows why people can sometimes be led to do bad things. She's been down that path many times herself, and she can use that knowledge to guide (or more likely manipulate) someone down a better path. Or, at least, the path that she thinks they need to be taking.

She is also not above using blackmail or psychological manipulation to get what she wants out of an inmate. It's unlikely that she'll allow many of the inmates to become too close to her, which will keep them at a respectable distance. Unless, of course, they somehow manage to get on her good side.

That's unlikely to happen.

Thom Rainier / Blackwall | Warden

[cognomen]

Thom is an idealist with a strict morality and view of how people should behave, particularly those in a position of authority. He thinks in terms of right and wrong and has a strong conscience. His wardening style would include trying to help his inmate understand that you have to do what's right, even if it's hard or unpleasant. He probably will include physical training with swords and shouting, and will put his inmate to work somewhere on the ship because he thinks everyone should pull their own weight.

He'd be a good warden for someone who wouldn't try to engage him in philosophical debate about morality: that would be too big of a hurdle for him to overcome, at least for his first inmate.

Marie Kreutz l The Bourne Series l Warden

[reluctantaccessory]

Marie is someone who shows a very dual nature and seems to view things as an outsider looking in. She is going to be initially wary of whoever is paired with her, but she's not going to be exactly (far from it - she is actually very nice, but also very temperamental) unfriendly or (entirely) unwilling to help them. She might also show a motherly side and take care of whoever she cares about when they are upset or hurt once she feels more comfortable with things.

But, she is going to be mistrusting of their intentions or of their actions and she will point it out if something doesn't seem quite right or she thinks they are up to something. However, she is doing to do her best to not getting overly attached to anyone, but at the same time be friendly and potentially gain some friends or even acquaintances she can go to when she needs help. Of course, she understands this kind of arrangement means she as a part to play herself. This is going to show in her style of wardening which is to do things as she sees fit depending on what's happening around her and how she is feeling about it. Obviously she is going to view her decisions as either "doing the right thing", "it's only fair", or "this is the best compromise I can think of right now."

She is going to be understanding of the stories of whoever she is paired with, even if she doesn't agree, because she has been someone who has repeatedly screwed up in her past and has been the person hurt by others often.

Marie would be a good fit for someone who doesn't mind a gentler hand (or may even be more prone to try behaving around those types), but she is pretty much someone willing to just let things happen as they do.