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dysfunctionsPlayer: Kae/Pammu
DW:thedovetailor
AIM: Dogberryism
The quiet, incredibly brilliant, dangerously sharp and quite positively insane genius Meister/Scythe Technician of Shibusen. To say that Stein’s crazy is putting it way too lightly. There’s insanity, and then there’s Insanity. Stein’s the latter and then some. The crux of it, however, lies in the fact that he’s a genius, capable of absorbing information from his surroundings at a phenomenal rate, observing everything down to the most minute detail and making connections that few would be able to draw after just a cursory glance and one or two pointed questions. A man like that would naturally seek out an order to things, and would, by extension, greatly value control in all things, most especially himself. On the other hand, however, it could also mean that he’s simply too intelligent for his own good.
It’s that balance between an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a need to stay in control that defines Stein for us in canon. When logic is everything and desire is high, morals become useless constructs, ethics turn into matters of semantics and emotions are rendered remote, inaccessible. If Shibusen had not found him early on and partnered him up with Spirit Albarn, I’ve little doubt that Stein would be one of those crazy serial killers lurking around in the background of things, performing bizarre experiments on anyone he can get his hands on, be it human, kishin egg or witch. His time at the school managed to humanize him, to an extent – it wasn’t perfect, and could not completely penetrate to the core of his being, but it at least kept him from going completely over the edge… for a while, anyway.
One of the recurring problems that Stein’s character has had in Soul Campaign is his constant slips back into insanity. I plan on incorporating this in how I’ll handle him, picking up from the fact that V – the last Stein player that we had – emphasized the fact that he was doing better. Should I be allowed to NPC him, I plan on explaining his sudden absence as another bout of insanity that he managed to weather on his own: a significant change from the usual, which usually involved Stein going ballistic and Spirit or one of the other strong NPCs in the group locking him up somewhere before he could harm anyone. I do plan on having him work through more of his issues, insanity included, throughout the course of the game.
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thedovetailorAIM: Dogberryism
The quiet, incredibly brilliant, dangerously sharp and quite positively insane genius Meister/Scythe Technician of Shibusen. To say that Stein’s crazy is putting it way too lightly. There’s insanity, and then there’s Insanity. Stein’s the latter and then some. The crux of it, however, lies in the fact that he’s a genius, capable of absorbing information from his surroundings at a phenomenal rate, observing everything down to the most minute detail and making connections that few would be able to draw after just a cursory glance and one or two pointed questions. A man like that would naturally seek out an order to things, and would, by extension, greatly value control in all things, most especially himself. On the other hand, however, it could also mean that he’s simply too intelligent for his own good.
It’s that balance between an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a need to stay in control that defines Stein for us in canon. When logic is everything and desire is high, morals become useless constructs, ethics turn into matters of semantics and emotions are rendered remote, inaccessible. If Shibusen had not found him early on and partnered him up with Spirit Albarn, I’ve little doubt that Stein would be one of those crazy serial killers lurking around in the background of things, performing bizarre experiments on anyone he can get his hands on, be it human, kishin egg or witch. His time at the school managed to humanize him, to an extent – it wasn’t perfect, and could not completely penetrate to the core of his being, but it at least kept him from going completely over the edge… for a while, anyway.
One of the recurring problems that Stein’s character has had in Soul Campaign is his constant slips back into insanity. I plan on incorporating this in how I’ll handle him, picking up from the fact that V – the last Stein player that we had – emphasized the fact that he was doing better. Should I be allowed to NPC him, I plan on explaining his sudden absence as another bout of insanity that he managed to weather on his own: a significant change from the usual, which usually involved Stein going ballistic and Spirit or one of the other strong NPCs in the group locking him up somewhere before he could harm anyone. I do plan on having him work through more of his issues, insanity included, throughout the course of the game.
