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PLAYER
NAME: Sailor G
CONTACT: sailorgundam06, Discord: sailorgundam, journal PM
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CHARACTER
NAME: Keith
CANON: Voltron: Legendary Defender
CANON POINT: Series end
BACKGROUND: General Voltron wiki, Legendary Defender specific wiki
SUITABILITY: Even at the series end, Keith still has the ability to grow further as a character. His social skills will likely always be developing in some sense, as he's generally not great with other people. One of the things about tossing Keith into a game as a lone canon warrior is that it forces him to open up and have to bond with other characters from other canons. He's very easy to settle into interacting with only people he already knows, and pushing him outside his comfort zone is something I truly enjoy doing. As for this game in particular, the transformational element of him becoming a Pokémon will also challenge him. Keith is very secure in his physicality. He's naturally very agile and durable, able to push well beyond his own limits through sheer stubbornness and determination. Learning how to function in a different body will be something he's likely to struggle with and have to adapt to. Keith can get frustrated when things don't work the way he thinks they should or the way he expects them to, and this is something I'd really like to play with.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

⟡ Your character is on an exploration quest when they find an injured Pokemon in need of help. This Pokemon appears to be in distress and is quite dangerous, posing a risk to your character even if they mean well, and putting your quest mission at risk. What do they do? What are some possibilities of how they work with teammates to address this, or do they go at it alone?

Keith tends to go it alone on the regular, so he's likely to already be on the quest by himself if it's early in his game development. He understands and believes in the value of teamwork, along with having learned his lessons about taking individual risks in canon, but he's still someone who will take on individual activities if he doesn't have a team of people he can trust. However, Keith puts the well-being of people above a mission, something that didn't gel effectively with the team for him when he was part of the Blade of Marmora, a rebel group fighting the Galra empire. The Blades believe in the mission above all else, and Keith values the lives of others, especially his teammates. In this situation, he'd likely take lead if he does have others with him, being willing to potentially sacrifice himself to protect anyone with him, but also having a genuine desire to help the injured party. That said, if this is a Pokémon that is an enemy, injured or not, he will defend himself if he's attacked. Keith has been shown, however, to use fighting as a way to subdue an enemy and potentially get them to switch sides later in canon, whether it's through the respect of fighting each other well, or through getting them to see the error in their ways... not that he isn't afraid to fully defeat them and take them out of the picture if he has to.

⟡ Your character's worst enemy has recently appeared in game, and has joined the guild your character is part of. They both want to tackle the same quest, and your character's enemy suggests that they work together as a team to accomplish this goal. How does your character respond to this?

Keith isn't afraid to work with a potential enemy who has a common goal. This is something he developed as he matured, as we see Keith initially resisting the idea of doing exactly that in earlier canon. When Keith initially becomes aware of Lotor, Zarkon's son, he's very much against any potential alliances, and we see him rail strongly against Lotor becoming the next Galra Emperor, despite Lotor making a deal with Voltron (he was right to be against it in the end, but he doesn't rub it in). However, later in canon, we see Keith actually working to bring former enemies to his side in a multi-sided conflict in a very "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" type of mentality. He still battles one of them, but he's able to reason with the person during the fight, and get them to see his side. He would be wary at first, especially if they're both still enemies back home, but Keith certainly is able to see the benefits of combining forces towards a shared outcome.

⟡ The leader of your character's guild has just approached your character with an offer: they will provide your character with extra supplies, reputation points, and help them with any of their current struggles. In exchange, they ask for your character to do a favor for them that may harm the other guilds, and will not specify what the favor is in advance. It sounds shady, but it's the deal of a lifetime in your character's path to get back home, and refusing it may cause strife for your character within their current guild. What do they think of this offer? What do they ultimately decide to do?

Keith honestly does not care about reputation. While the supplies and help are tempting, Keith isn't a person to compromise his morals for the sake of reputation. He's seen others do it, and has been hurt by those who work that way. The former admiral of the Galaxy Garrison (Earth's space force that Keith had been recruited into and subsequently kicked out of pre-canon) had turned Keith and the other Paladins of Voltron over to the Galra Warlord, Sendak, and his armies while they had Earth under siege, thinking that she could save the Earth by turning them over. He was angry when he realized they'd been betrayed. However, when the admiral realized her mistake, Keith did feel bad that she'd been double-crossed and tricked as well. While he's learned not to hold grudges after a person learns their lesson, the initial betrayal had left him angry and resentful. In his mind, if someone's willing to offer him a deal like this, who says that they won't do it with someone else behind his back as a way to harm him and reneg on their promise? Keith's trust is hard to earn in the first place, as is his respect for leadership. Making deals like this is no way to win points from Keith. As for potential strife, he spent a long time being looked at as a troublemaker. He's used to being blamed and treated as a problem child, even if he didn't start it. He still has moments where he just accepts that reputation because he doesn't expect others to really care about the truth.

⟡ Due to shortages on supplies, the city is facing issues deciding where to cut corners during this rough time. Somehow, the responsibility has fallen on your character's shoulders, and they have to make a decision. If they send out an extra team of Pokemon, they will be able to gather more food, and through that, save the lives of dozens of starving Pokemon that were in dire need of nutrition. However, the only Pokemon available to scout for food are those working at the pokeclinic, and sending them out would mean certain death for at least two ill patients. What does your character decide to do? How do they feel about this choice, and how would they deal with the pushback that comes from either side?

This is the exact type of decision that would toss Keith into a legit moral crisis. However, in the end, his very much a "needs of the many" type of person, and I think he'd lean towards sending the team out to gather. He's also the type to go with said team and do the gathering himself. He might even consider going out by himself to gather so that the needed people could handle the patients instead. There's also the option of how big the team is, and how many are truly needed at the clinic. Can he split the team and send some of them to gather while leaving a bare minimum at the clinic to make sure there's at least some continuous care? Keith would definitely consider all sides of the issue, but ultimately trust his instincts and pick the option that saves the most people.

POKEMON: Litten (would be awesome if he could be shiny because the colors match his Paladin armor, but either works because he's both the Red and Black Paladins at different points in canon) - Through most of canon, Keith's elemental affiliation is Fire. He's shown to be hotheaded and impulsive, following his instincts more than following orders or working within a team structure. He levels out later in canon, but never fully loses that intensity and determination that marks who he is as a person. He's often considered "temperamental" (hence the journal name), and diving into a thesaurus leaves me with having him end up with a "hasty" nature.
GUILD OPT-OUT: Lum... Keith is definitely more into actual action then books. He'd also severely clash with the more selfish of that guild's philosophies. He'd probably do the best in Oran, but he could handle Cheri, too.
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