About Asher

Asher

Personality

Asher is a Mary Sue. He is ambitious, intelligent, athletic, courageous, charismatic, extroverted, and extremely good-looking. He typically has any other traits that are notably high-status in his society (e.g. noble birth, wealth, phenomenal magical ability, superpowers, skill at poetry). Being a Mary Sue has left him unable to understand the problems of mere mortals. He is prone to responding to other people's anxieties and insecurities with "well, you're great, so I don't know why you're insecure, you could just... not be?"

Ashers are typically "bad boys" who break the rules of their societies: for example, they tend to be rather sexually promiscuous, often take drugs, and are often atheists in societies where this is forbidden. Ashers have a flair for the dramatic. Ashers care deeply about their loved ones. They typically become loyal to something early in life: Ashers are most likely to be loyal to their country if they consider it worthy of their loyalty, but many wind up loyal to an organization or a specific person. Ashers tend to be ruthless and have no problem harming any number of people to keep their loved ones and the objects of their affection safe.  

 

Name Attractors

"Asher Kane" for Earth instances. Non-Earth instances generally have the syllables "Ash" or "Sher." 

 

Attractors

• Constantly walk around on their hands, perform backflips, and jump off trees. 
• Extremely clean. Their houses are pristine and their desks usually have a single pencil and piece of paper (or laptop) on them.  
• As young adults, work in some kind of physical field.
  • Ashers dance if at all possible.
  • If their loyalty to an institution demands it, they take some sort of military or law enforcement role, usually the most dangerous and life-threatening role.
• Once they age out of their physical field, typically become economists or some other form of social scientist.
  • In some cases, they may wind up involved in politics. 
• Die relatively young. Typically, Ashers die around the age of fifty; however, Ashers with relatively life-threatening lifestyles can die as early as their twenties. 
• Good at math. 

Clusters

Some Ashers can get pretty far from the primary model, depending on life circumstances.  

The clusters are:

• Evil cluster: Vampires or other Ashers who were exposed to mind control which turns them evil. The best example is in spend my days locked in a haze [explicit; please mind the warnings]. 
• Good cluster: Ashers who were exposed to a trauma which caused them to lose their sense of loyalty to their institution or country. These Ashers tend to shift their loyalty to all sapient beings as a whole. They are the only group of Ashers who experiences mental illness.  
• Aimless cluster: Ashers who never found anyone or anything to be loyal to. They feel a general sense of emptiness until they find their loved ones. They attempt to fill the void with Being Awesome and this does not work very well. 

Associated Characters

Imperials, by westwind:

• Lev: The love of his life. Ashers and Levs bond over a shared interest in social science; they wind up intellectual collaborators and passionately in love. Typically wind up divorcing in middle age due to Ashers' inability to cope with Levs' anxiety in a remotely productive way; this fate can be averted with mediation from a malachite (see below). 
• Ben: Ashers will generally consider themselves personally loyal to the local Ben. They tend to conceive of themselves as Ben's dirty trick specialist, the person who is willing to get his hands dirty and do the things that Ben won't do.
• Robin: Teenage Ashers often wind up falling in love with a relatively plain poet named Robin. She dumps him after a couple of years once she realizes that, while it is astonishing that Someone Like Her is with Someone Like Him, she doesn't actually like him that much. 

Malachites, by sphinx:

• Sasha: Sasha is charmed by Asher's general awesomeness and his adoration of Sasha, and Asher loves the beautiful things that Sasha makes. 
  
• Marlo: Asher and Marlo typically rub each other the wrong way. Marlo is irritated by Asher's ruthlessness and tendency to tease and/or flirt with him; Asher is. They can wind up with an uneasy mutual respect based on their shared love of Sasha and Lev. They date only when Marlo is deeply traumatized.   

 

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