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Which Character is the most depressed

Xan
32 (91.4%)
Haer'Dalis
3 (8.6%)

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Offline Lord Kain

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Which Character is the most depressed
« on: February 25, 2006, 12:55:28 AM »
Now that we can have Xan along side Haer'Dalis I thought I'd ask which one is the most depressed as they are both very doom and gloom. I always pictured if these two came together they'd created some kind of vortex that would suck all the joy out of those around them. A emotional black hole so to speak.

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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2006, 01:17:23 AM »
I've never considered Haer'Dalis "depressed." He's morbid, but joyous about it.
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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2006, 05:49:33 AM »
I've never considered Haer'Dalis "depressed." He's morbid, but joyous about it.

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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2006, 09:31:35 AM »
Xan is melancholic from thoughts of doom.
Haer'Dalis takes perverse joy in it.

Besides, if any character was more depressed than Xan, Xan would just suffer the pathos of futility if he learned of it and wind up the most depressed, anyway! :)
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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2006, 12:15:58 PM »
I'm firmly in the camp of believing that Haer is very "happy happy joy joy" about his take on "we're all doomed."
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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2006, 12:45:56 PM »
I'm firmly in the camp of believing that Haer is very "happy happy joy joy" about his take on "we're all doomed."

For Haer it is even a tenet of faith. Xan clearly lacks the ability to put that distance between him and reality it takes to be happy happy.

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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2006, 01:24:12 AM »
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Besides, if any character was more depressed than Xan, Xan would just suffer the pathos of futility if he learned of it and wind up the most depressed, anyway! :)

Absolutely. ;D

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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2006, 05:31:36 PM »
Xan > Haer'Dalis
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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
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Re: Which Character is the most depressed
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2006, 08:37:53 PM »
We're all doomed!
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