Sure thing! I think I tried to give you as much info to work with as possible and it might have been... too much, or not enough of the right thing. I'm sorry I keep missing the mark on what to give you!
There are his goals and my goals. On my end, I'm looking for plot hooks that he can pursue and/or just something more going on in his life -- toys for me to play with as a writer. He's now been helpful to at least a small number of people in a couple of events, so it seemed to me like one or more of them might eventually seek him out, or have taken notice of him outside of events, and that he could potentially have helped the same person twice. Sometimes I also just bring something up because I think it would be funny and could lead to something more concrete later on (hence the endless beverage model jokes -- but if something like that ever happened, I would assume it would probably come from a supplier to Red Wings, and would mostly just result in very minor social media fame and some pocket money).
His goals would be:
- In an overall sense, he's interested in his presence in this world being a net positive. Whether or not that turns out to be the case remains to be seen. This means that he will always try to help people in disaster situations, will go on any expedition that seems like a good idea at the time, etc. (I would imagine, from the info that has already been given to us, that his reputation would suffer from being a Rook in the Aerie, but maybe not as badly as some other people's.) He isn't seeking fame, but it's possible he'd have a small, growing reputation for public bravery.
- He would be concerned about the worshippers, the shrines, the gods, etc. He is extremely uncomfortable being worshipped (recall "ha ha awkward I'm not a god" after his resurrection in canon, and a lot of "what does it all mean" navel-gazing after that). But he also comes out of a situation at home where he needs to turn people's hero-worship of him and of his "father" into them giving him authority and respecting it -- so how he handles it could legitimately go either way, depending on what seems better for the people of this world. He can be convinced that the alternative is much worse, and the fact that he kind of *is* a god, at least a little, isn't lost on him. That's a potentially interesting internal conflict, because his humility makes it hard for him to revel in it: "it should be used responsibly." (EDIT: he is especially concerned about someone legitimately abusing or violently suppressing the worshippers.)
I thought it was possible that one of the people he helped might be someone who is 1. a Displaced worshipper with 2. some connections of their own that could go other places later on. (If it's even plausible to find something like that in combination.) It makes more sense to me right now for him to be more involved in the more mythic end of the game than in things like organized crime. Right now he is also in a lot of contact with both Quentin and Yennefer. Anyway, regardless, he'd be interested in and motivated to get more involved in this, but I have been fantastically ham-fisted at achieving it.
- Trustworthy outside help with the North America stuff that isn't going to turn the members of the expedition in to the UN, esp in terms of outfitting the expedition. (This seems pretty unlikely to me, but I threw it out there as a possibility. They are so close to the expedition itself that it's both a little too convenient, and not enough time to really establish any trust.)
- He is relatively hard up for cash. Not starving, but making the typical Red Wings worker wage, maintaining an expensive shoebox apartment, and probably doing things like helping his neighbors out with finances/resources when things get bad. He would be motivated to take occasional extra work that wasn't especially shady, aside from opportunities that come up on the logs every month.
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I don't know if this is helpful or if I missed the mark again! LMK if there's still anything else you need me to add. One thing about his motivations is that many of them were tied to Daenerys up to this point. With her departure, he isn't really tied to her goals anymore and has leeway to pursue his own.
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There are his goals and my goals. On my end, I'm looking for plot hooks that he can pursue and/or just something more going on in his life -- toys for me to play with as a writer. He's now been helpful to at least a small number of people in a couple of events, so it seemed to me like one or more of them might eventually seek him out, or have taken notice of him outside of events, and that he could potentially have helped the same person twice. Sometimes I also just bring something up because I think it would be funny and could lead to something more concrete later on (hence the endless beverage model jokes -- but if something like that ever happened, I would assume it would probably come from a supplier to Red Wings, and would mostly just result in very minor social media fame and some pocket money).
His goals would be:
- In an overall sense, he's interested in his presence in this world being a net positive. Whether or not that turns out to be the case remains to be seen. This means that he will always try to help people in disaster situations, will go on any expedition that seems like a good idea at the time, etc. (I would imagine, from the info that has already been given to us, that his reputation would suffer from being a Rook in the Aerie, but maybe not as badly as some other people's.) He isn't seeking fame, but it's possible he'd have a small, growing reputation for public bravery.
- He would be concerned about the worshippers, the shrines, the gods, etc. He is extremely uncomfortable being worshipped (recall "ha ha awkward I'm not a god" after his resurrection in canon, and a lot of "what does it all mean" navel-gazing after that). But he also comes out of a situation at home where he needs to turn people's hero-worship of him and of his "father" into them giving him authority and respecting it -- so how he handles it could legitimately go either way, depending on what seems better for the people of this world. He can be convinced that the alternative is much worse, and the fact that he kind of *is* a god, at least a little, isn't lost on him. That's a potentially interesting internal conflict, because his humility makes it hard for him to revel in it: "it should be used responsibly." (EDIT: he is especially concerned about someone legitimately abusing or violently suppressing the worshippers.)
I thought it was possible that one of the people he helped might be someone who is 1. a Displaced worshipper with 2. some connections of their own that could go other places later on. (If it's even plausible to find something like that in combination.) It makes more sense to me right now for him to be more involved in the more mythic end of the game than in things like organized crime. Right now he is also in a lot of contact with both Quentin and Yennefer. Anyway, regardless, he'd be interested in and motivated to get more involved in this, but I have been fantastically ham-fisted at achieving it.
- Trustworthy outside help with the North America stuff that isn't going to turn the members of the expedition in to the UN, esp in terms of outfitting the expedition. (This seems pretty unlikely to me, but I threw it out there as a possibility. They are so close to the expedition itself that it's both a little too convenient, and not enough time to really establish any trust.)
- He is relatively hard up for cash. Not starving, but making the typical Red Wings worker wage, maintaining an expensive shoebox apartment, and probably doing things like helping his neighbors out with finances/resources when things get bad. He would be motivated to take occasional extra work that wasn't especially shady, aside from opportunities that come up on the logs every month.
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I don't know if this is helpful or if I missed the mark again! LMK if there's still anything else you need me to add. One thing about his motivations is that many of them were tied to Daenerys up to this point. With her departure, he isn't really tied to her goals anymore and has leeway to pursue his own.