Anghraine

Controversial so I’ll put it under a cut:

[This was originally in images, but I didn't feel like uploading them]

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The classic D&D alignments can be silly and reductive ... but they're also genuinely useful in some ways? Like, if I say "Darcy has Lawful Good energy, but is actually Neutral Good," you don't have to agree, but it gets across what I mean to people at all familiar with alignment without a long explanation. "I think some people see Cassian as X Neutral, but I think he's Lawful Good all the way through" is comprehensible in a concise way. So is "I think Leia is trying to stifle herself into living a Lawful Good life, but at heart is Neutral Good." I think that's also true of Éowyn, btw, while Jyn comes at it from the other side: living a Chaotic life, but also Neutral Good at her core (certainly not Chaotic Neutral or True Neutral).

And of course, the divisions aren't hard lines. I think Luke is probably not far from the Lawful/Neutral boundary, though still on the Neutral Good side, whereas Anakin has some of that Neutral or even Chaotic energy, but is ultimately Lawful Good -> Lawful Evil -> Lawful Good. 

(I am also Very Offended by bad alignment assignments, like the gifset that assigned Darcy to Lawful Neutral. WTF, seriously.)

Alexa Adams, at her generally excellent blog, recently posted a "P&P mashup" -- no, not monsters, just an "ideal cast" drawn from all the adaptations.  Since she's a firm fan of the 1995 mini-series, which I dislike more than not, I disagreed on a number of points (but not on the awesomeness of Sabina Franklyn's Jane!) and thought, "hey, I should do one of those.  Because it would be fun." 
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