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Online Personality Quizzes

I have been spending today thinking about the scenario of "What if my favorite characters took online 'who are you' personality quizzes based on people in their universe?"

It started with Vorkosigan, for which we decided that Emperor Gregor never, ever gets Emperor Gregor in "Which Barrayaran Emperor Are You?" quizzes. (Ivan Vorpatril always gets Emperor Gregor. Miles is incapable of taking one without deliberately manipulating the answers to his advantage, even if he tries not to.)

Meanwhile, Poe Dameron always gets Leia in "Which Hero Of the Rebellion Are You" quizzes. Even if he has to get BB-8 to slice in and change the results. (BB-8 is already in there fixing things to get K-2SO, so this is no extra trouble.)

Steve Rogers absolutely never gets Captain America in "Which Avenger Are You?" quizzes, although one time he got Falcon and Sam got Captain America, and Steve bragged about this for a week straight.

Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne always gets Batman on Justice League ones. He would suspect Oracle of somehow cheating to make sure this happens, except he knows enough about computers to know that this isn't actually possible, and also it even happened on the air-gapped, built-for-purpose machine with the quiz he wrote himself for the sole purpose of not getting Batman because this is becoming a security issue, Alfred. (Clark Kent does not take them unless they have Lois Lane as a superhero option, and if they do have Lois Lane as an option he always gets Lois Lane.)

What would your favorite characters get if they took character quizzes? Do you agree with my assessments? If they're famous enough that they are an option the quiz, or if they are nerdy enough that someone in their friend group made it for their friend group, that is extra fun. Bonus if you discuss why or write out some of the actual quiz questions and which option they pick!

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Haha, this is adorable. I am TOTALLY thinking that "which famous space outlaw are you?" quizzes are a thing that exists in the Guardians of the Galaxy wing of the MCU, and Peter Quill takes them incessantly trying to get Star-Lord, until someone breaks it to him that Star-Lord is not actually an option because he's not famous enough. At which point he organizes a good old-fashioned team kidnapping to steal themselves a software programmer who can write a custom version with Star-Lord and the rest of the team in it. (If the team had a hacker, they would 100% do it that way, but they're completely useless at that.)

Dark Matter meanwhile has a team of space outlaws that DOES have a hacker, so Five probably wrote the "Which famous space outlaw are you?" quiz herself, gaming things so that her friends would always get themselves. It goes viral and becomes the pop culture sensation of 2692 (or whatever the heck year it is; I don't remember).

I don't think this really works for most of my other fandoms, because they're either historical or they're not famous enough to have quizzes in which they'd be an option, or anyone on the team who is hackery enough to do it for them. (.... Okay, I can see a "Which FBI Agent Are You?" version sweeping the White Collar office for a week or two, made by some agent or another -- Jones? -- while bored using an online quiz-making site, which causes a lot of giggling behind Peter's back until either Neal gets hold of it and does terrible things to the options, or Peter finds out about it and declares that everyone has too much time on their hands ...)

>> Peter Quill takes them incessantly trying to get Star-Lord, until someone breaks it to him that Star-Lord is not actually an option because he's not famous enough.

YES. This is absolutely true. Who does he get instead, I wonder?

And you can definitely do them for historical fandoms! Back in Ye Olde Days when I was a pre-teen we did the ones in magazines, I bet they had some equivalent even back in Rome. (Or you can just pretend they had the internet but everything else was the same, which is always fun for character what-ifs in history fandoms.)

Who does he get instead, I wonder?

He probably gets Yondu a lot, to his loudly voiced annoyance ...

And yeah, with Stranger Things in particular, I bet the kids probably either take "which Star Wars character/superhero are you?" type quizzes in magazines, or make up their own in the backs of their school notebooks and pass them around.

If it's the right period of 'historical' they could use an answer board (man, the wiring for a personality quiz would be geekery well beyond the more usual matching).

(Yes, I did run the film strips before the automated to the beeps projector.)

Rivers of London would make for an excellent short fic, because you know Abigail has created a quiz for those in the know and now I want to know what circumstances would lead to Nightingale taking it.

Or Molly. Or Abigail *and* Molly!

Actually, I'm kind of surprised there isn't a "Which Tributary of the Thames" are you quiz online in our universe.

I am stuck trying to figure out how Nightingale would end up taking it, though. Other than "Abigail asked him to" which might actually work...

I bet Nightingale wanders in on *other* people taking the quiz, inquires about it, and at some point after they finish and leave, surreptitiously starts taking it himself.

...this could also be what happens with Molly, except her version would involve creeping Peter out and taking it on his computer when he's not there. (Maybe this is how Peter discovers it in the first place? I bet he checks the search history regularly.)

...which tributary of the Thames are you, anyway? :D

Here is where I confess that I still have trouble telling them apart. :P Somebody else will have to make the quiz for me so I can find out.

But if we limit it to downstream from Teddington Lock, probably Beverly Brook anyway, given my deep and lifelong interest in things like riffle-pool sequences and urban green spaces and permeable concrete.

Upstream ... dunno, but some of the Father Thames' folks remind me rather a lot of my actual RL relatives, so I'm not sure if I want to think about that one very hard. (I had a direct paternal ancestor who ran off to be a carnie as best we can tell.)

Which are you? :D

My hindbrain's immediate answer: I dunno. We should do a whole series reread with a special focus on this question (and maybe writing the personality quiz) to find out!

Me: DAMMIT BRAIN. We just started listening to the immediate sequel to 'Master and Commander'. Trying to read two series at once is the kind of nonsense that leads to past-history Rivers of London fic that you don't have brainspace to write right now. We have to rehome some of these plot bunnies before you keep spawning new ones!

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Look, I made the mistake last week of alternating RoL re-read with Benjamin January re-read, and now I want nothing more in the world but the fic where Peter has to go to a ball thrown by the social leaders of the demi-monde but gets his demi-mondes mixed up and ends up at a Blue Ribbon Ball in 1840s New Orleans instead ~~and time-travel requires equal exchange so Abishag Shaw gets dropped on Nightingale in his place~~, ~~but I got distracted by trying to figure out which jazz tunes Peter might know well enough to play from memory but that wouldn't screw up the timeline too badly if he played them for Hannibal~~, so I have no sympathy for you.

also I still really want Ancillary Folly to exist. ("Molly" is short for "Mercy of Folly" right)

... I feel as if Shaw would handle 21st-century London surprisingly well, all things considered (he seems like that kind of person) -- probably better than 21st-century London would handle Shaw. Although Nightingale is also a taking-things-in-stride kind of person. And Shaw is probably as much like his idea of a typical American as anyone can possibly be ...

~~It's not the buddyfic we asked for, but it's the buddyfic we deserve.~~

Meanwhile I think Peter's biggest problem with screwing up the timeline would not be Hannibal, but Rose. If she ever finds out he's a time traveler, heaven help him (there will be no end to the questions! The worst part is that as a science-minded person himself, he actually knows the answer to a lot of them!), and even if she doesn't know, she'd be following him around constantly (baby in tow), spying on him suspiciously and trying to figure out what in the hell is up with him.

Oh, Rose is the active problem there, definitely, but he does actually know better that to tell her things, and if he can resist Bev he can probably resist Rose. Probably. Possibly even Rose and Chloe working together.

Hannibal attended Casterbrook just long enough before they mutually agreed his talents lay elsewhere to know not to ask anything, but also he is the man who reminds Peter too much of his father except without all the things that always came between him and his father, and the one he wants to break the timeline for, as a gift, especially since even Newtonian magic can't cure TB.

Hannibal and Ben, because he doesn't know how to react to Ben, except that he knows just enough history to know a little bit of what Ben must have fought through to be who he is, and he knows the awe in Ben's face when Peter explains he's a wizard of the Folly (and that people always say he looks kind of like the President of the USA) isn't for him, really, it's for the things that people like Ben worked for, but he has no idea how to, like, tell him any of that. Except music. And he's almost as bad at music as talking about feelings anyway. But.

Meanwhile, yeah, as soon as Molly forces Shaw into a bathtub and steals all his clothes, he and Nightingale get on just fine, and he gets his feet under him in the 21st century pretty quick; it's not that much more future shock than washing up in New Orleans was, and Nightingale knows all about future shock anyway. Best buddy cop story, Belgravia doesn't know what hit it.

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as soon as Molly forces Shaw into a bathtub and steals all his clothes

OMG, if you write nothing else from this AU, please write that scene. PLEASE. XD

And agreed on Peter and Ben, and Peter and Hannibal. OUCH. Especially this:

even Newtonian magic can't cure TB.

*weeps on keyboard*

Shaw grew up in Appalachian Kentucky, so I am pretty sure he knows something of folks like Molly, and he knows that rule #1 is don't piss them off if it's avoidable, so even that probably isn't that dramatic a scene, and consists of Molly pointing to the bathtub and Shaw gulping and saying "Yes, ma'am."

(When he appears back in New Orleans in clean, well-mended clothes and smelling of boughten soap, now that's a dramatic scene.)

Really the main thing he has trouble with is that it's hard to get real chewing tobacco and he wouldn't dare chew it in Molly's domain even if he could find some.

...yeah the weeping is like reason #3 I'm not actually going to write this.

In Imperial Radch, if there are "Which revolutionary member of Station Administration are you?" quizzes after the Republic of Two Systems secedes, Seivarden definitely gets Tisarwat every time and is a little upset by it.

Breq gets herself.

Definitely true.

Tisarwat gets Station.

Station gets Sphene.

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Hm, agreed about Station and Sphene. Any particular logic behind Tisarwat? I can see it I think, but I'm not sure I can articulate why.

Well, whoever made the quiz (unless it was one of the other main characters) probably doesn't know much about Station other than what Station voluntarily shows its residents, so they probably are pulling out Station's main traits as, like a) taking care of people and protecting its citizens at all costs, and b) knowing everything and being extremely competent, and c) probably also some element of being different things to different people.

(Also there is an undercurrent where Station is really manipulative and so on, which probably comes through somewhat even if the test-maker isn't really thinking that way.)

A lot of those are just sort of traits that are shared by most Radch AIs, as opposed to Station in particular, but even post-independence most Athoekis probably don't have any real experience with any other AIs, so they would probably think of them as much more specifically Station things.

...Meanwhile they are also things that are very Anaander Miaanaai - after all she built them to value what she considers important - except for the smouldering resentment, which is also a very Tisarwat thing.

I could be wrong though! I suspect Tisarwat is another one who has as lot of difficulty doing the quizzes because manipulating the answers is easier than taking them honestly, except she doesn't even really know what answer she wants to manipulate them to.

You have a good point, but now the only thing I can think of is Tisarwat getting Breq, realizing she manipulated the quiz unconsciously to get Breq, and storming off in tears.

...Oof. Yes, this makes sense, and also I really enjoy this entire discussion.

....okay, yes, you are probably also right.

(Although now I am wondering if Breq actually does get Breq, because I bet it includes answers like "everything I feel shows on my face" which she still thinks are not true of herself.)

On the one hand, yes; on the other hand, the quiz is probably coded strongly towards Breq if you select "I am singing at literally all times," and similar. So I would say that she gets Breq, but if it gives you one of those meters as to how strongly you scored, it's like, sixty percent Breq, not a hundred.

Meanwhile, let us all hope Anaander Mianaai never thought to make a "Which Anaander Mianaai are you?" quiz, because I can't see it ending well for anyone.

That idea is so amazing that I wish someone would suggest it to Leckie.

"Which Anaander Mianaai should you support?" and no matter what answers you give it just flashes "Please report to Security for interrogation" at the end.

ACCURATE.

Anaander Mianaai made the quiz, and she knows she only coded in two options, so why does she keep getting new ones she doesn't remember coding??

Presger interference, obviously.

Some of the younger Watchers do up a "Which famous immortal are you?" quiz that ends up getting passed around a lot more than they expected.

Adam Pierson gets Amanda.
Joe gets Connor.

When they finally show it to him, Duncan MacLeod gets Duncan Macleod, but only because one of the questions is "Is your name Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod?"

(Look, with most of the other powerful famous immortals, you know it will take at least a little effort and subtlety to figure out which one they are. But if it's Duncan MacLeod, you just have to ask one question.)

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OW GOD I CAN’T FUCKING BREATHE :D im cryinggggggg ^_^ this is amazeballs

Cloud Strife doesn't do them any more, because he keeps getting "Sephiroth" as an answer on the "which SOLDIER are you" quizzes, even when he's trying to get "Zack Fair" or "Angeal Hewley". Once he tried one of those "which Turk are you" quizzes and came out as Rufus Shinra, which resulted in him throwing the magazine across the room so hard it left a dent in the wall (which takes some doing with a magazine).

Yuffie loves them, because she figures it's a fun way of amusing herself for a few minutes, trying to get the quizzes to come out as each of the other members of AVALANCHE in succession. Easiest is Vincent, hardest is Tifa, unless they've thrown in a gender-related question.

Marlene Wallace keeps coming out as Aerith, which charms her no end. This creeps Cloud out when he hears about it, because he's not a fool and he can see there's a destiny waiting for Marlene and it's approaching at speed. All he can do is be willing and ready to defend her against all comers.

Denzel gets "Reno" in a lot of the "which Turk are you" quizzes. He's not too sure why.

I know only enough about this fandom to know that this is definitely hilarious and almost definitely true. :D

Jaime Lannister gets Stark so many times in “Which Westerosi Great House do you belong in?” that he convinces himself the quiz is broken and only has one possible answer, until he looks over Brienne’s shoulder just in time to see hers come up Dayne and then he has to go punch trees with his left hand for a while.

No matter how many different ways Petyr Baelish tries to get Tully it keeps coming up Tyrell and a couple of times Frey. He pretends he doesn’t know what Sansa’s talking about when she brings up the quiz. (When she was young she always got Baratheon, but since King’s Landing she’s always Stark.)

Robb mostly used to get Tully and occasionally Targaryen, while Jon got Stark every single time. Even after he’s known the truth for 40 years and been living in the south for decades, he STILL gets Stark.

Tyrion always comes up Targaryen, but that’s only because he wrote the quiz when he was 14, and the picture that goes with it is a pale-haired dwarf riding a dragon that he commissioned using his father’s gold. (After Tywin came up Reyne he hired hackers to track down the quiz’s author, but they never got close.)

When Danaerys gets Lannister she threatens to have Tyrion executed, and he laughs so hard he snorts wine out what remains of his nose.

Arya gets a 404 Error.

Amazing!!

...I have forgotten who the Reynes are, if I ever knew, but yes to the rest of this based on a vague memory of the first three books and reading a bunch of Jaime/Brienne fic.

Especially the bit where teenage Tyrion commissioned fanart of himself riding a dragon.

The Reynes are the house Tywin destroyed (cf Rains of Castamere). Tywin doesn’t actually fit there, Tyrion just coded it that way to piss off his dad.

In the Gundam Wing version of "which Gundam pilot are you?", the quiz was written by a teenage magazine, so it is approximately 5% accurate. I think Quatre and Trowa get each other, Wufei gets Heero and is annoyed, Duo gets Heero and thinks it's hilarious, Relena wants to get Heero but never does, and Heero refuses to take the quiz.

In Star Trek Discovery, Michael takes the "which famous Federation captain" quiz with the sole purpose of getting Philippa, is secretly very disappointed when she doesn't and then gets rid of the evidence that she took the quiz.

Ax gets Seerow in "Which Prince Are You" quizzes and is dismayed. Later once he learns some things about Alloran (which the quiz designers knew about) and Elfangor (which they didn't) he handles it a little better.

Marco writes a "Which Animorph Are You" quiz but only in his head, since he doesn't want too many records getting out. Which is probably for the best since nobody else is very impressed by his potential answers for the "which qualities do you seek in a romantic partner" question.

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