Online Personality Quizzes

[melannen]

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!

Comments

[melannen]

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.

[slashmarks]

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.

[genarti]

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

[melannen]

....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.)

[slashmarks]

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.