Are You Superstitious?

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

Superstitions. Throughout history, superstitious and other rituals have developed. Some have evolved into full-blown religions. Others have become commonplace, everyday things with few people knowing or understanding their origins. However, both types have a psychological effect on people.

As such, a question or a few to ponder:

Is your character superstitious?

If so, what sort of rituals does he, she or it engage or believe in?

How does this affect his, her or its thinking patterns?

Comments

[morphitudinous]

I'm trying to think of Bee's superstitions and not having much luck. He doesn't place much stock in those. Back home, he was always the first to roll his eyes skeptically at a gypsy or fortune-teller.

Here, he's being forced to alter his opinion and accept the reality of magic. People have been inside his head and visibly altered reality in ways that he can't readily explain with a scientific hypothesis. That doesn't keep him from trying, though!

I'll let you know if I remember any superstitious beliefs.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura comes from a planet of precogs. They have a very compact idea of that everything that happens in their visions happens. They believe in predestination.

Nura, however, realizes that there are factors that can't be predicted. The future isn't set in stone.

[redeyes_andblue]

Sheik is - he's from a culture that very much favours ritual and the like, so there'd be some things (most unique to Hyrule, so probably not applicable here) that he'd consider to be a good or bad sign. A lot have to do with the interaction between sunlight/moonlight and shadow, so since there's no real natural lighting here... a bit difficult. Rituals would do with manipulating shadows, the use of different teas, tinctures, incenses, and herbs, specific words used in specific ways, stuff like that.

Zelda, not so much - aside from the fact that, like Nura, she's an occasional precog (through dreams - she canonically predicts Link's arrival and Ganondorf's takeover), so she has the idea that what she sees in those dreams comes true. Other than that, no real rituals.

And Kim is pretty much a skeptic to all that 'mystical weird stuff', so nothing there!

[watchwith3hands.livejournal.com]

Rei's biggest superstition has to do with his time traveling. In the canon I've created for his world, the rifts in time and space that allow time travel appear different to anyone that looks at them. However, they will be consistent for an individual. Rei sees the rift as a dark purple vortex, with blobs of lighter shades of purple swirling around in it. He doesn't know much about the rift, other then it's consistent. He fears that a shift in color could mean a break down in time and space.

He also has some cultural superstitions from growing up in Brazil, mostly just little things like the walking under ladders and whatnot. Though, one is that if he meets up with someone in the same spot he first met them, it will screw with the natural cycles of nature. He tries to be very wary of this one when time traveling.

He used to be superstitious of black cats, but practically got that one beaten out of him by Kanika, a fellow time traveler from Egypt.

[worm-dancer.livejournal.com]

Sheeana isn't herself superstitious, but she is well placed to take advantage of the superstitions of others. That was part of the Bene Gesserit's original plan for her: tout her as the Chosen One, thus using the cult created aroudn her as a weapon.

She's also interested in trance states of all kinds

[proffesorcrisis.livejournal.com]

Isaac is fairly agnostic, though in his world what we call science and magic are the same. He has a fondness for the Vodyanoi god of knowledge, who's just a guy who loves to read in his giant bathtub

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

Lafiel, like all Abh, is explicitly an atheist. She has a rather LALALALA YOU ARE NOT HERE attitude towards the ship's godlings.