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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
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REVISION REQUEST
Though what you have is informative, a lot of Will's personality as described seems to be about how he reacts and is impacted by other characters. While this is a very important part of Will's character, we would like to see more information on how Will is as an individual, especially because Snowblind is a game with isolating elements where Will might have to act more under his own influence.
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Despite appearing fragile at times, Will is actually capable of a great deal of inner strength and self-reliance. He is an incredibly practical individual who has lived a difficult life, given the nature of his psychosis, but has refused to be defined by his challenges. Rather than allow himself to be handicapped by his mental instability, Will has taken what could be seen as a weakness and turned it into a tool he can use to help those who cannot protect themselves.
We learn through the show that he has pursued a career in law enforcement almost from the start, originally working with the police department as a homicide detective. He left the police force in part due to being reluctant to draw his gun out in the field and in fact, except for when he kills Hobbs to save Abigail, we never see Will use his gun to kill.
Will applied to become an F.B.I. agent but the very gift that makes him so effective at hunting the monsters, simultaneously rendering him too unstable to pass the psyche evaluations. Still he took on a teaching position -giving young FBI agents the skills to hunt their own monsters- and when asked by Jack Crawford, goes out into the field as a "special investigator" to take on the monsters because he wants to stop them.
At his core, Will still wants to protect innocents. He is a genuinely compassionate man and though his psychological difficulties make it hard for him to interact with people, the audience is given a window into his kindness through his habit of collecting stray dogs. It is suggested in the pilot that Will falls on the autism spectrum, something that could be supported by his insistence that he doesn't like to look people in the eyes, that he finds them distracting.
However, it has also been explained by the actor that of his many psychosis, autism isn't one of Will's diagnosis. Rather Will has adopted some autistic traits as a way to manage his empathy by helping to shield himself from the constant bombardment of emotions from other people. Because it is a struggle for Will to keep from empathizing too much and losing a sense of himself under the cacophony of emotional noise from others.
These habits are such that they can make Will come across as cold, aloof, and at times strange when he's interacting with other people. He makes it pretty clear on several occasions that he feels no real need to be sociable and it's actually kind of an ironic juxtaposition in the series that you have the sociopath Hannibal, who is highly social with people and then you have the compassionate Will who is completely anti-social with people.
But being anti-social doesn't mean he dislikes people. He's awkward with them, but he has made friends in the F.B.I. and is shown to sincerely care about his small group of co-workers. He sits with Jack Crawford after Bella Crawford's cancer diagnosis, ready to wait and ultimately to listen to Jack when Jack is ready to talk. Will feels a responsibility to Abigail Hobbs, but he also develops a sincere affection for her, perhaps father like or more big brother.
Will wants to to defend the innocent and see the guilty brought to justice and for most of his life he has faithfully followed the dictates of the law to get the monsters off the streets. It gets complicated, particularly after he kills Hobbs -and Hannibal gets in his head- because there is a darkness in Will that thrills at delivering justice rather than lawfulness. He feels a sense of power at being able to not just catch, but to destroy these monsters and initially this horrifies him. It is hard for him to reconcile his dutiful adherence to the idea of law and order, and his ability to see beauty in the destructive force of righteous violence.
While it's true that Hannibal nurtures this ruthlessness, it does still come from within Will and we see it peek out in the way he manipulates people and circumstances to his benefit in Season Two particularly. Will slips a little in his own mental slopes as he develops a taste for the power he experiences when he can bring down a reckoning on someone he deems deserves it; when he starts playing God and recognizes the power that comes with being the smartest person in the room. We see this in his interaction with Clark Ingram, who Will is ready to execute, without the benefit of due process, after he learns the horrors that Ingram has visited upon people who trusted him.
Though much of how Will lives his life is defined by his empathy, we see that it isn't all that defines him. Will is a good detective, capable of processing the tiniest bit of evidence and despite the horrors it visits upon him, he is methodical in the way he works a crime scene. Though he can come across as anxious and twitchy with people, his hobbies -fly fishing and working on boat motors- are ones that require deep patience and attention to detail.
He lives out in the middle of nowhere, but we see that he is more than capable of living, and even thriving in a rough environment. His house is spartan, containing very little in terms of modern day electronics, with the space devoted more to the comfort of his dogs than Will himself, but this is by design and Will is comfortable with his quiet little home and a fairly simple life. He drives a practical vehicle and dresses with the same eye towards practicality and there is a sense that he is perfectly content in these conditions.
Will takes care of himself and his dogs, is capable of surviving surrounded only by nature and can probably go quite a few days without feeling the need to seek out human companionship. He only genuinely becomes something of a danger to himself when he is suffering from encephalitis, otherwise Will is quite capable on his own and appears to have made himself as comfortable as his empathy will allow.
This supports the fact that though Will's sense of lawfulness and what is socially acceptable, gets knocked askew by Hannibal feeding his darker impulses, Will himself is still the man who wants to protect those who cannot protect themselves, because if he didn't have that solid core of moral compassion, he would have told Jack Crawford to go pound sand each time the BAU chief came to drag Will back into the fray.
Even though he is 'shattered' by Hannibal's machinations, Will does come back together even stronger than before. He is no longer fearful of the shadows within his own mind, and instead he even accepts this part of himself as something that provides him greater strength than before. Will could live a quiet, practical life, but he chooses to put his mental health and safety on the line because he believes in what he does and in his capacity to not only do the job but do the job well.
ACCEPTED
A small, single-story house. Inside is a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, and a single bathroom with a shower but no tub. The water works, but runs cold. Both bedrooms look like bedrooms for adults, though it's impossible now to tell if two adults lived here or if one room was a guest room. There are mattresses on both beds, but no sheets or blankets. The living room lacks a sofa, instead having three plush chairs. Small, one-to-two inch holes have been poked into the chairs. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE, CONTACT @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE." and "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE, CONTACT @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE." are written on one of the walls. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THREE, PLEASE CONTACT @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE." is written on the wall.
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