plot comment for my trio down here to get all my thoughts out at once :> at the moment i'm not anticipating any of them needing rejection rooms. however, if you need any of them to help yours out in a boss battle, just let me know!

TIMOTHY WRIGHT

⊗ SHADOW: So Tim has endured a shadow event once before back in sol, but his shadow then was just a wee baby child tim who acted kind of creepy but was ultimately more harmless. This Shadow will be digging a little bit deeper. Namely, it's going to be zeroing in on all of Tim's positive or neutral CR to make it crystal clear to each and every one of them that Tim is terrified of this inexplicable negative influence he has on them. In canon, the Operator's everything made generating positive relationships more or less impossible for Tim to maintain at all without them inevitably crumbling beneath either the Operator's pressure or Tim's own intensely self-destructive nature. His Shadow will disclose all of this, if given the chance: that Tim is responsible for the deaths of entirely too many people, that he's afraid he's only ever going to hurt the people he loves, and that despite how much better off he thinks they'd be without him, he's never had this many friends in his life before and doesn't want to lose that. Tim will probably be intent on hunting this asshole down and dealing with it as soon as possible. Whatever the cost.

⊗ LIGHT: And oh right all those people that Tim really gives a shit about. Tim's Light will be the first to admit to people that Tim has made more friends than he can ever remember having, and that while he's miserable at expressing how much he would give to keep them safe, he really does love them. His Light will be very, very up front about the fact that Tim wants to be better for the people he loves, and that he's trying to be a better person for them. And, oh yes - he does love them.

THE DRIFTER

♦ SHADOW: Most creepily of all, the Drifter's Shadow will be able to talk. They're going to be the Drifter's polar opposite in a lot of ways - much more prone to being talkative, more prone to being touchy and getting up in your personal space, and so on. They will be as blunt and direct as the Drifter typically is, however; namely, they'll be most vicious about the fact that the Drifter's uncertainty regarding the attachments they've made. The Drifter never meant to get attached, and now they are - and some part of them hates it for its unfamiliarity, for how inescapable it is, for how inadequate they feel in expressing anything to the people they've come to care about. The Drifter feels trapped and tied down - both by the manifold connections they've made, and their ineptitude in actually doing anything with them.

♦ LIGHT: ON THE FLIP SIDE, their Light will be the Drifter's every repressed "I care about you" sentiment that they've felt they cannot or should not express, due to a grim, locked-down warrior-type mentality that eschews emotional expression and considers it a vulnerability they can't afford to show. All their close cr? They can tell them all, directly, that they really heckin care about you! They might even.......u know, love u. and admit to that.

AGENT WASHINGTON

϶ SHADOW: Wash's Shadow will be extremely blasé about everything that Wash conspicuously never mentions to literally anyone. Getting Wash to crack open his history to just anyone is like pulling teeth, so his Shadow is going to focus on divulging that Wash has an intensely sketchy past and has not always been entirely compos mentis to just about anyone he can. He'll also be preying on Wash's sense of loss and helplessness when it comes to how many people he keeps losing, and how many times he's lost them - his fear of desensitization of that loss is an unadmitted thing that he's not even aware exists, and that his Shadow intends to take full advantage of.

϶ LIGHT: This guy will be a lot more like the Washington that existed before he became a husk of paranoia and mnemonic trauma. So: kind of dorky, earnest, and way more prone to friendly conversation. His Light will be all of Wash's kinder instincts ratcheted up to eleven. I confess I'm not entirely sure what to do with this guy since I have a way more fleshed out picture of the other two, but I'll mull it over some more!