Wrath

Mistreatment/Wrath Justice The character driven by wrath is motivated by a need to right a perceived wrong. This character is at the same time the most abstractly motivated and the most concretely motivated character of the group.

On one hand, the wrathful character is Batman and Inigo Montoya, driven to avenge the loss of a parent or parents. On the other hand the character is the rebel or activist who has never experienced the pain of the people (or even plants and animals) that she fights for first hand but can feel it vicariously.

The wrath driven character was likely either violently wronged as a child, or was raised to be highly aware and empathetic. In the first case, the motivation is immediate and fairly obvious. In the second case the motivation is the same, the character has simply appropriated the pain of others. In the second case, the character is often well off, and feels guilty about this, and so uses the appropriated pain and the drive it gives them as a means of doing penance.

The wrathful character sees connections everywhere, and can seem either highly intelligent or highly paranoid or both. The character’s need for vengeance colors everything they see and makes the world look very black and white.

As far as the wrathful character is concerned, you either part of the solution or part of the problem. The wrathful character is a loyal friend and vicious enemy, but they have high standards. A character who fails to meet the wrathful character’s rigid guidelines can transform from friend to enemy in an eye blink. The wrathful character will walk across hot coals to help a friend, and though hell to defeat an enemy.

Possibly the only character more emotionally charged than the lust driven character, the wrath driven character has no problem with identity or self-worth. Their identity is their mission, and their self-worth is derived from how religiously they follow that mission. The wrathful character is a force of nature, set and determined and not easily swayed from their chosen path. The wrathful person is nonetheless surprisingly hopeful about the world, seeing it not as evil, but as merely out of balance. If they can but right the scales, the world will be a beautiful place.