Thread:Double Slap/@comment-3391671-20180123050816/@comment-4091261-20180203161945

I like where you are going with this. I too think that Nevon wouldn't be in the poverty class. An underlying theme I can see for Nevon's story is the effects of money.

When I refer to poverty, I'm talking about the overall state of Zaun. The conditions at Zaun causes a lot more monetary resources to keeping Zaun a habitable place. While Zaun could easily be as wealthy as Piltover, it is chained down by the enormous social cost of pollution.

This causes the divide between the rich and the poor to be all the more evident as only the wealthy can maintain a habitable environment in Zaun while the rest are left by the wayside. Even the middle-class suffer from insufficient ability to handle the conditions. The low-class literally perish in the environment. This is my reasoning for why Zaun is known for having enormous levels of corruption.

In terms of Nevon's monetary perspective changes. I imagine he went from middle-class citizen to unsustainable middle-class Zaun citizen to upper middle-class Noxian citizen from the Noxian deal. In terms of actual wealth, Nevon went from average to poor to rich.

I think this is important to portray as the changes in wealth can explain various situations Nevon finds himself in. For example, his decline to a Zaun citizen would be from his motivation to be a medical doctor defeating the conditions at Zaun which plagued his parents. His desire for opportunities is connected to the rise in wealth from Zaun to Noxus. Finally, Nevon's unknown black market status is a representation of how he detracted from wealth classes altogether. That being because of how money alone wasn't enough to achieve his true goals.

With an underlying theme alongside the other ideas discussed, I believe Nevon's lore finally has enough structure to create a complete story. The main details to fill in will be acquired by answering why he feels the way he does in his quotes.

I think some of the more specific interactive quotes at this point should only be answered after you written a significant portion of his story. For example, his reaction to undead beings and mutations. There are many good ways to react to this, but his reactions may contradict certain intentions to be expressed in his story.

To highlight a possible contradiction, reacting to and  in disdain, to a point where it could be assumed that Nevon believes  and  would have been better left dead than alive, would be a contradiction to how he believes those who want to live deserve life.

It is a fair reaction to grotesque warmongering creations, yet he would need to make an exception in his moral beliefs to react in such a manner. Such exceptions detract from the weight of the quote itself. This causes adjustments needed to maintain the integrity of each quote to become more complex. This form of complexity will greatly limit the flexibility of how you could conduct Nevon's lore.

Thus to avoid having Nevon's lore getting affected by the way you structured these quotes. It's better to finish the lore first and use what you have already written as the basis of how he reacts to such things. While you may need to make adjustments at this stage, since you have already written the lore, the effort needed to adjust Nevon's plot is mitigated.

As much as I would like to pursue more quotes, the main goal of this exercise is to expand and encapsulate Nevon's plot. The quotes and morals that have been expressed are sufficient in creating a grandiose cohesive story for Nevon.

Let me know if you believe there is a significant plot hole that prevents you from completing Nevon's lore.