Preventions involving their corrupting, redeeming qualities, sympathy background, moral agency, or player's choice.
The List
The corrupting and redeeming preventions
- Negative Prevention Free: Has no corrupting preventions whatsoever
- Minor Negative Prevention: Has little or one corrupting factor
- Nasty Prevention: Has corrupting factors that made them into dangerous criminals, or just a has lot of corrupting factors in general.
- Atrocious Prevention: Has committed vile acts
- Questionable: Unknown
- Noble Prevention: Has been a great hero
- Clean Prevention: Has been heroic
- Minor Positive Prevention: Has a few or redeeming quality
- Positive Prevention Free: Has no redeeming qualities
The sympathy preventions
None
Has no sympathy factor even fake tragic for that matter.
Characters who have been abused but may go past the excuse of it or display in some sad manner.
Their sympathy is a genuine prevention from being a current 1 -, but not enough for having zero chances to be currently 2 -.
Has gone frequent torturous methods on a large part or the entirety of their lives that is horrifying in comparison to the majority of cast in the story, this automatically prevents a villain from having a current 2 - and 1 - ranking.
Moral Agency
Complete Moral Agency
Characterized Characters who know the difference between right and wrong fully.
Minor Amoral
Characters who have personality, characterization, and some cognitive degree of understanding morality
Total Amoral
Either being mindless, having no control over their actions, or having no characterization whatsoever.
Player's Choice
Status unaffected
Characters whose moral ranking doesn't depend on player choices throughout the story.
Small extent
Characters whose moral ranking changes by small amounts depending on player choices throughout the story (i.e. a character who is Pure Good on one route but has a minor prevention on another route).
Drastic degree
Characters whose moral ranking changes massively depending on player choices throughout the story (i.e. a character who is unarguably heroic on one route but unarguably villainous on another route).