The Aspirant

The Aspirant () is one of the playbooks for Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, an outline of a character archetype that can be customized in the game. The Aspirant is one of the three playbooks featured in the Republic City playbook, and is described as hopeful, ambitious, performing, and mutable. Their balance principles are Legacy vs. Adoration.Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Republic City, Version 1.0, 2023, p. 113.
== Description ==
The Aspirant hopes to change the world, and to do that they seek fame and influence. Play the Aspirant if you want to contend with reputation and the demands of those who see you as their hero.
Hopeful, ambitious, performing, mutable. The Aspirant is a figure of hopeful, positive change in the world at large. To achieve that change, they pursue fame and reputation, hoping to wield it to successfully influence the world. But of course, they cannot achieve such fame and reputation without being changed by those whose adoration they seek.
The Aspirant is always struggling between their desire to serve the actual real interests of the world and of the peoples they come to represent, and their desire to be well-liked and adored by those peoples. They come from a community and they build their reputation with that group, but they always need to extend their reputation to other groups... and meanwhile every group that believes in them can make demands of them.
* Starting stats: Creativity -1, Focus 0, Harmony +1 Passion +1
* Demeanor options: Bubbly, Distracted, Driven, Innocent, Obstinate, Tense
== Principles ==
The Aspirant struggles between their principles of Legacy and Adoration.
The Aspirant's struggle is between the principles of Legacy and Adoration. Their Legacy principle is all about the legacy of good works and change that they hope to leave behind them, as well as the legacy of the different communities they try to represent and support. A Legacy-focused Aspirant tries to make the right choices for the communities they advocate for, even though that may often leave them unpopular.
Their Adoration principle is about an easy and uncomplicated kind of love that the Aspirant both seeks and provides. The Aspirant might easily adore certain figures as role models, as the ideal they seek to achieve, without really examining the more complicated legacy of those role models. In turn, the Aspirant seeks that same adoration themselves, not least to boost their reputation. An Adoration-focused Aspirant presents the most adorable version of themselves to the world, even if it is not their true self, and even if it is not the version who will do what is right.
The Aspirant tries to balance these two principles by wielding them in conjunction — pursuing Adoration to better support Legacy, and acting in favor of Legacy to receive further Adoration. They seek to do what is right and best for everyone, but also to be loved for it, and the Aspirant's Moment of Balance is that perfect synthesis. In that moment, they bring their reputation to bear to create a real change here and now, and in turn earn the respect and adoration of the people they represent.
== Characteristics ==
=== Moment of Balance ===
You've been developing your reputation and influence to bring about real, good, just change in the world... but making real change doesn't always make you popular! Here and now, though, you see a way to connect the change you hope to bring about in the world with that exact wants and desires of those in your base, Tell the GM how you wield your influence, reputation, and bearing to convince someone important to agree with a real need to change here and now, and how those in your base will know you helped bring about this change, and come to appreciate you still further for your efforts.
=== Moves ===
* Pink Aura
* Always On the Move
* Honesty in Pain
* Helping Hand
* Are They Kinda Cute?Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Republic City, Version 1.0, 2023, p. 115.
=== Growth question ===
Did you stay true to yourself in spite of others' demands?
The Aspirant's growth question is about remaining true to their own beliefs and goals, regardless of others' words, desires, or even needs. The Aspirant is regularly reshaping themselves for their reputation and their base, whether they pursue Legacy or Adoration... but to grow, they have to be true to whoever they really are.Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Republic City, Version 1.0, 2023, p. 114.
== References ==
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Category:Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game playbooks