skulduggery's changed during his canon-jump and i got to thinking about it recently lol

Ed's was and still mostly is: "Real human connection with someone with a passion for adventure and vivacity for life that he craves. Great and novel adventure."

which sounds like a terrible dating profile thing or something idk idk

it's fine i just wrote "stede"

alex's is a place to truly belong and it hasn't changed just yet

comesailaway: T_T

aww those are both so nice and sweet tho

sharky, and i quote from his app:
The Devil could probably get his soul for the return of the original formula FourLoko.

skulduggery, otoh, used to want to feel at peace without his constant back-burner anger. now he just wants to die

skul-bud D=

its fine!!!!

he's FINE!!!!!

"He wishes with every beat of his little nerd heart that he could run away from it all and live happily ever after with Dulcinea Septimus, the love of his life." YUP STILL ACCURATE because Pal's secretly a lovelorn weirdo.

I mean, now his deepest desire is to get his cavalier back, but besides that

god thats so cute just wants to be happily ever after'd

Pratts was to be seen as strong, but it's still kinda that and also: undo what Jacob did.

Max's hasn't changed. To be better than everyone

ah jade just...wants to accomplish something that does some quantifiable Good, for once! in his life!! something that doesn't result in sorrow and suffering for an untold number of people? which is what 90% of his past achievements have felt like so far haha

and yeah this is still the case so far....! though it's going to feel weirder as it really sinks in and there's likely a version of himself working on that back home already. but, welp,

maybe helping overturn the awfulness of this ship one day might count too...

aw skuls' change tho sir that doesn't sound very Fine at all actually......

skuls.....

"ensure the survival of her friends" unchanged "secondly, survive herself" ....eh

**unchanged, but new friends acquired

ikr

I mean for the characters that semi regularly had to kill people and needed a different life... this isn't that awful. yet

and for the characters that are dead back home.

true

yeah, well, you become a neat piece of jewelry so maybe it's not a total loss

"to be free to make his own choices and just be whatever he wants, without the burden of outside expectations"

that hasn't changed, but the way he thinks he'll get it fluctuates

dying for real and getting some peace > maybe go to another reality > oh so crossing realities drives you insane, guess it's back to death

interesting how natsuno's is.... kind of like the captain's goal of being able to be free/not controlled...................

lmao yes... though natsuno's goals started more modest and just got progressively more supernatural and insane

free from his parents, free from the village, free from thos fucking vampires and now free from the eldritch magician toddler

Darcy's was 'she wants to be able to overcome any challenge she's faced with' but now would be closer to like...
"be Somebody"
which aren't diametrically opposed goals, just a little to the side of each other