>>6246912>>6246913No worries RiflesQM! I like seeing the unique directions towards which your ideas are travelling!
Reading the summaries, I think the Young Man, Middle Aged Man motivations very believable (especially Michael Douglas Falling Down reference hehe). I actually wasn't too sure how modern you imagined the setting to be, whether it would have guns or more melee / improvised weapons or street fighting / martial arts wuxia hand-to-hand etc. The one archetype I had difficulty imagining was the Elderly one, but actually the "stereotyped" motivation you mentioned (billionaire trying to achieve immortality) seemed fine to me hehe I don't see anything wrong with it though I couldn't help thinking in that scenario the Elderly archetype would be more of an orchestrator or devious mastermind manipulator nemesis, coordinating others to retrieve the artifacts for himself etc. (also not sure how he would physically participate himself in combat, unless guns??)
I was also trying to imagine the background world setting, is it like a Western stable country with vigilant law enforcement etc or say one of those Indonesian Iko Uwais martial arts action films The Raid, The Night Comes For Us, with corrupt police or say some Brazilian favela or even a society teetering near full anarchy / warzone eg The Purge type films etc. In the back of my mind I have that wiki list of countries sorted by median age
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ageOne of the reasons why some people are interested in these figures and run logistic regressions is that age is a broad predictor of violence, instability hehe at both individual and macro aggregate level, younger / lower median age, more propensity / capability towards violence versus older mature institutions etc (if you think about it, a very violent murder society from a Gompertz-Makeham survivability sense would be biased against many old people existing etc) of course these correlations are always complex with many hidden common overlapping variables, but I think the level of "background societal violence" median age in your worldbuilding, ie whether it is an institutionally established mature society or young unstable criminal shantytown etc is also important etc.
anyway, gif related lol I had to look up the name of the stunt performer Yayan Ruhian? he is the only actor I remember from those Indonesian martial arts films lol I like his crazed look and HAIRSTYLE hehe. He is 56 ? and Indonesia's median age is apparently 31, so I guess that makes him old lol
