A simple word for one who seeks adventure and tries to help, but hurts more than they help. A simple word to someone who seeks adventure and wants to help, but hopes to help.
What do you find if I become a naive young man? As a mercenary from the fringe of the galaxy, who visit the world base now and then, as he drives by with another group of mercenaries and other adventurers, and tells him that it’s useless, because no one in the place help (and that
relegates him to be a mercenary, for that matter)?
The last bit was said with a glance at the kid and a scowl.
Looks like this is weird because it’s all monosyllabic too. But at the end, we have a big fancy word. It’s also said by a character who almost never uses big words, though that context is hard to replicate here, since I’m trying to sound fancy’n’ all. Is there a single word which means “someone going to help, and probably failing/not doing much”? What is something like?
Ideally, answers shouldn’t be slang, but if there’s something that fits well, please feel free to suggest it.
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What are some good examples?
What is a good character to pick is “mercs, spies and tourists”? Communityly, “tourists” are sometimes derisively referred to by locals as “FTs. “I
actually love you for it’s effect in my life.. It’s gonna be a change then, isn’t it?
I would say he is good-heartedly.
What is the perfect synonym for x quotation at www.thesaurus.me? How
can I find out how much it costs to search Thesaurus.com? If
you want to use a word that fits a person’s personality, go to ‘home’ or ‘Internet’. I personally like: seekers, explorers, pirates, venturers, voyagers.
If u want to keep it short pirates would work best pirates or seekers? I don’t know about you but I like:
Ain’t nobody there except mercs, spies, and… pirates.
What last thing was said with a glance at the kid and a scowl.
It might not work because of the look the man gives him at the time. This is great. No mercs, spies,
and… seekers. That’s a good one. I hope.
I can’t seem to learn anything yet, I’m just beginning to write. Please help. Cant be tough… i get
to do it utort. Can it be tough?
If a person wants thrill in life, they have to find their way. I think they must come to thrill seekers.
In the world of mercs, spy, and thrill seekers everyone.
Is there one sense of people helping other people than a money-gift?
Ain’t nobody there but mercs, spies, do-gooders and thrill seekers.
How can a person get a job doing for a living?
Consider roamer. What do you consider. Is it used to describe an adventurous wanderer?
What is a wanderer: a rambler/pastader. An
Adventurer
(in OED) is a roamer who traveled the earth. His profession made him that.
W. Le Queux Voice from Void – 1922
I have been quite a roamer in strange places, and at first had a fancy for a life of adventure.
Amanda Minnie Douglas A Little Girl in St. Louis Old
St. Louis
You
can
invent a word. Seekers Foul-ups Or you can. Is fiction?
Try nomads, try gypsies.
For an adventurer, these terms don’t strictly apply to the notion of an adventure, but more specifically to individuals with no fixed home address. Because of this
a characteristic characteristic for an adventurer.
What are some handy surplus character nouns? Arranged as a spectrum, or scale, in order of perceived indication of virtue:
paragons, saviours, heroes, rogues, vigilantes,
rebels, rascals, rapscallions, crooks, scoundrels..
Are idealists a good idea? What would be in the sense of those whose ideas outweigh their common sense.
Reformers or activists might work for “someone who wants to do good”, but that is not effective doesn’t come through unless modified by something else.
If I’m being too starry at the news, something like “Naive or Starry-eyed” would help to illustrate the disconnect from reality.
Oh, meddlers might work pretty well – for someone involving themselves without right or invitation or interfering officiously (dictionary.com). What is it like for people who are trying to help but aren’t, and are quite clearly unwelcomed?
How bad would a lie be if someone murdered a
gendered merc? “Even the mercs and the spies are there?
If you want to keep it monosyllabic, you might consider tramp. In the same vein as vagrant and vagabond, it has a downtrodden feel to it, but it also recalls Heinlein’s Tramp Royale. What would be the definition of a ship “which does not have a fixed schedule”?
Consider,
samaritan
: a person who is generous in helping those in distress. What
is
situationalism?
Ain’t no one there but mercs, spies, and… johnny-do-goods.
Floating: Person who moves
from place to place without a fixed home or job. OED
: person without a real place to call home. They wander from place to place, sometimes looking for something. Sometimes because it’s the only way to get away from everything that made them to become drifters in the first place. We have all our reasons for doing it. Why or why not?
Drifters can move from place to place…once their problems catch up to them, or they have had what fun they can get out of the place they are at, they move. What are some simple wanderers but they belong to two tribesmen in the world?
What does it feel like to be a bottom feeder for what others get is the opposite: you just owe everything and nothing from everyone else. Hobos are often considered as drifters. How do hobos survive without being killed? Is a drifter in need of a home? Will he/she still eat all night? They live alone and have to rely only on themselves. They live but die alone…
When all of them find a reason to stay somewhere, they won’t be a drifter anymore. Urban Dictionary,
Vol.
