Hindrance: Fixation

Value:
1

Description:
Your pony is completely fixated on something. It may be something abstract, like a lifelong goal, or something concrete, like a specific item or type of item, or even another pony (which can get pretty damn creepy). Whatever it is, your pony finds it absolutely difficult to stop thinking about that person, item, or goal when they don’t currently have it, or them, with them, or if they’re not working on it in the case of those who fixate on a goal. They’re absolutely obsessed. As a result, they have trouble focusing on anything else. Ponies with a fixation are positively despondent unless they are in possession of the item, with the person, or somehow working towards the goal upon which they are so narrowly focused. If for some reason the goal becomes impossible, or the person dies, or the item (if it’s one of a kind) is destroyed, then it is more common for the pony to fixate on something else than it is for them to snap out of it. The only way to snap most ponies out of this state of mind is to get them what they want, and it’s rarely a permanent fix. You might describe them as having a mental addiction to the person, goal or item. Oh, and players: don’t think your pony can just fixate on something like survival, eating, or something else necessary out of day to day life. A fixation should be a tight focus on an unnatural or unusual thing. A scrap of changeling chitin, beating somepony in a position of great power at a game of sport, flying a certain spacecraft, or finding a long-lost friend or parent are all good examples of fixations. Revenge on those who have wronged your character in some way is a fantastic fixation in terms of its ability to drive an entire story line.