True Neutral

The final alignment to discuss is neutral on both axes, which we call True Neutral. This alignment is also one which often confuses people. If you think about neutrality as an axis that a character doesn't care about, then True Neutral characters care about nothing.

There are a few ways that a person could care about nothing. One is to be a total nihilist and simply think that nothing matters and that there's no point in life. Another is to be a paranoid coward, afraid to do anything or to trust anyone. One could be a zen master who cares not for the futility of struggle in life and accepts that things come and go and that nothing is more special than the other.

If you think of neutrality as level-headedness, then True Neutral characters are the calmest, most rational people you can meet. They will waver between the two ends of the spectrum for both axes, never really reaching any of the extremes.

They are pretty harmless dudes. That said, the one thing I might expect them to stay strong about is self-preservation. It's easy to accept and justify death in general, but it's harder to willingly let your own come to you.

There reaches a point where a True Neutral character can be pushed to do something extreme. But that moves into the subject of alignment shift, which is a subject for another day.