User blog comment:Unrulyruby100/Character category and potential category change/@comment-16533050-20140211043339

Sorry to hear you were ill, Molotov! Hope you're doing better.

Anyway, nice job with the tree and it clears up a lot. Thank you for all the hard work!

With regards to the neutral characters, I'd have to say that basically anyone that doesn't instantly attack Corvo/Daud without provocation should be neutral. To me that would be most aristocrats, survivors, and even certain gangs depending on the situation.

There are of course exceptions to this: such as when Daud is disguised as an Overseer. None of the guards attack him but he isn't who they think he is either. Plus special individual cases as well, such as Watch Officer Thorpe. He is a Watch Officer, but he could either be an ally (Corvo) or neutral (Daud) depending on the situation.

This also helps in the case of Lord Shaw, who I see as neutral (being an aristocrat) but he will technically attack you if you're hostile as opposed to other aristocrats who just run and cower.

I'd also lump in anything that has a more animalistic bent, as most creatures of that sort are not doing things out of malicious intent, but rather out of a sense of food/defending their territory - wolfhounds, rats, river krusts, etc. Theoretically, this would also include Weepers as they don't necessarily 'seek out' Corvo to attack him.

I hope I explained my thoughts well enough. I'm always rather long-winded and may not have given my position clearly.