Is it possible for a Druid, who otherwise reveres/enjoys nature completely, to dislike bugs? To obviously understand their place in the natural order of things, but to personally not want them around him? (Maybe he's arachnaphobic, or got bit by skeeters a lot as a kid, or got attacked by a swarm once and has PTSD from the experience)? [In example... might use his powers to repel bugs while he sleeps, but not going so far as wiping them out... in action he respcts their place, but just doesn't want that place directly near him]
This could be asked in other ways as well... a druid that doesn't like the desert, or is annoyed by hail storm, or think maple trees smell funny.
Yes?
Why wouldn't they?
Can't see why not.
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I can assure you that animals have no particular love for crawling/buzzing/biting insects, so I see no reason that the average druid couldn't hate bugs as much as anyone.
I can even imagine a druid who doesn't even like nature, but is reluctantly called by it.
He hates the rain. The sun is too bright. His animal companion annoys him with it's cheerful nature and it's strange awareness of the quest that it has dragged him on. Bugged by bugs, is allergic to flowers, finds camping uncomfortable.
But nature has chosen him, and sent a badger to pester him until he succeeds in his quest.
Think Marvin the Paranoid Android, but with a cheerful badger and visions from nature.
I can even imagine a druid who doesn't even like nature, but is reluctantly called by it.
He hates the rain. The sun is too bright. His animal companion annoys him with it's cheerful nature and it's strange awareness of the quest that it has dragged him on. Bugged by bugs, is allergic to flowers, finds camping uncomfortable.
But nature has chosen him, and sent a badger to pester him until he succeeds in his quest.
Think Marvin the Paranoid Android, but with a cheerful badger and visions from nature.
You have to 'revere' nature to keep druid powers. Might be tricky if you hate it.
As to hating one particular aspect and revering the rest? Probably fine.
I can even imagine a druid who doesn't even like nature, but is reluctantly called by it.
He hates the rain. The sun is too bright. His animal companion annoys him with it's cheerful nature and it's strange awareness of the quest that it has dragged him on. Bugged by bugs, is allergic to flowers, finds camping uncomfortable.
But nature has chosen him, and sent a badger to pester him until he succeeds in his quest.
Think Marvin the Paranoid Android, but with a cheerful badger and visions from nature.
You have to 'revere' nature to keep druid powers. Might be tricky if you hate it.
As to hating one particular aspect and revering the rest? Probably fine.
Perhaps he deeply respects nature or takes more of the natural scholar approach as suggested in Kingmaker, but still dislikes actually being immersed in it or specific aspects. That or he could be one of those weird Cthulu-esqe druids who have everything about Golarion's Nature and will talk about how great things are "in the cool spaces between the Stars where dark is light and light is dark... and it doesn't bloody rain all the time!"
You have to 'revere' nature to keep druid powers. Might be tricky if you hate it.
As to hating one particular aspect and revering the rest? Probably fine.
Well, in this scenario, it is an anthropomorphized force that has commanded him on whatever quest. One presumes accepting said commandment qualifies as reverence.
This could also manifest in Nature nudging him when he might stray, like plot (in)convenient rain and getting bitten by bedbugs and such. Not that the GM needs to be involved: bedbugs, poison ivy rashes, etc. are all easily self-inflicted role-playing and would put the fear of god (Nature?) right back into this druid.
This build also kind of assumes that the badger is the leader and the druid is the sidekick, despite the druid's supposed superiority.
Also potential funny: cowardly eagerness when combating plants that stand in the way of the quest.