I'm currently re-watching Young Justice, and I love how Personality/ Story flaws are used and meshed into the wider narrative
Roy Harper (both instances) is a very Driven character, whose actions shape seasons 1 v& 2.
Then, you've got a few Dark Secrets (Miss Martian's real appearance, Artemis lineage), Family ties (artemis?) and Addiction (Superboy, with the "shields" provided by luthor) being used as leverage by the bad guys.
I sometimes think about it in terms of a real world analogy. Say you were raised Catholic by very Catholic parents. At university you fell away from the church and became a Wiccan. You know that your super religious parents would not approve. How do you react? How do your parents react.
Do you just not make waves--say grace when you're over at their place for dinner, go to mass with them on occasion, and let them believe that you're still a believer despite the fact that you're not. Even if you think they probably know you're not a good Catholic, you play along and don't actively burst their bubble. You don't force them to confront your beliefs and let them (and their friends) continue to pretend you fit in with their image of how you ought to be? That's the equivalent of taking no flaw in my mind. You're still Wiccan and not a Catholic, but it doesn't cause any external problems for you. (Your own internal turmoil is on you.)
Do let them know you're no longer Catholic but don't make a big deal of it. Maybe you go to Christmas mass with them, even if that's the only time each year that you go to a Catholic church. You might not say grace at meals when you're at their house but you sit quietly while they do. When you get married it's not a Christian service, but it's tame enough that your parents and other Catholic relatives aren't too shocked. You don't rub your parents' noses in your beliefs and while you're being honest with them, you might even allow their friends to still think you're a good Catholic for the sake of your parents. Your parents give you disappointed looks and try and urge you back to your faith. They might keep inviting you to church or sending you prayer cards. It's a minor annoyance, but its manageable. I see that as being a minor flaw.
Or, do you make your Wiccan faith a big deal and be strident about it? When your parents ask you to go to Christmas mass you loudly refuse and tell them all about how you're celebrating Yule instead. If they say grace at a meal, you make sure to follow up with your own non-Christian prayer. You debate paganism versus Christianity at the Thanksgiving table. Your parents may begin to feel like you're disrespecting their faith and your relationship with them may deteriorate. You may find that you don't get an invite to your cousin's wedding or the like. It's not terrible, but you do have to deal with difficulties resulting from your faith. This is more akin to a major flaw in my book.
I could do the same sort of analysis but assume you behave exactly the same but change how your parents react. For no flaw, they're very understanding and accept that you follow an alternate faith despite it being very different from their own. For a minor flaw, they wish you were still a Catholic and continue to try and bring you back to the faith, though without going overboard. For a major flaw, they condemn you for your faith and maybe even cut you out of their lives.
In all three cases, your personal beliefs and dedication to your faith may be the same. However, how it effects your life will be different depending on the circumstances.
Note that taking the Pagan flaw measn that your Character wants to have stories about it being a hindrance.
You don't HAVE to take the flaw, even if you're pagan, if you don't want it to be a major thing.
I have a Bjornaer character who is a pagan, but he doesn't make a fuss about it, and therefore doesn't have that Story Flaw.
In our current Saga, we are in the wilderness of Novgorod, where many villages still pray to the old gods, so Pagan is not worth a flaw.
Being Pagan - as a flaw - means that the character is pretty obvious about it, through trinkets, his behaviour and his talk. In most European city of the 13th century, being so obvious about your non-christianity is looking for trouble. Consider the Albigean Crusade...
So you might want to tweak if it is worth a Major, minor or no flaw depending on your setting.
People may want to know that in the Definitive Edition, Pagan has been changed from a Story Flaw to a Personality Flaw, and can be Major or Minor.
Yup. I had seen that change made way back nearly a year ago or more when I first looked at a draft of the manuscript. I just couldn't tell people about it.
Let me put it this way- I went from identifying as protestant to wiccan in 1990- the actual journey away a multi-year process but the date i identified is of great significance to discussing this flaw.
Immediately my parents sat me down for a two hour lecture on where i had gone wrong. My family began to rift away, and the opportunities that came from their social network evaporated. I didn't debate the issue at thanksgiving, I refused to say grace but I didn't make a production out of it. I didn't go to church, even at Christmas, and I wore t-shirts that proclaimed "born again pagan", and wore pentagram jewelry. At first, aside from the lecture, my parents decided to treat it as a phase I would grow out of, as if I had joined a heavy metal band instead of changing my religion. After a decade my mother broke down in front of me and asked me to stop wearing pentagrams in front of her because it made her feel like I was going to hell. I switched to septagrams instead because she didn't have the same visceral reaction to those. I have no contact with my siblings at this point, and every time I have sought advice on how to find a position in my field I have been told that I need to go to the right church for networking.
This is in the modern day midwest. Which for as much as it sucks, still has certain advantages over 13th century Europe where being an outspoken pagan could potentially mean being burned or hung, most definitely excluded you from being in any kind of good company in terms of the Nobility and especially the church crowd, who were largely siblings of the nobility. Poorly educated peasants were likely to blame you for their crop failures, or a misborn calf, and stillborn children, which were not uncommon, would provoke particular wrath. Your only protection was to be both outside the community and of great use to the community- a even then "outspoken" was likely a bridge to far. be the crazy hermit outside of town who knows a bit more than he should about healing and never goes to church. Feel free to invoke the names of the ancient gods- everyone did this while swearing. After all it's not a sin to take a false god's name in vain. Do not under any circumstances say anything negative about the church though (individual members are fair game),
The point is it is hard enough to be a outspoken pagan in the modern (or at least 1990s) midwest, but it would be infinitely harder in a period which had a much weaker commitment to ideals like tolerance, or religious freedom, or "innocent until proven guilty". The crusades against the Cathars, the 30 year war a couple of centuries later, were wars fought over doctrinal differences with other Christians (and a few more motives mixed in). You are planning to stand outside that grouping entirely, and without even a community of numerical support like Judaism?
To me what is unrealistic about the flaw is the expectation you have survived up to this point.
Have not seen the DE version yet. I am not buying it at this point exclusively because my family tells me I am very difficult to shop for Yule presents for.