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RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Chris Ganale - 05-19-2015
(05-19-2015, 06:42 PM)Edgar Wrote: Edgar has many flaws.
- Edgar is a bit of a wounded birdie. He's had many failed relationships, and even more failed attempts at relationships. This has left him depressed and distraught. When he sees other people happy with their significant others, it doesn't make him bitter as much as it provokes tears. The thing is, with Mimiko around, maybe Edgar's sadness is blinding him to what he already has...
- His mixed heritage leads to a confusing sense of priority when it comes to women. The Seeker part of him tells him to bed the girl, the Keeper part of him says to respect her leadership.Â
- Edgar, having spent so much time introverted and anti-social, has had a lot of difficulties articulating his thoughts and emotions. This can make him hard to approach, sometimes.
Ganale and Edgar need to be drinking buddies.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Uther - 05-21-2015
Uther doesn't know anything about magic, he's new to advanced technology, and he doesn't fully get the morals and values of the world outside of Ishgard. It doesn't cause him to be lost and sad, but he just thinks they're rude, and assumes they're going to do the right thing. (Now he's been here long enough to assume they aren't going to do the right thing) He believes in fairness to a fault. He'd fight every opponent one at a time in a completely flat field with the same armor and weapons if he could.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - KHMarie - 05-21-2015
Serylda's largest flaws are probably how compassionate she feels about everything, and how oblivious she can be. She has a big heart, so killing often isn't always something easy for her to do. Her obliviousness to things can often cause her to be too trusting of people or not really notice obvious things. A perfect example of this is how she hadn't even noticed her parents growing tension toward her for over 6 years.Â
She's not an idiot by any means, she's actually very intelligent considering she lived within an aristocratic household. She can just be a tad slow with things and often very emotional. However she is aware of these issues, and actively tries to overcome them.
These issues are partly to blame from an aether imbalance she has due to having dark magic directly casted on her when she was a child. She lived obviously, albeit with some scars and memory loss, things like that tend to never leave people the same. I would never go as far as labeling her as mentally challenged, she can function perfectly fine on her own and has no other issues otherwise.Â
She is just as stated, oblivious/over-emotional.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Maia - 05-21-2015
Maia's biggest flaw is being too caring/empathic. I realize that may not immediately sound like a flaw, but in her position as unwitting leader, it means she makes every decision based on her heart as opposed to calculated logic. Although she tries not to show it, she is also easily hurt by others and has many moments of weakness and self-doubt when she's alone.
She lacks self-confidence due to her backstory and her lack of experience with the nuanced social practices of the civilized city-states. She thinks everyone else is The Best And Most Amazing Ever, and thinks little to nothing of her own accomplishments.
She's a workaholic who will literally work herself into fatigue or exhaustion if left to her own devices.
In addition, she's extremely trusting of just about everyone, even when they give her solid reasons not to. In the proven face of betrayal, she'll forgive the other person with little more than an apology, which has been taken advantage of on more than one occasion. She's also blind, but that only inhibits open world/dungeon exploration really. Otherwise, she just sticks around the Host Club and can handle routine work well enough. When she goes out to do other work, she has to rely on others for detailed or unfamiliar navigation, but can otherwise function with the use of her walking stick.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - allgivenover - 05-21-2015
(05-21-2015, 04:41 PM)Maia Wrote: I realize that may not immediately sound like a flaw, but in her position as unwitting leader, it means she makes every decision based on her heart as opposed to calculated logic.
You're confusing empathy with irrationality. They're separate things. You can be highly empathetic and rational at the same time.
EDIT: Also, a ton of "flaws" in this thread arn't flaws at all. They're personality traits.
EDIT EDIT: Also that first edit isn't a dig at you Maia. Being unable to make rational decisions because of your feelings is definitely a flaw.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Caspar - 05-21-2015
She has difficulty controlling a strong murderous impulse. Actually, it might be that she was born to use violence to solve her problems. She can act selflessly now, but largely due to wanting to please people close to her. Internally, she doesn't really care about strangers or their suffering, and often questions what exactly she's feeling and whether it has any real applicability to the situation she's in. Maybe her reaction is wrong, or too strong, or not strong enough. Virara doesn't really know for certain because she has neglected introspection and she was never trained to understand her feelings. So in effect two flaws, the inability to apply emotion to others except in vague, fairly uncontrolled ways, and the inability to fully understand them.
She has excessive emotional dependency and is stubborn about her goals. She focuses entirely on the Master she pursues and has yet to blossom into a fully fledged thinking being. In the sense of judging others and being wary, learning how to survive, she can be vicious and opportunistic, yet emotionally easy to blindside. She is naive in that sense.
A selfish desire to monopolize those she cares about. It is alien to her to think of others than herself, and she doesn't want them taken away due to her emotional immaturity. Actually, I guess this could all be summed up as emotional immaturity in general, lol. It's a common thing with me to make characters with powerful talent, intellect or skills, but fragile socialization or lack of common sense.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Marisa - 05-22-2015
Oh lord, where do we even begin? Â
-Can't read
-Overly trusting
-Halfbreed, got the worst qualities of both races
-Not very clever
-Socially retarded
-Has no particular talents
-Afraid of lalafellsÂ
-Gets lost easily
On the upside, she's very friendly!
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Viola - 06-03-2015
Being what she is, Memenu is fairly intelligent, but very naive due to how long she's been in existence.
She's rather gullible, very childish and above all; very short tempered. Almost to the point of being completely irrational in her dealings with others.
While she isn't "socially retarded", she does have serious problems not making a scene over her dislikes, though everything she sees she looks at with a child-like curiosity. Until it either angers her or she doesn't find it interesting.
She dislikes Elves in general and believes Miqo'te are a race created from lalafell who were unworthy of being lalafell.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Qhora Bajihri - 06-05-2015
(05-21-2015, 05:32 PM)allgivenover Wrote: EDIT: Also, a ton of "flaws" in this thread arn't flaws at all. They're personality traits.
True enough. Negativity isn't the same as weakness.
Qhora's bad at getting along socially. She's bad at self-soothing or maintaining calm. She's bad at empathy, at understanding why other people do things or why she should appreciate or care that they do things. She's bad at singing and art. She's angry and emotional, and while she's decent at general avoidance to dwell/indulge elsewhere out of the public eye, she can easily become part of a gang or instigate and encourage bullying of others if she's not alone in her rage in any given moment.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - M'isha - 07-05-2015
M'isha has flaws I think are typical of many teenager characters or in real life too!
• Narrow mind about what is good versus evil
• Idealized view of the world
• Emotional immaturity
• Dependency on role models vs. personal self-esteem
• Fear of the unknown
• Overly unaccepting that violence can be necessary
• Lack of ability to admit personal mistakes
• Focus on what makes her feel good vs. greater good in the world
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Jean L - 07-06-2015
Jade tends to put people on a pedestal and gets overwhelmed when they don't live up to his standards. He tends to use people he doesn't know too easily and has made someone else take the fall while he's made an escape. NO SENSE OF DIRECTION AT ALL. Lastly, and probably the most damming for him, he carries grudges way too easy.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - LadyRochester - 07-06-2015
Phew! Where to start? She has more flaws than positive traits, or at least seems to. Here we go:
She's highly irresponsible: Work? What is this blasphemy!? She can't work. Work is for poor people! All the dirty jobs and responsabilities she has to accomplish are always dumped on someone else she hires or sways. Unless it has to do with her research, she really wants nothing to do with it.
She's self-destructive and mildly obsessive: She has one priority, her pursuit of knowledge. Everything else comes second. Deep inside, she doesn't care about herself at all, and she hardly seems to care about what others would go through should she die. She lives inside a bubble where all she sees is "lalala I can do whatever I want and everyone is happy lalala"
She's hypocritical and reckless: She always frowns upon those who would be quick to throw away their lives for causes she deems "unworthy". To her, nothing is worth dying for--Unless you're her, of course.
She's manipulative and (usually) selfish: People are tools, tools that are meant to help her achieve her ends.
She's distrustful and cynical to the core: Tear down one of her masks and you will only find another. In her eyes, everyone is out to harm her, so she will put up endless walls.
She's secretive and scheming: She always has a plan, amd she keeps quite a few skeletons in her closet. Are you close to her? Chances are she already has plotted a plan to ruin or terminate you, should you betray her (or become a problem.)
I made her sound awful, but she does have a few redeeming qualities. It all ties down to the fact she's just a child who fears losing her freedom or having to cope with more pain and guilt. She's a true neutral character, so while she does a lot of morally questionable things, she tries to avoid harming others if she can, and frowns upon cruelty.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Viola - 07-06-2015
Viola's not one for words; she's graceful yet to the point. Due to her quiet nature, she doesn't often engage in conversation if at all unless it's with her "father".
Though her biggest problem is her quick-to-engage-into-violence personality. Despite years of mental conditioning, her will to kill hasn't been extinguished one bit. To make matters worse, her interactions with others is very limited.
That isn't to say she's constantly thinking about the next kill; she's usually thinking of where to find her next point in her objectives and these often thoughts can lead her wanderings into places she wasn't exactly looking for.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Gwenneth - 07-06-2015
Reima is...too trusting to a fault, and leaves herself open to being taken advantage of by those who would exploit her kindness.. In her desire to make those around her happy, she usually ends up forgetting her own wants and needs, and ends up becoming the proverbial doormat or running herself ragged in the process. She prefers to bottle up her own troubles so as not to “burden othersâ€, which leads to depression and anxiety and perpetuates the issue. She has, admittedly, a difficult time managing her stress and will seek solitude before assistance.
She can be infuriatingly headstrong, especially when it comes to aiding others or in doing what she feels to be right, and is like to put herself straight in the path of danger through her good intentions. Once she gets an idea in her head or finds something to cling to and fight for, it’s difficult to make her budge on the matter without protest. On the other hand, shyness and bouts of uncertainty will keep many of her thoughts internalized. Some also find Reima to be too cheerful to the point of being absurd, and assume that she’s just running from reality.
RE: What are your Character Flaws? - Ashe - 07-07-2015
Lawlz Ashe...
Uuuuh.
1) He's half blind. Â He can see aether out of that eye but it's essentially a blind spot in any normal combat.
2) He's a mage who doesn't have an inherent ability to use magic (not naturally talented). Â He casts like a Black Mage (which is bad) and is aware of his weakness as a mage.
3) He's stupidly booksmart but has the common sense of a 5 year old. Â He is impulsive in his decision making which has gotten him and others almost killed because of his mistakes. Â He's the type of person who would sell his soul to a voidsent just to see what would happen (which has happened....).Â
4) He's kind of a hypocrite. Â He will call others out for their faults even though he probably did the same thing 5 minutes ago.
5) Controlling...he doesn't know how to express himself well and doesn't know how to act around people he is supposedly close to. Â He will try to control them because of that...and get mad when they don't act like how he wanted them to. Â
The list goes on but I can't do words right now.