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How to write HEROIC TRAITS AND THEIR FAULTS

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Accepting – too accepting; willing to excuse extreme behavior

Adaptable – used to traveling from situation to situation; may not be able to fully adapt/live in a permanent situation

Affable – accidentally befriends the wrong sort of people; pushes to befriend everyone

Affectionate –inappropriate affection

Alert – constantly on edge; paranoid

Altruistic – self-destructive behavior for the sake of their Cause

Apologetic – apologizes too much; is a doormat; guilt-ridden

Aspiring – becomes very ambitious; ruthless in their attempts to reach goals

Assertive – misunderstood as aggressive; actually aggressive; others react negatively when they take command all the time

Athletic – joints weakened from exercise; performance-enhancing drug abuse; competitive

Brave – engages in risky behavior; exposes others to risky situations

Busy – overworked; no time for play

Calm – do not want their sense of security disturbed; turn a blind eye

Carefree – apathetic about life; naïve

Careful – paranoid

Charismatic – uses their charm for evil; convinces people to do questionable things; gains an unexpected cult following

Complex –difficult for others to understand and/or get close to

Confident – arrogant

Cooperative – submissive

Creative – lazy; procrastinator

Cultured – arrogant; elitist

Curious – sticks their nose where it doesn’t belong

Dainty – delicate; easily broken

Decisive – refuses to change their mind

Dedicated – dogmatic

Determined – refuses to recognize a no-win scenario

Diligent – perfectionist; neat freak

Disciplined – by-the-book; need standards

Dramatic – overdramatic; no one takes them seriously; see life as a game

Dreamy – cannot focus on the present; thinks only in abstract

Dry – negative; smartass

Eager – hyperactive; refuse to follow through; blindly rushes through actions

Eccentric – not understood by others; strange; cannot socialize; cannot read body language

Empathetic – bleeding heart; try to humanize everything