AOT characters toxic traits;-
includes; ymir, historia, hange, bertholdt, marco
TW; generally unpleasant headcanons but nothing specific i can think of except for mentions of potentially abusive behavior
safe (no racism or misogyny) minus internalized homophobia !
- generally very jealous and doesnt communicate about her feelings, leading to her bottling them up and exploding in later contexts
- really critical of other people especially if theyre better off than her. she has a habit of giving people stank eye and making backhanded comments
- cultivates her outer image to look friendly and pretty but doesn't put any work into introspection and trying to strengthen any of her (very few) genuine connections. her soft girl appearance is literally just an appearance.
- Historia is incredibly desperate to be liked and feel wanted/desirable but lacks the awareness to stop feeding herself unhealthy examples of beauty and charisma
- ymir is incredibly insecure, leading them to severely underestimating their worth and capabilities. they unintentionally drag others down by assuming their efforts produce worse/less results by default
- allows people to step on them because theyre scared of people abandoned. its all really subtle and theyre so used to being exploited by those they care about that at they think its normal/understandable
- allows/excuses bullying unless its them or their crush/partner being bullied
- ymir is generally bad at holding their partner/crush to realistic standards. they also think their partner is incapable of doing wrong and its never justifiable for their partner to be inconvenienced/hurt.
- gets so into their hyperfixations or interests that they tend to neglect the people around them and its not cute. they're too busy investing in their hobbies to bother listening to anyones grievances or pay significant attention.
- kinda uses their neurodivergence as an excuse to be incredibly insensitive and avoid adapting or accommodate for their friends needs.
- worst of all, Hange believes neithee of these things cause as much harm as they do. the tension bubbles under the surfice and Hange is really good at just not caring if they hurt someone. it only ever occurs to them when their friends slowly leave (and even then they never think they treated them that bad)
- he's not really knowledgeable about other peoples struggles. for example, he wont validate anyones emotions if he hasnt experienced them himself.
- because of his anxiety, he shuts down new experiences and avoids opportunities. this is really frustrating when his friends/family want to do something other than exist together in separate rooms
- hes so used to compartmentalizing and rationalizing all his emotions that he no longer reserves much empathy. hes incredibly detached from his feelings and it very obviously bleeds into his relationships and causes a lot of hurt. generally people will start to think of him as emotionally unavailable and therefore unreliable.
- mostly just a chunk of internalized homophobia. constantly self critical and hyper aware of falling into any gay/homophobic stereotypes. because of this, he sometimes forces himself to be someone hes not just so people dont stereotype him
- as previously touched on, Marco is very occupied with other people's thoughts of him. even if someone's already contextualized him in some sort of way, itll eat him up and he'll waste so much energy trying to change their image of him
- sort of downplays other peoples pain and experiences because emotional vulnerability overwhelms him. he also doesnt want people to ruminate on their negative feelings but the execution does so much more harm than good.
- offers unhelpful advice based on his (not universal experiences) completely unprompted
