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1. What is one thing people might find intolerable about them?
The rambling.
Airmid talks and rants and rambles about things she cares about, but other people don’t. Furthermore, she’s terrible at picking up social cues that let her know when to stop rambling, so generally she rambles until she suddenly realises that she’s rambling. Airmid infodumps on people to the point where it can be almost overwhelming.
Otherwise, Airmid’s interests might strike others as being rather pretentious. I’m talking science, philosophy, classical literature (like Greek and Roman stuff)... you know, academic ‘boring, stuffy, smart people’ stuff. She’s not trying to be pretentious, but when her interests are paired with her habit of organising things, making sure everything is correct/in the right place/in order/accurate/you get the point, to some people, she comes off as a pseudo-intellectual know-it-all.
4. Any addictions?
Probably her pyromania. Airmid finds a lot of comfort in an open fire, carrying a box of matches and a lighter around whenever she goes. To Airy, fire means life, and life is the thing that’s precious to her most of all, since she sacrifices it in her destiny. Paired with that is her habit of collecting candles (and lots of candles), as well as her love of explosions.
15. How might they be ignorant or prejudiced?
A lot, actually.
Let’s see, Airmid is white, with very Eurocentric views on the world. The types of books she read are very academic, and seen as “intellectual”.
Despite being “enlightened” by science, Airmid is still be ignorant. Growing up with reading centuries of literature written by privileged European white men, Airmid didn’t have much experience with representation. Sure, she read furiously into Marie Curie and Cecilia Payne, but due to the narrow scope of books she read, her historical and literacy idols were pretty much white European men. That led her to have a very... dudebro-y attitude to life, to put it that way.
Before Ever After High, Airmid was practically unaware of feminist issues and LGBTA+ rights, thinking that women and people in the queer community should stop being annoying and just deal with life. However, as she moved through school, she made friends who were feminists and LGBTA+, and slowly began to be educated on these issues.
That was a rather illuminating experience for the young physician who began to realise no matter what people told her, prejudice still existed in society. Later, Airmid even began to identity as ace and agender (and as a feminist).
One of the things Airmid isn’t so ignorant about is the prejudice against people with developmental disorders and other disabilities, whether physical or mental. This is mainly because she is one of these people, and had to work hard to overcome any internalised hate she had about herself.
She’s definitely very ignorant about race issues though. Although Airmid would definitely not try to be racist, she’s still been conditioned by the fabric of society to say some ignorant stuff. As I said, she has a very Eurocentric mindset.
And although Airmid is trying to make a commentary on the prejudice against people with developmental disorders, and against the prejudice against women (especially queer women) in the scientific community, Airmid still falls trap to some of the toxic beliefs she was exposed to in her youth.
Maybe eventually Airmid will break out of her white, Eurocentric and classist shell. She’s still learning, after all.