#positive traits

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Lesser-Known Autistic Traits

Lil Penguin Studios/Autism Happy Place

[byoldervine]

I’ve had people ask for more examples of traits that can be good or bad, so I’ll add some more here:

Perfectionism -> Never being good enough

Distrusting -> Less chance of betrayal

Cold and unemotional -> Practical and level-headed

Bubbly -> Annoying and childish

Secretive -> Trustworthy

Selfless -> Seeks outside validation

Altruistic -> They don’t believe they can ever be liked so they settle for being useful

[survivintothrivin]

POSITIVE TRAITS

BOLD ➝  always   /  usually  applies . ITALIC ➝  only  applies  situationally   /   sometimes  .

adaptable | adroit | adventurous | affable | affectionate | allocentric | alluring | ambitious | astute | benevolent | candid | charismatic | clever | compassionate | compelling | conciliatory | confident | conscientious | courteous | cunning | curious | creative | dauntless | dexterous | dignified | diligent | discreet | dutiful | earnest | elegant | eloquent | empathetic | enthusiastic | ethereal | exuberant | fortunate | free-spirited | fun-loving | funny | gallant | generous | gentle | genuine | good-natured | gracious | green-thumb | gregarious | hard-working | hardy | harmonious | heroic | honest | honorable | hospitable | humble | humorous | illustrious | imaginative | incisive | independent | intelligent | innovative | insightful | insouciant | introspective | intuitive | jovial | logical | loyal | lucky | magnanimous | mature | methodical | merciful | modest | motivated | nurturing | observant | open-minded | optimistic | orderly | patient | perspicacious | perceptive | popular | powerful | pragmatic | principled | proactive | protective | prudent | punctual | raconteur | rational | reliable | resilient | resourceful | respectful | reverent | romantic | sagacious | scholarly | self-effacing | steadfast | strong | studious | tactful | tolerant | understanding | venturesome | versatile | vivacious | virtuous | warm | whimsical | willful | wise | witty

[cj-etc]

I saw you do negative traits can I get a positive version please if that's not to much if not that's totally okay 😊

Sure!! I was planning on making a post like this anyway!

Positive Traits for Your Characters

Always willing to help others

Frequent complimenter

Supports others during hard times

Selfess (to a certain point)

Enthusiastic

Patient

Friendly & easygoing

Hopeful

Loving towards themself and others

Cautious (especially if their friends/family aren't)

Hardworking

Adaptable/Flexible

Calm & collected under stress

Comforting

Focused

Honest

Fair

Passionate about their/others' interests

Respectful

Willing to learn/experience new things

Charismatic

Independent (again, to a point)

Willing to accept help

Trusting

Ambitious (in the right ways)

Generous

Observant

Polite

Reliable

Resourceful

Brave (can be interpreted in many ways!)

Accepting of others and their differences

Creative/Out-of-the-box thinker

Funny/amusing

+ so many more!! Feel free to add more :)

[wellnesswithkuhtrees]

Positive Affirmations for the woman guarding her heart:

It is okay to guard my heart as I have been instructed to do.

I embrace kind words with a secure and humble mind.

I give thanks to those who help me, ensuring they feel the gratitude I possess.

I teach others how to treat me with respect by only surrounding myself with people who are respectful.

I say, "No," when I need to.

I desire healthy bonds, so I form and maintain them.

I seek to create a calm environment for myself and those I cherish.

I embrace reality, prioritizing what brings peace and joy.

Those around me genuinely love me.

My loved ones are deserving of healthy me.

I show kindness to everyone.

I dress myself in courage as I approach the day.

I speak kindly to myself day and night.

I send the right signals when communicating my likes and dislikes.

I use my words to inform others on what I deem appropriate behavior.

I journal and write about things I enjoy as well as experiences I did not enjoy, to keep record of what I experience.

I invite others to share a laugh at healthy, clean humor.

I carry peace with me to work, to play, and at home.

I use clear language to communicate how I feel about my friends.

I allow others to buy nice things for me from time to time, I can appreciate gifts from others.

[matcha-and-honey1]

Do all things with love and you’ll be repaid with kindness tote bag 🥰

[gallantgautier]

Ooc, what are Sylvains most positive traits and strengths?

ooc: I’m so sorry this took me forever to answer, I got distracted. And when the mun gets distracted they forget about things sitting in their inbox. But considering the sheer amount of Sylvain angst I’ve been writing, both in threads and in meta, I feel now is a good time to get into this. Under a cut that I stealth edited in because this got long.

Strangely, this topic is actually a little harder to talk about than his flaws, and it probably has a lot to do with the fact that those flaws are so deeply intertwined with the positive aspects of his character that, as far as examination goes, they get overshadowed by the act of actually unravelling his personality to get to them, it’s what makes Sylvain such an interesting character, really.

That, and I think one of Sylvain’s biggest strengths of character is that, despite it all, despite his disillusions, insecurity, bitterness and inner conflict, he doesn’t let it completely consume him.

Let’s briefly touch on a big aspect of Sylvain Meta I have been focusing on a lot lately, both in previous character examinations and in my head because damn if the bug hasn’t bitten me hard. I won’t get too much into it, there’s a whole lot over here if you’re interested, but it focuses on the negative and that’s not what we’re doing today.

Miklan.

All that stuff considered; it would be so easy for Sylvain to hate Miklan. (He says he does. He doesn’t.) It would be so easy for him to hate the world, and I suppose he does in a way. He hates the world that’s put so much stock into Crests and those who bare them. In general, it would be so easy for Sylvain to hate everything and lash out.

Yet he doesn’t.

Now, an argument can be made that he lashes in, and he does, in a big way. It results in his interactions with people – mainly women – being fake. It results in his lack of trust in people in general, evidenced in that, if we don’t include Byleth seeing as they can reach S rank in all their supports across avatar gender choice, Sylvain only has four supports that go higher than B. Only two of those go to A+, and they’re both with people he’s known all his life.

And yet, Sylvain is very genuine in his friendships. Sure, there’s a colouring of playing around, and while he may not fully trust other people in his life he calls friends and may never let them see the person underneath, he cares and it shows.

I present to you exhibit A; his support with Bernadetta.

Now, this is a subject we’re probably all close to, receiving praise for your writing is forever going to be awkward, but we can see in this conversation that he isn’t just saying “Yeah! This is really good!” Sylvain makes a point of highlighting the details he enjoyed, and more importantly, why he enjoyed them. He also states in his letter that he hopes he inspires Berie to write more, and when we consider how little Sylvain thinks of himself, it’s hard to imagine that he’d think of his opinions as ‘inspirational.’ We can conclude, then, that Sylvain is sharing his thoughts not because he thinks anyone would be interested in hearing them, rather that he thinks having them heard will help.

Let’s move on to his second positive trait. He’s very insightful.

Now, we all know he’s smart, way smarter than he’d like to let anyone think. We see this easily in his supports with Annette, not just how easily he understands the text she’s studying, but also his recognition that the formula is over-complicated. It’s proof that he really does understand the subject and hasn’t just memorised it.

But that’s a display of his intelligence, not insightfulness, that comes later in the support with “Guys like me who hate hard work and sorta get by on our wits? It all falls apart eventually.” Now, I suppose this is a somewhat weak example, as it’s more self-awareness than insight, still, I do think it’s a bit of both, to know that he can’t just get by on luck forever.

Still on this topic, but in radically different context, I’d like to point your attention to Sylvain’s support conversation with Dedue, where he comes to the conclusion that the people of Duscur are innocent. Now, Three Houses intentionally halts certain supports from progressing if they contain story spoilers or if they require certain events to have occurred before them, either because the support itself references those events, or so that the player has context to understand the gravity of what happens in the support.

As such, this statement from Sylvain can happen incredibly early in the game, and potentially is one of the first occasions where a student alludes to a third party pulling some strings. Now, Sylvain doesn’t go that far in his conclusion, doesn’t even have a conclusion, really. But the fact that he even questions it, that he’s looked at the evidence and found that something doesn’t add up, speaks for an insight that, so far, I haven’t really found in the “supporting cast” for lack of a better term.

The final positive trait I want to bring up, one that he doesn’t attempt to hide because honestly he has no need to by virtue of the reasoning I’m about to get into; how important promises are to him, how lightly he doesn’t make them, and how he keeps every single one. He doesn’t hide this simply because it’s a rare occurrence that only happens around people he trusts.

I’ve trawled through Sylvain supports, the word “promise” comes up a grand total of 13 times across all 17 characters (that’s a total of 42 separate conversations.) You’d think for a guy who is personified as being a cheat would make a helluva lot of empty promises, wouldn’t you?

That number isn’t even accounting for the fact that half of the time in these supports, it isn’t even him saying the word.

Let’s discount one of these right off the bat. He says it, but it’s to Hilda, and half of it is a joke, where he tells her to “stop lying, take responsibility, and fall madly in love with him.” He asks her to promise him these things in exchange for forgiveness for taking a tongue lashing from the librarian that was meant for her. None of this is overly important to my point, save the fact that it’s the one time where the word doesn’t carry all that much weight, but it’s not an exception to the rule and still a reinforcement as he’s not the one making it.

Two other occasions I want to bring up next are his supports with Byleth and Mercedes. These aren’t like the previous where it doesn’t carry weight, quite the opposite, but he says the word only once for each. For the former it’s right at the end of his marriage proposal so… Kinda a “well duh” moment, doesn’t really require any analysis. The latter is also at the end of the final support conversation, and it comes in response to Mercedes asking if he will “protect her in turn.” Considering this is a support required for their paired ending, we can sort of take this as a marriage proposal too, but I place more emphasis on the fact that during this portion of the conversation, Sylvain has let his guard down around Mercedes, to the point where he actually cries. That’s pretty significant.

The remaining ten mentions of “promise” come in his supports with his three childhood friends.

Let’s look at Dimitri first, as he only has half of the number of conversations with everyone’s favourite philanderer that the other two do. The word comes up, across both conversations, four times, and only once by Sylvain himself, in which he promises to “do better” and focus more on his studies etc. The other three occasions come from Dimitri, first questioning whether Sylvain will keep to his word, the second is in the B support where he confirms that Sylvain actually did, and the last is Dimitri promising to help Sylvain out with “…something he knows how to help with.” (The last isn’t all that important really, save for keeping count.)

So that leaves the final six, considering we discounted one at the beginning, that’s half. And wouldn’t you know, as well as being part of the Original Childhood Friend Quartet, these two are the only people he can obtain an A+ rank support with. Coincidence? I think not.

Between Ingrid and Felix’s supports, Ingrid’s contain the majority with four, but unlike with Dimitri, it’s Sylvain saying it three out of those four times. However, this time we have the one occasion where he doesn’t completely stay true to his word. Like Dimitri’s support, his first promise to Ingrid is in regards to his behaviour, but, despite his own opinion on the matter, Ingrid expresses exasperation that he’s still playing around. However, it’s worth noting that this promise comes after Ingrid has chewed him out for events that happened a number of years ago, in public, and in a manner that by all accounts is pretty belittling. It’s probably the one occasion he’s made a promise out of frustration and to just end the conversation, evidenced by how he tacks “ Are you happy now?” on to the end. This, I think, is the exception to the rule, rather than the occasion with Hilda, but an exception I think proves the rule.

The second mention is from Ingrid asking Sylvain to stop acting so nonchalant about getting hurt or killed,” and the third is him making that promise right after. It’s never strictly mentioned if he actually does keep it, however, his following support with her involves scenes with him taking his training and combat situations seriously. I believe this is him making an attempt to minimise the possibility of getting hurt in the first place. It’s a roundabout way of keeping his promise, sure, but one that definitely works, dealing with the root cause rather than the surface issue, as it were.

The last comes with “It’s not a joke that you’re beautiful, but I wasn’t trying to hit on you or anything. Promise.” This one, at first glance, doesn’t seem much to read in to, and at face value, there really isn’t. I think this ties in more to the way Sylvain regards promises, and that (hopefully) Ingrid knows that aspect of him too. It’s an emphasis on him being genuine, that he truly means what he’s saying.

Lastly, we have Felix, arguably the most important one. I have a lot of headcannon surrounding this, we’re not going there today, we’re going to stick with what we know.

It’s only mentioned twice, both by Sylvain, and it’s a reference to the same promise, that they’ll “stick together, until they die together.” It’s worth noting that he brings it up specifically on the second mention, but on the first, it comes after Felix being concerned (angrily, because it’s Felix) that Sylvain actually will die, and Sylvain stating “Nah, I won’t die on you. I promise.”

At first, it’s a bit of a throwaway line, until later in the support he talks about The Promise, it paints the first line in a whole new light, that in reality Sylvain is saying “I’m not going to break my promise.” And if you get their paired ending in the Azure Moon route, he really doesn’t.

It’s also brought up outside their supports, if you recruit one and not the other, they talk about it pre-combat if you set them against each other. Please don’t do that. It’s rather poignant, I think, that game mechanics are the only way to get Sylvain to break a promise.

To summarise, Sylvain’s strengths of character manifest in how much he truly cares about people. How he can find the strength to lift his friends up despite the weight he puts on his own shoulders. How he might be crumbling but ultimately will not break. And just how dependable he is by virtue of how he won’t ever make a promise lightly, nor will he break one.

[theguildedtypewriter]

You want to rant about your characters? I’d love to know your favorite and least favorite thing about each of them!

Oh Lordy how much time do you have!! I have quite a few OCs but here we go:

Newborn City Series-

Hope: She is a total badass and doesn’t need anyone to save her, but she can be very stubborn and hesitant to accept help.

Ciaran: He is extremely loyal to his friends and family, but he has a temper that can make him very reckless.

Dimitri: He is so funny and the sarcasm runs strong with him, but he uses it to mask his pain and avoid getting the help he needs. 

Red: She is confident in who she is, she knows her strengths well, but she is pessimistic and doesn’t try for things that could make her happy at first.

Rayne: She is dedicated to fighting the good fight and doing what’s right, but she doesn’t see that there is more than one way to do that.

Lucas: He is also extremely dedicated to doing what’s right, but doesn’t understand that the law can be wrong.

Jacks: They are fiercely themself and have a great sense of “fuck it,” but they are very self-loathing and take too many risks.

Thaine: He’s brilliant and funny and a bit of a smartass, but he is so consumed by guilt and pain because of his ability to absorb sins.

Gallo: He is a fantastic EMT and surgeon and has a heart bigger than anyone, but his helping nature allows him to get walked on or tricked easily.

Suma: She is a survivor, she’s been through a lot and hasn’t given up, but she is very closed off and doesn’t see that there can be some good in the world.

Than: He’s hilarious and stupid and sarcastic and an adorable flirt, but he’s reckless and self-loathing and pushes people too far a lot and has internalized homophobia.

Chayne: He is sweet and kind and will never give up on anyone, but sometimes he really should and he is often too scared to seize life by the horns.

Bindy: She is a bright ball of happy light that makes everyone smile, but she forgets to take care of herself and doesn’t face her darker emotions.

Ama: She is very smart and cunning and fantastic at making a situation work for her, but she’s a bit emotionally cut off and doesn't put herself out there to be loved.

Ursa: She is kind and funny and smart and a helluva powerful witch, but she blames herself for her ex-girlfriends death and has some internalized biphobia.

Maithe: He’s a wonderful father and leader of his clan, but he refuses to let himself move on from his wife’s death and allow himself to be happy with another.

Miyu: she is brilliant, so fucking smart, and she is extremely resourceful and cunning, but she is so so shy and has some serious trust issues.

Wade: he is actually really gentle and sweet and also very loyal to those he cares about, but he is too self-conscious of his gifts and the fact that he uses a prosthetic leg. 

Through a Hawk’s Eyes-

Arrow: She is a fantastic General and friend, but she is so focused on her role in the Companions that she forgets that she’s an individual too.

Grey: He is charming and funny and clever and thinks very quick on his feet, but wouldn’t know how to handle an emotion if you can him a handbook about them.