Character Traits Galore!

I hope each of you had a wonderful holiday and that your New Year has started out well. As you are about to see, I continued working despite not having posted since the middle of December. This is a fairly long eFile containing a lot of information. Have fun and happy writing.

A serious writer tries to make their characters realistic, someone with whom the audience can relate, and that can open a wonderful kettle of worms. Despite what some think, a fact of life is that people have flaws. When writing a character, including viable flaws makes them believable and real. 

So, exactly what is a character flaw? – Dictionarily, a limitation, imperfection, problem, phobia, or deficiency present in a character that may otherwise function. The flaw can be a problem that directly affects the character's actions and abilities, such as a violent temper, or it can be a simple foible or personality defect which affects the character's motives and social interactions. (Think of Archie Bunker, Edit, Columbo, The Fonz)

Thanks to computer game developers, there are numerous lists of character traits on the Internet. I've combined a few, but this is only a list. Once you've decided on what to add to the mix (do not use more than three unless you like juggling knives, hatchets, and grenades) try to explain them by asking yourself questions. What is the trait’s purpose? Is it an obstacle for the character to overcome or an enhancement to help achieve the goal? Is it an inherent part of them that cannot be changed? Why? When did this flaw develop if they hadn’t initially been this way? What is the degree and depth of this trait, and how does it affect the character in daily life? How does it affect how they interact with others? What role will this flaw play in their personality? Explain it, explore it, and find purpose. This is like adding seasoning to bread dough. It has to be kneaded in thoroughly to spread the flavor throughout the mix.

So, here is a list of traits gleaned from the Internet. Some are not really fleshed out to get a good feel for what they are or what they can do for your character. I suggest going to a good thesaurus as a start, and then look them up online for an in-depth understanding how the trait operates – both as a positive and as a negative to the individual, and to those on the outside dealing with the character.

Traits Galore!

• Absentminded: Preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings. Abstracted, daydreaming, inattentive, oblivious, forgetful.

• Abusive Parents: Habitually violent and cruel to their own children, often because that's how they themselves were raised.
• Abusive: Characterized by improper infliction of physical or psychological maltreatment towards another.
• Addict: One who is addicted, as to narcotics or a compulsive activity. (gambling, drugs, sex, etc.)
• Afraid of Blood: Extreme fear of blood.
• Afraid of Doctors: Extreme fear of doctors.
• Afraid of Needles: Extreme fear of needles.
• Aggressive Categorism: Judges people too quickly and/or according to criteria which have no bearing on their personal character, such as gender, ethnic background, or hairstyle.
• Aimless: Devoid of direction or purpose.
• Alcoholic: A person who habitually drinks alcoholic substances to excess or who suffers from alcoholism.
• All Men Are Perverts: Believes men primarily think with their sexual organs.
• All Women Are Lustful: Believes women will do anything for sex and damn the consequences.
• Allergic to Routine: Gets bored easily, needs to be entertained at all times.
• Ambiguous Disorder: Behaves with near-complete disregard for the social norm.
• An Aesop: A story with a moral at the end. A whole subject unto itself. (see tvtropes.org)
• Anxious: Full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune; greatly worried; solicitous.
• Anything That Moves: Quick to action; reflexive action.
• Apologises a Lot: Apologises even when not at fault.
• Arrogant: Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. Inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuffs the advances of people considered inferior. Snobbish.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Incapable of realizing when a fight is not winnable.
• Attention Deficit: Has short or no attention span and easily distracted.
• Attention Whore: Craves attention to an excessive degree.
• Audacious: Recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; braze, disobedient.
• Ax-Crazy: Psychologically unstable and presents a clear danger to others.

• Bad Boss: Treats employees extremely badly.
• Bad Liar: Unable to lie in a convincing way and comes up with really silly lies that fool no one.
• Because I'm Good At It: Does job because he or she can do it well, regardless of whether the job is ethical.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Self-deluded and blind to the way things really are.
• Berserk Button: This character will get extremely angry at one particular provocation.
• Big Eater: Habitual excess in eating; gluttony.

• Bigmouth: A loudmouthed or gossipy person.
• Bigot: One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
• Blind Obedience: Blindly follows those in authority without regard to the authority's fallibility or morality.
• Blood Knight: Loves to fight and by extension hurt others.
• Blood Lust: Is gratified by the sight of someone else bleeding.
• Blunt: Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion. Frank, callous, insensitive, brusque.
• Bold: (In a good sense) Adventurous, courageous, daring, heroic, resolute.
  (In a bad sense) Too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Abrupt, brazen, cheeky, brassy, audacious.
• Boomerang Bigot: Hates members of a group, even though a member of the group.
• Bratty Half-Pint: A youngster who is sarcastic and self-important.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: A whiny, self-involved adolescent girl.
• Bridezilla: A bride morphs into a shrew, hellion, nag, she-devil, etc.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Has talent but no drive to apply himself/herself.
• Brutal Honesty: Will tell you the truth even if it hurts your feelings.
• Bystander Syndrome: Thinks that any given crisis isn't important and doesn't require their help because they're not personally involved and have no desire to get involved.

• The Berserker: Throws themselves into battle with complete disregard for danger or consequences.
• The Bore: An incredibly dull person who is almost impossible to get rid of.

• Callous: They are hardened to emotions, rarely showing any form of it in expression. Unfeeling. Cold.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Is intoxicated easily.
• Can't Take Criticism: Cannot stand being criticized for his wrongs.
• Cannot Convey Sarcasm: Doesn't understand how to properly use sarcasm.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Will reveal to others what you tell him in confidence.

• Cannot Spit It Out: Unable to voice his or her true feelings.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Becomes a gibbering wreck in the presence of a woman.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Is completely truthful at all times, even when it would be better not to be.
• Child Hater: Possesses an inexplicable hatred for all children.
• Childish Marked by or indicating a lack of maturity; naïve, trivial, silly.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Betrays other people constantly.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Wants to save everyone and right every wrong, even when it's not the wisest course.
• Claustrophobia: Extreme fear of enclosed spaces.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Very possessive of her significant other.
• Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: A professional in a certain field can help everyone — except those he loves most.
• Combat Sadomasochist: Loves to feel and inflict pain.
• Commitment Issues: Does not want to settle down in a relationship.
• Competition Freak: Treats every contest as Serious Business.
• Complex An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear.
• Complexity Addiction: Never uses a simple plan when a multidimensional one will do.
• Compressed Abstinence: Making an effort to reduce the use of some indulgence without quitting it entirely.
• Compressed Vice: A flaw developed by a character out of nowhere for the sake of An Aesop. (See an Aesop above)
• Condescending Compassion: Feels sorry for someone who is not like themselves and looks down on them with mercy.

• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Desensitized to the horrific or traumatic things in his everyday life.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Sees conspiracies behind everything.
• Control Freak: Obsessed with doing everything by the book, as a way to exercise control over themselves and others.
• Cordon Bleu Chef: Has good cooking skills, but often creates recipes that sound and/or taste disgusting.
• Corrupter: Enjoys bringing out the worst in everyone around them.
• Corruptible: Prone to be corrupted easily.
• Crazy Cat Lady: Possessing an extreme need to collect animals.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Lets jealousy poison relationships (and sanity).
• Cruel: Mean to anyone or anything, without care or regard to consequences and feelings.
• Culture Justifies Anything: Uses their culture to justify their own vicious deeds.
• Cursed: A person who has fallen to evil or misfortune, placed under a spell, or borne into an evil circumstance, and suffers for it. Damned.
• Cute and Psycho: Hides a scheming and unstable demeanor that can resurface at any time.
• Cynic: Believes that people are exclusively motivated by self-interest.

• Dandere: Shyness, sometimes to a fault.
• Deadpan Snarker: Prone to sarcastic and cynical remarks.
• Deaf Composer: Inability to enjoy their own creation.

• Delinquent: School kids who breaks rules to the extreme.
• Dependent: Unable to exist, sustain oneself, or act appropriately or normally without the assistance or direction of another.
• Deranged: Mentally decayed. Insane. Crazy. Mad. Psychotic.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Excessive desire for affection from other people.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Excessive desire for purpose in one's life.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Prone to thinking out loud even though it is something they don't want others to hear.
• Dirty Coward: A shameless, selfish coward.
• Disability as an Excuse for Jerk: Uses their disability as an excuse to act a fool, idiot, simpleton.
• Disability: A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a physical or mental impairment that interferes with or prevents normal achievement in a particular area.
• Disloyal: Lacking loyalty. Unfaithful, perfidious, traitorous, treasonable
• Dismotivation: Wants to keep things as they are and actively avoids doing anything that might change their life for the better.
• Disorder: An ailment that affects the function of mind or body.
• Disturbed: Showing some or a few signs or symptoms of mental or emotional illness. Confused, disordered, neurotic, troubled.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Has trouble gauging just how much of his considerable strength to apply to a specific task.
• Does Not Know How To Say Thanks: Doesn't know how to express gratitude properly.
• Does Not Like Men: Dislikes men as a whole.
• Does Not Like Spam: Possesses an immense dislike for a particular food.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Doesn't know when to take a hint that his love interest is not interested.
• Domestic Abuser: Inclined to abuse their partner either mentally, sexually, verbally, physically, or emotionally.
• Don't Look At Me: Extreme dislike of being looked at.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Too prideful to appreciate sympathy.
• Drama Queen: Responds to situations in a melodramatic way.
• Dreadful Musician: Displays little talent for music, often to comical extremes. May be tone deaf.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Deals with sorrow by getting drunk.
• Drunk with Power: When given power they start to treat people under them like crap.
• Dubious: Fraught with uncertainty or doubt. Undecided, doubtful, unsure.
• Dyslexic: Affected by dyslexia, a learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words.
• The Ditherer: Can't make decisions or make up their mind to save their life.
• The Ditz: Stupidity.

• Eager to Please : More of a pleaser than an honest communicator, but displeasure with things can builds up and explode at times.
• Eccentricity : Can be funny in the moment, but when building a team may lack the ability tone down their eccentricity to build rapport. Deeper relationships are absent.
• Eeyore: Perpetually depressed and brings everybody down with them.
• Egotistical: Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance. Boastful, pompous.
• Embodiment Of Vice: Exemplifies a certain moral deficiency to such an extent as to become a symbol of it.
• Emotionally Tongue Tied: Has trouble uttering a specific word or phrase, like a term of affection or an apology.
• Enraged By Idiocy: Cannot cope with idiots.
• Entitled: Believes he deserves everything he wants. Treats people like dirt but still expect them to serve his interests.
• Entitled to Have You: Believes that they are entitled to the affections of their love interest simply for being part of a certain group, doing or not doing something, or simply for existing.
• Envious: Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; covetous, jealous.
• Erratic: Deviating from the customary course in conduct or opinion; eccentric: erratic behavior. Eccentric, bizarre, outlandish, strange.
• Etiquette Nazi: Obsessed with enforcing manners on everyone.
• Extreme Doormat: Unmotivated and has no drive, but freely bend to the will of others.
• Extreme Omnisexual: They will have sex with anything. 
   

• Fair Weather Friend: Has a tendency to flake out when their "friends" need help.
• Fanaticism: Fanatic outlook or behavior especially as exhibited by excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions on some subject.
• Fatal Flaw: A flaw which the character wrestles with on a consistent basis.
• Fear of Thunder: Inordinate fear of thunderstorms.
• Fearless Fool: Not scared of anything even if it is dangerous.
• Felony Misdemeanor: Their reaction to a minor offense is ridiculously excessive.
• Fickle: Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
• Fierce: Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions".
• Finicky: Excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy. Too much concerned with detail. Meticulous, fastidious, choosy, critical, picky, prissy, persnickety, uptight.
• Fixation: In psychoanalytic theory, a strong attachment to a person or thing, especially such an attachment formed in childhood or infancy and manifested in immature or neurotic behavior that persists throughout life. Fetish, quirk, obsession, infatuation.
• Flirt:To make playfully romantic or sexual overtures; behavior intended to arouse sexual interest. Minx. Tease.
• Fools Love: A person who is always falling in love or believes they are in love, for the wrong person or even multiple people (usually one after another), and typically love at first sight. Star-crossed, ill-fated-love.
• Forgetful: Incredibly forgetful, can't remember anything for very long.
• Forgets to Eat: Notorious for ignoring their body's need for nutrition and has to be reminded to eat.
• Frail: Physically weak and easily broken or damaged. Having delicate health; not robust. Feeble, breakable, sickly, dainty, brittle, fallible, imperfect, weak.
• Fraudulent: Given to or using fraud, as a person; cheating; dishonest. Deceitful, deceptive, crooked, underhanded.
• Fundamentalist: Their beliefs are right, and anyone who does not believe as they do is stupid, crazy, evil or all three.

• Gambling Addict: Likes gambling, to the extent where it starts to cause problems.
• General Failure: An incompetent leader.
• Glory Hound: Desire for glory at any cost.
• Glory Seeker: Driven by the need for glory.
• Glurge Addict: Extreme love for sickeningly sweet things.
• Gluttonous: Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink. Voracious, ravenous, wolfish, piggish, insatiable.
• God Is Flawed: Not even supreme beings are perfect.
• Grinch: Dampener. Grouch. Moaner. Complainer. Whiner. Party-pooper.
• Gruff:Brusque or stern in manner or appearance. Crusty, rough, surly.
• Grumpy Bear: Has a grim and gritty point of view even though they live in a rose-colored world.
• Guilt Complex: Blames themselves for everything.
• Guilty Pleasure: Ashamed of what brings them pleasure because they think it is of low-quality.
• Gambling Addict: Likes gambling, to the extent where it starts to cause problems.
• Gullible: Will believe any information given, regardless of how valid or truthful it is, easily deceived or duped.

• Habit: A rather revolting personal habit. (Picks nose, spits tobacco, drools, body odor, etc.)
• Hair-Trigger Temper: This character will get extremely angry for many particular provocations — or has never learned how to control their temper.
• Hard: A person who is difficult to deal with, manage, control, overcome, or understand. Hard emotions, hard hearted.
• Hates Baths: Does not like to use water and soap on their body.
• Hates Being Alone: Possess an extensive fear of being left alone.
• Hates Being Touched: Dislikes physical contact.
• Hates Everyone Equally: Is a misanthrope. Loner, egotist, recluse, etc.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Dislikes women as a whole.
• Heavy Sleeper: Almost impossible to wake up.
• Hedonistic: Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Loves to fight evil because it enables them to disperse pain.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: No matter how amazing theuir accomlishments are, the hero thinks they are useless.
• Hikikomori: Locks themselves away from the outside world like a recluse.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Self-sabotages his own doings.
• Hoity-toity: Given to flights of fancy; capricious; frivolous. Prone to giddy behavior, flighty.
• Honor Before Reason: Does what is right, even if it's foolish.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Over-sexualized behavior of adolescents.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Implicitly trusts people who should really not
• Humans Are Bastards: Humanity is prone to acts of cruelty.
• Humans Are Flawed: No one is perfect.
• Humorless: The inability to find humor in things, and most certainly in themselves.
• Hypocritical: One who is always contradicting their own beliefs, actions or sayings. A person who professes beliefs and opinions for others that he does not hold. Being a hypocrite.

• I'm a Man, I Can't Help It: Uses his biological urges as an excuse for his behavior.
• I Work Alone: Inclined to do things by themselves and is dismissive of others' assistance.
• Idealist: One whose conduct is influenced by ideals that often conflict with practical considerations. One who is unrealistic and impractical, guided more by ideals than by practical considerations.
• Idiotic: Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless.
• Ignorant: Lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge.
• Illiterate: Unable to read and write.
• Immature: Emotionally undeveloped; juvenile; childish.
• Impatient: Unable to wait patiently or tolerate delay; restless. Unable to endure irritation or opposition; intolerant.
• Impious: Lacking piety and reverence for a god/gods and their followers. Disobedient, hypocritical, etc.
• Impish: Naughtily or annoyingly playful.
• Implausible Deniability: Denies something even in front of unquestionable evidence.
• In Harm's Way: Thinks life is boring unless they put themselfs in danger.
• In Love with Love: In love with the idea of being in a romantic relationship, which often leads to Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.
• Inadequate Inheritor: When the character is unfit to fulfill heritage expectations.
• Incompetent: Unable to execute tasks, no matter how the size or difficulty.
• Indecisive: Characterized by lack of decision and firmness, especially under pressure.
• Indifferent: The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally, remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern. Having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless.
• Ineffectual Loner: A loner whose capacity is reduced to the point of not being able to fulfill their goal because of their solitary nature.
• Infamy: Having an extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act that affects how others view them.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Uses arrogance to mask low self-esteem.
• Informed Flaw: Flaws not really shown or followed up on.
• Innocent Bigot: Unknowingly offensive to strangers.
• Innocently Insensitive: Unknowingly offensive.
• Insufferable Genius: Arrogant about their own impressive skills.
• Internalized Categorism: Possesses a nondestructive trait that causes self-hatred which makes it destructive.
• Intolerant: Unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion and narrow-minded about cherished opinions.
• Irrational Hatred: Hates someone over something that isn't their fault or have no control over.

• Judgmental: Inclined to make and form judgments, especially moral or personal ones, based on ones own opinions or impressions towards others/practices/groups/religions based on appearance, reputation, occupation, etc.

• Kids Are Cruel: Child prone to bullying others.
• Kindnapper: Someone who means to display benevolence by kidnapping those they intend to be nice to.
• Klutz: Clumsy. Blunderer.
• Klutz: Excessive clumsiness.
• Knight Templar: Vicious but convinced of their own righteousness.

• Laborious Laziness: Working only to be lazy.
• Lack of Empathy: Does not have the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
• Lazy Bum: Profound laziness.
• Lazy: Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Rushes into dangerous situations without thinking, often getting themselves or others hurt or worse.
• Lethal Chef: Has poor cooking skills, often to comical extremes.
• Lewd: Inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious. Obscene or indecent, as language or songs; salacious.
• Liar: Compulsively and purposefully tells false truths more often than not. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
• Literal-Minded: Does not understand figurative language.
• Load: Contributes nothing to a group except weighing it down.
• Loony Fan: Follows someone everywhere out of obsessive admiration, either causing trouble or just creeping them out.
• Love Hungry: Tries to force others to like or love them, not understanding that it doesn't work that way.
• Love Martyr: Willingly endures misery and abuse for love.
• Loving a Shadow: In love with the ideal of a person, rather than loving someone for who they actually are.
• Lust: Driven by one's sex drives.
• Lustful: Driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires.

• Madonna-Whore Complex: Thinks all women are either promiscuous, immoral seductresses or sweet, naive ingénues. Also, that smart, capable, good women who enjoy sex do not exist.
• Man Child: An adult who possesses a very childlike or childish demeanor.
• Manipulative: Not above using and toying with others to get what they want.
• Married to the Job: Is so devoted to their career that it seriously affects their ability to hold any kind of relationship outside of it.
• Martyr Without a Cause: Will insist on making a Heroic Sacrifice even if it's stupid and unnecessary.
• Masochist: The deriving of sexual gratification, or the tendency to derive sexual gratification, from being physically or emotionally abused. A willingness or tendency to subject oneself to unpleasant or trying experiences.
• Maternally Challenged: Not very good with kids.
• Meddlesome: Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner, given to meddling; interfering.
• Meek: Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness.
• Megalomaniac: A psycho pathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
• Miles Gloriosus: Makes himself out to be the ultimate badass, but proves to be a coward when faced with a real fight.
• Millstone: The cause of most if not all of a group's failures.
• Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Inability to accept partner's minor flaws.
• Misplaced Sorrow: Prone to miss another character for shallow, selfish reasons, such as money.
• Mood-Swinger: Has unstable emotions and acts unpredictably.
• Morally Scrupulous : Finds fault with even small misbehavior. No one meets every one of his rules. His best friend is himself.
• Motor Mouth: Speaks if not constantly then often so quickly that it's hard to make out individual words.
• Mouthy Kid: Overly talkative, insolent, and loud child.
• Murderer: One guilty of murder; a person who unlawfully kills a human being. Killer, butcher, cutthroat.
• Muse Abuse: Exploits their real life and the people around them for the sake of their art, with harmful results.
• My Beloved Smother: Thinks that she's being a good mom, but is actually holding her children back as people.

• Naive: Lacking worldly experience and understanding, simple and guileless; showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment.
• Narcissist: Extreme love and admiration for oneself.
• Neat Freak: Obsessed with cleanliness.
• Nervous Wreck: Panics over the slightest thing.
• Nervous: Easily agitated or distressed; high-strung or jumpy.
• Never My Fault: Blames others for their own mistakes or misdeeds.
• Nietzsche Wannabe: Rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless to the extreme.
• No Object Permanence: Inability to recognize that an object continues to exist even when you cannot see, hear, or touch it.
• No Sense of Direction: Gets lost easily.
• No Sense of Humor: Doesn't get jokes.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Gets way too close for comfort around others.
• No Social Skills: Ignorant of and confused by social customs.
• No Sympathy: Does not feel pity or sorrow for others' misfortune.
• Nobody Calls Me Chicken: Can't turn a challenge down.
• Nonviolent: Abstaining from the use of violence. (can double as a merit)
• Nosey: Given to prying into the affairs of others; snoopy. Offensively curious or inquisitive.
• Nostalgia Filter: Believes that things of the past are better than things of the modern equivalents.
• Not a Game: Does not take serious matters seriously.
• Not a Morning Person: Is unusually cranky and snippy when just woken up.

• Oblivious To His Own Description: Unable to recognize a perfect definition of themselves.
• Oblivious to Love: Inability to notice any romantic intentions.
• Obliviously Evil: Can't comprehend that they're doing anything wrong.
• Obnoxious Snarker: Very loud and sarcastic.
• Obsessed with Food: They pay more attention to food than anything else.
• Obsessive: An unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone.
• Old Windbag: Known for being an insufferable bore.
• Only in It for the Money: Doesn't care about anything except getting paid.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Prone to vocal stupidity or self-incrimination.
• Opinion Myopia: Doesn't seem too keen on other people's opinions and shoves his own on their throats.
• Oppressor: A person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures, to keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority.
• Overambitious: Having a strong excessive desire for success or achievement.
• Overconfident: Excessively confident; presumptuous.
• Overemotional: Excessively or abnormally emotional. Sensitive about themselves and others, more so than the average person.
• Overprotective Dad: Tendency to protect one's child excessively, especially in the romantic department.
• Overprotective: To protect too much; coddle.
• Overzealous: Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.

• Pacifist: Opposition to war or violence as a means of resolving disputes.
• Paper Tiger: Looks and acts threatening and tough, but is anything but.
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Desires romance and/or sex, but is too afraid of sexuality.
• Paranoid: Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others.
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Uses passive-aggressive tactics to get what he/she wants
• Peevish: Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction. Cantankerous, cross, ill-tempered, testy, captious, discontented, crotchety, cranky, ornery.
• Perfectionist: A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
• Perfectionist: Has to be perfect at what they do, or at everything they do.
• Pessimist: A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view.
• Pest: One that pesters or annoys, with or without realizing it. Nuisance. Annoying. Nag.
• Phobia: They have a severe form of fear when it comes to this one thing. (Dark, spiders, cats, tight spaces, etc.)
• Picky Eater: Immature distaste of a certain type of food.
• Poisonous Friend: Loyal but hazardous companion that secretly commit nasty deeds for their friend that said friend would not approve of.
• Post-Stress Overeating: Excess in eating as a coping mechanism.
• Practical: Level-headed, efficient, and unspeculative. No-nonsense.
• Prankster: Very fond of playing pranks on others.
• Precarious: Dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure.
• Predictable: Easily seen through and assessable, where almost anyone can predict reactions and actions of said person by having met or known them even for a short time.
• Primadonna: See "Entitled Bastard".
• Principles Zealot: Blindly clings to principles and refuses to see the big picture.
• Procrastinator: Puts something off until the last minute.
• Proud: Filled with or showing excessive self-esteem, and will often shirk help from others for the sake of pride.
• Psychopathic Manchild: A lunatic with all the strength/intellect of an adult and the innocence of a child.
• Pushover Parents: Parents who are too submissive to their children and refuse to discipline them.
• The Pig Pen: Someone whose hygiene is lacking.

• Quiet One: A person who doesn't really talk that much.

• Rake: An immoral or dissolute person, acting without moral restraint, who defies established religious, social, expected precepts; a freethinker.
• Rebellious Spirit: Possesses an immense desire to resist authority, control, or convention.
• Rebellious: Defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
• Reckless: Heedless. Headstrong. Foolhardy. Unthinking boldness, wild carelessness and disregard for consequences.
• Remorseless: Without remorse; merciless; pitiless; relentless.
• Resenter: Feels bitterness or indignation for a person.
• Revenge Before Reason: Putting Revenge over sensible actions.
• Rich Bitch: Rich, snobby and haughty.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Has little understanding of things that people without money take for granted.
• Rightly Self Righteous: Virtuous and morally upright, but is condescending and arrogant about it.
• Rigorous: Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; demanding strict attention to rules and procedures.
• Royal Brat: Arrogance, power, pettiness, and a huge sense of entitlement.

• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Grown up without learning a very basic skill.
• Sadist: The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others. Deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty or suffering of other characters.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Does not understand sarcasm.
• Sarcastic: A subtle form of mockery in which an intended meaning is conveyed obliquely. Sadomasochist: Both sadist and masochist combined.
• Schedule Fanatic: Has to do everything according to precise schedule, every day of their lives.
• Schemer: Constantly uses zany schemes to get money, become popular, etc., that always blow up at the end.
• Scoundrel: A wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately.
• Scrooge: Values his wealth more than anything else.
• Seducer: To lead others astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt. To attempt to lead or draw someone away, as from principles, faith, or allegiance.
• Selective Obliviousness: Refuses to comprehend a particular fact.
• Self-Martyr: One who purposely makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy from others, as a form of manipulation, and always for a selfish cause or reason.
• Self-righteous: Piously sure of one's own righteousness; moralistic. Exhibiting pious self-assurance. Holier-than-thou, sanctimonious.
• Selfish: Concerned chiefly or only with oneself.
• Senile: Showing a decline or deterioration of physical strength or mental functioning, esp. short-term memory and alertness, as a result of old age or disease.
• Serial Romeo: Keeps insisting their newest Love Interest is their one true love, completely forgetting about previous Love Interests who rejected them.
• Serial Spouse: Just can't keep a marriage together
• Serious Business: Treats an activity as though it had much more importance than most people would give it.
• Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny: Believes that Sex Is Evil, but can't escape their own sexuality.
• Shallow: Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious.
• Shrinking Violet: Painfully shy.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: A serious fucking potty mouth.
• Skeptic: One who instinctively or habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally accepted conclusions.
• Skilled, but Naive: Lacks the experience needed to accomplish their goal.
• Slacker: Just plain lazy.
• Slave to PR: Obsessed with upholding one's reputation, no matter what.
• Sleepyhead: Chronically drowsy.
• Slimeball: Unsophisticated, manipulative and selfish.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Thinks they are all that, but they are not.
• Smart Ass: Thinks they know it all, and in some ways they may, but they can be greatly annoying and difficult to deal with at times, especially in arguments.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Gets crushes with a intensity that is just too much to make sense.
• Smug Super: Knows they are powerful, and they have the ego to show.
• Social Climber: Tries to better themselves in the eyes of society, often at the expense of others.
• Socially-Awkward Hero: Is more afraid of social situations than of actual dangers to life and limb.
• Sociopath: Completely self-centered, anti-social, and manipulative, with no sense of right or wrong.
• Soft-hearted: Having softness or tenderness of heart that can lead them into trouble; susceptible of pity or other kindly affection. They cannot resist helping someone they see in trouble, suffering or in need, and often don't think of the repercussions or situation before doing so.
• Solemn: Deeply earnest, serious, and sober.
• Sore Loser: Can't take a loss, especially when it was fair and square.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Forces people away with their abrasive attitude while really feeling depressed because they can't get close to anybody.
• Sour Prudes: Tries too hard to make themselves look good at the expense of others, claiming superiority on the ground that they doesn't have as much sex as others do, doesn't dress as sexily as they do, or something like that.
• Spineless: Lacking courage. Cowardly, wimp, lily-livered, gutless.
• Spiteful: Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; vindictive person who will look for occasions for resentment. Vengeful.
• Spoiled Brat: Arrogant, selfish and disrespectful kid who demands to be given everything.
• Spoiled: Treated with excessive indulgence and pampering from earliest childhood, and has no notion of hard work, self care or money management; coddled, pampered. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or over-solicitous attention.
• Squeamish: Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.
• Stalker with a Crush: Expresses their love for someone by stalking them.
• Stoic: A character who doesn't show any emotions.
• Stopped Caring: Believes nothing really matters and only do what has to be done.
• Stubborn: Unreasonably, often perversely unyielding; bullheaded. Firmly resolved or determined; resolute.
• Stupid Good: A character who is too nice for his own good.
• Sugar and Ice Personality: Acts aloof and apathetic despite really being sweet and kind.
• Super OCD: Obsessed with order, symmetry and following certain patterns of behavior.
• Superstitious: An irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear from an irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome.

• Tactless: Lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others.
• Taking Advantage of Generosity: Demanding more of others who are being generous.
• Tease: Prone to tempt someone sexually with no intention of satisfying the desire aroused.
• Teens Are Monsters: Teenagers who act very cruel towards others.
• Temperamental: Moody, irritable, or sensitive. Excitable, volatile, emotional.
• Temptation: They have something that tempts, entices, or allures them, that is hard to resist. This could be anything, and can drive the character to do things of ill nature.
• Theatrical: Having a flair for over dramatizing situations, doing things in a 'big way' and love to be 'center stage'.
• Timid:Tends to be shy and/or quiet, shrinking away from offering opinions or from strangers and newcomers, fearing confrontations and violence.
• Tone Deaf: Unable to distinguish in musical pitch.
• Tongue-tied: Speechless or confused in expression, as from shyness, embarrassment, or astonishment.
• Too Clever by Half: Is incredibly smart, irritatingly aware of it, and driven to go beyond themselves, which often leads to spectacular failures.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Gets friends into serious trouble, or takes leave of their common sense when around a particular friend.
• Trash of the Titans: Extremely messy.
• Trash Talk: Prone to utter insulting or boastful speeches intended to demoralize, intimidate, or humiliate someone.
• Troublemaker: Someone who deliberately stirs up trouble, intentionally or unintentionally.
• Tsundere: (Type A) Unable to express their true inner feelings and resorts to being condescending and/or violent. (Type B) Even with their sweet demeanor they cannot deal with their love interest and resorts to being condescending and/or violent.

• Ugly: Very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance. Uncomely, unsightly, unlovely, homely.
• Unapologetic: A character who doesn't apologize for their misdeeds.
• Unfettered: Will do anything to win.
• Unfit for Greatness: Wants to do good but lacks the willpower, insight, and virtue to direct the power he has been given.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Doesn't show appropriate gratitude.
• Unlucky: Marked by or causing misfortune; ill-fated. Destined for misfortune; doomed.
• Unpredictable: Difficult to foretell or foresee, their actions are so chaotic its impossible to know what they are going to do next.
• Unreliable Character : Unpredictable, and not trusted or to be confided in.
• Unstoppable Rage: Making them angry is suicidal.
• Untrustworthy: Not worthy of trust or belief. Backstabber.
• User: A person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically.

• Vain: Holding or characterized by an unduly high opinion of their physical appearance. Lovers of themselves. Conceited, egotistic, narcissistic.

• "Well Done, Dad" Guy: Where a role model is obsessed of the approval of a disciple.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Obsessed with getting approval from a role model you can never please.
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Demands praise for behaving in a situation like a decent human being instead of a Jerkass, disregarding that basic humanity is expected of others by default, rather than something above-and-beyond, to be rewarded for.
• Weak-willed: Lacking willpower, strength of will to carry out one's decisions, wishes, or plans. Easily swayed.
• Weak-Willed: Easy to brainwash.
• Weasel Co-Worker: Doesn't do his job and palms off the blame on others.
• Weight Woe: Obsessed with dieting.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Someone who uses good ends to justify less than good, if not outright evil, means.
• What You Are in the Dark: Commits vicious deeds when no one is watching.
• Whore: Harlot. A prostitute, a person who is considered sexually promiscuous, considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Crippling and extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something, not necessarily snakes.
• Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Can't help but to destroy the greater things in their life.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Has a naive, rose-colored outlook in a world that is anything but idealistic.
• Wildcard: Unreliable, untrustworthy and traitorous.
• Withdrawn: Not friendly or Sociable. Aloof.
• Workaholic: Compulsively works hard and long hours.
• Would Hurt a Child: No qualms about using violence against children.

• Yandere: Can't handle being in love without acting extremely obsessive or possessive of the one they are in love with to the point of maiming others.
• You Need to Get Laid: Too high-strung, uptight, or ill-tempered for their own good.

• Zealot: An excessively zealous person; fanatic.