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It is I, Alex the Ever-Inquisitive, and I come in search of yet more teal deer. So, here, take some more questions.

1. What are your character's greatest strengths and weaknesses?

2. What does your character think are their greatest strengths and weaknesses?

As always there is no set format, just answer how you want to!!

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1. Greatest strength: Loyalty. If he's your friend, he's a good one. He's highly protective, supportive, and generally on the side of anyone he considers to be a friend.

Greatest weakness: I'd say pride. He pretty much thinks he can do no wrong, even when there's a lot of evidence that he's wrong. This attitude infects pretty much every single aspect of his life, from interactions with people to fights that he's in. He's not as good as he thinks he is, but he's incapable of recognising that. If other people treat him well, are friendly, are encouraging, and all things like that, he'll love them. People who show him what he'd consider to be disrespect will just have a constant grudge
held against them. All of those attitude problems come from pride. And when things go wrong for him, he rarely sees that he's been at fault because of this. If anything, things going wrong just tends to make him worse.

2. He would say his greatest strength is leadership, or some ridiculous thing like that. He doesn't understand why people fail to recognise this back home.

He'd...actually have trouble identifying a weakness. I mentioned that pride thing, right? But if he was forced to pick something, he'd say it was that he cares about people too much. If he didn't care about anyone, things would be so much easier.

1. Greatest strength: Ginny is good with people. She's friendly, funny, and quite kind. She will often befriend people that others aren't that nice to, and she'll stick up for them when they're bullied or put upon.

Greatest weakness: Ginny is very brave. But in my opinion she's brave to a fault. She has a tendency of getting in over her head and not realising that she's done so. She won't let people protect her, and gets absolutely furious when they try. She's fiercely independent, but that's not always a good thing. She doesn't want to have to rely on other people, because in her mind that would be placing too much trust in them and she should be taking her of herself.

2. She would say her greatest strength is stubbornness. She works for what she wants, and she thinks for herself. She doesn't let herself be put off by the situation, or by other people who are involved. She does what she wants and she takes responsibility for herself.

She'd say her greatest weakness is being too trusting, since she still sort of beats herself up for being tricked by Tom Riddle in her first school year. She's actually become a lot more careful as a result of that, but it's still something that plays on her mind.

1 - Stephen's greatest strength is probably his intellect. He's very, very smart, and generally keeps his mind open enough to accept things and concepts most people wouldn't. His greatest weakness is probably that he's aware of how smart he is. It makes him arrogant and withdrawn from people he views as less intelligent. Unless he makes a conscious effort otherwise, and that comes with all kinds of martyr complexes, too.

2 - He'd probably agree that his greatest strength is his intellect. He would argue that his greatest weakness isn't so much arrogance as it is a lack of self control. He'd e wrong.

1 - Pietro's greatest strength is his desire to be a good person. He tries really, really hard and just kind of... Sucks at it. His greatest weakness is probably how quickly he judges a given situation. It's not necessarily that his judgment or opinions are bad, it's just that he makes them so quickly, he doesn't have time to second guess himself.

2 - He'd say his greatest strength is his speed and his greatest weakness is his inability to play nice with others. It's not really his fault though. It's part of his mutation and thus a necessary evil.

Oooh, I like this one.

KARA's greatest strength - aside from the obvious physical strength - is probably her desire to be a good hero. It means that she's determined and she doesn't take no for an answer, even if there are times when she has her doubts. She'll work hard and do whatever she can to save lives because it's the right thing to do. Even if that means eventually sacrificing her life, she'd do it, if it would save someone else. Her greatest weakness is her wanting to be a people pleaser. She wants to make people happy and wants people to be proud of her. Couple that with her desire to be a hero and she ends up screwing up. A lot.

She thinks her greatest strength is all in the physical. She's a powerhouse, just point her and she'll hit. Which is kind of a shame, because she's really damn smart. She probably thinks her greatest weakness is something more... abstract. Everyone she gets close to either dies or leaves her alone for extended periods of time and she sees that more as a personal failing than someone out there hating her.

JIM's greatest strength is his sheer determination. There is no such thing as a no-win scenario goddammit. He will push through some godawful things just because he's so bullheaded about it. His greatest weakness is probably his need for attention. There's so many things where it's like he's just projecting, "Look at me! Look at me!" and the stupid stunts could very well get him killed someday.

He thinks his greatest strength is his charisma or maybe his natural leadership skills. He's... probably very aware of what his greatest weakness is, he just doesn't give a fuck about it sometimes.

I'LL DO THE OTHER TWO IN A SEC once i can get this splint on my wrist :|b

GWEN's greatest strength is probably her moral compass. She knows what she thinks and what she believes and nothing is going to change that. And she will damn well tell you when you are wrong. She's got a strong idea of what justice is and what the difference between right and wrong is and will spit and claw if there's something bad going on. Her greatest weakness is most definitely her trust issues. She's very, very, very careful to keep everyone at arms length and even the people she trusts the most are never allowed to see her break down. It's really, really not healthy at all.

Somewhat ironically enough, Gwen thinks that her ability to keep everything in and make it seem like she's just some surly teenager is her greatest strength. I don't know how to put into words what she thinks her greatest weakness would be, but it's probably something like thinking she's not good enough and that if people really knew her, they wouldn't want her? She thinks there's something wrong with her and that plays into the trust issues a lot.

CAROL's greatest strength is her endurance. She's been through so much shit in her life and, though she's had some hiccups along the way, she's pushed through it all and dealt with it and come out the other end stronger. She's like the little train that could, so long as she keeps thinking, "I think I can, I think I can," she'll find a way to make herself do whatever it is she needs to. Her greatest weakness is her inability to ask for help. It doesn't matter how much she trusts someone, if there's something wrong, or she has a personal problem she just... can't ask for help unless she's about to snap in two. Even it gets shoved in her face, there's a knee-jerk reaction of, "I'm fine. I can handle this myself," and it gets her into trouble.

Carol thinks her greatest strength is her greatest strength. Oddly enough, that's why her greatest weakness is what it is. She knows she can push through things, so she thinks she can deal by herself. When it comes to greatest weakness... It's probably addictive behavior. Her alcoholism is the thing she's the most ashamed of and even though she's been clean for a long while, she's terrified of backsliding someday and falling back into it. And she's somewhat mortified it even got that bad in the first place, when she'd seen what alcohol did to her father after her brother's death.

BUCKY — I think his actual strength is in his selflessness and ability to endure, which are kind of linked virtues. Heroic death is pretty much his M.O., and, well, he takes a whole lot of crap and keeps going until he gets killed to make Steve Rogers angsty AGAIN aietalektaefa. Oh and he's also really good at fighting.

His weakness is his cruel streak!! He can be pretty mean, and he kind of tries to not give into those tendencies most of the time, but growing up he was definitely a bully, and he still covers up insecurity with anger and meanness and violence.

He'd probably identify that mean streak as his own weak point, but Bucky thinks he's kind of a worse person than he is. He's not quick to identify with sappy crap!! So he'd probably say his sense of humor is his best point, that he's such a ~fun guy~

NATASHA — her greatest strength is her compassion, the courage that lets her love and lose and go on to love again. She has an incredible emotional resistance, and an incredible ability to be wrecked and somehow survive. Her greatest weakness is kind of attached to that, because in her life that kind of basic empathy is what manipulated her into this horrible life of spying, and really, her past has taught her horrible ways to survive. There's a real tension between the person she has to become sometimes to protect the person that she was, her ruthlessness and her compassion feed off each other, and the one is constantly threatening to destroy the other. And the kind of toughness and supreme self-assurance that lets her better parts survive also can feed her manipulative tendencies and violence, so she gets kind of stubborn and unapologetic. So, even though she loves people, she still keeps them at a distance and keeps a bunch of secrets, even though she likes to be bossy it can be hard for her to act as part of a group. She can also seem a bit... inconsistant, because of these things, and because she's spent years pretending to be other people.

I think that she has a pretty good grasp of herself though! She knows what her good points are and fights to hold on them, but she also knows that it's a fight, and that she's come dangerously close to losing in the past.

Joker has two great strengths working for him: The first is his intelligence. This is a man who can master any discipline he chooses and, in canon, he's shown himself capable of everything from foreign politics to aviation to genetic engineering. He creates his own weapons and is extremely creative and capable of thinking on his toes. Joker is one of only two people (the other being Bane) to have beaten Ra's al Ghul at chess. Ra's commented that the way Joker was able to immediately switch his strategies up on the fly made it seem like he was able to harness chaos for his own advantage. Another strength of his is, interestingly enough, how damaged he is. This is one extremely broken human being and he cannot possibly break further. His madness makes him resistant to mind control and he throws himself into the thick of things with the gusto of a man with nothing to lose.

He's a villain! He's an apex villain. And he's the arch rival of one of the most capable heroes in the history of fiction. If he wasn't a capable genius he wouldn't make a good adversary.

BUT! He does have two notable weaknesses and they are big ones. The first is Batman. He defines himself by the Bat. If Batman were to die the Joker's reaction would be drastic and would likely involve destroying the world that took the Bat from him then fading away himself. The other is his audience. He thrives on attention and does everything he can do to get it. If he were locked away from human interaction completely; no guards, no doctors, no human security; he would probably lose the will to live eventually. Oracle realized this enough to get him a specialized cell at the Slabs where she and she alone was the human to watch over him. And she certainly had no patience for his antics.

I FORGOT THE LAST PART OF THE QUESTION. In his own mind Joker has no weaknesses. He worships himself and considers himself an artistic genius worthy of the world's respect.

Edited 2011-10-03 03:02 (UTC)

This would be much easier if my computer hadn't crashed and taken with it the character maps I filled out with "strengths/weaknesses" on them. ;_;

Alastair's strengths: he's intelligent and resourceful, he values family, he's a pretty good hacker and pilot, he actually does want to be a better person.

Alastair's weaknesses: he doesn't trust people easily, he's insecure, he's a coward, he's still afraid of the Oricalchos, he's selfish and self-absorbed.

He personally would think his strengths are his talents and intelligence, and his weaknesses something like his drinking or his coffee addiction, he would only ever fess up to being a coward. Since he has on the comms.

Geddoe's strengths: loyalty, dependability, his skills and knowledge, his fighting ability. I stated it once as, "to those whom my loyalty is given, it is given completely and without reservation."

Geddoe's weaknesses: trust issues, fear of commitment, long-standing grudges, and his coldness/lack of strong emotion. It takes him a long time to like people and make friends, or at least decide who to trust. He's stubborn, too.

He would probably agree with all of the above but never say so. Geddoe strikes me as the "still waters run deep" type. He's thinking about these things but never says so out loud. He's aware of his nature, being slow to trust and even slower to show feeling, but he would never voice it or make an attempt to change it.

Veronica
1. What are your character's greatest strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths: Loyalty, intelligence, technical skills, a really nasty right uppercut, the ability to see the best in people

Weaknesses: Ability to see the best in people blinds her to their flaws until way late, not very good at discerning when's the time to push for something and when's the time to let go

2. What does your character think are their greatest strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths: She'd definitely agree with the technical skills and the punching, and perhaps add fashion sense (her love for dresses).

Weaknesses: "Love wasn't enough."

Maggie Mui
1. What are your character's greatest strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths: Fearless in combat, absolutely faithful and dedicated to her friends and family, perseverance, intelligence, alertness, good cook.

Weaknesses: That she doubts herself and considers herself useless despite the above. Fear of intimacy (platonic or otherwise) with anyone other than her sisters (obviously she has the platonic affection there), bibliomania (although she'll valiantly try to fight that off if the stakes are high)

2. What does your character think are their greatest strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths: Good memory, good at her paper mastery in her particular areas of specialization

Weaknesses: Everything. Maggie thinks she's the most useless person ever.

1. Nero's greatest strength lies in his loyalty and gut instinct talent. His strength and instinctive know-how of how to solve a problem [usually through the less... "orthodox" way] made him one of the best demon hunters in his hometown, and that goes also for the day by day shenanigans that always happened to him. He's not very rational, but he has his share of good impulses. I'd also thrown in here some of his street smarts, but that gives way to headcanon more than anything else so I'll refrain here. His Ace, though, is derived to his ideals of how one should stick as a partner, a family or a plain mere neighbour, and that he'll stick to thick and thin to protect those he cares about, while still being able to merely stay on the sidelines to let them do their thing.

His greatest weakness, in the midst of the several weaknesses he has [be it some prejudice regarding authority figures or just plain lack of respect and tact - read: his unrelenting foul mouth] is that Nero is such a diamond in the raw that he gets easily carried away by things and loses his cool in an instant if the right chords are well strummed. He has serious anger issues and gets too ingrained in the violence and loses control pretty easily when the adrenaline starts pumping.

2. Nero would say, jokingly, that you should ask your mom about his best quality. But if he were to be answering seriously, he would answer, and surprisingly modestly at that, that his best asset is that he can get the job done. He knows he's talented, good at taking his weapons to the next level and that his arm is one hell [hah, pun not intended] of a device, but he's just not yet aware of how much [even if he has a few hints, but then sometimes it's like, too good to be true, sort of] power he possesses, and claims everything he's done so far was just a matter of being able to wing things off. He'd say he's pretty good at sniffing people's true character out [having never been too keen on his Orderly bosses except Credo], but sometimes that tends to miss the bullseye once or twice.

His biggest weakness, he's actually pretty well aware of it, of the control that sometimes slips away. He wishes, though, he would be a little more giving, forgiving and trusting. Just like his girlfriend, ideally.

Sanji's strengths: his fighting ability, he can take a lot of physical abuse, he believes firmly in the ideals of crew, love, and dreams, and his willingness to put his life on the line; his skills in the kitchen, his pure love for womankind, his tactical mind.

Sanji's weaknesses: he's shallow, he's quick to anger and doesn't make the best decisions in the heat of the moment, he's a little immature at times, and let's face it he's a pirate - he has no qualms about killing or stealing if it benefits him and his crew. He would do stupid things for love, or even just for the approval of a woman.

If you'd ask him, he'd crow about his kitchen skills, his fighting skills, and his love as strengths and deny any weaknesses at all. He really strikes me as the kind of guy who would easily succumb to denial rather than be open about his weaknesses, particularly emotional ones. Though he is inwardly struggling with the things Zoro said to him almost a year ago about being weak physically, and he would rather work to become stronger in that sense than focus on his emotional growth.

I love these questions, they always help me figure out what I'm doing or what a character's true motivations are.

If I had to rewrite my application I'd have a billion more paragraphs, harbleharble.

Astral's greatest strength is how good of a manipulator he is. Unlike Dark Yugi, the character he was based upon, Astral has little to no control over any situation he's thrust into!!! He is parasite stuck with a very unreliable and stubborn host.

Yuma's the kind of person who doesn't like to listen to others, especially when they're demanding. They argue constantly, as much as Yuma can actually argue with Mr. Blankface McGee. So Astral has to come up with ways to get Yuma to work with him, either by lying or purposefully manipulating Yuma's emotional reactions.

Have I mentioned before this kid is fucked up? Because this kid is fucked up. PART OF IT IS BECAUSE... He honestly doesn't really "get" abstract concepts such as emotions. Other than... fear, pretty much. He understands that a little too well. Thanks, Shin Yoshida.

The combination of understanding fear and the fact almost everything can kill him, he's pretty much a being of instinct. So he must manipulate others to live and he's good at it.

Put him any other situation where he doesn't have to constantly face life or death, and he doesn't utilize it very much. His strength is pretty premise related.

He's not sure what his greatest strength is. You know, amnesia.

As for weaknesses... He's a coward. And that's something he'll definitely say is his weakness, not because it wasn't hammered into us for four/five episodes, nope.

He'll run away from anything he deems dangerous, and will abandon people in the process. He doesn't care. To him, his life is way more precious. So his views on death are... horribly black and white. It's either you live or die, you can't come back once you die because death is what makes life precious. Blah blah blah.

THIS BOY'S LIFE IS PRETTY MUCH BASED ON "LIFE OR DEATH, FUCK YOU."

xepi has returned in all her not making any sort of sense glory.

/weeps

Tigger: 1. His greatest strength is probably his boundless energy. You can never keep Tigger down. He's just a big ball of bouncing energy and happiness and he will continue to be that way until the cows come home. No matter what the situation, he's always chipper and ready to do something. His weakness is definitely the fact that he's impulsive and over-confident. Tigger thinks that he can do everything. He can totally climb up that tree and bounce that high and swim that fast, what are you talking about, that's what Tiggers do best! His over-confidence has led him into some pretty sticky situations before and will continue to lead him into sticky situations in the City.

2. He thinks his greatest strength is everything and his greatest weakness is nothing (except climbing). Unless proven otherwise, Tigger just assumes that he's awesome at everything. GEE, THIS WON'T BITE HIM IN THE BUTT LATER AT ALL.

Daniel: 1. His greatest strength is probably his mental stamina. After all that Louis told him about vampires, being attacked by Louis, and all the shenanigans with Armand, it's a wonder that Daniel hasn't gone totally batshit yet (he's only partly batshit). He's able to endure a crapload of mental anguish. The sheer fact that he's basically carrying all the knowledge about vampires in his head and isn't going totally nuts is a testament to his mental strength. His greatest weakness is that he's self-destructive and single-minded. If he's focused on something, he'll lose track of everything else and just focus on getting that accomplishment done, even if that means he doesn't sleep or eat. He also constantly engages in self-destructive behavior, partially because of his single-mindedness and partially because I think that he thinks that if he gets close to dying, Armand will eventually turn him.

2. Daniel's probably the type who won't admit to having any great strengths. I think that he just doesn't care about himself enough to take a lot of pride in his achievements. He definitely thinks about other things ten times more than he thinks about himself (hence the whole not eating thing). So, if you asked him he's probably say something like 'his writing ability' or something lame like that. Daniel would consider his greatest weakness to be Armand and their weird relationship. Considering that it's in the early stages, Daniel probably still has some feelings of 'ARGH WHY AM I SEXING UP MY STALKER' and probably hates himself for the fact that he's fallen in love with a vampire who he knows won't turn him.

1. He is a computing savant, very creative and innovative. He is also ridiculously idealistic (even if his origin claims he only used to be idealistic, he still is, just the ideals have become a lot more grim), and he won't compromise them.

2. He might say his greatest strength is still being around and fighting after all these years. :c

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