ah, the quirky kind of quirks.
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kaigouAll three-hundred and forty-eight. See anything I might've missed? ...these are collected from all over the place, and edited either to make it easier to parse, or to make more sense in terms of being applicable to more than a single wacko character.
- Absent-minded to the point of losing glasses while still wearing them.
- Addicted to caffeine.
- Addicted to chocolate.
- Addicted to specific cultural food/drink.
- Affectionate towards farm animals.
- Agrees with opponent at first, and changes mind later in private.
- Always at least ten minutes early to any meeting or appointment.
- Always carries a full set of imperial ratcheting wrenches.
- Always checking the time.
- Always chewing on non-food (toothpick, pen-cap, lollipop-stick).
- Always cleaning spectacles or pushing them up their nose.
- Always doodling in margins of papers, books, etc.
- Always faces an emergency by taking command of the situation.
- Always falls asleep and gets up at the same time every day.
- Always finds an excuse not to tell a woman how he feels about her.
- Always finds the bright side of any disaster, however far-fetched.
- Always forms an emotional attachment to fine cars, collectibles, etc., even if owned by someone else, and feels slighted if the they are mistreated.
- Always gets others to agree first to something he doesn’t want in order to later get them to agree to what he does want.
- Always has change in his or her pocket to give to beggars or homeless.
- Always has the precise amount of money to purchase any specific thing.
- Always knows the direction he or she is traveling in.
- Always laughs at the wrong things; offbeat sense of humor.
- Always looks and acts stupid, but is a passionate master persuader.
- Always needs to be the center of attention.
- Always replies to any email immediately.
- Always rescuing stray animals.
- Always screens all calls.
- Always smiles even when the situation is serious.
- Always speaks in a dignified, formal tone, even in casual conversation.
- Always stands with his or her hands behind their back, sometimes in an “at ease” position, though he or she was never in the military.
- Always sucking on a breathmint or candy.
- Always talks back except to one or two specific people.
- Always talks to his weapon before fighting.
- Always tidies up the table and resets the condiments when dining out.
- Always treats everyone with respect, no matter their class or station.
- Always trying to recruit people to his or her religious/philosophical beliefs.
- Always tweaks what he’s already completed, to make it better.
- Always uses a handkerchief to touch a public telephone, chair, etc.
- Always wants help with even the simplest tasks.
- Always wears a hat, scarf, or head-wrap.
- Asks for exactly the same thing over and over, even after being told repeatedly that it’s infeasible, impossible, unavailable, etc.
- Becomes depressed unless given a steady stream of positive feedback.
- Believes that God is a sham created by the clergy to get money.
- Believes that he/she is part of some kind of prophecy.
- Believes Tupperware parties, AA meetings, etc. are fronts for a massive conspiracy.
- Bites nails to the quick.
- Blurts out words, thinks afterwards.
- Brags about past accomplishments, even made-up ones.
- Brilliant strategist; always seems to have planned for any contingency.
- Can alter the chemical make-up of any food or beverage and change it into any other food or beverage.
- Can become incorporeal.
- Can cause earthquakes.
- Can cause hurricane-like conditions.
- Can cause mutation in people or animals.
- Can cause thunderstorms.
- Can cause tornadoes.
- Can charm people into finding him attractive/sexy.
- Can communicate with someone by holding a picture of them.
- Can create autonomous copies of himself.
- Can create illusions but uses them only for entertainment.
- can create illusions but uses them only for subversive uses.
- Can create non-autonomous copies of himself.
- Can deliver an electrical shock by touch.
- Can draw sickness out of other people.
- Can drive at excessive speed, weaving in and out of traffic, without getting in an accident.
- Can focus a single sense to exponential levels.
- Can gain complete control over any muscles or organs in another person’s body.
- Can hear another world/plane in one ear.
- Can instantly imitate any skill he or she sees.
- Can interface mentally with any electrical network.
- Can levitate.
- Can locate any person he or she has met face-to-face.
- Can make people say anything he or she wants them to.
- Can memorize entire books within fifteen minutes.
- Can only see out of one eye or hear out of one ear.
- Can perform rapid calculations in the head.
- Can pick up the history of a place from standing in it.
- Can play any song after only hearing once.
- Can predict a person’s movement/path based on aura-trails.
- Can put people to sleep with a thought.
- Can recite text in full after only hearing once.
- Can recite text in full after only reading once.
- Can repair anything mechanical with only a few minutes’ study.
- Can replicate any sound, flawlessly.
- Can see another world/plane out of one eye.
- Can see patterns and sequences and decrypt codes easily.
- Can see through others’ eyes
- Can summon invisible guards or scouts.
- Can tell if someone is lying just by listening to the person’s voice.
- Can think words onto paper.
- Can track a person’s movement/path by extra-hearing.
- Can track a person’s movement/path by extra-smell.
- Can track a person’s movement/path by extra-taste.
- Can track a person’s movement/path by extra-touch (hands to the ground, in water, etc).
- Can track a person’s movement/path by seeing aura-trails.
- Can travel through dreams to transport self from one place to the next.
- Can travel through mirrors to transport self from one place to the next.
- Can travel through water to transport self from one place to the next.
- Can turn electronic appliances on and off with his or her mind.
- Can walk through any terrain without leaving a trail, physical, or scent.
- Can’t swallow pills.
- Can’t swim, and has no inclination to learn.
- Cannot be burned by fire.
- Cannot be cut or stabbed.
- Cannot drink anything with ice in it.
- Cannot stick to conversational topic; always gets off on a tangent, tirade, etc.
- Can't talk to a person of the opposite gender without stuttering and making a fool of his/herself.
- Carries a good luck charm everywhere.
- Celebrates in rambunctious manner when plans are settled.
- Chews tobacco or has a habit of spitting.
- Chews with his mouth open.
- Classist; doesn’t admit publicly to having ‘the wrong type’ of friends.
- Clownish; will go overboard getting people to laugh even in a serious situation. Unable to maintain serious air for long.
- Clumsy; always breaks things, trips over things, etc.
- Collects rocks.
- Collects something (keys, bottle caps, coins, whatever), and will leave behind other objects before parting with his collection.
- Comes up with elaborate solutions to simple problems.
- Communicates with resident spirits of rivers, oceans, lakes.
- Communicates with resident spirits of trees, plants, or forests.
- Communicates with rivers, oceans, lakes.
- Communicates with trees and plants.
- Compulsively interrupts people telling stories to interject facts that he only knows because he’s heard the story before, not because he was involved.
- Considers a certain type of animal "unclean" and won't eat it or wear objects made from it.
- Constantly touches his or her face or head.
- Contradicts everyone about absolutely anything even the pointless things.
- Corrects people when they use colloquial speech.
- Could never accept that his close friend has a fatal flaw, even if true.
- Deadpan to the point even friends aren’t certain what’s serious and what’s meant in humor.
- Deathly afraid of cats.
- Deathly afraid of dogs.
- Denies any fact that does not fit into his theory of how things work.
- Disdainful of anyone who doesn’t use the metric system.
- Dislikes watching movies in movie-theaters.
- Distrusts and suspects anyone with a strong intuition.
- Distrusts anyone who refuses to doubt themselves.
- Distrusts own memory; compensates by being a compulsive note-taker.
- Distrusts people who can’t remember his name.
- Distrusts people who have blue eyes.
- Distrusts people who talk with an accent.
- Does not own, nor want to own, a television.
- Doesn’t wash his or her hands after using the bathroom.
- Dots i’s with a smiley face or heart.
- Drags his feet.
- Drinks only specific brands of alcohol.
- Easily brought to tears over specific topics, but tries to hide it.
- Easily deceived by anyone who uses words he doesn’t understand.
- Easily distracted by a particular type of person and will break off conversations and devote his/her total attention to any of that type who show up.
- Easily swayed by food and money
- Eater, picky; willing to offend hosts/friends to avoid certain foods.
- Eats and smokes at the same time.
- Eats and talks at the same time.
- Eats fast, to the point that dinnertime is silent because all attention is focused on the rush of getting as much food down as possible as quickly as possible.
- Eats with hands.
- Ends declarative sentences with in interrogative inflection?
- Enjoys arguing but can’t figure out why no one will do it with him.
- Enjoys feeling pain.
- Excessive Pollyanna.
- Excessive-sleeper; requires 9+ hours of sleep a night to function well.
- Feels no sadness, anger, nervousness, etc., but can fake it pretty well.
- Fidgeter of jewelry. Rings, necklaces, bracelets and ear rings are all fair game.
- Frequent unintended double-entendres or Freudian slips.
- Gains control over things by knowing their true name.
- Generally submits to the ideas and suggestions of others without thinking of his or her own needs.
- Gets enthusiastically rambunctious upon meeting a new person.
- Gets physically angry when people mispronounce a certain word
- Gives the first bite/sip of his meals to his deity/ancestors by spilling it onto the ground.
- Gluttonous in extreme; sometimes makes himself sick from overeating.
- Greets acquaintances by kissing both cheeks.
- Greets acquaintances by kissing one cheek.
- Greets acquaintances with a bow.
- Greets acquaintances with a handshake.
- Greets acquaintances with a hug.
- Greets acquaintances with a simple nod.
- Greets friends by kissing both cheeks.
- Greets friends by kissing one cheek.
- Greets friends with a handshake.
- Greets friends with a simple nod.
- Greets new-met friend by kissing both cheeks.
- Greets new-met friend by kissing one cheek.
- Greets new-met friend with a bow.
- Greets new-met friend with a hug.
- Greets new-met friend with a nod.
- Habitual sniffler even when he or she is healthy.
- Happiest when working in a crowded, noisy environment (ie, writing in the middle of a shopping mall during the Christmas rush).
- Hard worker, but no concrete goals.
- Has absolutely no sense of direction.
- Has bones that cannot break.
- Has complete muscular control over own body.
- Has drawn up a list of transgressions and a revenge appropriate for each.
- Has itchy scalp, elbows, stomach, etc; constantly scratching.
- Has never cut his hair or shaved.
- Has no body hair.
- Has several parts of his or her body that are double jointed and bend or flex in an unnatural or uncanny manner.
- Has strange dreams, and insists no matter how disturbing on telling everyone in sight.
- Has the attention span of a goldfish.
- Has variety of nicknames depending on social group.
- Hates children.
- Hates doing the same thing day after day.
- Hates messy rooms; becomes furious if forced to spend time in one.
- Hates messy rooms; will start cleaning regardless of situation.
- Hates the sound of chewing.
- Hates to be photographed.
- Hates to sweat, and is turned off by people who sweat profusely.
- Hates vegetables.
- Heavy sleeper: blasting caps won’t even wake the person.
- Hides cash in his sock, shorts, bra, etc.
- Hums tunelessly when thinking, or when working on something.
- Hypochondriac; always seeking cure for a disease or condition.
- Illiterate, culturally; not native to the country and struggles with reading anything quickly that’s longer than a one or two word common phrase.
- Insists everyone call him by a different name each day, depending on his mood.
- Insists on butting into every single little problem.
- Insists on sharing equally, but privately hoards the same item (food, money, etc).
- Insomniac; going without sleep for several days at a time, and eventually showing the strain.
- Instantly knows what others feel.
- Intensely passionate in pursuits and beliefs; strong temper if beliefs are violated in some way.
- Knows how any device functions just by handling it briefly.
- Knows many facts in his expertise, and always corrects everyone else.
- Knows who were the last five people to handle an item just by holding that item.
- Liar, habitual; lies just for the sake of lying, and to see if he can get away with it and/or fool everyone successfully.
- Liar, manipulative: doesn’t precisely lie so much as use word-choice and tone to imply a meaning that may not exist in the actual words. See also, politician.
- Liar, pathological: lies even when he doesn’t want to, or doesn’t intend to.
- Liar, random; lies about unimportant things for no reason.
- Loves to wear costume jewelry, tricked out clothing, etc.
- Makes fun of opponents by mimicking them.
- Mends broken objects.
- Messy but insists it’s an organized chaos; knows where everything is, and can actually find it quickly.
- Mush mouth, doesn’t enunciate.
- Must control everyone and everything.
- Names and becomes attached to stuffed animals, caterpillars, rocks, raindrops on the window, etc.
- Names and talks to all of his weapons.
- Never answers the door.
- Never answers the phone.
- Never asks for help; always tries to do everything himself.
- Never curses or uses a deity's name in vain. Disapproves of those who do.
- Never dodges oncoming pedestrians, forcing others to move around him instead.
- Never laughs; treats every joke as though it were serious.
- Never looks a person in the eye, and always talks in a monotone voice.
- Never refuses a challenge, no matter how stupid it may be
- Never sheaths a weapon until it's tasted blood.
- Never smiles.
- Never talks about his future.
- Never talks about his past.
- Nightmares, abrupt; wakes with a terrified jolt and soaked in sweat.
- Nightmares, loud: dramatic, wakes with yell or specific cry.
- Nightmares, soft: comes awake slowly, while crying.
- Nightmares, strangled: can’t wake from nightmare, except by forcing out sounds in hopes someone will wake him.
- Nonpicky about lovers; happy with anyone.
- Nudist.
- Oblivious to entire wardrobe being paint/chemical-spattered.
- Obsesses over specific body parts of potential lovers.
- Offended when he discovers that someone listened to him just to shut him up (and then didn’t follow his advice).
- Organizes important paperwork in stacks.
- Overly honest person, always telling the truth even to his or her own detriment.
- Overly sensitive sense of smell, hearing, sight, etc.
- Overprotective of younger siblings, including suspicion of siblings’ friends/lovers.
- Practically gives money away, generous to near-idiocy.
- Prattles on about trivia when there are significant matters to discuss.
- Prefers computer sex to the real thing.
- Professes multiple, incompatible religions.
- Profusely sweats even when at rest.
- Puts a specific condiment (ketchup, maple syrup, salt, mustard) on everything.
- Quotes adages even if irrelevant.
- Quotes favorite movies and can usually identify the movie that a quote may come from.
- Raises chickens, pigs, etc.
- Readily puts him or her self in the way of danger without careful consideration.
- Reads every newspaper and website; watches every news program.
- Receives visions from smoke or steam.
- Refers to himself in the third person
- Refuses to drink beer from the bottle; insists on a glass.
- Refuses to fight with anyone already injured.
- Refuses to fight with anyone smaller than himself.
- Refuses to fight with anyone wearing glasses.
- Refuses to fight with the opposite gender.
- Refuses to hug even good friends.
- Refuses to pay more than the barest amount required for accommodations, even if that means staying at a roach motel.
- Refuses to respect anyone until the respect is fully earned.
- Refuses to shake hands for any reason.
- Refuses to stay at anything less than 5-star hotel.
- Refuses to stop and ask for directions. At all.
- Refuses to talk in presence of anyone who is ‘mixed’, ie, half-___.
- Refuses to use a cell phone.
- Refuses to use a computer.
- Refuses to use a microwave.
- Refuses to wear glasses, even when badly needed.
- Regularly looks up at the sky to check the position of the sun/moon.
- Regularly mispronounces a certain word or uses redundant terms.
- Relates everything to a fable or allegory.
- Renames everything he comes across.
- Restless sleeper; kicks, tosses, turns, and flails all night long.
- Restless, fidgety, always has leg or hand tapping or moving.
- Rude to everyone.
- Rude, but purely unintentionally.
- Shapeshifter; can change appearance but remains humanoid.
- Shapeshifter; can change into an inanimate object.
- Shapeshifter; can change into animal shape.
- Short, but envies those who are tall.
- Shouts “I’m here!” (or something else) when startled.
- Sits alone and plays an instrument to unwind.
- Sleeper, light; wakes at the slightest crack or pop.
- Sleeper, minimal; doesn’t need more than 3-4 hours of sleep to function well.
- Sleep-picky; cannot sleep in a waterbed.
- Sleep-picky; cannot sleep on the floor, or near-floor level.
- Sleep-picky; only sleeps in a hammock.
- Sleep-picky; only sleeps well on the floor.
- Sleep-picky; sleeps best sitting up.
- Sleep-picky; won’t sleep under the window.
- Stacks books vertically, not horizontally.
- Steals anecdotes and retells them as if his own.
- Steals anecdotes, retells them as if his own, and doesn’t remember the original source such that sometimes he tells someone’s story back to them.
- Suffers from nervous twitches in hands, eyes, feet.
- Suffers from short-term memory loss.
- Susceptible to malapropisms or spoonerisms.
- Takes every question as a compliment.
- Takes every question as a criticism .
- Takes it personally when mail is misdelivered.
- Takes practical jokes very poorly.
- Takes stupid bets/dares for small amounts of money.
- Tall, but envies those who are short.
- Terrified that he won't be able to live up to his parent's/mentor's/deity's standards.
- Thinks up of overly complicated plans then discards them for being too easily seen through.
- Thrifty almost to the point of obsession.
- Tone-deaf but loves to sing. Loudly.
- Turned on by any name with a certain sound in it.
- Unable to pass mirror or reflective surface without checking hair, makeup, appearance.
- Unable to take advice without finding reason to insist it won’t work.
- Uses acronyms or jargon and doesn’t bother to explain.
- Uses mundane items as toys (e.g. bottle caps, straws, chopsticks).
- Vegan for cultural reasons.
- Vegan for health reasons.
- Vegan for political reasons.
- Vegan for religious reasons.
- Vegetarian for cultural reasons.
- Vegetarian for health reasons.
- Vegetarian for political reasons.
- Vegetarian for religious reasons.
- Very low self-esteem. The slightest hint that the person he's talking to doesn't like him will send him doubting himself badly.
- Violent reaction if approached from behind without warning.
- Violent reaction if hugged by someone not given ‘permission’ to do so.
- Violent reaction if hugged without warning.
- Wears a piece of jewelry constantly for specifically sentimental reasons.
- When stressed or lying, speaks from the corner of his or her mouth.
- When told no, it only strengthens his resolve.
- Will accept almost anything as “normal,” once it is explained to him.
- Will deny/ignore own feelings as required, to avoid offending friends.
- Will deny/ignore own feelings as required, to avoid offending strangers.
- Will only drink from a specially prepared flask, and will only eat a meal he has prepared.
- Willing to do anything for information.
- Writes with left hand, but does everything else right-handed.
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Date: 30 Sep 2008 01:13 pm (UTC)Hey!
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Date: 1 Oct 2008 02:20 am (UTC)Yeah?