Workshop 2 - Quirks & Habits

[evanmcbain]

Before continuing here lets take a quick look at what makes a quirk different then a habit.

There is always that boy in class that loves to tap his quill against the desk, or maybe you are annoyed by the girl who constantly hums while she chews her food at dinner. These my friend are quirks. The little things that bug us to no end...or the things that make us seem really odd.

Habits, on the other hand, are those things that we end up performing on a daily basis. It's the things we do so often it becomes routine. For instance does your character like to wake up at sunrise to job around the school? Maybe he/she likes to shower after every meal? Habits aren’t always bad, in fact some can be quite good. Though its up to you to decide if your habit is utterly annoying or tolerable.



A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?

B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.

[evanmcbain]

A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?

Evan holds many quirks though they might not be easily detected. If you watch him closely he usually covers his mouth with his right hand whenever he is feeling stressed about something. He’ll usually let his hand linger there until he can discretely let out a frustrated groan of sorts. Another odd quirk is his obsession with his coin bag. Mostly due to his gambling you will notice him checking his pocket for his coin bag at least twenty times throughout the day. One final quirk is his constant rising eyebrows. Whenever he finds something unusual Evan has a tendency to furrow his brow. It has become such a part of him that he barely realizes that he does it anymore unless someone points it out to him.


B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.


It’s hard to say whether or not Evan has good habits in his system. Though if he had to choose one thing it would be his ritual lunch with his mother. Every day he brings her something from Somerset, and everyday she is waiting for him in the dining room of the estate. Even on days where she has canceled on him, Evan still heads to the house out of sheer habit. A foul habit that he has is his inability to go to sleep without having at least one drink. Even if it’s just the smallest bit of alcohol he needs it in order to get a full nights rest.

[Centara Zealon]

A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?
Centara has a few quirks. One of them is her fear of crosses. That one is quite obvious due to her vampire blood, but it is in fact one of her quirks. Due to this she tends to keep away from anyone who has a cross, is in with any religion, or something related to that.

Her other quirk is her drinking. There’s usually some sort of liquor trace in her system, making it hard to catch her sober. But, sober or not, she never gets too drunk where she gets out of control. Unless, of course, she means to get that drunk. Her drinking has improved over the past while but no matter what, she will always have a drinking problem.

Cen’s last quirk is her shopping. Everyday she has to do some sort of shopping. If not, then she basically breaks down until she’s able to hit the mall. The only reason this has become a quirk for her is because when Alexa was alive and when Peyton lived with her, they would go out with Kaydence constantly and shop. Even if none of the three were around, you could probably find Centara wandering the mall or the alleys for something she doesn’t have.

[b[B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.[/b]
A good habit that Centara has is her habit to excel. She must always excel in what she does and one thing she enjoys excelling in is her potions career. With Markus being a Potions master, she had gotten even more in tune with how to make potions, create her own version of potions, and things along those lines.

Her one bad habit is her need to have someone around. It can either be a guy or a girl but she usually has to have some sort of friend around her at all times. If not then she tends to get annoyed, depressed, and extremely bored. The only time where she doesn’t have to have someone around is when she’s working, shopping, or when she’s in her bathroom doing whatever. Any other time, she has to have a friend, boyfriend or someone like that with her.

[Erich Griesser]

A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?A noticeable quirk of Erich’s is his desire to be alone. He won’t deny the occasional desire to spend time with a close friend, but that only proves to be rarely. Because of his bad people skills, Erich has no problems with spending hours on end by himself for no particular reason mostly because he believes he is the only one who doesn’t annoy the piss out of himself. That’s why one shouldn’t be disappointed when he refuses an invitation or darts away from someone when they try to speak to him.

Another quirk of his is staring absentmindedly. He finds himself doing this usually after getting a lack of his normal ten hours of sleep. His mind most always starts wandering off and without even knowing he completely tunes out the outside world. Erich also frequently gets in trouble for his staring when he winds up sinking out of reality. There have been numerous occasions in which he’s been told off for it…and slapped. The staring has added to his reputation of being that weird, reclusive kid as well.

Erich’s most noticeable quirk is his lack of tolerance and fear of girls. None have been able to explain it, which makes it so odd. No one can understand why he hates girls so much and Erich hasn’t been able to provide a valid reason for it. It is unsure of whether he had a bad past experience with a girl or if he’s simply afraid of letting one in too close, but whatever it is, it puts a massive damper on his ability to interact with people. Any time he sees one of the female gender he runs for the hills. If one tries to talk to him, he does his best to make them go away by throwing insults their way until they leave him alone. His sexuality is normally questioned because his hatred for girls but Erich’s assures he’s straight since he hates guys almost as much as he does girls.

B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has. A good habit of Erich’s is his daily sketching. Every day or night after his Head Boy duties or on the weekend Erich takes some time to do a sketch of something around him. He currently has about ten sketchpads full of artwork (which have remained on complete lockdown) ever since he picked up the hobby three years ago.

A bad habit of his napping. Although he can protest for hours and hours on end about it being a good thing, his napping is ultimately a downfall. Every possible chance he gets he tries to sneak in a few minutes of sleep even though he may or may not be tired.

[Avery Rowe]

A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?

Avery likes to twirl her hair whenever she's thinking. To the point that if she has her hair up, she will pull bits of it down to wrap around her finger. It helps her concentrate better than anything else she has found does. She also has a tendency to rock back and forth on her heels whenever she's lying about something or nervous about how somebody's going to react to something that she has to say. Whenever she's angry however, the rocking is replaced by pacing and whenever she's about to rant, or lie while angry she stops moving.

B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.

Avery habitually washes her hands and cleans under her finger nails. She's a tad bit obsessed with cleanliness and it ties directly into her need to look good. She also doesn't tend to think before acting. She is too impulsive for her own good most times. She has a habit for rule breaking and will at times go out of her way to do so, if she thinks that somebody important will notice her while doing it. It's all part of her deep seated need for attention, positive or negative.

[Ashton Wentworth]

A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?

Whenever Ashton is nervous or anxious about something, he has a tendency to rub his left ring finger in small circles. It's where his ring used to be and whenever he actually still used to wear a wedding band it would always spin it to remind himself that he had made vows to the woman he was angry at. Whenever he's angry he lashes out, either physically or verbally. He also has to be moving, pacing or storming back and forth. To work through stress, he will run his hands down his face and through his hair. He will also do that to keep his calm, or try to.

B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.

Smoking. Would be his number one habit, drinking would be the second. Hardly a day goes by without him consuming something alcoholic (present work schedule excluded) it calms his nerves and is just about the only pathway that he has left to forgetting about his past and turning him back into a nice, carefree person. Perhaps this isn't a habit exactly, but his temper would have to be the very worst one of all. He takes his anger out at all the worst possible times and since he's not very good at communicating at all its normally just physical violence. A good habit would be that he is always on time for work, normally he isn't ever more than five minutes early, but he isn't ever late. He is highly dedicated to his job and performance.

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A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?

When Tristan has something on his mind, he bites at his thumb and gazes off. He is aware of his surroundings, just deep in thought. Lately with work, that’s all he has been doing when back at the desk. His head is filled with such stress from work that he is often found in this position. It’s also his way to drone Wentworth’s griping out.

Another quirk he has taken up recently has been talking to himself. His mind is so jumbled that he has no choice but to speak aloud what he’s thinking to get things in order. Whether it’s studying the results of lab reports or going over witness statements, Tristan talks to himself to get things organized.

Finally, Tristan has the tendency to doodle. Whenever his interest isn’t captured by something, he absent-mindedly starts drawing on the side of whatever paper he is looking at. He usually keeps a pen on him to cater to the quirk. He’s suffered through several lectures already from his boss for his unprofessional behavior.

B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.

Every morning, Tristan wakes up early to go to the gym before work. A good workout sets his mood for the day. It’s the easiest way for him to focus on something other than work and the negative distractions in his life. Plus, working out gets his chemicals flowing, giving him energy and motivation for the rest of the day. If he misses a workout, he’s gloomy until he gets one in.

Tristan is all around a good person. However, he has a bad habit of being too critical for his own good. When he has his mind set on something, he’s reluctant to get any outside advice or opinions on how to do so. He likes doing things on his own terms. It’s part of why his working relationship with Ashton Wentworth is so strained. He hates being made to feel like his ideas and opinions are useless so his behavior reflects what is displayed to him. Sometimes it’s hard for him to grasp why people do what they do since in his mind, things should be done the way he would do it.

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A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?

Whenever Malachai is stressed or upset about something, he takes consecutive puffs of his cigarette without exhaling. He’ll take at least two or three. The more stressed he is, the more puffs he takes. He’s been known to go all the way up to six before blowing out a billowing cloud of dark smoke.

He clears his throat whenever he is ready to talk. Since Malachai is not a man of many words, he uses this as a way of letting people know that he wants to say something. Even when he has been in the midst of conversation for several minutes, he will still occasionally clear his throat.

Malachai is obsessed with collecting beer labels. On a mission to try every beer in the world, he will tear the front label off of a beer bottle and shove it in his pocket. He has a room back at his apartment in Ireland that has an entire wall full of labels.



B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.

Malachai has a habit of drinking and drinking a lot. He is Irish so it doesn’t come as much of a shocker. While those who know of his situation would see his drinking as a bad habit (considering how bad of a drunk his father is), he sees it as the opposite. He is much more likable when he has been drinking. His fighting skills improve tremendously as well. He knows how to carry his own when he is sober, but his focus is strangely better when he’s had a few too many.

He considers his smoking to be a bad habit. Though it comes naturally to him, even he is aware of how smoking negatively affects him. In his older age, he gets winded more easily. Most importantly, his wallet takes a beating with how often he pulls out coins for packs of smokes. Malachai can go through two packs a day easily. He can’t make it through a day without smoking. When he goes without a smoke for an extended period of time, he gets twitchy, short-fused and moody.

[Don Melvyn]

A) Quirks are defined as something odd or peculiar in a person's behavior or personality. Write a short description of three of your character's quirks. Are they irrationally afraid of something? Does she always crack her knuckles? Is he obsessed with collecting something?


Since graduating Don is constantly out searching for himself. In everything he does he has to evaluate why he is doing it, and how it forms a part of who he is. He tends to pout his lips when he is upset, confused or just thinking really hard. Don suffers from pyrophobia and he'll stay clear from anything fire related; from campfires to smokers.


B) Habits are defined as the usual way of doing something; a routine followed on a daily basis. Perhaps your character sleeps in everyday to the point where they are late to their first class all the time. Maybe every morning they are up at the crack of dawn to get in extra studying. Write a description of one good habit and one bad habit that your character has.


Don suffers from sleep sleep deprivation, which means he is up 'til late at night and gets up very early. It has become a habit that he sings at night (sometimes off tune) to try and lull himself to sleep. He takes early morning strolls, as well.