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[cook_the_rude]

 List your characters' idiosyncrasies that people overlook because they are good at what they do -- which is what that term means, according to TV-Tropes.

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[just_cant_lose]

Jim's idiosyncrasies...well, hard to say which ones are real, because either everything's a performance and actually aids his job - plus, are more fun than annoying - or they're so minor they don't need registering in first place.

For example, he has a penchant for committing crimes/making an entrance to music - breaking into the Tower, waiting for Sherlock with the Bee Gees, that S4 dance in front of the helicopter - but that's not just him being a massive, massive showoff. I suppose some people might raise their eyebrows and wonder if it's necessary (looking at you, Mycroft), but it's to focus attention where he wants it. And also because he's a massive show off.

I suppose the main one, actually, would be the way he runs his mouth. Lots of innuendos, quite often sexual in nature, and double entendres designed to make people uncomfortable or put them off balance. He's a constant, incorrigible flirt, and I imagine he's pretty much always like that. Which when dealing with certain elements of the criminal underworld, probably annoyed some people. It obviously didn't affect his business, so safe to say it was overlooked. But then, he rarely dealt with the little people face to face, and canon shows his typed interactions (at least when not dealing with the Holmes') to be a lot more serious, so maybe he kept the flirting to a minimum on purely business matters.

[harryhotspur]

........everything about Harry's personality. Specifically, his hot temper, his impatience, and his inability to keep his mouth shut. Up until the eleventh hour of the rebellion he's helping lead, his uncle points out that even if they surrender, the king will find some excuse to let Hotspur off the hook.

[have_no_mercy]

I don't know that Tess really has any. I mean, shooting someone in the head just because they said no to her was more of a reflex.

Kylo sort of has these tantrums and destroys property. It's because he feels so much he can't keep all that anger inside.

Sikozu is a walking idiosyncrasy. She's thinks she perfectly normal and that y'all are the problem.

[cottoncandypink]

Yeah, basically everything for Wilford as well. But I think it's kind of tricky to separate where Wilford is weird from how everyone is weird because that's how his world is. He talks funny and he has a stupid moustache, but in the world of the JRPG, the stupid moustache is probably more stupid because of how he styles it, rather than because of it's colour.


I think they're all kind of in the same boat. Dodger has an odd outlook on life and survival, but she's seen and done some horrible things. Mark goes in the opposite direction, but he's probably trying to ignore all the horrible things he's seen and done. They were both probably quite average and unwilling to kill someone over a can of beans before the apocalypse.

And Xephos is from a world where people go to the moon and build nuclear weapons because there's nothing else to do. Any of his oddities are likely a product of that as well.

[mnt_mike]

Bumi: Have you met Bumi? Because...now would be the time when someone could just gesture towards Bumi.

He's impulsive, reckless, and sometimes seems certifiably out of his mind.

Raph: Is the best ex-boyfriend you've ever had. Sure he's violent, prone to fits of uncontrollable anger, and an emotionally stunted git if ever there was one. But he's also loyal to a fault. Which is why it's great that he's in your life, but that you're also no where near being responsible for his crap anymore.

Mike: He has no attention span to speak of what so ever. And he follows at the heels of his Id a bit more than is strictly appropriate.

Aang: Also easily distracted, and he has a tendency to run away from his problems. Avoidance, thy name is Air Nomad.

Splinter: Is bad at emotions. Really bad. He also doesn't really realize that raising your kids to be living weapons isn't exactly the best of all possible parenting strategies.

The Oompa Loompas: They're evil.

[bjornwilde]

Glancing at spoiler territory, the entirety of Eliot is idiosyncratic.

[varadia]

Ysalwen is pushy as hell. She also overreacts to criticism, constructive or otherwise.

X-23 genuinely thinks most people are shit at taking care of themselves and need help.

[thebattycakes]

Matt Murdock: Does stupid, dangerous things and tries to keep everything he's going through and has ever gone through ever to himself. He's an enigma wrapped in a mystery surrounded by a giant wall hidden behind a pair of glasses. People want to shake him, a lot.

Logan: He's an asshole, and chances are good if you're friends with him he's probably tried to kill you a time or two and vice versa.

Hellboy: Is a slob, and childish, and quick to piss off. Also, a cat hoarder.

Charlie Kenton: Irresponsible, quick to break promises and always looking for the easy way out.

Bill Pardy: Has a tendency to not talk about things that are bothering him, and to get involved when/where maybe he shouldn't. There's concern when he tackles things that are probably out of his league and could get him dead.

The Tick: The Tick is The Tick. 'Nuff said.

[varadia]

I love that for Logan, this applies to relatives, too. Shockingly.

(DAKEN IS SO HELPFUL. Among. Um. Others.)

[adamantiumloner]

In truth it applies to almost everyone he's ever met. It's just not everyone overlooks it or puts up with it enough to be called friends/family/begrudging teammates. XD

[varadia]

I . . . surely there's ONE PERSON. In one AU. Somewhere . . . um.

[bjornwilde]

Well, in the new X-Men movie verse it seems to be more getting into fights instead of trying to kill them. At least if Hank and Logan's interactions in Days of Future Past are anything to go by.

[varadia]

Heh. I was mostly thinking of comics canon and it's AUs. Whoops.

[bjornwilde]

Oh, I'm sure if they had an R rating, it'd be stabby time. I was just trying to find a "pacifist" Logan for you.

[varadia]

I got it! Just until you said anything I wasn't thinking of the movies or of the cartoons. But yes! He does live there!

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee considers his queerness an idiosyncracy because he is a product of his time. His perception of himself is still very much as an Other, and is of the mindset where he thinks people will still like him or talk to him despite it. The thought doesn't always manifest itself in Milliways, but it's a fact of life at home.

I don't know about Pam. Not much about her that anyone can willingly overlook. Maybe people would be willing to overlook how much of a bitch she is in order to negotiate with her.

Floki is a master boat builder with an occasionally unhinged personality and deeply fanatical religious beliefs. So. If you want that boat, you're gonna have to put up with the wacky.

[athelstanthescribe]

I've always loved how the very first time we see Floki in canon, he's leaping out at Bjorn from behind a bush, wearing a freaky mask and shrieking like a banshee.

[maid_of_tarth]

Brienne's idiosyncrasy is being a woman who fights. Doesn't help that she's ugly, either.

Combeferre will do things like giving you a spontaneous, unsolicited history lesson on the development of the cannon that's being aimed at you. (Somehow, despite this, fanon considers him the practical one).

Fantine has no idiosyncrasies that get overlooked. Everyone punishes her for everything. She has no special skills and no privileges. The social group she's in when she's introduced in canon consists of people who resent, mock, or exploit her because of her reserve and her quietness and her unawareness of certain social realities.

Jehan Prouvaire is super sensitive, easily embarrassed, and has fits of shyness.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond's general unrelenting goodness is arguably idiosyncratic, in that everyone else just has to put up with it.

Lois is pretty much nothing that can be overlooked, so I'm not sure one could call the nosiness or bossiness or anything idiosyncratic. She's just Lois.

Evelyn will eventually develop a deadpan sarcasm that is hard for some people to distinguish from when she is being serious.

Artoo swears. A lot. Most people overlook it because they can't understand him.

Anakin's temper can't exactly be called this either, although it's definitely the thing people have to put up with to work with him, throughout his life. Maybe his snobby tendencies about piloting or mechanics or lightsaber form counts.

Tavi's is 100% that he takes sadistic joy in not telling people details of things and the looks they give him when they think he's being crazy because they aren't seeing what he is. This does, in fact, backfire at times. Also, it isn't so much that people overlook it because he's that competent--although he is, terrifyingly so--it's just that even if not for the part where it works, since it does work, him being emperor leaves them very little room to actually do anything other than complain about it and deal. He's a good boss otherwise, for the most part!

[mightbeagoodone]

See: all Sherlock is and chooses to be.