Naive: Gar's naivety has been his biggest flaw and negative trait. While believing in the best of people can be good when you're in the situations he's in it tends to do more harm than good. He constantly believes in Dick even though Dick has been shown to let him down time and time again. He believes in Rachel but despite that she lashes out at him when he tries to help her, she ends up harming him. He's naive enough to believe that Dick is still there for him when Dick leaves him at the tower alone with Conner. Perhaps one of his most pressing mistakes is the fact that he believes that Conner is inherently good despite being the clone of superman and lex luthor. He underestimates Conner's bad side which gets a lot of people hurt. It's also this trait that has him finding Conner and trying to help him again. It's a bit of a double edged sword because not giving up on people has given him a family but it's also come at a huge cost.
Pacifist: Gar's instinct is to be passive when it comes to violence or negative emotions. While finding out about Dick's lies he's the only one who stays and while telling Dick that it's messed up that seems to be the extent that he's willing to call anyone out on their behavior. He tends to take the hits from people verbally or otherwise without generally hitting back. His lack of a will to be more aggressive or even more defensive lends to people taking advantage of him.
Gar wants to make the world a better place and he's willing to fight for it to be so but he isn't always willing to fight with people that he cares about even when they're in the wrong. This hampers his ability to affect change to the best of his own ability.
Secretive: I'm not sure what else I could say for secretive. He's very closed off about his own problems and doesn't let people help him. He is always giving and trying to be there for others but expressing his own trauma seems to be a hang up for him. While he clearly hides his own problems, like the ptsd from the asylum attack he expects other people to be able to talk about their traumas readily.
Rebellious: Perhaps this is a better trait that I should have had from the beginning but Gar is extremely rebellious. From the start he's sneaking out from the Doom Patrol even though he's not supposed to. It's dangerous for them even if it's less so for him. He does it for banal things like stealing video games and the like. He also goes against all the rules by bringing Rachel with him. He rebels against Caulder when he tries to experiment on Rachel and she wants it to stop. His rebellion isn't always a bad thing but it tends to lend to him getting into trouble. He will say to those in responsible positions what they want to hear and go behind their back to do what he really thinks should be done.
When Rachel is arguing with Dick about something she wants to do, Gar sides with Dick and then subsequently privately tells Rachel that he just did that to get them off their backs so they could get away with it. Gar's tendency to go against what those in charge want him to do lands him in a lot of trouble. He did much the same with Conner when Dick had instructed him to call Bruce when Conner wakes up. Gar instead decides to hang out with Conner and try and handle it on his own. This ultimately leads to them both being captured before they can call for help.
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Date: 2019-11-20 09:59 pm (UTC)Pacifist: Gar's instinct is to be passive when it comes to violence or negative emotions. While finding out about Dick's lies he's the only one who stays and while telling Dick that it's messed up that seems to be the extent that he's willing to call anyone out on their behavior. He tends to take the hits from people verbally or otherwise without generally hitting back. His lack of a will to be more aggressive or even more defensive lends to people taking advantage of him.
Gar wants to make the world a better place and he's willing to fight for it to be so but he isn't always willing to fight with people that he cares about even when they're in the wrong. This hampers his ability to affect change to the best of his own ability.
Secretive: I'm not sure what else I could say for secretive. He's very closed off about his own problems and doesn't let people help him. He is always giving and trying to be there for others but expressing his own trauma seems to be a hang up for him. While he clearly hides his own problems, like the ptsd from the asylum attack he expects other people to be able to talk about their traumas readily.
Rebellious: Perhaps this is a better trait that I should have had from the beginning but Gar is extremely rebellious. From the start he's sneaking out from the Doom Patrol even though he's not supposed to. It's dangerous for them even if it's less so for him. He does it for banal things like stealing video games and the like. He also goes against all the rules by bringing Rachel with him. He rebels against Caulder when he tries to experiment on Rachel and she wants it to stop. His rebellion isn't always a bad thing but it tends to lend to him getting into trouble. He will say to those in responsible positions what they want to hear and go behind their back to do what he really thinks should be done.
When Rachel is arguing with Dick about something she wants to do, Gar sides with Dick and then subsequently privately tells Rachel that he just did that to get them off their backs so they could get away with it. Gar's tendency to go against what those in charge want him to do lands him in a lot of trouble. He did much the same with Conner when Dick had instructed him to call Bruce when Conner wakes up. Gar instead decides to hang out with Conner and try and handle it on his own. This ultimately leads to them both being captured before they can call for help.