Personality: Hans is outwardly quiet, courteous and polite with everyone he meets that it’s like he’s meant to be as offensively inoffensive as possible. He does only so much with his schoolwork and tasks to pass muster, hardly interacts with other people, doesn’t seem to be riled up, upset or enthused by anything, doesn’t seem to be at all interested in excelling, standing out or, truly, even opening his mouth to speak anything beyond required courtesies. Non-confrontational almost to non-contact, Hans rarely, if ever, speaks his mind.
By all intents and purposes, Hans is a dead fish. Less dramatically, however, it can be said that Hans is a reclusive loner.
All of the above is true to some level or other, but it isn’t so much that he’s stupid, slow, or shy as lazy. Hans is painfully passive that while he does know what he needs to do (family goes, personal goals, et all), very little can snap him out of his cultivated ennui. Outside of tasks forcibly set on him, Hans lives on the bare minimum: he breathes because it’s reflexive, he eats because it’s more problematic if he didn’t, and prefers take the path of least resistance, or rather, the most convenient one without having to do anything.
Following this train of thought, it’s only understandable that Hans puts a lot of effort into making sure that he won’t have to make an effort. It’s when his ennui is threatened that Hans shows that despite everything, his laziness was as much a choice as his nature.
Under the laziness is a sharp mind that is used to observe his surroundings and a calculative mind set on always computing the most effortless and efficient path as possible. However, even when motivated, Hans never acts until he has enough data to act in the most efficient way possible and when necessary to reach his goal, he isn’t afraid to speak up if it gets something done. However, once the crisis has passed, he’ll quickly return to his usual mode of minimal operations.
One of the things he avoids the most is to show that he’s capable, if only because it means that he would have to be tasked with more responsibilities. Because of his lack of interpersonal reactions, he can tend to be awkward. One of the tenets he lives by is that if he is patient and observes long enough, things will start to make sense.
By all intents and purposes, Hans is a dead fish. Less dramatically, however, it can be said that Hans is a reclusive loner.
All of the above is true to some level or other, but it isn’t so much that he’s stupid, slow, or shy as lazy. Hans is painfully passive that while he does know what he needs to do (family goes, personal goals, et all), very little can snap him out of his cultivated ennui. Outside of tasks forcibly set on him, Hans lives on the bare minimum: he breathes because it’s reflexive, he eats because it’s more problematic if he didn’t, and prefers take the path of least resistance, or rather, the most convenient one without having to do anything.
Following this train of thought, it’s only understandable that Hans puts a lot of effort into making sure that he won’t have to make an effort. It’s when his ennui is threatened that Hans shows that despite everything, his laziness was as much a choice as his nature.
Under the laziness is a sharp mind that is used to observe his surroundings and a calculative mind set on always computing the most effortless and efficient path as possible. However, even when motivated, Hans never acts until he has enough data to act in the most efficient way possible and when necessary to reach his goal, he isn’t afraid to speak up if it gets something done. However, once the crisis has passed, he’ll quickly return to his usual mode of minimal operations.
One of the things he avoids the most is to show that he’s capable, if only because it means that he would have to be tasked with more responsibilities. Because of his lack of interpersonal reactions, he can tend to be awkward. One of the tenets he lives by is that if he is patient and observes long enough, things will start to make sense.
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