disposition 4 - on the long term? not really, minhwan isn't someone with Big Life Goals or anything like that. but he does have a lot of short term goals, even if most of them involve getting someone to pay him attention one way or another.. and he does fantasize about what it would be like when that would happen. his mind is constantly occupied with if i did thing X, could I get that person to do thing Y?? just thinking about that a lot
disposition 5 - nature, for sure. although it helps that no one has ever really stopped minhwan from getting what he wants, a lot of minhwan's attitude towards life just comes from how he was born. he has always been smart, so he's never had to put much effort into studying or.. anything else, really. he just must've gotten good enough genes that things always went his way, so there was never really any reason for his attitude to change. he was just as much of an attention hog as a kid as he is now. just imagine what jaejin has been putting up with for most of his life now, man.
disposition 6 - i don't think minhwan would get worse.. despite the way he is now, he does have a clear moral line he doesn't bother to cross. it's not like he'd go around killing people, what's the use of that?? so that means either he always stays the way he is now, or he could get.. a little better, i guess? there's never taking the minhwan out of minhwan, so he's always going to have that attitude, but he could start to at least understand other people and empathy a little bit. his empathic abilities are in the negatives right now, and desptie the fact that he genuinely cares about some people, it's hard for him to really understand caring or even just that that's what he's doing. so if he'd learned to understand people's ability to care and all that a little more, he could get better.
not entirely better, mind you, but.. you know, slightly better. as-is minhwan would gladly peck at the worst parts of people, the parts people never want to be confronted with, because he just doesn't get that people can genuinely be hurt. he's never genuinely hurt, so why would anyone else ever be?? if he understood the fact that people can experience problems a little more, he'd at least try to avoid hurting the people he cares about, since he can easily do that now without really thinking about it.
connections 5 - a difficult social situation for minhwan is a situation in which he encounters something he doesn't understand socially speaking. minhwan doesn't understand caring, so if someone showed genuine concern for him, he'd just.. stare at them in confusion, most likely. he seriously wouldn't know what to say or do for once if he was confronted with that, so it's just about the only way to catch him off guard.
thinking 3 - minhwan likes knowing things. i mean, it's pretty obvious from the way he's ALL over other people's secrets and just things that generally aren't his business. knowing makes him feel like he's powerful and in charge - knowing just a little more than someone else gives you a certain kind of power over them, and minhwan loves that. it's why he absorbs knowledge like a sponge and hardly ever has to study. he probably read a lot as a kid whenever he wasn't hanging out with jaejin (considering he never.. had.. other friends..) and that knowledge coupled with how easily he takes in more new information has gotten him to where he is now.
thinking 4 - at his core, minhwan is led by emotions. but his emotions are a little different than most people's - he doesn't really experience the normal ones like sadness or anger or any of that.. they're practically foreign to him. his emotions are mostly amusement and boredom, that's the two he's constantly hanging between. which means that even though he lets his need for attention and amusement guide him, his actions themselves are never very emotional and usually are well thought through by him (see disposition 4) before he does it. the only way you'd get minhwan to act on emotions or instinct would be in some emergency situation. he doesn't think negatively about emotions either and thinks they're worse than intellect, it's just that he doesn't.. feel them at all.. it's hard to have an opinion on something you just don't experience.
thinking 7 - a lot of thoughts and questions are related to disposition 4 up there and get very well satisfied since if minhwan just wonders about something, he goes for it shamelessly to find the answer.. but if minhwan was exposed a little more to people giving a shit (/sejoon in general, let's be real here), he'd start to wonder a little more about.. well, caring. emotions. all that stuff. how do people experience those, how different is it, etc. except that would be a lot harder for him to find out for once.
thinking 8 - THIS IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS A LOT UP THERE... so you already have the answer.
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disposition 5 - nature, for sure. although it helps that no one has ever really stopped minhwan from getting what he wants, a lot of minhwan's attitude towards life just comes from how he was born. he has always been smart, so he's never had to put much effort into studying or.. anything else, really. he just must've gotten good enough genes that things always went his way, so there was never really any reason for his attitude to change. he was just as much of an attention hog as a kid as he is now. just imagine what jaejin has been putting up with for most of his life now, man.
disposition 6 - i don't think minhwan would get worse.. despite the way he is now, he does have a clear moral line he doesn't bother to cross. it's not like he'd go around killing people, what's the use of that?? so that means either he always stays the way he is now, or he could get.. a little better, i guess? there's never taking the minhwan out of minhwan, so he's always going to have that attitude, but he could start to at least understand other people and empathy a little bit. his empathic abilities are in the negatives right now, and desptie the fact that he genuinely cares about some people, it's hard for him to really understand caring or even just that that's what he's doing. so if he'd learned to understand people's ability to care and all that a little more, he could get better.
not entirely better, mind you, but.. you know, slightly better. as-is minhwan would gladly peck at the worst parts of people, the parts people never want to be confronted with, because he just doesn't get that people can genuinely be hurt. he's never genuinely hurt, so why would anyone else ever be?? if he understood the fact that people can experience problems a little more, he'd at least try to avoid hurting the people he cares about, since he can easily do that now without really thinking about it.
connections 5 - a difficult social situation for minhwan is a situation in which he encounters something he doesn't understand socially speaking. minhwan doesn't understand caring, so if someone showed genuine concern for him, he'd just.. stare at them in confusion, most likely. he seriously wouldn't know what to say or do for once if he was confronted with that, so it's just about the only way to catch him off guard.
thinking 3 - minhwan likes knowing things. i mean, it's pretty obvious from the way he's ALL over other people's secrets and just things that generally aren't his business. knowing makes him feel like he's powerful and in charge - knowing just a little more than someone else gives you a certain kind of power over them, and minhwan loves that. it's why he absorbs knowledge like a sponge and hardly ever has to study. he probably read a lot as a kid whenever he wasn't hanging out with jaejin (considering he never.. had.. other friends..) and that knowledge coupled with how easily he takes in more new information has gotten him to where he is now.
thinking 4 - at his core, minhwan is led by emotions. but his emotions are a little different than most people's - he doesn't really experience the normal ones like sadness or anger or any of that.. they're practically foreign to him. his emotions are mostly amusement and boredom, that's the two he's constantly hanging between. which means that even though he lets his need for attention and amusement guide him, his actions themselves are never very emotional and usually are well thought through by him (see disposition 4) before he does it. the only way you'd get minhwan to act on emotions or instinct would be in some emergency situation. he doesn't think negatively about emotions either and thinks they're worse than intellect, it's just that he doesn't.. feel them at all.. it's hard to have an opinion on something you just don't experience.
thinking 7 - a lot of thoughts and questions are related to disposition 4 up there and get very well satisfied since if minhwan just wonders about something, he goes for it shamelessly to find the answer.. but if minhwan was exposed a little more to people giving a shit (/sejoon in general, let's be real here), he'd start to wonder a little more about.. well, caring. emotions. all that stuff. how do people experience those, how different is it, etc. except that would be a lot harder for him to find out for once.
thinking 8 - THIS IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS A LOT UP THERE... so you already have the answer.