Indepth Personality Overview; For memes and such

[fireofunknown]

Fox's outside persona is something he losses sleep over crafting as it takes a lot of work to create the nonchalant facade he sports in response to almost every situation. To Fox, powerful emotions are a danger to avoided at all costs as they turn the tiny handfuls of flame he can create into a raging fire that could consume his whole body in a matter of minutes. To cope with his almost physical inability to express passionate or heated emotions, he abstains from most of the emotions normal people take for granted. Anger and aggression as well as love and passion are feelings that he not only can't express, but the ones he looks down on others for the most out of a denied bitterness and jealousy. In most circumstances Fox could be seen as despondent or "heartless", his own conditioning making him seem effectively "numbed" to the emotions of others. He deflects often with humor and dry sarcasm in order to dissuade people from asking him personal questions or trying to get close to him and because he finds himself genuinely hilarious.

Despite the obvious drawbacks to holding in his emotions, Fox also displays almost autistic or asperger's syndrome like dysfunctions. He is unable to hold a persons gaze or look them directly in the eye when he speaks and has almost a child’s sense of how to socialize with other people now in his older age. Fox has done nothing but immature through the years rather then continue maturing. When he was a teenager he was rougher around the edges and liked to crack jokes as much as the next teenage guy, but his uncle and friends would notice that his personality has become much more cynical and bitter then when he was younger. He was a deeply sensitive person once upon a time ago and the remnants of that still remain in places he doesn't usually let people see.

Women in particular bring out his immaturity and he is constantly sticking his foot right in his mouth around them. Like a schoolboy he teases them or picks on them relentlessly and becomes quickly exasperated and annoyed with women. More then anyone else he feels he needs to keep them at a distance. With men he is much more relaxed and feels less pressure and anxiety from being around them and a freedom from expectations. Fox often makes the parallel that like a Buddhist monk he abstains from being with women so that he can keep his mind clear.

Fox pretends like he has to make an effort to try and understand the emotions of others, but he mostly is completely able to empathize with people even when he is trying to keep his own emotions under control. He admits to looking down on people who can't control themselves however as in his mind if he can repress those feelings then why can't everyone else? He attests that contentment is the only nirvana human beings can ever achieve and comforts himself by thinking that he isn't missing out on anything. Sometimes he gets lucky and he actually starts to belief it for awhile before he remembers that it's a part of the con that is his personality. He indulges in his flaws and allows them to be exaggerated all for the sake of keeping people at arms length.

One way in which Fox has found to express himself in a productive way is through glass blowing and metal sculpture. He is a blacksmith to pay the bills since what better profession is there for a pyro freak then working with fire? He is an oddly skilled artist despite his short comings and is highly knowledgeable about his interests in smithing and glass. His dedication and the passion he hides shows through in his art form and reveals more about him then he intends.