#ego asks

My best piece of advice would be to avoid villainizing the characters NPD and more so the actions they commit if they're a more flawed deep rooted character, do some moderate research into NPD as it's a spectrum with everyone's experience being vastly different. I'll provide some resources below:

A very good YouTube channel that I send people in order to understand NPD on less of a superficial level is Heal NPD, by Dr. Ettensohn. It's a channel with a psychologist that focuses on the treatment of NPD and narcissistic traits. He also discusses the way that we can avoid pathologizing NPD and how we can come to better understand it. He also has the Heal NPD website, if you're interested.

Narcissism is different for everyone so not everyone's NPD will look uniform, keep that in mind while writing the character. I'd also recommend reading some testimonials from narcissistic people on the r/NPD subreddit, as there's more stuff there than I'd argue there is on tumblr and the people are very generous and there's some good stuff if you use the search function to answer some of your questions if you need to be more specific.

I’ll go one by one!

namjoon: she watches the stars. he always finds it adorable, seeing her on the roof, trying to count the stars she can see. he ends up getting her one of those snow globes but instead of snow, it’s filled with luminescent stars.

jimin: she scrunches her nose a lot. it’s just the cutest thing, especially when she’s trying to hold back some kind of sarcastic comment. it always makes him bite back a giggle.

jk: she plays with his hair without thinking. thoughtlessly dragging her neat nails across his scalp, calming him instantly. he could fall asleep to it anywhere. (he pays for her to get her nails done twice a month just so she can do it more often)

tae: twirls the end of his tail around her finger. it’s sensual, most of the time, for him, but it’s a comfort for her. she doesn’t even realise what she’s doing half of the time (the other half, though, she’s mission-orientated)

yoongi: when she sleeps next to him, she taps out the rhythm of his heartrate against his back. he usually can’t sleep well with people around, hyper-aware of their presence and the danger he might be in, but he always does whenever she does that for him.

hobi: she writes notes and hides them around his room. he can scent her a mile off, so he always knows when she’s been in there, and he spends a couple hours chasing her smell around his bedroom and their apartment to find her letters. she only gets to surprise him once or twice.

jin: she talks to herself. like he does. she never even realises she’s doing it (he loves it so much that he hides a camera in the room she stays in at their place that she eventually finds - he’s a voyeur, he can’t help it - so he can watch her talk to herself all the time). he pretends he’s talking back to her and gets good at reading her lips.

Here ya go Anon! Im not a big fantube fan but here they are! :-) their both insane

Soft Asks

Freckles- Most-worn article of clothing

{I would have to say my usual formal attire or at least a white button up shirt.}

Shampoo- Favorite scent

{I love the scent scent of flowers but there is also the lovely scent of vanilla. So hard to choose really}

Buttery- Favorite snack

{Macaroons!}

33. Early Bird to Night Owl scale 

Schneep is often the first one up as early shifts keep him on his 5th cup of coffee.

JJ’s up too as ‘being early is very punctual my good sir’ he’s often just in the kitchen drinking some tea or coffee though, reading the daily paper.

Chase is also up earl(ier) having adjusted his time schedule to fit with his kids, however since the divorce he’s been getting up later and later

Marvin’s up by Noon and crankily blinking at everyone, having studied magic most of the night til morning.

Jackie comes in late afternoon having not slept at all, for the hero never sleeps, though Marv caught him once on patrol catching a nap on one of the more quieter nights, he hasn’t mentioned it.

humiliating memories

chase- one time when he was a teenager and he was working at a cemetery, a ghost scared him so bad that he tripped over his own feet, tried to stand up, fell again, and ran so dang fast to his boss near tears who only just laughed at him and made fun of him.

henrik- he once got shown up by another doctor in his own OR, mind you, he HATES this doctor so it was even worse bc she makes him Very Upset. also as a kid people made fun of his ocd a lot which as a whole was embarrassing for him !!

jonathan- when john was really little, his mom yelled at him at school in front of EVERYONE, made him cry so hard he couldn’t see straight. all the kids called him crybaby for a while, none of the teachers gave two hecks about anything at all. he still thinks abt it and cringes cos most of the same kids who went to his elementary followed him all the way up to highschool and constantly reminded him of that day!

jameson- when jameson first got to our timeline he wasn’t used to seeing all of our clothing choices and stuff, so when henrik took him to the store to show him around things and get him snacks, jamie saw not only clothes that would be inappropriate in his time, but also the pictures on display for clothing which showed FAR too much skin. he started freaking out, got super super flustered and turned bright red and kept his head down, basically clung to henrik and kept his eyes glued to the ground the rest of the time they were there. he didn’t know sign at the time so all he could do was write and he was waaayyy way too flustered to even do that so haha. he still gets teased once in a while about those kinds of things >:( no tea 4 u chase stop lifting ur pant legs to him ur ankles >:((

marvin- once when marvin had only been here for a couple hundred years, a physician got a little overly curious about the scars across his body and eyes and just kept asking him question after question. it made him get actually flustered for the first time as a human and he didn’t know what to do! he was very embarrassed and Did Not want to talk about things. and even if he did, the physician would ask questions so fast marvin couldn’t answer them if he tried.

He's still a violent and self-conceited asshole, but he does have a lot of regrets for what he's done and tries to be only slightly nicer to ppl at Ego Inc. (without trying to find something to gain from it).

Only Eric truly sees his efforts.