Generally, when interacting with others, Soren is a cold, harsh person and has been described as somewhat moody and temperamental. Most of the time he is relatively quiet, preferring to keep to himself and avoid smalltalk and the like, but he is not afraid to speak up and give his opinion when he feels it’s warranted. Although he knows how to be polite (and will be, if he deems it necessary to achieve what he wants), Soren almost never bothers with niceties, preferring instead to be blunt and forthright with his (often cynical) opinions. Indeed, Soren’s rudeness has earned him reprimand from both his commander and deputy commander and caused them to apologize for him or at least explain that ‘no, no it’s not you he’s like that with everyone’ on multiple occasions. He never actually stops, though, and the more upset he is with a situation or the more dire the stakes, the harsher he will be.
Reasons for this are two-fold. First, Soren is a very analytical person, quite readily ignoring others’ feelings or the well-being of others in favor of whatever seems the most logical approach to a situation - the one most likely to get the outcome he desires. He has little patience or sympathy for those who do not take the time to think and analyze the situation as well. Second, Soren is a deeply scarred person with a knot of insecurities and trust issues at his core. Having experienced rejection and denial all his life and been hurt by it, he protects himself from any further injury by being cold and refusing to really open up to anyone. It’s safer to keep himself to himself, and there is a subconscious feeling that if people dislike him because of his personality, then they’re disliking him because of his actions and not because of anything inherent to his being. And that sort of dislike is much easier to deal with than being disliked because of something outside of his control. Moreover, his tendency for pessimism and cynicism keeps him from ever getting his hopes up and therefore safe from having them crushed.
Of course, it should be noted that although Soren is usually pretty logical, he certainly isn’t free form his own biases. When he needs to be purely strategic or when he is explaining the facts of a situation to someone, he will put them aside, but they otherwise will color the way he talks to other people and how likely he is to grow irritated with them. In canon, he holds particularly strong hatred and resentment towards the laguz and although he is able to put it aside for the sake of dealing with strategy and other matters, it remains clear that his opinion of the laguz - the cat laguz in particular - is very low, and it causes him to be even more likely to be insulting to them. In the AU, his resentment is a little more general, targeted at non-mutant humans, though he will also have some degree of latent bitterness towards mutants with no physical signs of their mutation.
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Personality Section Revisions
Date: 2014-08-31 03:06 am (UTC)Reasons for this are two-fold. First, Soren is a very analytical person, quite readily ignoring others’ feelings or the well-being of others in favor of whatever seems the most logical approach to a situation - the one most likely to get the outcome he desires. He has little patience or sympathy for those who do not take the time to think and analyze the situation as well. Second, Soren is a deeply scarred person with a knot of insecurities and trust issues at his core. Having experienced rejection and denial all his life and been hurt by it, he protects himself from any further injury by being cold and refusing to really open up to anyone. It’s safer to keep himself to himself, and there is a subconscious feeling that if people dislike him because of his personality, then they’re disliking him because of his actions and not because of anything inherent to his being. And that sort of dislike is much easier to deal with than being disliked because of something outside of his control. Moreover, his tendency for pessimism and cynicism keeps him from ever getting his hopes up and therefore safe from having them crushed.
Of course, it should be noted that although Soren is usually pretty logical, he certainly isn’t free form his own biases. When he needs to be purely strategic or when he is explaining the facts of a situation to someone, he will put them aside, but they otherwise will color the way he talks to other people and how likely he is to grow irritated with them. In canon, he holds particularly strong hatred and resentment towards the laguz and although he is able to put it aside for the sake of dealing with strategy and other matters, it remains clear that his opinion of the laguz - the cat laguz in particular - is very low, and it causes him to be even more likely to be insulting to them. In the AU, his resentment is a little more general, targeted at non-mutant humans, though he will also have some degree of latent bitterness towards mutants with no physical signs of their mutation.