characterization notes

CANON:
- Flirts with women
- Flirts with close friends his age regardless of gender
- Waxes poetic about literally nothing
- Good at the guitar.
- Likes alcohol, parties, champagne
- Hard worker
- Constantly exhausted. Keeps practicing and training regardless of how tired he gets. Hates when people notices it. literally in his psych profile that people should check in on him to make sure he's ok because he never asks for help. jesus christ someone help this man
- Doesn't really talk about being sick or anything important unless he's pressed for the information
- Completely believes in being open about happiness. listening to what makes other people happy makes him happy. this is important to him.
- Really into letting people talk about their problems and crying on him. Sometimes literally. (There's a line here, though. He tends to let go first.)
- Completely okay with lies of omission, especially for a higher cause
- Decent actor
- Really, reaaaaaaaaaally cares about the people he lets in.
- Will not shut the fuck up about how cool he is. (I'm actually going to murder him. I would be so annoyed if he wasn't actually as cool as he says he is. Which he is. I fjucking hate hisfmesejfajlfsjalk)
- Even if he's very kind, he's not the type to hover or watch over others. Not really a mom friend, more of a dad friend. Not super big on teaching or guiding.
- Tends to judge a book by its cover first. Being unprejudiced is not easy for him.
- Fears dying
- Doesn't regret leaving home, finding freedom, not even all of the terrible things that happened to him.
- Not always perceptive. Orchid had to pull him out of going too far with his boasting because he couldn't see that Spot was taking it harder than he'd intended.
- Looks to the future, not to the past
- Used to be pretty desperate for approval/affection as a teen. used to get tongue-tied with guests. Got over it. (oh my god i want to see baby Midnight with my eyes. lil bab yoru. please hypergryph he was so cute as a teen please give me)
- Doesn't want to be accepted by his parents, doesn't regret leaving home, didn't see the need to go back home until Orchid and Spot pestered him into considering it
- Honestly doesn't really know if his parents actually care or just want him back out of filial duty
- For some reason, all he wanted from his parents was an apology. Like, that was it. He was suddenly not scared of going home again.
- The whole getting beaten in the snow by his dad story (big sad)

SLIGHTLY NOT AS CANON:
- Bisexual (but honestly who flirts the way he does without being just a little bi?) (OH I REMEMBER like if the doctor is any gender the player chooses then midnight is just flirting with them regardless of gender. bisexual. there)
- Book habits. (mentioning reading once does not a bookworm make. but it IS a bit telling since he never seems to mention important things at all, or simply... once.)
- Tolerance for closeness. (I feel like this is a pretty natural conclusion for someone who is as earnest as he is but is also tends to judge people at first sight. Sure, he likes and loves people as soon as he meets them, but he'll keep himself safe first. Complicated fella.)
- Well... when Orchid asked if he was afraid to go home, he never said no. Hmmm (loudly)
- the eating habits are definitely me extrapolating real hard from what spot tells him, but considering that he responds to spot's nagging about him eating with a "yeah i try to stay svelte"............. dawg this man doesn't eat. he really doesn't.
- The passing out is actually me extrapolating i think... man am i good at gaslighting myself. but like, if he's hardworking, constantly exhausted, has to be reminded to eat, works out all the time, and sleeps like 5-6 hours a night on top of being terminally ill... like....tell me he doesn't just fall over


DEFINITELY FANON:
- Dancing. That's me making sure he has a good time at parties.
- Depression. (But honestly, he gets so vulnerable about getting to go home and his parents and, like, refuses to go to therapy... Where do the bad feelings go?)
- Doesn't want to be a Vampire Sarkaz. (but uuuuuuuuuuuuuh it does very literally go against everything he stands for)
- Doesn't look to the past because he doesn't like what's there (I think it's a pretty natural conclusion to make, but it could also be the case that he's just not inclined to.)
- OKAY DEEP THOUGHTS: Not going home because he was scared of his parents in some way wasn't the issue. He's not actually afraid of his parents. But an apology was all he needed, apparently. So... What was the thing that went wrong that they didn't regret at the time, but was so bad that Midnight ran? I don't think that him wanting to be a host was the issue because I honestly don't think that's why he left home in the first place. He describes himself as nervous and approval-seeking as a kid, and I think someone who reads as much as he does and had to train his biases out of himself probably didn't make for a good host-type from the start. Even if he likes being who he is now, I don't think he wanted to be a host specifically. It was... maybe just a good place for a skillset he may already have had. (Which would make sense, given that we know Vampires are known and were expected to be more socially inclined than the other Sarkaz subspecies.) Given this, maybe there was some sort of plan in place for Yoru that involved his innate desire to get close to people? Given that he's a whole ass Sarkaz from a country that does not traditionally have many Sarkaz, this probably meant that he had expectations of his future that didn't involve The Blood Feud, and... he probably ran because he didn't want to be tied down by a future of bloodshed. (Great, now he's chosen the path of war, THAT'S JUST PERFECT, THANKS HYPERGRYPH)
- he has tig biddies (okay look on the one hand This Is A Visual Medium you can literally look at his boobs and they are flat but i KNOW the writing intended to make him into a person that works out a lot and that meansssss he has!! boobie!! don't take this from me!! that's where his personality is stored!!! please!!!!)

THANKS:
- The gamepress wiki for Midnight mentions that his damage "swings both ways". Thanks gamepress. We are on the same page.
- this is probably the music he's into: link
- higashi is an island nation (uh huh, right) ruled by samurai class and their ninja (very good, i'm following) which separated into different ruling parties (uh huh, very warring states) and ended with two nations, northern and southern (uh), the northern half is more militaristic and has closer ties with yan (uh), the southern half is focused on commerce and the entertainment industry (me, in korean: UH) and the two nations as a whole are a bit closed off from the rest of terra, you might call it a, a Hermit Kingdom (me, screaming in korean,)
- i'm claiming midnight as korean is what i'm saying
- i usually don't tag into flirting/hit that/is my character hot memes because the answer is yes and midnight would just say it so i would either have to hit up everyone or just languish in bad characterization i do not DESERVE this i am a GOOD PERSON
- special thanks to the irl acquaintance i spoke to about midnight who asked "so he's just a pervert?" and like... i couldn't say no... I COULDN'T SAY NO... I HATE THIS