Flaws
To have a balance character you must have at least three weaknesses. Now before you freak out about having to come up with three we have came up with a list that has a few suggestions on flaws. The flaws you use are in no way limited to the list below. Use them to get ideas or create your own. After all if everyone used flaws off the list it would get boring rather fast. If you wish to have more than three flaws then by all means go for it. We'll add more flaws to this list as time goes on.

Note: You can use a flaw as a plot device. Working on a character overcoming a flaw is great for character development. Just remember that if they over come one flaw they must take on another if they no longer have three.

Physical Flaws

• Allergic - Most likely the character has had allergies from when he or she was a kid. Hay fever, maybe, or a food allergy? Deathly reactions to bee stings? Also very closely related is asthma.
  
  
• Blind - Can't see.
  
  
• Color Blind - Tending more to be a male affliction, but women can also be color blind. Keep in mind there are different variations of color blindness (i. e. red-green).
  
  
• Deaf - Unless the character is a lip-reader, their means of communication with others is limited based on knowledge or sign language or writing messages.
  
  
• Deformed- Also can be disfigured. There's something about you that makes people stare. Maybe you're covered in horrible scars. Maybe you have a large lump on your back and ring a bell in a tower.
  
  
• Diseased- You have some sort of diseased that impairs your health.
  
  
• Hard of Hearing - What? WHAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY? COULD YOU SPEAK UP? Well, you get the point. Something of an obstacle in conversations, to say the least.
  
  
• Migrines- We're not talking talk a couple aspirin and you're fine headaches. We're talking mind splitting shut off the lights before I kill you ones.
  
  
• Mute- For some reason you don't speak. Other you can't do to some physical reason or you just refuse to. To be truly mute means you can't make any sound at all.
  
  
• One Arm - As opposed to two arms.
  
  
• One Eye - See the above, swap in 'eyes' for 'arms'.
  
  
• Speech Impediment - Including stuttering, a thick accent, or any obstacle to being understood by others when talking.

Psychological Flaws

• Absent-minded - Ever get the feeling you should be remembering something? Or maybe you misplaced something? Or you just aren't sure what the heck you're supposed to be doing right now? These characters do. Now if they could only recall what.
  
  
• Addiction - As in: I gotta have it! I NEED IT, AND I'M GOING TO DIE IF I CAN'T HAVE MY STARBUCKS VENTI PUMPKIN SPICE MOCHAFRAPPECAPPULATTEJAVA.
  
  
• Amnesia - A huge lapse in memory. Probably because this character suffered a head injury or some sort of trauma. Either way, there's something missing memory-wise.
  
  
• Clueless- Huh?
  
  
• Compulsion - Uncontrollable urges, in summary. Any sort of habit that the character must do, whether or not it's necessary or serves any real purpose. There are varying levels, topping off with obsessive-compulsive disorder, which can be physically confining.
  
  
• Cowardice- Your character gives chickens a bad name. When shit hits the fan your character is probably hiding under the bed away from it all.
  
  
• Curiousity - Killed the cat, didn't it? In this sense, curiosity will lead a character to sleuthing about the wrong alleyways and finding themselves in potentially dangerous situations.
  
  
• Death Wish- You're character doesn't care if they live or die and often is the first one to throw themselves in harms way.
  
  
• Distracted- Your character's mind can't stay in one place for long...OMG Shiny! *runs off to see*
  
  
• Intolerance - Possibly racism or sexism or anything that causes a character to be unable to cope with the existence of another person. Needless to say, it's a form of ignorance that can lead on to worse things: being fired from a job, becoming a loner, or positioning himself or herself in a bad place.
  
  
• God Complex- You are unstoppable! You will never die! Or so you think until you find your guts hanging out around your knees from that rapid werewolf you that you could go up against barehanded and win.
  
  
• Low Self-image - The character tends to view himself or herself in a negative light such that they might fall into depression or simply give up their ambitions. Maybe it's not feeling good enough to the world or maybe it's a lesser degree and the character doesn't have enough respect to think they deserve better than what they do have.
  
  
• Nightmares - Not many a restful night for these individuals.
  
  
• Obsession - Side occupation as a stalker? Full-time occupation as a stalker? Either way, an obsessed character doesn't seem to understand their limits or at least they don't mind nudging a foot over the line to fill their desires.
  
  
• Overconfident - These characters are too cocky for their own good. They miss the big picture because they're dead certain their way is the right way or nothing bad can happen and definitely not to them. It's reckless behavior that often comes of this attitude.
  
  
• Paranoid- OMG! They're going to get me! And maybe they are or maybe it's all in your characters head.
  
  
• Phobia - The character holds some intensity of fear toward an object, place, or idea. It can be crippling, it can be coped with, but it does take its toll on the psychological health of the character from time to time,
  
  
• Psychological Disorder- Your character is not well mentally. With what disorder is up to you.
  
  
• Vengeance - A character can be become so set on evening the score between themselves and an adversary that morality is dismissed. This not only bodes ill for the person being assaulted, but it could mean that the character exacting the revenge has little consideration for their own safety. Rage is closely related. Consequences always follow.

Social Flaws

• Drama Queen- Or an attention whore. Your character has to be the center of attention and if not will often go to great lengths to make sure she is.
  
  
• Enemy - Someone's out to get your character. Or something. That brings with it threats on his or her own safety and others around him or her.
  
  
• Hunted - Easily put: these characters are the prey, usually on the run, and constantly need to be looking over their shoulder.
  
  
• Jaded- Your character has seen too much bad in the world. This gives them a negative outlook on things and always has them expecting the worse.
  
  
• Loner- A lone wolf type. Your character's that quite guy in the back of the bar that never speaks. You can count the number of your friends on one hand. People and your character just don't mix.
  
  
• Naive- The world is all rainbows or puppies, or so your character believes. They see the world through rose colored glasses and never believe that bad things can happen.
  
  
• Persistent Parents - It doesn't even have to be for a character living at home. Perhaps mom and pop like to call. Every day. Just to pester about things (i. e. 'Did you get a girlfriend.boyfriend yet?", "Are you changing your underwear daily?", or "You are coming to visit soon, right? Right?") or to constantly fret over the well-being of their child. If the character lives at home, it's more face-to-face and possibly more prone to spurring fights.
  
  
• Soft-hearted - These characters are push-overs. They are too caught up in their feelings to recognize that some times they're being played.

Supernatural Flaws

• Cursed - Pissed off some demon or something? Cursed individuals have the distinct mark of being voodoo'd and it's not a good thing. The curse itself is a handicap in some way.
  
  
• Haunted- You have a spirit, good or bad, that has taken to hanging around you and just don't go away.
  
  
• Heavy Sleeper- (vampires only) Your character sleeps like the dead (excuse the pun) and makes it easier for others to sneak up on them. There would be a marching band going through the place and they would not rise.
  
  
• Infertile- (vampires only) You can't turn other vampires.
  
  
• Iron Allergy (fae only) - Allergic to iron, prone to reactions from exposure. It's hard to go any deeper.
  
  
• Lack of Control- (psychics) You don't have full control over your ability and it makes you dangerous to be around. Or you have control but when you get emotional or upset you lose control.
  
  
• Light Sensitive (vamps only) - Whenever you are in a brightly lit area (i.e a supermarket at night, a brightly lit art gallery with white walls, etc.), you suffer movement and perception restrictions similar to those experienced by people with normal sight when the light is dim or dark. You can mitigate this by wearing sunglasses at night (which has its own unfortunate connotations and downside, poser).
  
  
• Limited Food Source - You can only feed from a certain type of mortal. This can be purely psychological or it may be something inherent to your personal requiem. You may be unable to feed from persons of your own gender or the opposite gender. You may be able to feed only on beautiful people, old people, children, people of a given race or religion. It's up to you to decide. Whatever it is, it will make feeding more difficult for you.
  
  
• Slipped Seeming - Appearance-wise, some traits of a character's race (non-human) are present and unable to be hidden.
  
  
• Unsettling Presence - You really creep people out. This character will send a chill down someone’s spine by walking into the room.