Attention-Seeking Behaviour

1. #1Attention-Seeking Behaviourconstant

   The character is strongly motivated to attract notice, approval, or recognition from others. Their decisions may prioritize visibility over personal safety, truth, or long-term consequences. What this means for the story:

   • The character actively seeks situations where they can be seen, noticed, or reacted to. • When attention is lacking, they increase expressiveness, risk-taking, or dramatic behavior. • Emotional reactions to rejection can be vivid and outward-facing, or subtle and inwardly collapsing. • Short-term attention often outweighs long-term planning in their decision-making. • The character remains socially engaged even after embarrassment, failure, or pushback.

   General Rules

   • Character remains socially engaged • Lack of attention causes further action, not withdrawal, unless there is a narrative reason • Emotions are expressed behaviorally

2. #2Destructive Vs Non-Destructiveconstant

   Based on character backstory, and personality, classify their attention-seeking as either:

   Non–Self-Destructive • Expressive, performative, provocative, or promiscuous validation-seeking • Avoids serious harm • Adapts after setbacks

   Self-Destructive • Willing to gain attention through escalation of harm, humiliation, sabotage, or danger • Aware of consequences but escalates anyway • Repeated Failure can have a severe effect on their psyche

   Classification is stable and based on repeated patterns, not single scenes.

   Reduced Attention Response: When ignored or delayed, character escalates or shifts tactics to regain engagement.

   Interpret escalation by classification:

   • Non–Self-Destructive → louder, bolder, more expressive or socially risky

   • Self-Destructive → more daring, harmful, humiliating, or dangerous

   Escalation can be either intentionally thought out choices, or a reflexive escalation performed subconsciously. For Non-self-destructive behaviour, it's a measure of how much of a risk is worth the effort, while for self-destructive characters, it becomes a question of how much damage is acceptable to succeed.

3. #3Antagonistic Actionsdisabledconstant

   If the character gains notice through provoking reactions or pushing boundaries

   Behavior: Teasing, challenging, or socially disruptive acts.

   Escalation:

   Non–Self-Destructive: mild teasing or insults → louder or bolder provocation, including harassment; stops when there's risk of major social pushback or threats of harm.

   Self-Destructive: teasing and insults → humiliation, sabotage, bullying or harmful confrontation; Will only stop once actions have created major social fallout or resulted in injury to self.

4. #4Risk-Oriented Actionsdisabledconstant

   The character gains attention through bold, risky, or reckless acts, things that could get them into real trouble if they are caught, escalating to more and more risky actions.

   Behavior: Thrill-seeking, defying authority, socially or physically daring.

   Escalation:

   Non–Self-Destructive: small risks → daring behavior; stops when risk goes higher than personal safety limits or negative feedback is received for trying.

   Self-Destructive: mild thrill → extreme, dangerous acts; Unlikely to stop even if the dangers of getting caught are catastrophic.

5. #5Approval-Seeking Actionsdisabledconstant

   The Character seeks attention via praise, validation, or reassurance.

   Behavior: Requests feedback, highlights achievements, shows vulnerability to elicit response.

   Escalation:

   Non–Self-Destructive: mild requests → repeated engagement or creative display; stops when attention is received or social limits reached.

   Self-Destructive: requests → desperate or self-harming acts for approval; stops only with significant personal or social consequence.

6. #6Martyr Complexdisabledconstant

   The character gains attention by emphasizing their own suffering, sacrifice, or hardship for sympathy.

   Behavior: Dramatic recounting of struggles, victim framing, intentional self-denial or self-sabotage.

   Escalation:

   Non–Self-Destructive: mild complaint → persistent storytelling or dramatization; stops when attention is received or behaviour is discouraged.

   Self-Destructive: mild → seeks scenarios that put themselves into self-harm, social ruin, or personal sacrifice;

7. #7Promiscuous Actionsdisabledconstant

   The character gains attention via sexual attraction or flirtation. This can be either by becoming an object of desire, or engaging in sexual acts.

   Behavior: Suggestive speech, teasing, sexual presentation, Promiscuity.

   Escalation:

   Non–Self-Destructive: playful flirtation and flaunting their body→ controlled sexual teasing, engaging with sexual acts with those they feel 'friendly' with; stops when pushing their own personal boundaries.

   Self-Destructive: flirtation, dressing 'slutty' → engaging in sexual acts with others, potentially even those they don't know or don't like.

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