D&D 5E What's Are Your Bond, Ideal, and Flaw?

In 5e, each character has two personality traits, a bond, an ideal, and a flaw. These define the character and drive gaining inspiration, serving as a fallback for roleplaying.

After the forum reboot, a discussion I was participating in vanished. Someone had just quoted me, and I found out the site went down when I tried to log in to reply. I feel a compulsion to reply to posts. Not replying feels like leaving something undone. It nags at the back of my brain.
It occurs to me this could be worded as a Flaw: You feel compelled to respond to any discussion.

This seemed like a fun thread idea. What are your personality quirks phrased as a Flaw? If you were a Player Character, what might be your Bond or Ideal?
 

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Oo, this is fun, alright.
Cracking some knuckles and let's do this:

Ideal: Humanity - People are inherently worth fighting for, no matter the cost.

Bond: My Loved Ones - They are worth anything I could possibly give them, up to and including the shirt off my back.

Flaw: Uncompromising - I can be extremely set in my ways, and will become very argumentative and stubborn in expressing and feeling them, up to and including ignoring my Ideal and Bond.
 

My Bond is that I always do my best to keep my word. If I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do my best to accomplish it. My Flaw is probably related – I can be stubborn and slow to change. I'm definitely a creature of routine. It's something I've been working on for years, and have gotten better.

As for an Ideal....hmm. Probably something related to reading. I'm a voracious reader, and always try to make time throughout the day to read.
 

Ideal: Not all humans are worth the cost of their existence. Sometimes natural selection should be allowed to work.

Bond: Family, I would fight to the death for any one of my close family (random relative I have never seen not included)

Flaw: I am pretty Damn full of myself. Not openly, but in my head I could make all sorts of difference in important situations.
 

Ideal: All people are capable of good. It just needs to be nourished.

Bond: I have friends I am close to, but there's only one or two of them I'd risk my life for.

Flaw: I have a skewed sense of what secrets of mine I should be open about and which ones need to be kept close to my chest, let alone to who.
 

Ideal: As long as the bills are paid, pursue your bliss.

Bond: Heh, at the moment...not much. Screen Actors Guild, potentially.

Flaw: Sleep? What's that?
 

Ideal: Good Faith. Do not attribute to malice what could be attributed to ignorance or stupidity.

Bond: I want to be a better geek and person than the negative stereotypes of nerds.

Flaw: You feel compelled to respond whenever someone talks to you.
 

Ideal: Good Faith. Do not attribute to malice what could be attributed to ignorance or stupidity.

Bond: I want to be a better geek and person than the negative stereotypes of nerds.

Flaw: You feel compelled to respond whenever someone talks to you.

Most people call your flaw "good manners".
 


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