13. In what ways might they be overly negative and/or pessimistic? for a long time, not many, tbh; she woke up wanting to be an optimist, to be hopeful above all else, clinging to that because
8. What mistake(s) do they continue to make/have not learned from? one thing about babs is that she's pretty good at acknowledging and learning from her fuck-ups. manipulating people to the point where they feel like tools who aren't seen with any kind of respect, violating boundaries or doing the opposite and pushing people away entirely because of her
she'll know damn well it's self-destructive and short-sighted to lash out and make someone leave or get too controlling or push certain buttons but fuckin does it anyway
3. Name one or more of their bad habits. Falling back on self-righteous rage. There's this great quote she has in New X-Men - "I run around the world preaching peace and brotherhood, and when I come home the first thing I do is fight."
she can get a lock on it because she's really, really had to learn how but her initial emotions to a LOT of stuff is up to eleven because 1. that's kind of just how she is 2. but phoenix makes it Moreso
Dean will also fight you about it