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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8683078" data-attributes="member: 6790260">This is even moreso substituting profession for personality. This tells me literally nothing about what this person is like, as a person. I can't even derive any meaningful values from this description, because they could be in the entertainment business for almost any reason. It's like saying "actor in action films" is a personality. That covers everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Nicholas Cage, from Jason Momoa to Ryan Reynolds. As someone who is nowhere near being an elder (I'm a child of the late 80s, dammit!) but who meets both of the descriptions you just gave for the elder, I am suspicious about this claim. As someone who can get loud and energetic specifically when my areas of fascination show up and absolutely get "all consumed by things," despite not really being a notably young man anymore, I further find this questionable at best.Young people can be absent-minded and eccentric, especially ones who are prone to hyperfocus and bursts of frenetic energy. Older folks can easily be spry and boisterous, and IME the older people get, the harder it is for them to do mental multi-track drifting, to reference that silly trolley problem meme. Plus, the elderly are a lot more susceptible to the problems of self-neglect, meaning all those dark things now have an extra edge of "and it could also kill you!"So...again, this seems like essentially the same overall personality, just predicated on whether the character is currently young or currently old, and that's not a personality trait.</blockquote>

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