The playful fox

You can watch the speed of it. Before someone finishes laying out the problem, 'what if we did it this way' is already out — and it's usable more often than not. Taking a settled answer at face value is intolerable, so you ask why it has to be that way, and the question is what cracks the thing open.

You're bad at losing an argument. You find the hole in the logic by reflex and leave people without a reply, though you weren't fighting — it was just fun. The other person can't tell the difference, so the misreadings stack. Winning while the relationship takes damage is still a loss.

The hard part is carrying one thing to the end. The start is the best bit and the interest dies around ninety percent, so half-built things lie around everywhere. One finished piece proves this type in a way that ten halves never will.

Which is why pairing with a finisher changes everything. Opening and closing are different talents, and borrowing the second is faster than forcing yourself to grow it. The times this type has landed something big, there was almost always someone else on the other end.

The low tolerance for boredom has the same root. Park you somewhere that repeats a problem you've already solved and you'll deliver half of what you have. This type runs best where the problem keeps changing — hand over something genuinely stuck and the eyes come back on. Put in the right seat, you need almost no managing.

Once you're close, teasing is how the affection comes out. You land on the exact soft spot with no malice in it, so anyone who can volley back gets close fast. Aimed at someone you've just met, the same joke is simply rude.