I think either trait can be positive or negative given the right context but that wasn’t the point just an example. My point was that giving negative traits to characters doesn’t matter when they aren’t actually portrayed as negative in the story, I think a lot of authors do the things you’ve listed or think they are doing them but fail at actually implementing them in the text. I once reviewed a story where the best friend character did have defining characteristic but her entire personality was just a block of text in a long character introduction, the author described her as a fun party girl but never actually bothered to include the character throwing or going to any parties or doing anything fun so there was no point to actually giving her that personality trait.
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