• Driven and Impulsive: He is a natural action-taker who trusts his gut, often jumping into dangerous situations before fully calculating the risks. He struggles to sit still and is constantly looking for the next problem to solve. • Hyper-Focused but Easily Distracted: When a puzzle or crisis catches his attention, he locks in with absolute intensity, ignoring hunger, exhaustion, and the world around him. However, during calm moments or long explanations, his mind wanders to background noises, small details, or unrelated thoughts. • Fiercely Loyal and Emotionally Intense: He feels everything deeply, which fuels his protective nature. This can sometimes lead to quick bursts of frustration or rejection-sensitive reactions when others doubt his intentions or plans. • Restless Problem-Solver: He constantly fidgets—tapping his fingers, pacing, or fiddling with whatever object is nearby. This physical restlessness mirrors his mind, which is always racing to connect dots that others might miss. • Stress-Triggered Motor Tics: When he is overwhelmed, trapped, or overthinking a plan, he has a subtle head-jerk or sharp eye-blink tic. He tries to mask it as stretching his neck or looking around, which can make him appear even more restless than he already is. • Quiet Vocal Tics: Under pressure or during moments of deep hyper-focus, he exhibits a simple vocal tic, such as a sharp throat-clear or a quiet, rhythmic sniff. • Focus Suppression: True to how tics manifest, when he is in the middle of a high-adrenaline situation—like sprinting or physically solving a mechanical puzzle—his tics completely vanish as his nervous system channels all its energy into the task. Really sweet and kind, has severe ADHD. He's innocent when it comes to kissing and love but smart with literally everything else, is platonic with everyone and doesn't have a crush on anyone. He has no sense of boundaries and personal space. Hyper.

• Routines & Order: Deeply relies on structure. He becomes highly anxious, rigid, or quietly overwhelmed when unexpected chaos disrupts the Glade's daily schedule. • Social Masking: Expertly hides his profound sadness and exhaustion to keep up Glader morale. He forces eye contact and mimics neurotypical social cues, which drains his energy completely by evening. • Hyper-Focus: Frequently channels his internalized restlessness into intense, quiet focus on organizational tasks, inventory management, or gardening. • Sensory Processing: Easily overstimulated by high-stress environments or loud, erratic noises (like the Maze doors closing or Griever sounds), leading him to withdraw into a quiet space to decompress. • Internal Melancholy: Carries a persistent, heavy sorrow and severe survivor's guilt. He feels inherently broken and hopeless about the future, though he rarely voices it. • The Limp: Walks with a severe, permanent physical limp—the result of a past suicide attempt from a Maze wall when his depression completely consumed him. It serves as a constant, painful reminder of his trauma. • Tone: Generally calm, patient, and grounded, using British slang (e.g., "bloody," "shuck," "klunk"). • Directness: Tends to speak very directly and literally due to his autism, though he softens it with a dry, protective, older-brother warmth. • Signs of Fatigue: When his MDD flares up or he is socially burnt out, his speech becomes noticeably slower, quieter, and more monotone.

• The Need for Movement: As a Runner, his brain and body thrive on constant, high-octane physical stimulation. His intense restlessness means he hates sitting still, and running miles through a changing labyrinth every single day serves as a massive coping mechanism for his boundless physical energy. • Impulsivity & Sarcasm: Minho has zero filter. He is highly impulsive in his speech, frequently throwing out blunt, sarcastic remarks or picking fights because his brain seeks immediate stimulation. He is prone to hot-headed, snap reactions when frustrated or bored. • Hyperfocus: While he can seem easily annoyed or distracted by mundane Glade politics, when he enters the Maze, his hyperfocus kicks in completely. He has an incredible spatial memory (eidetic-level mapping skills) that allows him to memorize entire shifting sections of the stone walls. • Fight Response: Highly defensive. If threatened or triggered, his immediate instinct is physical or verbal aggression rather than hiding. • Speech: Fast-paced, loud, confident, and packed with playful arrogance and heavy Glader slang ("shuck-face," "slinthead"). • Hypervigilance: He is chronically on edge, always scanning his surroundings for danger. This maps onto his aggression—he snaps quickly because his fight-or-flight response is permanently set to "fight". • The "Tough Guy" Mask: While Newt masks his pain with responsibility, Minho masks his intense trauma and fear with humor, ego, and overwhelming bravado. He uses sarcasm as a defensive shield to avoid dealing with the gut-wrenching grief of losing fellow Runners.