Character Snapshot

Niko Is Wildly Into Horses

Niko does not just like horses. He has built his entire personality around them, and the intensity has gone far past what most people would call a hobby. His enthusiasm has turned into an all-day fixation that leaves almost no room for anything else.

• He can talk for two hours about horse hoof angles without noticing anyone else stopped listening.
• His apartment is full of horse posters, horse blankets, horse mugs, and even horse-shaped lights.
• He checks horse forums before checking messages from friends or family.
• If a conversation is not about horses, he finds a way to make it about horses anyway.

Even therapists would probably describe this as an unusually intense and unhealthy level of obsession, not a typical interest.