Emotionally Stable and Unstable Characters

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Smile 1
St. Geran grinned, his smile stretched from one side of his face to another. He was called Ran for short. "Hiiii!!!!!!" He said to Al. Ran continued to smile like that for the next few hours. Al stared at Ran. "Dude, how long are you going to stay like that?" Ran continued to grin. "I don't know until I feel like it I guess."
"Did you fall in love or something like that. Did something particular happen?"
"No, do need a reason to smile?" asked Ran.
"Usually." Said Al.

Smile 2
Hyde was over at Norm's house for the day. When they reached Norm's door, Hyde poked a finger at the paperflap in front of the keyhole, it went through the other side of the door, there was no barrier. Hyde observed this coolly. "Huh, the flap is movable that's cool." he said. A thought occured to him suddenly. "Wouldn't it be freaky if someone had a gun and held it to the eye hole, it could shoot someone in the eye." Hyde said this with a smile. Norm saw this, "You saying that so cheerfully and with a smile is freaky."
Hyde considered it for a moment. "I didn't know I was saying it cheerfully."
"Yeah" said Al, "Maybe 'cuz Hyde is freaky."
Hyde ignored the comment. He went through the door, "So, what are you guys up for?" he gave a little smile.


Characters
Al-1st story & second
St. Geran-1st story
Hyde-2nd story
Norm-2nd story

Side notes (thoughts) on the Short (Topic)
I didn't make the characters completely one dimensional, though maybe I should have, but I wasn't sure what constituted as emotionally stable and unstable. Maybe the short shows that, because Ran questions that in the first story and Hyde's emotional stability is borderline stable and unstable depending on the point of view of the person reaiding it. I thought emotionally stability was the ability to control your emotions. That way your emotions aren't in control of you, but not to the point where its so reigned in you don't show any. So its about the way people react to the way they're feeling and how they deal with their emotions. Like the gunman of the Virginia Tech Shooting, and the recent shooter at Bingmington who was very "stressed and depressed". They weren't emotionally stable because they let their emotions rule them. I don't think they were mentally stable either.
I also thought that its easy to identify if someone was emotionally unstable when its extreme and constant, but harder when viewing someone who seems to act relatively normal at times with short bursts of extremeness, because that's considered normal like after a death, even extreme grief, or wailing is understandable to an extent.
Depending to the circumstances, there's a certain period of time where its exceptable even emotionally healthy to act in an emotionally unstable way.

Side notes on the Names
St. Geran, is an Anagram.
Hyde, as in Jekyll and Hyde, from the book Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Did you find out about Al and Norm? I think that was probably an easy one to get.


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