APPEARANCE —

☆ Usually (but not always) male in regards to their canon gender

☆ Bonus points if a canon male, but GNC, flamboyant, or otherwise queer-looking

☆ (Basically, if you see a canon male and think 'he looks kinda...', then there's a high chance he's Azure-coded)

☆ Extra bonus points if, in terms of style, he's either mostly dressed in pink, or alt

☆ Tends to either have a light or an unnatural hair color

PERSONALITY —

☆ Usually the "aggressive asshole with a heart of gold" archetype (bonus points for smugness as a facade to hide low self-esteem)

☆ Often mentally ill / disabled, with either autistic or BPD-coding

☆ Abandonment issues (huge bonus if they've been abandoned or betrayed by a friend who they had romantic feelings for)

☆ Familial issues of any flavor

☆ Struggles with agency, bodily autonomy, and/or identity

☆ A desire to 'prove themself as worthy'

☆ Religious trauma, religious trauma, RELIGIOUS TRAUMA

☆ Internalized homophobia is probably the biggest single factor that can make a character kinbait for me

ROLE —

☆ Antiheroes and sympathetic villains (especially ones that become proper heroes over the course of the story)

☆ Rivals to the main character

☆ Friends with feelings, to betrayed and seeking revenge, back to friends again pipeline