why do you think Knight's are passive and Page's are active?

I was convinced about this by @revolutionaryduelist, and it comes down to the Active-Passive Dichotomy and how it’s interpreted in the canon, with Passive being Selflessness and Active being Selfishness. The terms actually coincide well with canon assessment of the characters, Rose and Dave being self-sacrificial and all for the benefit of their friends and those they care about, while Jane for example becomes extremely burnt out when she’s restrained by what’s going on around her, bottling up her emotions to a boiling point.

Which is not to say Selflessness is inherently Good and Team-Driven or Selfishness is Bad and Self-Driven- Roxy hates how Selfless she is that she feels worse about how others would feel about things than her own feelings, Dirk heavily struggles with his personality trying to better himself for his friends, Gamzee does everything as an act of love and worship towards Lord English, leaving him to become a dangerous wildcard for everyone else in the Story, and so forth.

With that being said, Pages seem to be more comfortable when they’re being Selfish. Jake’s obliviousness is used for his benefit, even though with Brain Ghost Dirk knowing what’s going on it implies he subconsciously acknowledges things like Jake liking him- But chooses to Believe otherwise because he doesn’t want to be caught in drama. Tavros, similarly, wants to earn confidence and ends up giving Vriska the middle finger and tagging along with Meenah to fulfil his dream of becoming a Cavalreaper. Horuss, specially, keeps Rufioh pretty much in a relationship with him by never letting the fact he wants to break up with him come out, benefiting himself while keeping someone who’s just a bit too good with him trapped.