it’s weird how active/passive fit the selfish/selfless thing cuz a lot of the active players would DIE for there friend (much like the passive ones) like damn (dirk, rose when witchy, jade, vriska,) just speculation

Oh yeah, a lot of active characters would die for their friends, but being selfish doesn’t exactly mean not caring about others. Selfishness as a positive trait just comes from ensuring you’re in a good shape to help those you care about. At her most Active, Rose went to exact revenge on Bec Noir, a very blunt and selfish thing to do, driven by her own motivation of revenge, even if it was for someone else, it clouded her judgement. Dirk struggles in how overbearing he can be and how he’s not exactly as good treating others as he is treating himself. On the opposite side, you have Roxy, who values others to the point of self-destructiveness. Selfishness and Selflessness aren’t uniquely negative or positive traits, and it doesn’t mean they ONLY think of themselves or of others. But they’re big tendencies. Jade tried to help everyone- But in turn she disregarded how her dead Dream Self may have felt, knowing only to trust herself for the task, and overwrote Bec’s entire self with Jadesprite, at which point she herself hated seeing how hopeless and selfish she was being- Because it reminded her of her own more negative traits. Jade has ALSO been extremely influenced by dreaming on Prospit, making her more passive than her Class would dictate.

There’s a lot of nuance and specificity to the Active/Passive divide.