History YMMV / SmileForMe

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Dr. Habit, once again. While his backstory is certainly tragic, it can be hard to sympathize with him because he is a PsychoticManchild DepravedDentist, who [[BadBoss mistreats his employees]] (to the point that one of them [[TheHermit hides inside the walls of the Habitat and refuses to come out]]), neglects his patients and their actual needs, gets angry when Flower Kid actually helps the patients because [[ItsAllAboutMe he wants to be the one to help them]], and [[spoiler: secretly planning to [[ForcedTransformation turn all the patients into monsters]]]]. All of this is so [[spoiler: he can steal teeth for his smile under the logic that [[InsaneTrollLogic if he has a big enough smile he can make the whole world happy]].]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Dr. Habit, once again. His childhood and adolescence made it so that he never really had an opportunity to learn what happiness was, and by the time the Habitat's up and running, he's decided to make that everyone else's problem, to say the least. The diary pages you either find around the Habitat or receive from other characters portray his descent into madness in greater detail, but you only really get any hints that he realizes his plan won't actually help anyone near the end of the game, despite there being characters who know him on a personal enough level to recognize that something is not right and that he needs help. It's also implied that he was at least relatively stable when the Habitat first opened before crashing hard, but that's only in one line from Kamal.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[HoYay Dr. Habit and Kamal.]] Big time. Between Kamal being genuinely concerned about Habit's emotional state despite his (justified) wariness towards him, one of the Steam trading cards implying that they were either close enough before the "Martha incident" or have become close enough after the events of the game[[spoiler:'s good ending]] for Habit to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/d/db/Valbentinesdaye.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801021451 start sending Valentine's Day gifts to Kamal,]] and ''Yugo themself'' teasing the possibility of Kamal having had a crush on Habit at some point [[https://kamalbestbuy.tumblr.com/post/186619073873 on their personal Twitter,]] it feels almost inevitable that fans would have latched onto this ship.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[HoYay Dr. Habit and Kamal.]] Big time. Between Kamal being genuinely concerned about Habit's emotional state despite his (justified) wariness towards him, one of the Steam trading cards implying that they were either close enough before the "Martha incident" or have become close enough after the events of the game[[spoiler:'s good ending]] for Habit to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/d/db/Valbentinesdaye.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801021451 start sending Valentine's Day gifts to Kamal,]] and ''Yugo herself'' teasing the possibility of Kamal having had a crush on Habit at some point [[https://kamalbestbuy.tumblr.com/post/186619073873 on her personal Twitter,]] it feels almost inevitable that fans would have latched onto this ship.

* {{Fanon}}: There's a ''lot'' of fanmade content that portrays Dr. Habit's puppet (affectionately dubbed "Lil' Habby" in [[https://teespring.com/lil-habby-pocket?tsmac=store&tsmic=smile-for-me&pid=2&cid=578 official merchandise]] as a separate entity from the real deal, albeit one that was still created by him in the same vein as the Carlas.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Dr. Habit was [[spoiler: mistreated and physically abused by his father at least once as a child, was forced to leave behind his rather humble dream of becoming a florist in favor of pursuing a career in medicine, and has been sinking deeper and deeper into depression and insanity with each passing year while trying (and failing) to keep up an outwardly energetic and caring persona.]] He's also completely off his rocker by the time the game begins and has [[spoiler:made a habit out of stealing people's teeth for himself in the hopes that he'll somehow make everyone happy, claiming that ''he'' deserves them more than unhappy people while desperately trying to ignore the fact that he's clearly miserable.]]

* RainbowLens: A younger Dr. Habit refers to his lily with he/him pronouns, [[spoiler:is beaten by his father when he finds him giving said lily a kiss, was pressured by his parents to abandon his goal of becoming a florist in favor of a more socially acceptable medical career,]] and later mentions destroying and burying any seeds he had left, "deep, deep where they wouldn't resurface," which only results in a deeply depressed and emotionally unstable man who not only can't recognize how harmful his current way of living is, but actively refuses to. The good ending involves [[spoiler:giving him a newly grown Tooth Lily, which serves as both a reminder of the once genuinely altruistic person he used to be and one of the few things that brought him genuine happiness in his youth, and as seen in the game's credits, this one act moves him to begin pursuing his old passion again.]]

* RainbowLens: A younger Dr. Habit refers to his lily with he/him pronouns, [[spoiler:is beaten by his father when he finds him giving said lily a kiss, was pressured by his parents to abandon his goal of becoming a florist in favor of a more socially acceptable medical career,]] and later mentions destroying and burying any seeds he had left, "deep, deep where they wouldn't resurface," which only results in a deeply depressed and emotionally unstable man who not only can't recognize how harmful his current way of living is, but actively refuses to. The good ending involves [[spoiler:giving him a newly grown Tooth Lily, which serves as both a reminder of the once genuinely altruistic person he used to be and one of the few things that brought him genuine happiness in his youth.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Dr. Habit was [[spoiler: mistreated and physically abused by his father at least once as a child, was forced to leave behind his rather humble dream of becoming a florist in favor of pursuing a career in medicine, and has been sinking deeper and deeper into depression and insanity with each passing year while trying (and failing) to keep up an outwardly energetic and caring persona.]] He's also on the verge of going completely batshit - [[spoiler:although the fact that he's already made a habit out of stealing people's teeth for himself may indicate he's gone past that point...]]

* Fanon: There's a ''lot'' of fanmade content that portrays Dr. Habit's puppet (affectionately dubbed "Lil' Habby" in [[https://teespring.com/lil-habby-pocket?tsmac=store&tsmic=smile-for-me&pid=2&cid=578 official merchandise]] as a separate entity from the real deal, albeit one that was still created by him in the same vein as the Carlas.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[HoYay Dr. Habit and Kamal.]] Big time. Between Kamal being genuinely concerned about Habit's emotional state despite his (justified) wariness towards him, one of the Steam trading cards implying that they were either close enough before the "Martha incident" or have become close enough after the events of the game[[spoiler:'s good ending]] for Habit to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/smile-for-me/images/d/db/Valbentinesdaye.png/revision/latest?cb=20190801021451 start sending Valentine's Day gifts to Kamal,]] and ''Yugo herself'' teasing the possibility of Kamal having a crush on Habit at some point [[https://kamalbestbuy.tumblr.com/post/186619073873 on her personal Twitter,]] it feels almost inevitable that fans would have latched onto this ship.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Dr. Habit is set up to have a dramatic final showdown with Flower Kid, but is easily disarmed in all three endings. This may be intentional, since Habit is revealed to be just as miserable as he is insane, and even calls the turn of events in the neutral ending an AntiClimax... but still, one would expect a little more back-and-forth.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Dr. Habit is set up to have a dramatic final showdown with Flower Kid, but is easily disarmed in all three endings. This may be intentional, since Habit is revealed to be just as miserable as he is insane, and even calls the turn of events in the neutral ending an AntiClimax.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Dr. Habit was [[spoiler: mistreated and physically abused by his father at least once as a child, was forced to leave behind his rather humble dream of becoming a florist in favor of pursuing a career in medicine, and has been sinking deeper and deeper into depression and insanity with each passing year while trying (and failing) to keep up an outwardly energetic and caring persona.]] He's also on the verge of going completely batshit - that is to say, if he hasn't already. [[spoiler:He's already made a habit out of stealing people's teeth for himself, after all.]]

** According to Tiff, Dr. Habit apparently breaks down in tears every time she tries to break off her record contract with him. Is this manipulation on his part, or is he genuinely that distressed at the prospect of one of his employees leaving him? He didn't have any problem mocking Wallus Or Kamal until they quit, after all, but considering his mental state by the time the game begins, it's hard to tell.

* FanficFuel: What exactly Dr. Habit chooses to do with himself after you make him happy for the first time in years is never seen in-game, since Flower Kid has to leave the Habitat immediately afterwards. This, in combination with the fact that Habit clearly still has a lot of baggage in addition to the newfound remorse he has for luring in the Habiticians for his own ends, has led to a lot of writers throwing out their own ideas.