While Tisto deals with most of his fears by fighting them until they break, he has never managed to deal with his fear of psychometry. As a result Tisto never uses the ability intentionally, with unintentional uses causing intense nausea. To protect himself from this, he follows certiant habits and rules that make him seem odd.

When dealing with other Kiffar or beings he knows have the ability he operates on a strict no touching rule. In addition in order to prevent unintentional uses of the power he doesn't own or carry anything he hasn't made himself or has owned for years.

When peered at through the Force, Tisto is seen as a jagged scar in the normally fluid energy field. It is unknown how this happened, and unfortunately, prevents Tisto from sensing the Dark Side within himself even as he uses it — and more importantly, as it uses him, and can find his mood and thoughts out of his own control, the Dark Side sometimes stoking his temper or paranoia, feeding his hatred without his notice. Tisto also struggles to use powers that rely purely on emotion, such as Rage or Terror and instead focuses on amplifying his own abilities with the Force. While some other people are unnerved by the Force scar, it does not affect them or their mastery of the Force in any way as it does Tisto.

Despite his past failures when attempting this, Tisto has set himself to return to the path of a Jedi as he has grown older. However, his decision making is often influenced by years as a gang leader, leading to decisions that alienate him from his more peaceful allies. This perceived cruelty and thoughtlessness has led to Tisto feeling isolated in his attempts to become a better person. He often finds himself avoiding meditation or contemplation, preferring action whether its combat, working on his bike, repairing his old jacket, or training so he can avoid dealing with that sense of isolation.

Having grown up in a gang, all of Tisto’s formative relationships revolves around what he could do for others. This led him to pursuing his talents with an almost single minded fervor, ignoring anything he wasn’t naturally good at. Throughout his life this kind of thinking was only reinforced as he was rewarded for being a bruiser, a swoop racer, and a leader. When engaging in activities that match what he believes he is good at, Tisto finds himself the most at peace, even if it’s a violent activity.

However this transactional nature in relationships have led Tisto to believe he must live up to what he is good at. He sees every current day relationship as one where he must do his job in it or he risks losing that relationship.

Tisto's time as criminal rabble and as ruthless crew leader taught him several more things than just practicality; they taught him tactics. Tisto has a wide array of distasteful but effective methods of urban warfare, including identifying strategic targets for isolation, elimination, or take over, using any given area as a tool and battlefield all its own, and fighting with small, guerrilla forces against often much larger and well-armed targets. While these experiences give Tisto quite a lot of tricks in his repertoire and the ability to plan around battles and consider his opponents, they are also rather narrowly suited, and when caught off guard or confronted with more traditional combat situations where his techniques cause more harm than good, Tisto can be all but useless. Furthermore, some commanders may find his behavior impertinent or dishonorable, leading Tisto to conflict with his allies.

Thanks to being a criminal and a shockboxer, Tisto has seen a lot of combat throughout his life. As a result he has become adept at fighting foes of all kinds, from knowing how to deal with common goons, to knowing how to combat lightsabers and Force users. Despite a wide range of combat knowledge, Tisto still prefers to get into close quarters with his shock boxing gloves. He finds the thrill of close quarters one that is hard to resist, typically resorting to uses of Telekinesis to drag in persistent ranged opponents. As a result, if pinned down by multiple ranged opponents Tisto only has Barrier to rely on to defend himself. As such when dealing with people who prefer ranged combat he can easily exhaust himself hunting them down.