Is my character not proactive enough and do they need to be?

First, I'm going to edit or rewrite the question. New here, I'm sorry. I thought this was going to be more of a reddit type of place, and this was already way too much detail but after a few comments I'm starting to realize I haven't explained this well at all, so I will give a more in depth description of the story. I haven't thought too much about this when I started writing, as with many things…