Some char vitals stay redFollow

It's a racial penalty for being an elf. Hobbits get a penalty to strength, so my strength ALWAYS shows red. Don't stress over it too much, it's normal. =)

I think once you get it up over a certain benchmark, it'll turn green.

Humans have a -Will penalty and my Will always showed red until I got some +Will gear and my +20 Will racial trait. Now it's green like the rest of them.

Also, once you equip gear that boosts that particular stat, it will change from red to green. For example, my dwarf has a racial negative to fate but with one of his combat traits I just got, I gain a +20 to it when I equip that trait so it went from red to green once that was done.