Character Landscape

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Childhood

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Relationships:

• Romantic:
• Family:

Focus

Breath

Internal Motivation

Meaningful Movement

Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood

Personality | Relationships | Physicality | History | Stories

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Physicality:

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Appearance & Personal Style:

• What does your character look like? Is their appearance expected or not? Why?
• Eye Color?
• Hair Color?
• Height?
• Weight?
• Bone Structure?
• Skin Color?
• Hair texture?
• How much effort do they put into their appearance?
• What kind of clothing do they wear? Why? Is their clothing determined by profession? Class? Personal comfort? Social expectations? Legal decree?
• Is their clothing bespoke? Off the rack? Thrift Store? Hand-me-down? Home-made?
• Is their clothing intended to attract or detract sexual attention?
• Could you guess their social status by their style?

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History:

Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood

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Home:

• Small town or Big City? Farm or Factory? Castle? Mansion? Hovel? Commune? Slum?
• Where do your characters come from? What planet? What Town? Did they grow up in a city or a wilderness?
• What are the influences of their culture of origin? Do your characters agree or disagree with their culture? Why?
• How is their lifestyle shaped by the place they grew up? The places they have lived in since then?

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Socio-Economic Status:

• Is your character financially stable? Can they afford to live the way that they do?
• Does your character routinely overspend? Underspend?
• Does your character have a budget? Are they a Scrooge or a miser? Do they give money away as if it grows on trees only to find they can’t pay their own bills?
• Do others believe your character has more money than they actually do? Less?
• Does your character save for emergencies? Why or why not?
• Does your character have arguments with their family, spouse, or significant other about money and what they spend it on?
• Does your character have arguments with their family, spouse, or significant other about how they earn money?
• What would your character do if they found themself in an emergency where they needed a significant amount of money in a short period of time? What would your character be willing or unwilling to do to get that money?

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Occupation:

• Do you have a traveling job or a fixed location job?
• Do you work in government? Private sector? For your family business? For yourself?
• Does your job require a lot of skill? A lot of education? Both? Neither?
• Does your job require certification? Licensing? Government Charter? Continuing education?
• What, specifically, do you do?
• How did you get your job? Were you selected? Ordained? Did you apply or were you coerced?

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Ethics:

• If you’re on a train and you know it’s about to crash into a person on the track but if you pull the emergency brake the train will explode, do you pull the brake? Why? What if it’s not just one person but another train with twice as many passengers?
• Is euthanasia good or bad? Under what circumstances if any might it acceptable?
• What about abortion? Under what circumstances if any is that acceptable?
• What would you kill for? Why?
• What would you steal for? Why?
• What would you whistle-blow over? Why?
• Are there any of these hypotheticals that you think you would do one way but which you discover you actually make the opposite choice when you’re confronted with the actual circumstance?
• Are there any of these hypotheticals where you would change your answer if the other person involved were evil by your definition?

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Appearances:

• Novel/Short Story Title

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Relationships:

• Romantic:
• Family:

Focus

Breath

Internal Motivation

Meaningful Movement

Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood

Relationships:

• Romantic:
• Family:

Focus

Breath

Internal Motivation

Meaningful Movement

Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood