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Relationships:

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Physicality:

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Appearance & Personal Style:

• What does Connor look like? Is his appearance expected or not? Why?
• Eye Color: Dark Brown
• Hair Color: Nearly Black
• Height: 5′ 11″
• Weight: 190lbs
• Bone Structure: slender
• Skin Color: pale
• Hair texture: thick and straight
• How much effort does he put into his appearance? A lot, because he wants to appear to be someone competent, put together, in control.
• What kind of clothing does he wear? Why? Is their clothing determined by profession? Class? Personal comfort? Social expectations? Legal decree? Connor typically wears suits, or slacks and button down shirts with matching ties and sweaters and blazers. He wears athletic clothing only when he’s at his gym.
• Is their clothing bespoke? Off the rack? Thrift Store? Hand-me-down? Home-made? Connor’s clothing is off the rack and tailored to fit him. He tries to look like he’s wearing bespoke, and he buys made to measure clothing as often as he can afford it.
• Is his clothing intended to attract or detract sexual attention? Connor’s clothing is intended to make him look powerful and masculine. He’s trying to impress his male colleagues and his female conquests.
• Could you guess their social status by their style? Not really, because he puts so much effort into looking like he belongs to a higher class than he actually does.

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History:

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Played basketball in high school and college, got a degree in Business Analytics, worked as a statistician for college basketball team for two years before getting an MBA and joining a scouting agency. He was approached when he worked as a statistician for college basketball in Raleigh, NC, about helping fix bets on games in exchange for 10% of the winnings. With dreams of owning a championship team, Connor knew he needed to earn a lot more than his job paid, so he agreed. Money was supposedly “advertising fees” on his personal sports blog.

At the start of Cloaked, he’s a statistician for the Timberwolves.

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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:

Statistician for the Timberwolves.

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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:

• Cloaked

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Relationships:

• Romantic:
• Family:

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Adulthood

Relationships:

• Romantic:
• Family:

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Internal Motivation

Meaningful Movement

Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood

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Relationships:

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Physicality:

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Breath

Internal Motivation

Meaningful Movement

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Appearance & Personal Style:

• What does she look like? Is her appearance expected or not? Why?
• Eye Color: Golden Brown
• Hair Color: Blonde
• Height: 5′ 5″
• Weight: 140 lbs
• Bone Structure: average but she’s got strong muscles from farming
• Skin Color: pale but tanned, she’s got freckles and sun-spots
• Hair texture: silky and straight
• How much effort does she put into their appearance? None.
• What kind of clothing does she wear? Why? Warm jeans and flannel shirts and old wool sweaters in winter. Equivalent but t-shirts and shorts in summer. Whatever is comfortable and lets her operate the farm equipment. Her version of dressing up is to wear a sundress in summer or a sweater dress with thick leggings in winter.
• Is their clothing bespoke? Off the rack? Thrift Store? Hand-me-down? Home-made? Thrift-store and hand-me-downs usually, but she’ll wear off the rack too.
• Is her clothing intended to attract or detract sexual attention? Detract. Caroline was crushed by Julien’s lack of true interest in her, and she’s shut herself away from all romantic and sexual relationships ever since the divorce.
• Could you guess her social status by their style? No. Caroline looks like a country bumpkin farmer, but she’s got a degree in agriculture because she got a softball scholarship to SCHOOL.

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History:

Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood

How old were you when you first got drunk (and what was that like)? I think I was fourteen, but I’m not sure. I grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota. I moved back there actually. I love it. But my

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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:

Caroline is a farmer. She operates her family’s farm.

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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:

• Cloaked

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Relationships:

• Romantic: Adrian Hawthorne
• Family:

Focus

Breath

Internal Motivation

Meaningful Movement

Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood