Getting To Know Your Character

I got this from a link off Pinterest. I have to find it, but here are some of the fill in the blank questions that are on it. (I edited it a bit)

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General Characteristics

Name: _____________________________________________________________ Appearance: (What does your character look like? Written descriptions are fine.)

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Other Names: (Nicknames, pen names, pet names, etc.)

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___________________________________________________________________ Alternate Forms: (What can your character turn into, voluntarily or involuntarily, while retaining control over that form or not? Descriptions are fine. An entirely new character sheet would be best.)

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___________________________________________________________________ Theme Song: (What song best describes you character?) ___________________________________________________________________

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Personal Characteristics

Birth Date: ____________________________________ Birth Place: ___________________________________ Hometown: ___________________________________ Death Date: (Leave this blank if you don't know when they will die. You can always fill it in later.) ____________________________________ Age at Death: ___________________________________ Death Place: ____________________________________ Resting Place: (Where is the body of your character now or where will it be put once they die?) ___________________________________ Manner of Death: (How did your character die?)______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Last Words: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Primary Objective: (What is your character's main goal? This should be the thing that drives their part of the plot.)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Secondary Objectives: (What other goals does your character intend to achieve? These should drive subplots, which are also very important to a story.)

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______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Secrets: (What does your character know that must not be told to anyone?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Quirks: (What about your character makes them different from everyone else?)

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Mental Characteristics

Known Languages:

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lures: (What is your character drawn to?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Savvies: (What are they very familiar with and/or very good at doing?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ineptities: (What are they simply unable to understand?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Temperament: (Is your character choleric, sanguine, melancholic, phlegmatic, phlegmatic II, or supine/leukine)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hobbies: (What activity or interest do your character pursue simply for pleasure?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Intellectual Characteristics

Logical-Mathematical: (How well can your character use reason and logic in their thinking?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spatial: (How well can your character create an image in their mind?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Linguistic: (How good is your character with words, written and spoken?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bodily-Kinesthetic: (How well does your character control their body motions, how well do they handle objects? How clear is their sense of goal of physical action?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Musical: (How clear is your character's perception to sounds, music, tones, and rhythms?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Interpersonal: (How well does your character interact with and understand others?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Intrapersonal: (How well does your character understand their self?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Naturalistic: (How well does your character understand their natural surroundings?)______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Existential: (How well can your character understand phenomena or questions beyond sensory data?)

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Philosophical Characteristics

Morality: (What divides your character's definition of good and bad?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Perception: (How do they perceive their situations? Optimistically? Pessimistically? Sadistically? Masochistically? Ideally? Realistically? You might answer by having them tell whether 'the glass is half empty or half full', and each of these perceptions should give a different answer.)

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Spiritual Characteristics

Religion: (What religion does your character identify with? Christianity? Atheism?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Superstitions: (What superstitions does your character subscribe to? Throw salt over your shoulder to relieve bad juju? Your ancestors are watching over you?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Virtues: (Does your character exhibit Chastity, Charity, Temperance, Diligence, Humility, Kindness, Patience, or Justice? Only the 8 listed should be used, but more than one can be used.)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vices: (Does your character exhibit Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, Pride, Envy, Wrath, or Despair? Only the 8 listed should be used, and only the ones whose opposites are not listed above should be used.)

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Supernatural Characteristics

Ability: (What is the name of your character's power? Sonic Scream? Reactive Adaptation? Toxic Flatulence?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Element: (What element does your character control or is classified under? Fire? Light? Surprise?)

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______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Restrictions: (What can't they do with their power or what balances it? They can only use it when they genuinely need it? They can't use it for more then five minutes without serious side-effects? It gives them intense gas and no one wants to be around them?)

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Likes and Dislikes

Likes: (What kinds of things does your character like? Dogs? Pizza? Alfred Hitchcock?)

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Apparel

Equipment: (What equipment does your character carry with them? A gourd? A toolbox? A bag of hair?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wardrobe: (What kind of clothing does your character have? Mostly jocky? Half gothand half average? Nerdy?)

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Social Characteristics

Emotional Stability: (How much emotional inflictions can your character take before they break? Lots? None at all? Negative amounts?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Humor: (What does your character think is funny? Blond jokes? Death? Farting?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reputation: (How is your character viewed by their peers? Are they held in high esteem? Do they think he's pure stupid? Do they think he's an alien?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Status: (What is their social status? Quiet? Popular? Dead?)

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School and Work

Degrees: (What college degrees does your character have? Bachelor's? Doctorate? None?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education: (How much education has your character received? Up to middle school? College graduate? Everything from elementary school to martial arts of every kind?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ School: (What elementary, middle, high schools, and colleges and universities did your character go? Manzanita Elementary and North Valley High? Jerry Springer Private School? None?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Study Habits: (How often does your character study and how thoroughly? Every free hour? Not at all? They have someone else study for them somehow?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Type: (Is your character a Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic learner?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Occupation: (What does you character do for a living? Graphic design? Write books? Stars as a side character in a kid's show?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Boss: (What person or people is your character taking orders from or working for? Bill Gates? Admiral Hood? Mr. Pickles?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Work Schedule: Income: (How much does your character make per hour and per year? $12/hour and $24000/year? $8/hour and $14000 a year? $75/hour and $52500/year?)

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Interpersonal Connections

Immediate Family: (Who are the relatives your character sees everyday or saw everyday growing up? Parents? Siblings? Children? Adopted parents?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Close Relatives: (Who are the relatives of your character that are only separated by one degree of blood difference? Uncles? Grandparents? Grandchildren?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Distant Relatives: (Who are the people your character is related to, but not at all closely? Grandparents-in-law? Great granduncle? Twenty-seventh cousin, 88 times removed?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ancestors: (Who are some important ancestors in your character's family? Their great great granduncle? Them in a past life? Alexander the Great?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Allies: (Who or what company does your character and/or their company work with or fight alongside? Edgar Wicklow? McDonald's? The mafia?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Enemies: (Who is it that your character is always fighting or that they have set out to destroy? The Man in Black? Wally Wickenshield? The entire naked mole rat species?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Followers: (Who follows your character and is inspired by them or tries to copy them? That one annoying kid? Their friends? Their enemies?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Friends: (Who does your character feel safe with and could trust in a time of need? Barry Barrington? Veridian City? The Laz Group?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Heroes: (Who does your character look up to? Superman? Firemen? Hobos?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pets: (What animals (or in some cases, people) does your character keep under their rule? A dog? A ferret? An alien?)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rivals: (Who is your character on good terms with, but is constantly in direct competition with? Their best friend? Their bigger brother? The smart kid in class?)______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Physical Characteristics

Height: in ( cm) ​​________________________ Weight: lbs ( kg) ​​________________________ Nationality/Species:​________________________ Skin/Fur Color: ​​________________________ Hair Color: ​​​________________________ Hair Length:​​​________________________ Eye Color: ​​​________________________ Tail Length: ​​​________________________ Tail Color: ​​​________________________ Scars: ​​​________________________ Tattoos and Piercings: ​________________________ Locomotion: (Plantigrade, digitigrade, or unguligrade) ​​​​________________________

Health and Fitness

Addictions: ________________________ Handicaps: ________________________

Sexual Characteristics

Gender: ________________________ Significant Other: ________________________

Story Information

Archetypes:

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Personality

Anima: (How does your character act when they are really being their self?)

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Development

Personal: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Social: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Physical: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spiritual: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Biography

Infancy: (What was you character's life like from age 0 to age 3?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Childhood: (What was your character's life like from age 4 to age 12?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Adolescence: (What was your character's life like from age 13 to age 19?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Adulthood: (What was your character's life like from age 20 to age 54?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Seniority: (What was your character's life like from age 55 until death?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Other Information

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