This document provides a "character tree" template to help flesh out fictional characters. The tree has seven branches corresponding to different aspects of a character: intelligence and problem solving (left cheek), defining memories and psychology (crown), conscience and morality (right cheek), posture and presence (throat), secret needs and drives (heart), base impulses and desires (groin), and biographical facts (feet). For each branch, questions are provided to help determine that aspect of the character.
This document provides a "character tree" template to help flesh out fictional characters. The tree has seven branches corresponding to different aspects of a character: intelligence and problem solving (left cheek), defining memories and psychology (crown), conscience and morality (right cheek), posture and presence (throat), secret needs and drives (heart), base impulses and desires (groin), and biographical facts (feet). For each branch, questions are provided to help determine that aspect of the character.
This document provides a "character tree" template to help flesh out fictional characters. The tree has seven branches corresponding to different aspects of a character: intelligence and problem solving (left cheek), defining memories and psychology (crown), conscience and morality (right cheek), posture and presence (throat), secret needs and drives (heart), base impulses and desires (groin), and biographical facts (feet). For each branch, questions are provided to help determine that aspect of the character.
This document provides a "character tree" template to help flesh out fictional characters. The tree has seven branches corresponding to different aspects of a character: intelligence and problem solving (left cheek), defining memories and psychology (crown), conscience and morality (right cheek), posture and presence (throat), secret needs and drives (heart), base impulses and desires (groin), and biographical facts (feet). For each branch, questions are provided to help determine that aspect of the character.
HUMANS!! LEFT CHEEK Method & Logic What is their intelligence? How do they solve problems? What is their practicality?
CROWN Psychology &
Personality What are their defining memories? What is their pathology? What do all these body parts equal? This shouldbe where you can answer... ...who is this dude or dudette !!?
RIGHT CHEEK Ethics & Soul
What's their conscience? What's their morality? What are their ideologies? What is their idealistic or artistic capacity?
THROAT Posture & Presence
How do they sound? How do they move? What's their vibe?
HEART Secret Needs
What will make them a more functional person? Do they need to find their confidence? Do they need humility? Do they need to provide for family?
GROIN Impulse & Desires
What do they want? How does their sexuality manifest? What's base or puerile about them? Are they greedy? Or envious? Or proud?
FEET Physicality & Facts
Where have they lived? Where did they go to school? Who is their best friend? What is their job? What do they look like? What's their family history?