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xxxGeneral Characteristics
Name:
Appearance: (What does your character look like? Written descriptions are fine.)
Other Names: (Nicknames, pen names, pet names, etc.)
Titles: (Prefixes, suffixes, etc. Wikipedia has a great list of these here.)
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.)
Theme Song: (What song best describes you character?)
xxxPersonal Characteristics
Birth Date:
Actual Age:
Appeared Age:
Astrological Sign:
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.)
Desires:
Secrets: (What does your character know that must not be told to anyone?)
Quirks: (What about your character makes them different from everyone else?)
xxxMental 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? Wikipedia and TVTropes have great articles on this.)
Hobbies: (What activity or interest doe your character pursue simply for pleasure?)
xxxIntellectual 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?)
xxxPhilosophical Characteristics
Morality: (What divides your character's definition of good and bad? TVTropes has some good tropes on this here.)
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.)
xxxSpiritual Characteristics
Superstitions: (What superstitions does your character subscribe to? Throw salt over your shoulder to relieve bad juju? Your ancestors are watching over you? Dancing like a monkey gives you monkey-like powers?)
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.)
xxxSupernatural 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?)
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
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?)
Extra Anatomy: (Wings, etc)
Weapon(s):
Ability: (Can it command fire?)
xxxLikes and Dislikes
Likes: (What kinds of things does your character like? Dogs? Pizza? Alfred Hitchcock?)
Dislikes: (What kinds of things does your character no like? People? Burgers? Angry Birds?)
xxxApparel
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 goth and half average? Nerdy?)
Grooming: (Neat, or messy?)
xxxSocial Characteristics
Emotional Stability: (How much emotional inflictions can your character take before they break? Lots? None at all? Negative amounts?)
Mood: (What mood are they usually in?)
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?)
xxxOccupation
Occupation: (What does you character do for a living? Graphic design? Write books? Star as the buttmonkey in a kid's show?)
Rank:
Boss: (What person or people is your character taking orders from or working for? Bill Gates? Admiral Hood? Mr. Pickles?)
Work Schedule:
xxxInterpersonal Connections
Immediate Family: (Who are the relatives your character sees everyday or saw everyday growing up? Parents? Siblings? Children? Adopted parents?)
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?)
Pets: (What animals (or in some cases, people) does your character keep under their rule? A dog? A ferret? An alien?)
xxxPhysical Characteristics
Height: in ( cm)
Weight: lbs ( kg)
Nationality/Species:
Blood Type:
Preferred Hand:
Body Type/Build:
Face Shape:
Skin/Fur Color:
Hair Color:
Hair Length:
Eye Color:
Tail Length:
Tail Color:
Scars:
Tattoos and Piercings:
Locomotion: (Plantigrade, digitigrade, or unguligrade)
Co-ordination: (How well do they move?)
Posture: (Slouched/rigid)
Gait: (Speed and style in which your character moves?
xxxHealth and Fitness
Addictions:
Handicaps:
Phobias:
xxxSexual Characteristics
Gender:
Orientation:
Significant Other:
Type: (Eros/Pragma/Banquet/Mania/Ludus/Storge)
Turn-Ons: (What does your character want to see in their ideal mate?)
Turn Offs: (What tends to make them back off)
xxxStory Information
Archetypes:
Tropes and Clichés:
Character Alignment:
xxxPersonality
Anima: (How does your character act when they are really being their self?)
Persona: (How does your character act to hide their real self?)
Soft Spot: (Their vulnerability, what they feel sorry for or have particularly good feelings toward)
Cruel Streak: (What makes a character act against their usual morals, and act especially mean? (everyone has something that can do this to them)
xxxBiography
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?)
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