Character Origination Prompts: Week 32

[The Mood is Write]

Character Origination Prompts​

Time to make a new character, but you're clueless? Just want to invite a new person to live in your head? Want to round out a character who's been untouched for a while?

This thread is for you and anyone else who feels like doing character work today.

Use as many or as few of the prompts as you like, and create!

How Do I Take Part?​

Each week, I will post three random prompts in line with the title theme: images, text, dialog, links to articles, or other neat things that seem like they could spark new life. I may also include bonus rounds! You can make whatever character you want, and they don't have to fit everything (or anything at all).

I'll provide an (optional) "basic" character sheet that you can use.

Click Here for the Optional Character Sheet

[b]Full Name:[/b]
(Including titles.)

[b]Nicknames:[/b]
(Including titles that aren't part of formal address.)

[b]Species:[/b]
(Could include a few notes on if they're variant or unusual.)

[b]Occupation:[/b]
(Don't be afraid to be descriptive!)

[b]Age:[/b]
(Actual and/or apparent.)

[b]Sexuality:[/b]
(Gender, physical sex, and preferences.)

[b]Eyes:[/b]
(Color, shape, position...)

[b]Hair:[/b]
(Color and style.)

[b]Features:[/b]
(Facial and skin descriptions. Eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, etc.)

[b]Height:[/b]

[b]Build:[/b]
(Bone structure, musculature, amount of fat, body shape—this is great for giving an idea of history and personality.)

[b]Outfit:[/b]
(What do they wear?)

[b]Body Mods:[/b]
(Scars, tattoos, piercings, prosthetics, and more.)

[b]Impression:[/b]
(What do people think when they encounter this character the first time?)

[b]Voice:[/b]
(Describe the tone, manner, volume, and more about how a character communicates: should include any nonverbal communication methods too!)

[b]Fears:[/b]
(Big or small, what frightens the character?)

[b]Motivation:[/b] (One of the two links below might be helpful.)
https://dragonwritingprompts.blogspot.com/2013/08/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-for-writers.html
http://www.fiction-writers-mentor.com/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs/

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[b]Virtues:[/b] (Definitions below, pick however many fit and describe how, if you are so inclined.)
Chastity ([i]Castitas[/i])
A habit of controlling inappropriate physical desires and impulses.
Temperence ([i]Temperantia[/i])
Attentiveness to one's needs, with restraint from wasteful excess.
Charity ([i]Caritas[/i])
Willingly giving of the self to ensure others' happiness and health.
Diligence ([i]Industria[/i])
The habit for performing work with perseverance, honesty, and care.
Patience ([i]Patientia[/i])
The ability to forgive and eagerness to seek paths toward harmony.
Kindness ([i]Humanitas[/i])
The sharing of one's skills and possessions for the sake of others.
Humility ([i]Humilitas[/i])
Prioritizing of other individuals and the community above oneself.

[b]Vices:[/b] (Definitions below, pick however many fit and describe how, if you are so inclined.)
Lust ([i]Luxuria[/i])
The lack of self-control over one's bodily desires and urges.
Gluttony ([i]Gula[/i])
Overindulgence and overconsumption to the point of waste or harm.
Greed ([i]Avaritia[/i])
A disproportionate valuing of material wealth and its acquisition.
Sloth ([i]Acedia[/i])
Habitual apathy or aversion to effort that results in detriment.
Wrath ([i]Ira[/i])
Uncontrolled urges that encourage one to harm to others and self.
Envy ([i]Invidia[/i])
Sad or resentful desire toward traits or possessions of another.
Pride ([i]Superbia[/i])
Obsession with one's own superiority to the detriment of others.

[b]Strengths:[/b]
(What they're good at.)

[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
(What they're not good at.)

[b]Quirks:[/b]
(Habits and other little things.)

[b]Racial Details:[/b]
(Optional details about the character's race.)

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[b]History:[/b]
(Write a brief backstory.)

[b]Hook/Summary:[/b]
(You can include something meant to catch interest here.)

Prompts:

1. They live in or are from a high-tech setting.
2. They have too many siblings.
3. They define themselves by a few quirks rather than accepting their whole self.

Bonus Rounds:

• One of their quirks is that they're the 'and many more' guy when it comes to the birthday song (or similar).
• The character is a woman who defines herself by masculine things.

 

[PoetLore]

Andrea Hastings

38

Hungarian/Irish eldest daughter of a farmer and his romance novelist wife who live out her novels as she writes them, each book has a corresponding offspring that resulted from their role playing of the characters in the book. They were currently on novel sixteen. Her mother was prolific at many things, birthing children and writing trashy romance novels.

Andrea has spent most of her adult life helping her parents. her mother is mostly absent from the role of mother as she lives out her fantasy books with their father. He however, worked hard to keep them all together and happy. The farm and the sales of the books provided a proper life for them, well most of them. One by one her younger siblings would marry and run from the homestead as fast as they could, leaving Andrea behind to see after the younger ones.

She had days when she resented her mother, and days when she was grateful to have such close relationships with her siblings. There was no in between for her, and no easy way to build any kind of life for herself. She didn't mind it too much until they got a new mail carrier...a handsome fiery haired man with broad shoulders and a blinding smile. Instantly smitten she began to invent reason to be on the porch when the mail was delivered, even going so far as to make him lemonade and cookies.

She'd see his face in her dreams and look forward to that smile every day. Eventually he asked her on a date and she accepted without a thought. Telling her parents about it was a horrifying thing though and she was shocked when they laughed at her. "really Andi? When are you going to do this?" They didn't believe her.

still, she left on the date and when she returned home very late that night she was more than a little in love. She felt like a character in one her mother's novels. Little did she know, she was about to become one as was the poor postman.