CHARACTERS EXERCISE The One Word Character Test

[Dusk]

The One Word Test: A Character Interview
What is one word worth?​

The One Word Test is a character interview where the answers are limited to the use of a single word answer. These answers can be literal or abstract, but they have to be just one word. The exercise, aside from being one I've found a lot of fun in the past, is to convey as much about a character as possible with a small amount of information. I'll regularly update this thread with new questions. Feel free to answer as many or as few as you want, on as many or as few characters as you want.

 

[Dusk]

First Set​

1. "What are you?"
2. "Where are you?"
3. "Where would you like to be?"
4. "Why would you like to be there?"
5. "Who would you like to be with?"

 

[Nemopedia]

First Set​

1. "What are you?"
2. "Where are you?"
3. "Where would you like to be?"
4. "Why would you like to be there?"
5. "Who would you like to be with?"

Character name: Deirdre
1) Mermaid
2) Stranded
3) Home
4) Safety
5) No one

 

[PavellumPendulum]

Character: Rhey Rivera
1) Liquid
2) Thoughts
3) Gone
4) Tired
5) Myself

 

[MaryGold]

Character: Richard Romano
1. Human
2. New York
3. Rome, Italy
4. Wine
5. Mom

 

[wren.]

Character: Adam Kinney
1. Lawyer
2. Indianapolis
3. Party
4. Fun
5. Hotties

 

[Foxes81_of_Anime]

Character: Kaoru Sakisaka
1. "What are you?"
Spirit.
2. "Where are you?"
Work.
3. "Where would you like to be?"
Home.
4. "Why would you like to be there?"
Tired.
5. "Who would you like to be with?"
Yuuji.

 

[Dusk]

Second Set​

6. "What do you value?"
7. "What do you want to give?"
8. "What do you want to receive?"
9. "Where is home?"
10. "Where are you going?"

 

[Dusk]

Third Set​

11. "What do you do?"
12. "Why do you do it?"
13. "What do you like about it?"
14 "What do you hate about it?"
15. "What do you do for fun?"

 

[FenFren]

Character: Alice Willowood

1. "What are you?"
Satyr
2. "Where are you?"
Alleyway
3. "Where would you like to be?"
Home
4. "Why would you like to be there?"
Comfort
5. "Who would you like to be with?"
Parents
6. "What do you value?"
Family
7. "What do you want to give?"
Love
8. "What do you want to receive?"
Nothing
9. "Where is home?"
Friends
10. "Where are you going?"
Nowhere
11. "What do you do?"
Chess
12. "Why do you do it?"
Fun
13. "What do you like about it?"
Win
14 "What do you hate about it?"
Lose
15. "What do you do for fun?"
Sleep

 

[88 Fingers Edward]

Custom character for my stories: Nikko Liasa



1. "What are you?"
Alchemist
2. "Where are you?"
Apothecary
3. "Where would you like to be?
Laboratory
4. "Why would you like to be there?"
Chemicals
5. "Who would you like to be with?"
Teacher
6. "What do you value?"
Potions
7. "What do you want to give?"
Health
8. "What do you want to receive?"
Drugs
9. "Where is home?"
Here
10. "Where are you going?
Nowhere
11. "What do you do?"
Alchemy
12. "Why do you do it?"
Fun
13. "What do you like about it?"
Health
14 "What do you hate about it?"
Kaboom
15. "What do you do for fun?"
Drugs