Character Questions

Day 1:
Basics and cosmetic:
	Age:
	Date of Birth:
	Hair color:
	Eye color:
	Skin color/nationality:
	Accent (if any):
	Height:
	Weight:
	Tattoos:
	Piercings:
	Birthmarks:
	Disfigurements:
	Scars:
	Nickname(s):
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Day 2:
How do they usually dress? What do they wear to sleep? Do they wear jewelry?
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Is there anything about their appearance they wish they could change?
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How would they look as the opposite sex?
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What do they smell like? Why (do they wear the scent or does it occur naturally)?
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Do they have an accurate mental picture of their appearance (how they see themselves versus how the world sees them)?
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Day 3:
Choose a different time period and describe what your character would have been like in that time period.
Different Setting:
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Day 4:
Favorites and habits:
What are some of your character’s hobbies? What do they do with their time?
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Favorite color?
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Favorite music artists? Movies or TV shows? Books or authors? Actors?
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Political stance? Are they active in politics or do they not care?
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What are some of their pet peeves?
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What sort of gifts do they like?
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What is their favorite time of day? Favorite weather? Season?
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Where do they like to spend their time?
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Favorite food? Favorite drink? Hot drinks, soft drinks, or alcohol?
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Favorite animal?
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Do they have any pets? Do they want any?
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What relaxes them?
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Do they have any bad habits?
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Day 5:
Resources and abilities:
Where did they learn their abilities?
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If they have an income, where does it come from?
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Do they have a job? Do they like it? How do they feel about their co-workers?
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Day 6:
Why do they have their resources? How long have they had them, and how have they served the character over time? (Ex. Contacts, money, political power, fame, etc.)
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Day 7:
Where does your character live? Why did they choose it, and how did they acquire it? How do they handle intruders (graciously? violently?)? Describe the space.
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Day 8:
What are some of your character’s more notable merits and flaws (including physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, etc.)? How did they develop?
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How has this helped or hindered them in the past?
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Day 9:
How are they with technology?
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Are they specially qualified in any particular field? Would they be considered at the top of the field?
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Have they ever been publically acknowledged for anything? (Ex. Nobel Prize)
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Is there anything they’ve deliberately sought to improve at?
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Do they speak more than one language?
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Day 10:
Relationships and history:
What is their family history like? How does it affect them? How do they feel about their family? How does their family feel about them?
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Day 11:
What were they like as a child? What was their favorite toy? Favorite game? Playmates?
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What did they want to be when they grew up?
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Day 12:
Describe their best and worst memories from childhood.
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Day 13:
Where (and when) did they grow up? How did they view it as a child, and did that change as they matured? How do they feel about the place now?
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Day 14:
Do they, or have they in the past, had a mentor? What was their relationship with this person, and how has it changed since then?
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What sort of education have they had? Do they want more?
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Who was their idol growing up? Who was the first person they fantasized about?
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Day 15:
Who is their closest friend, and why? What do they like to do with this person?
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Do they have any rivals? Who and why?
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Have they ever been betrayed? By who, and how did it affect them?
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Day 16:
Sex and Romance:
What is their sexual orientation? Do they ever question it?
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When did they lose their virginity? Who to? Where? What was it like?
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What is their favorite sexual fantasy?
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Day 17:
Do they have any particular fetishes or kinks?
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What’s the strangest thing they’ve ever done in bed?
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Is there anything in particular that they won’t do?
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What are they attracted to in a partner?
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Day 18:
If applicable: who is their current partner, and what attracted the character to them? How did they meet? How long have they been together?
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What kind of a relationship is it? Do they have any plans for the future?
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What would be their perfect date?
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Describe one of the character’s past relationships and what was significant about it.
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Have they ever hurt someone they loved?
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Do they fall in love easily?
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Day 19:
Future:
What are their dreams? What do they want to do someday?
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Are there places they want to go? Where and why?
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Day 20:
If these don’t apply already: do they want to get married? Have kids?
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Would they ever consider adopting a child? Why or why not?
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Do they have any prominent sensory associations? (Ex. the smell of their mother’s perfume, the sound of ice cracking under their feet as a child, etc.)
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Day 21:
Who do they want to meet?
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What about them is heroic?
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What would the character be like in their old age?
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Day 22:
Describe one (or more) plots you would like to do.
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Day 23:
Stuck in a waiting room. Which magazine do they pick up?
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Morality:
What is one thing in their past they’re ashamed of? One thing they’re proud of?
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Day 24:
Describe one fight they’ve had in the past (physical or otherwise).
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Day 25:
What is one thing they feel strongly about?
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One trait they admire?
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What disturbs them?
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Day 26:
Do the ends justify the means in their eyes?
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Are they a leader or a follower? Why?
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What do they feel responsible for? (Ex. I owe it to the world to do this.)
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Day 27:
Do they believe that a person can redeem themselves from mistakes of the past?
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What scares them?
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How do they feel about death? Have they been significantly affected by it?
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Day 28:
Do they value faith over reason or vice versa?
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Do they believe in an afterlife?
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Do they have any habits that reflect their beliefs? (Ex. regular prayer, vegetarianism, etc.)
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Do they respect the beliefs of others?
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Day 29:
Would they be more likely to act for the good of one or the good of many?
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Are they manipulative?
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Choose a holiday and come up with a potential scenario involving your character and that holiday.
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Day 30:
Is the character religious? What are their views, and why or why not?
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How would they like to die?
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Choose a person, historical or fictional, and write about a meeting between them and your character.