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Lesson 4
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Lora’s Character Profiles
What I learned doing this assignment is that there is more to my characters than I thought. Many of my characters appeared “one note” and this exercise helped me give them some dimensionality.
A. Name: Lisette Kim
B. Role in the Story: Lisette is the protagonist who must defeat Dwyvel and rescue her father, Kismet, and dragons from him.
C. Core Traits: surly, stubborn, martial artist (loves a good physical fight), honest, punk rock, insightful, brave
D. Motivation: Want/Need: want: to be reunited with her biological father Need: to be loved
E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw: feels worthless and abandoned wound: her father left her and she feels like it was her fault
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: secret: she portrays herself as tough and surly but on the inside she is in pain and hurting hidden agenda: hurt her father because he hurt her.
G. Internal Dilemma: she wants to free her father but what will she sacrifice to do so
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Her determination and stubbornness combined with her martial arts abilities make her an ideal person to stand up to Dwyvel and his minions.
A. Name: Steven Kim
B. Role in the Story: Lisette’s father and role model
C. Core Traits: successful, proud, loving, charming, stubborn
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Want: to keep Lisette safe Need: To prove to himself that he’s a good father
E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw: he doesn’t typically accept help from others, he wants to be the rescuer not the rescued; wound: he feels he has to prove himself to be as good as a caucasian person because of racism he faced
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: secret: he is devoted to his career; hidden agenda: he wants to take down Dwyvel himself.
G. Internal Dilemma: he wants to be a good father and he feels he must give up his daughter to keep her safe
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? His desire to keep his daughter safe by leaving her and his strong sense of family make him the perfect character for the role.
A. Name: Kelly Anderson
B. Role in the Story: Lisette’s foster mom.
C. Core Traits: type A personality, desire to succeed, controlling, generous
D. Motivation: Want/Need: want: to be a good mom to Lisette need: to prove that she can be a good parent to a foster child
E. Flaw/Wound: flaw: she doesn’t see that it takes both parents on board to successfully raise a child; wound: as a former foster child, she wants to show love to a foster child of her own
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: secret: she hides her doubts about the strength of her marriage; hidden agenda: she wants to force Greg into sharing her point of view
G. Internal Dilemma: She wants to be both a good mom to Lisette and a good wife to Greg
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? She tries so hard to be there for everyone that she can’t see that things around her are falling apart.
A. Name: Gregory Anderson
B. Role in the Story: Lisette’s foster father
C. Core Traits: suspicious; dislikes change, conventional, well-mannered
D. Motivation: Want/Need: want: for Kelly to be happy need: to keep himself happy
E. Flaw/Wound: flaw: he has a hard time seeing things from other people’s point of view; wound: he was a neglected child and doesn’t believe in spoiling or fawning over children.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: secret: he cares about whether Lisette likes him but pretends he doesn’t; hidden agenda; he wants Kelly to pay more attention to him than Lisette.
G. Internal Dilemma: He wants to keep Kelly happy but he also doesn’t think he wants Lisette around
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? He and Kelly balance each other out and his dislike of Lisette causes ripples.
A. Name: Dwyvel Elliot
B. Role in the Story: Antagonist and villain
C. Core Traits: money obsessed; cruel; pragmatic; spell caster; jealous
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants: to be the richest man in the universe need: to prove that he is as worthy and deserving as anyone else.
E. Flaw/Wound: flaw: He thinks he is more important than he actually is. Wound: he was unloved as a child
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: secret: he cares about looking like a good, reasonable guy; hidden agenda – he wants to prove that love only causes heartache and punish others for having an sort of loving tendencies.
G. Internal Dilemma: he wants to look like a good guy while doing terrible things to others.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? He is the perfect villain to show that family and love are more important than power and money.
A. Name: Kismet (the dragon)
B. Role in the Story: he becomes Lisette’s best friend teacher and confidant
C. Core Traits: loving, curious, silly, magical, kind
D. Motivation: Want/Need: want: to have friends to play with need: to be able to positively influence other’s lives
E. Flaw/Wound: flaw: wound: he sees the best in others, even when they don’t deserve it. Wound: none
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: secret: he trained Lisette’s father too; hidden agenda: to bring out the best part of everyone, even when they refuse to show it.
G. Internal Dilemma: he wants friends, but he also wants everyone to play by the rules and get along.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? His innocence is the perfect match for Lisette’s surliness; his purity of heart contrasts with everyone else in the story
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This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Lora Sester.
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Clear – concise profiles with added depth.
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thanks!
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Chris’ Character Profiles – Lesson 4
What I learned doing this assignment: Articulating new character dimensions for Moses, Polly, and Bess adds a great deal to the story.
I added “personality dimensions” to my character profiles.
MOSES KINCAID
ROLE: Protagonist
CORE TRAITS: Regular guy. Just wants to get along with everyone and live in peace. Loves Polly. Courageous. Evolves from being racially submissive to proud of his black culture.
PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS: Private side: When he speaks to statues or his dog. Expresses true/personal feelings about racism and love. Family side: When he speaks to his wife or daughter. Try to get along, live in peace. Social side: When around or talking with white people. Submissive actions and language.
MOTIVATION: Wants: To get along, live in peace. Goal: To live his life with Polly. Raise his family.
FLAW: The racism of his world inhibits his true self and how he speaks and acts in the presence of white people. Seems fearful and submissive on the surface, but demonstrates great courage at war
WOUND: Traumatized and humiliated when Boss points a gun at him in 1935. He wets himself in front of young Polly.
SECRET: He dies when he is 14.
HIDDEN AGENDA: Have his biracial daughter succeed in a white man’s world.
INTERNAL DILEMMA: Is America a white country? Or a multiracial country where he and his family have a place?
WHAT MAKES MOSES PERFECT FOR THIS ROLE? He is a regular guy, whose regular life would have had a remarkable impact on history (e.g., stopped JFK assassination, prevented Apollo 1 fire, changed interracial marriage laws), if racism had not led to his murder at age 14.
POLLY (BRAGG) KINCAID
ROLE: Wife, mother, loves Moses.
CORE TRAITS: Levelheaded, but idealistic. Anti racist. Socially and politically aware. Lives in fear of losing her family. Emotionally strong woman.
PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS: Private: Feels the loss of her birth (white) family because she married a black man. Terrified she will also lose her family with Moses. Family: Tries to elevate Moses’ black self esteem. Protect Bess from racism. Social: Socially woke. Strong independent woman. Anti racist, anti war, pro civil rights.
MOTIVATION: Wants: A racism free America. Needs: To keep her family safe and happy.
WOUND: Sexually assaulted by Cody Baker when Moses is away at war.
SECRETS: She was sexually assaulted by Cody Baker. She knows Moses is the “Unknown” at the lynching memorial.
HIDDEN AGENDA: To develop Moses’ self-esteem about being a black man in America.
INTERNAL DILEMMA: Loving and marrying a black man has alienated her from her white, redneck family, at great cost to her emotionally.
WHAT MAKES POLLY PERFECT FOR THIS ROLE? She is a bridge between the black and white worlds. She is a strong white woman who is not a racist. She believes in a multi-racial America and raises her family to believe it too.
BESS KINCAID
ROLE: Moses and Polly’s biracial daughter.
CORE TRAITS: Piano virtuoso. Committed and proud of her black culture. Reverse racists tendencies. Politically angry.
PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS: Private: Secretive. Denies her white identity. Overcompensates to fit into black culture. Angry. Family: Worships her black father. Tolerates her white mother. Loves both. Social: Radical black activist. Proud of her black culture. Not averse to violence to battle racism.
MOTIVATION: Want: To be 100% black. Need: To be accepted and successful as a black woman/performer.
FLAW: Hates white people because of racism and oppression and so suppresses her white half.
WOUND: Her father made her pass for white for a Conservatory audition when 18.
SECRET: She is a member of the Black Panther Party in San Francisco.
HIDDEN AGENDA: Overturn white racist American culture by any means necessary.
INTERNAL DILEMMA: Overcompensates to feel more connected to black culture because she is half white.
WHAT MAKES BESS PERFECT FOR THIS ROLE? As a young successful, biracial woman she has not experienced the same level of racism as Moses. She rejects the idea of America as a white country. Believes African Americans should develop their own American culture apart from white America.
Note: When Moses dies in 1935, Bess’s character becomes BETH, a very white version of Polly’s daughter.
2. TO IMPROVE CHARACTER PROFILES – Developing the character profiles for this assignment allowed me to add greater substance and depth to Moses, Polly and Bess. Good for now. Further development will come when the changes are worked into the story.
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I like the way you noted how characters act differently when around different people – this adds a really strong dimension to them.
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Something I took from a reread of Syd Field.
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Doug Dotts: Character Profiles
What I learned: Helped clarify – some characters as made me think about them more in depth. And the listed areas of the profile were great for brainstorming. I noticed that this added more depth for some of the side characters. I took some notes – to later add little moments to the script that further clarify the characters and/or add to others that were not as developed.
A. Name: Paul
B. Role in the Story: Protagonist
C. Core Traits: Witty – Adventurous – clever – humorous – fun – but very afraid of scary things and change in general.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants a grand adventure – needs confidence.
E. Flaw/Wound: Always the outsider – as always, the new kid.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Wants to prove himself – wants to break from his fears to experience the adventure he imagines his life could be.
G. Internal Dilemma: It’ tough to keep up the mask of bravado and it often fails.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? A symbolic character – of growth for a boy becoming a man – pushing though his limitations – learning from mentors – and peer mentors. .
A. Name: Bob
B. Role in the Story: Paul’s father – miner – but the event of being injured forces Paul to grow. However, Bob’s seeking – moving the family allows for the adventure and growth of Paul.
C. Core Traits: Outdoors type, tough, self-reliant, free spirit, restless, lives in a little of bit of a fantasy.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to return to the town he grew up in – needs to reclaim his joyful youth.
E. Flaw/Wound: Restless – moving from location to location to reclaim the lost joy of boyhood.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Hopes his family – especially his spouse, Mira – adapts and accepts.
G. Internal Dilemma: Is it really an either or – sufficiently supporting a family or having them suffer his search for lost boyhood joy.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Very strong on the outside – underneath has a balance of compassion – steadfastness – that Paul observes and adapts. And his restlessness causes the move – that causes Paul’s growth.
A. Name: Mira
B. Role in the Story: Mother of the protagonist, Paul – and his two very young siblings that always bicker with each other. A good – grounding influence on Paul.
C. Core Traits: Strong – caring, cynical, quick witted.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants civilization – needs stability in life.
E. Flaw/Wound: Never had stability – makes her uneasy on the inside and sarcastic on the outside.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Wants to settle in a larger – normal town. Needs stability.
G. Internal Dilemma: Wants to be supportive of husband, his dreams, her family, but not direct enough with her needs.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? A good foil for her husband’s fantasy life with her more practical take.
A. Name: Ben
B. Role in the Story: Town Marshall, Native Ute – manages a liquor store and the probation of Dalton. At the start of the story – is he involved with Dalton and criminal intent to save his store from foreclosure – or just helping Dalton to choose a more honest way of living? When coming into town, Bob is surprised that Ben is a Marshal and refers to his youthful conduct. But later – we learn that Bob was a participant in the same minor crime. Both come through to take down the villains with Paul.
C. Core Traits: Quiet by tough.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants a peaceful town & to rehabilitate Dalton – needs financial security.
E. Flaw/Wound: Never seen – as a behind the scenes guy – does good – but not noticed.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Is he dirty dealing with Dalton to save is store – or is he doing his job?
G. Internal Dilemma: How far to trust Dalton with his money.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Like an eagle – he keeps an eye on all and when least expected – he swoops in.
A. Name: Teddy
B. Role in the Story: Main bully – along with his younger brother – Billy always threatening to Paul.
C. Core Traits: Projects his own fear and pain to others – cruel
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to be tough & in control – needs security & safety.
E. Flaw/Wound: Damaged – bullied by mother’s prior boyfriends that inflict their baggage on him and we see that he has been scared by cigarette burns inflicted on him by the villain – mom’s latest – the villain, Dalton.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Wants to survive life – wants to be feared to feel safe.
G. Internal Dilemma: To what length will he go beyond his usual meanness to save himself and brother?
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? The bullied has been the bullied and this is the only way of life he knows.
A. Name: Dalton
B. Role in the Story: Villain
C. Core Traits: Abusive to his girlfriend two boys – Teddy and Billy – lives off others.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to be a tough – needs security & safety.
E. Flaw/Wound: Was of criminal mind before he served in Vietnam/Army – was saved in the war by Sarah’s brother. We find this out later – Sarah’s brother tried to help him – by joining the Army with him and died saving his life – the better man, Sarah’s brother – died.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Skim cash from the liquor store.
G. Internal Dilemma: Wants to survive – will he run – be a petty thief, or will he be pushed into murder by a former cell mate that is vicious.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? He is weak inside – bullies others as he has been bullied – unable to learn from his past experiences.
A. Name: Kitty
B. Role in the Story: Foil for Charlie – though they tease – bicker – they really like and admire each other. She provides the local watering hole for locals. She provides a lesson for Paul when he veers to the unethical. And she helps Paul out in the final showdown with villains.
C. Core Traits: She is the tough owner of the Enterprise saloon. She does it all – cooks – cleans – bartends – keeps others honest. She is witty.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to keep her bar/income afloat – needs to belong – companionship of locals and tourists.
E. Flaw/Wound: Lonely – cut off.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Conceals that she likes Charlie.
G. Internal Dilemma: Should she reveal her loneliness and affection for Charlie.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? She is a lot like Charlie – but will not admit this – she has humor – resourcefulness – self-reliant – tough – humorous.
A. Name: Charlie
B. Role in the Story: Mentor for Paul after Paul’s father is injured in a work accident.
C. Core Traits: Crusty old miner – self-sufficient – a jokester – a trickster.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to find the hidden Spanish treasure that he has a map to. Needs noticed and valued.
E. Flaw/Wound: Lonely – never found his treasure (hmn – new idea – finds Kitty is his treasure).
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Keep his dream alive – to have value – hopes that his wisdom is useful.
G. Internal Dilemma: Should he reveal himself to Kitty.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? He is up for the adventure – resourceful and is a trickster with idea to help unveil villains.
A. Name: Russ
B. Role in the Story: Befriends Paul the first day of school – but we later find out he is not a real friend when needed – he is self-serving.
C. Core Traits: Enough of a nice kid – a slacker – a liar – uses people – self-serving.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to avoid being beat up – needs security at any costs.
E. Flaw/Wound: Not morally anchored.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Use his friendship with Paul for money – company – until stakes are raised.
G. Internal Dilemma: He wants a friend like Paul but when will his actions reveal he is not a trusted, reliable friend? How long can he hide his true self?
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? He is a kid that has no moral compass and survives on instincts. He will always latch onto the new kid as a friend to use for his self-interests.
A. Name: Sarah
B. Role in the Story: B tory – Captivates Paul’s interest. She helps Paul become more comfortable with himself and supports him.
C. Core Traits: Fun – friendly – likes to dance – love her horse.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to keep her best friend, Beth – and have Paul as boyfriend. Needs companionship after loss of brother.
E. Flaw/Wound: Suffered a loss – her brother died in Vietnam – saving Dalton. She does not talk about him.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Thinks she wants to Paul’s girlfriend but hesitant.
G. Internal Dilemma: If she gets close to Paul as friend and girlfriend will that bring up her memories or cause memories of her best friend – her deceased older brother to fade?
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? She is more self-assured than Paul – and comfortable with the world.
A. Name: Beth
B. Role in the Story: She is the best friend of Sarah – later in the story – she lets Paul know that Sarah’s brother taught her boxing skills that and she shares some of this with Paul. She lets Paul know that Sarah’s brother did not come home alive from the war. He had tried to help Dalton be a better person prior to their enlistment. He learned toward criminal behavior even before the war experience.
C. Core Traits: Tough – independent – has learned skills like boxing – riding horses – using ropes – never backs down – always ready to fight to defend herself and what is right.
D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to maintain her friendship with Sarah – needs security and to grieve.
E. Flaw/Wound: Little hurt by her best friend’s new love interest – Paul.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Little fearful of Sarah’s relationship with Paul – would prefer things to remain the same.
G. Internal Dilemma: Should she help Paul – or let him fail on his own.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? She takes a stand and teaches Paul this – teaches him how to fight – how to climb a rope that saves him later. She never gives in or backs down. This is a good example for Paul.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Douglas Dotts.
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I like how distinct your characters are from each other. One thing – I think the want and the need are supposed to be different to create tension. (That’s my interpretation and I could be wrong, lol)
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You are correct – thanks for making that note.
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Elizabeth Cochrell, Character Profiles
What I learned in this exercise is that when I clarify their needs and flaws I come up with more interesting emotional moments!
MISHA TAYLOR 30 YRS OLD.
Role in the Story: Protagonist trying to get her shit together so she can take care of her runaway lost daughter. She trains for a dangerous MMA event and figures out how to fund raise for her women’s shelter.
Core Traits: A loner who tries to do what’s right. Usually takes action only when she is angry about something. Expresses herself by playing music or dancing when happy, hits the punching bag when worried and disciplines herself with yoga to calm down.
Motivation: Want = make enough money to quit stripping and open her women’s shelter. Need= self-esteem, believe she can do more than strip or be a prostitute.
Flaw/Wound: Flaw = Can’t control her rage when she is disrespected. Wound = Shame, her father who taught her martial arts abused her and her jealous drug addicted mother blamed it on her when she told her about it.
Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = She said it was self-defense when the meth addict attacked her with a knife, but the truth is she couldn’t stop herself from beating him to death even though he was already out of it. Hidden Agenda = Punish everyone who deserves it!
Internal Dilemma: She enjoys being a sexy dancer but feels guilty that she doesn’t want to put out for anybody she’s not attracted to.
Misha is perfect for the part because she is the epitome of the alluring strength of a woman who when inspired by motherhood is an exciting example of hope for raising the level of respect for women and equality between the sexes.
REBECCA ROBERTS 15 YRS. OLD.
Role in the Story: Dog whispering daughter who helps Misha develop into a good mother.
Core Traits: Impulsive, caretaker, sensitive, lies to parents.
Motivation: Want/Need: Want = Freedom! Maybe her real mom will give it to her. Need= To feel loved by her mother.
Flaw/Wound: Flaw= She can’t trust anyone but animals. Wound= Low self-esteem when her stepmother told her in anger that she really was the daughter of a drug addict and an orphan.
Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret= Finally figures out Frank boffs her when she’s unconscious, but feels she deserves it because she thinks it her fault. Hidden Agenda = Make enough money and save it so that she can escape to freedom without anyone telling her what to do.
Internal Dilemma: She really wants to be free and independent but doesn’t know how, she can’t trust adults who give her advice on how to do it.
Rebecca is perfect for the role because she is the most vulnerable victim of a serial sex abuser which transforms her mother Misha’s rage into something more noble towards defeating male chauvinists for the betterment of society.
EMILY ROBERTS 60 YRS OLD.
Role in the Story: Antagonist who tries to demoralize Misha, regain control of her stepdaughter, make sure her corrupt husband stays in power.
Core Traits: Narcissist, Insecure, Controlling, Deceitful Materialistic.
Motivation: Want/Need: Want = Control everything, the family’s high social status and use her husband’s political power. Need= The confidence to survive on her own without her cheating husband.
Flaw/Wound: Flaw= Lack of self-confidence Wound= Her mother said she was a loser because she couldn’t marry a millionaire.
Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret= She hates Frank for his cheating. Hidden Agenda = Divorce him once she gets Rebecca back so she can get the big alimony benefits and child support.
Internal Dilemma: She wants to suck it up and stay married but can’t stand it when her husband cheats on her and her stepdaughter runs away. So she takes her hate out on her young pretty step daughter.
Emily Roberts is perfect for the role because her selfish soul-draining ways become the driving force that send our heros on their journey to greater self-esteem and happier lives.
MAYOR FRANK ROBERTS 60 YRS OLD.
Role in the Story: Antagonist against women and he gets away with all kinds of women’s abuse because of his money and power.
Core Traits: Charming, Intelligent, Cold Hearted, Sociopathic sex addict.
Motivation: Want/Need: Want = Win the election again. Need= To be able to control women, especially for his sexual gratification.
Flaw/Wound: Flaw= He can’t control his sexual desire. Wound= His mother emotionally abused him as a child.
Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret= he has been dosing Rebecca and getting sex from her unknown to her because of drugs. Hidden Agenda = He’s been extorting and putting money away to buy an island and escape from the family after this last term is over.
Internal Dilemma: He loves being admired in the spotlight but must hide his true nature from almost everyone he admires or cares about.
Mayor Frank is perfect for the role because he is so despicable that his feminine victims eventually rise up to destroy him in a rage of pride and growth.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Elizabeth Cochrell.
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I like how dimensional and complex your characters are. They are really well thought out.
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Thanks I like how you’re developing yours as well, we have similar adoption issues the characters deal with:)
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Day 4 Character Profiles
I learned one more way to add emotion to Selma.
1. Name: Selma
Role in the Story: Protagonist. She is the counselor who must convince Elizabeth to leave her abusive husband.
Core Traits: guilt-ridden because she believes she is responsible for her mother’s death, distrustful because she could never trust her father when she was a child, lies when she feels cornered because she is afraid of being in trouble, a capable counselor, self-sufficient.
Motivation: want—to pay a hospital bill. To save Elizabeth from harm. Need—to ease her guilt by atoning for her mother’s death.
Flaws—She trusts no one and lies when she feels cornered.
Wound—her father’s abuse culminating in her watching him kill her mother.
Secret—She lies to Elizabeth.
Internal dilemma—She is afraid of Elizabeth’s anger and wants her to leave. / To keep her job, she must save Elizabeth. To increase Selma’s emotion a) Highlight this in the script. B) make her more and more anxious as the end of the 6 days approaches.
What makes this character perfect for this story?—She fulfills the concept and the story’s need by being the only person who can save Elizabeth. Drives the conflict by telling the lie and pushing Elizabeth to realize that her husband is not a good man.
2. Name: Elizabeth
Role in the story: Antagonist. She is Selma’s first client and the abused wife.
Core Traits: Loyal, kind to those who need her help, angry, distrustful. She believes her husband is a good man.
Motivation: Want—to be happy, to take home something from the shelter that will help her, to find her lost self, to have her husband return to the man she fell in love with.
Need—to be loved.
Flaw: She believes her husband is a good man.
Wound: none.
Secret: She believes she has delusions and she put her baby up for adoption to keep her safe from the delusions.
Internal Dilemma: She loves her husband. / She is afraid of him.
What Makes the Character Perfect for this Role?: She fulfills the concept by fleeing to the shelter because she is mentally and emotionally abused by her husband. She fulfills the story’s need by becoming Selma’s client. She drives the conflict by believing her husband is a good man, thereby opposing Selma’s goal of convincing Elizabeth to leave her husband. She also discovers Selma’s lie which increases the conflict.
3. Name: Mark
Role in the Story: Antagonist. He is Elizabeth’s abusive husband. He opposes Selma because she wants Elizabeth to leave him and he is bent on having her at home.
Core Traits: dishonest, manipulative, controlling, loves his dog.
Motivation: Want— to be respected
Need–to have power and control over Elizabeth.
Flaw: his need to have power and control over Elizabeth.
Wound: He witnessed his father abuse his mother.
Secret: He is lying to Elizabeth about her delusions.
Internal Dilemma: He wants power and control over Elizabeth. / He wants to be loved.
What makes this character perfect for his role in this story?: He fulfills the concept by abusing his wife mentally and emotionally. He drives the conflict by gaslighting and manipulating Elizabeth every night, unbeknownst to Selma, while she tries to convince Elizabeth to leave him. The members of the audience need to see and hear him abusing her so they can understand why Selma is trying to save Elizabeth.
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I love how Elizabeth is Selma’s first client. Is Elizabeth really the antagonist? or are there two protagonists? Also, it seems weird Elizabeth has no wound.
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Zenna Davis-Jones
What I learned through this exercise is that most of my characters are looking for love and acceptance in different forms. I also really enjoyed exploring their secrets.
Name: Sister Colette
Role in the Story: Protagonist. She begins as the favorite at the congregation, entirely docile and subservient. She then becomes disillusioned when she discovers the head priest is killing girls in the congregation and must find a way to save them.
Core Traits: Naïve, people pleaser, guilt-ridden, altruistic.
Motivation: Want: to create heaven on earth for people and God to celebrate.
Need: To learn to forgive and trust herself.
Flaw: Afraid of letting others down.
Wound: Blames herself for when her sister went missing.
Secret: Thinks she’s evil inside.
Hidden Agenda: To be absolved of sins in the eyes of God.
Internal Dilemma: Wants to do good in the eyes of others vs listening and honoring her intuition.
Why she is perfect for this story: Begins as a perfect, docile, submissive recruit and when she discovers her fellow girls are in danger, she must dig into the deep resources of self to find the strength to bring them to safety.
Name: Father Kinsley
Role In Story: Commune leader and antagonist. Believe he is God and will stop at nothing to become all-powerful.
Core Traits: Charismatic, Manipulative, Narcissist, Cruel
Motivation: Wants to be so powerful he can do whatever he wants.
Need: Keep himself safe by controlling everyone around him.
Flaw: Too power-hungry, insatiable beyond reason.
Wound: Abused as a child, left for dead by parents.
Secret: He wants to be God and have the power to choose who gets to live and who dies.
Hidden Agenda: Brainwashing his followers
Internal Dilemma: Wants to be God, doesn’t believe there is a god.
Why he is perfect for this story: He offers Colette a “safe space” where she can willingly give over her right to chose, but once she discovers he is evil, he offers the greatest obstacle to her, thinking he knows better and is better.
Name: Sister Raymond
Role: Closest to a Mother Superior. Antagonists helper. She jumps on every opportunity to shut Colette down. Willingly does Kinsley’s dirty work.
Core Traits: Ambitious, jealous, conniving, intelligent
Motivation: Want: Kinsley’s unwavering approval
Need: To feel love and accepted.
Flaw: Willing to hurt real friendships to get ahead.
Wound: Abused by stepdad, warped sense of what love is.
Secret: She is in love with Kinsley.
Hidden Agenda: Kill anyone Kinsley asks.
Internal dilemma: Wants to be loved, hates herself.
Why she is perfect for this role: She makes Colette second guess herself. She demonstrates to Colette that no matter how ‘good’ you are to Kinsley it is never enough.
Name: Margaret
Role: New recruit who gives voice to the audience in the beginning by questioning the community. She then becomes a pivotal character the audience is connected to that needs to be saved.
Core Traits: Skeptical, street-smart, lonely, good-hearted.
Motivation: Want: to find a cheap place to live.
Need: A home where she is loved.
Flaw: Thinks the world is out to get her.
Wound: Hard relationship with family. Has a difficult time trusting people.
Secret: She misses hugs.
Hidden Agenda: To get away from an abusive boyfriend.
Internal Dilemma: Wants love, wont let anyone in.
Why she is perfect for this story: The audience cares about her, she has the street smarts to get out of dangerous situations but is desperate enough for a home that she is willing to overlook certain signs.
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There’s a lot of depth to your characters. I love it. Also “What I learned through this exercise is that most of my characters are looking for love and acceptance in different forms.” this is profound
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Thanks Lora!
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Day 4:
James’ Character Profiles
What I learned doing this assignment is my female lead character’s hidden agenda. This discovery places a layer into the story which is revealed in the third act. Just by having a hidden layer, I can now add character subtext culminating with a reveal at the climax.
· A. Name: Jessica Blue
· B. Role in the Story: Jessica is the female lead (love interest) who conceals her sex industry past to protect her current relationship.
· C. Core Traits: concealing, sharp, caring, sarcastic
· D. Motivation: Want/Need: Want = to one day have her own business. Need = a strong partner in life to support her.
· E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = she puts others before herself. Wound = she never had a mother figure.
· F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = she had a short-lived fling with an adult film actor. Hidden Agenda = she works on an empowering book for women using her new relationship with Rufus as a guide.
· G. Internal Dilemma: she wants to foster a decent and wholesome relationship, but her current job puts a wrinkle in her plans and intentions.
· H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Jessica has vast knowledge of sex toys, which causes unseen and seen conflict between her and her love interest.
· A. Name: Rufus Winter
· B. Role in the Story: Rufus is the male lead (love interest) who unconsciously searches for the love of his life.
· C. Core Traits: intelligent, observant, polite, power mover
· D. Motivation: Want/Need: Want = a leader for a project he’s been mulling over for months. Need = a truly awesome woman in his life to put away his past.
· E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = he immediately builds a defensive wall with everyone he meets. Wound = he still suffers from the disastrous heartbreak by his once love of his life.
· F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = he once wanted to become a priest; still communicates with Monsignor Phillips. Hidden Agenda = subconsciously wants a romantic relationship with Jessica.
· G. Internal Dilemma: he wants a new relationship, but is hesitant to totally jump in due to past trauma.
· H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Rufus is decent and clean cut, which causes conflict between him and Jessica’s lifestyle and friends.
· A. Name: Paul Valley
· B. Role in the Story: Paul is Jessica’s close friend who attempts to always save the day for her.
· C. Core Traits: compassionate, subtly confused with masculinity
· D. Motivation: Want/Need: Want = a loving man in his life. Need = a stable relationship with either a man or a woman.
· E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = is overly dramatic. Wound = had uncompassionate people in his childhood.
· F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = perhaps gains a hidden attraction for Rufus. Hidden Agenda = wants to help Jessica and Rufus ultimately come together.
· G. Internal Dilemma: he loves women, but his consciousness and way of being attracts men adding to quagmire in dealing with Jessica and Rufus’ relationship.
· H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Paul serves as Jessica’s sounding board and shoulder to lean on when things go south for her.
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I like the addition of Jessica’s hidden agenda!
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Lesson 4 Rewrite Class
Margaret Doner: Love and Destiny – Drama
What I learned: To flesh out characters in order to bring more depth to them.
Characters:
A. Victoria Barkley
B. Role in Story: Protagonist
C. Core Traits: Artistic, Intuitive, Intelligent, Seeker of Truth
D. Motivation: To understand the past life recall that rises up in her consciousness
E. Flaw: Obsession with Dennis, Emotions. Wound: Past life recall
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Obsession with and attraction to Dennis because of past life recall.
G. Internal Dilemma: Am I going crazy, or are these thoughts and images real?
H. What makes this character perfect for this story? As an artist, actor, director, she is creative and intuitive making her not only perfect for being an empath, but also wonder if this is her imagination.
Improvements: Some people have suggested she doesn’t seem strong enough. I think this could be improved, although her strength is more evident in script than in the outline.
A. Dennis Manon
B. Role in Story: Love Interest
C. Core Traits: Intelligent, Loyal, Kind, Artistic
D. Motivation: To understand why this woman (Victoria) suddenly has an emotional hold on him
E. Flaw: Driven by emotions
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Has memory of past life in Victorian England with Victoria
G. Internal Dilemma: Is Victoria right? Do we share these past lives?
H. As an academic he shares Victoria’s knowledge of literature and understands her references and motivations.
Improvements: Clarify his dilemma with his wife and child versus this strange newfound attraction to Victoria.
A. Victoria’s Mental Health
B. Role in Story: Antagonist
C. Core Traits: Overwhelming, confusing, lacks focus, flip/flops
D. Motivation: To wake her up to alternate realities and shake her from everyday reality
E. Flaw: Uncontrollable
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Life in Dachau
G. Internal Dilemma: Am I crazy or is this real?
H. As a drama it works to have an Internal Main antagonist, instead of an Outside Mail antagonist.
Improvements: Not sure.
A. Gary Dubitsky
B. Role in Story: Love Interest (boyfriend)
C. Core Traits: Creative, Hardworking, Unusual
D. Motivation: To live life one moment at a time while being true to the self.
E. Flaw: Self-centered
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Is attracted to another woman
G. Internal Dilemma: How to process Victoria’s past lives through is Buddhist perspective
H. As a Buddhist he understands reincarnation and karma
A. Sally Benton
B. Role in Story: Confidant: Victoria’s girlfriend
C. Core Traits: Kind, innocent, ordinary, loyal
D. Motivation: Wants and needs to get married and settle down
E. Flaw/Wound: Struggles to see “outside the box.”
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Doesn’t really believe in past lives but tries to
G. Internal Dilemma: Should I “step outside the box” with Victoria?
H. Character is perfect foil for Victoria’s unusual behavior and point of view. As maid of honor to Sally, Victoria wears a puffy pink dress as she struggles with images of Dachau. Sally adds contrast.
Improvements: Flesh out her personality.
A. Mrs. Thompson, Bill Johnson
B. Role in Story: Foils
C. Core Traits: Unbending, Believe no matter what they do or think they are always right
D. Motivation: To stop the production of The Maids at Victoria’s college.
E. Flaw/Wound: Can’t see beyond their own noses.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: To murder Bill Johnson’s son who is gay and performs in drag during the production of The Maids.
G. Internal Dilemma: I am upholding my Christian values?
H. Characters are perfect to contrast with Victoria and her staff members and students, but also their actions trigger Victoria’s memories of Dachau.
Improvements: Have another scene between Mrs. Thompson and Bill Johnson to illuminate their mindset.
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I like how you added improvements below each profile!
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Ed Etzkorn’s Character Profiles
What I learned: Yes, knowing each character more intimately can lead to major improvements in the script.
Name: Azuri Burris
Role in Story: Protagonist; must solve problems of who the entity living in her new house is, what the entity wants and how to deal with it without it killing or wounding herself and her parents
Core Traits: Loyal; decisive; empathetic almost to a fault; needs emotional support of friends and parents to function to her max; feels responsible for everything and everyone, blames herself if things go wrong.
Motivation: Needs to make sure she and everyone around her is safe. Wants to solve the problem to everyone’s satisfaction.
Flaw: need to please everyone. Wound: without even realizing it, feels responsible for her brother’s death even though she was only 2 years old at the time.
Secret/hidden agenda: Unable to defend herself when she’s attacked, since she blames herself. Needs to prove herself to herself as well as to everyone else.
Internal Dilemma: Needs to impose her sense of rightness and fairness, yet needs approval of others just as much even if their values do not match her own.
What makes this character perfect for her role in the story? Needs to identify with the entity and satisfy its needs even as she needs to cast it out of everyone’s life.
NAME: Clytemnestra Randall
Role in Story: Unidentified entity residing in Azuri’s new house; was killed in the fire that burned a portion of the house years ago, cannot accept her own death, wans either to replace Azuri or make her suffer the same fate.
Core traits: Self-pity; no qualms about making other people suffer; needs acceptance and respect from others; yet still some vague sense of empathy.
Motivation: Wants to continue living as Azuri is now living; needs respect, love, and sympathy of other people.
Flaw: selfish. Wound: it was unfair that she had to die so young.
Secret/Hidden Agenda: She’d replace Azuri if she could. But there’s a slight problem—she’s dead.
Internal Dilemma: Doesn’t really want to hurt Azuri or her family, but wants them gone.
What makes this character perfect for her role in the story? She can continually taunt Azuri and make Azuri and her family suffer, then holds back. Gives conflicting signals to the living so that they don’t know how to respond.
NAME: Felicia Burris
Role in Story: Azuri’s mother; wants what’s best for Azuri, but does not give her enough space. Feels Azuri is special in some way due to the incident when Azuri was 2 years old, but keeps worrying that whatever preternatural trait Azuri possesses, it can manifest as something evil as well as good.
Core traits: Devoted to those she loves; loving but possessive. More protective of her own interests than those of her husband or her daughter. Trusts her husband implicitly, but wary of her daughter and her daughter’s powers.
Motivation: Watches out for members of her family; always on the lookout for some sign of lack of loyalty on their part.
Flaw: overly self-centered. Wound: not manifest. (Black? Grew up poor? Father and/or mother deserted family?)
Secret/hidden agenda: ready to reject anything she cannot understand
Internal dilemma: Wants Azuri to stand up for herself, but only on her own terms
What makes this character perfect for her role in the story? She forces Azuri to make her own decisions but increases pressure on Azuri to be perfect.
NAME: Lily Daly
Role in Story: Azuri’s best friend, always there to back Azuri up and support her
Core Traits: Loyalty; talkative-all her thoughts on the surface; resentful of her mom’s strict rules
Motivation: To help Azuri solve the issue of the entity in her home; to use Azuri’s knowledge to solve the issue surrounding her own home.
Flaw: Pushy. Wound: Mom’s former illness (Graves disease); mom’s background as a spiritual medium as well as an overcritical schoolteacher
Secret/hidden agenda: none. Assumes Azuri’s successes as her own
Internal dilemma: None evident. (Needs approval of her friends beyond reasonable?)
What makes this character perfect for her role in the story? Pushes Azuri to do more as well as be the perfect friend; in return for her loyalty.
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What trait in Clytemnestra makes her change her mind and decide to rescue instead of kill Azuri?
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Deanne’s Character Profiles
What I learned doing this assignment = There’s much about a character that must be left out because the script pages are needed to focus on what’s needed for the plot.Character One = CB, (Cyril Beaugestonian)
Role = protagonist, chief investigator, plot-mover
Traits = responsible, perceptive, inquisitive, risk-averse
Want = a change in his routine
Need = to find a job that gives him a greater sense of purpose
Flaw = he’s attracted to chaos because he feels compelled to manage it, which is great for his career but disaster for relationships
Wound = an early attempt to manage a situation without adequate information resulted in a disaster
Secret = he’s attracted to Zora
Hidden Agenda = He wants to find out what’s going on with this band
Internal Dilemma = He’s risk-averse but must take risks to investigate the band
Why is he the best character for this role? Because CB has the experience, skills, and resources that enable him to handle the challenges, and his fish-out-of-water perspective gives him the ability to zero in on anomalies.Character Two = Slick (Sloane Lichtmord)
Role = on-screen antagonist, the human interface with the aliens
Traits = a sell-out, narcissist, power-hungry, charming
Want = wealth, fame, power
Need = a good spanking
Flaw = unobservant and out-of-touch with humanity
Wound = got passed over for a major promotion, which fueled a desire to take his revenge on humanity so he jumped at the chance to collaborate with aliens
Secret = the aliens terrify him
Hidden Agenda = he’s after a piece of world domination (the northern hemisphere would suffice)
Internal Dilemma = he wants to be worshipped by the people he doesn’t love
External Dilemma = he wants his names on the band’s songs to get fan adulation, but when he’s onstage the band isn’t playing, so no applauseCharacter Three = Champ (Vernon Mackie)
Role= protagonist’s best friend and ally, road-trip companion, the guy CB talks to so he doesn’t need to talk to himself. The guy who asks questions so CB can provide answers.
Traits = dedicated family man, loyal, risk-taker, hot-headed
Want = to get out of this mess
Need = to be reunited with family
Flaw = at times he reacts without thinking things through
Wound = has PTSD triggered by earth tremors
Secret = the event that caused the PTSD
Hidden Agenda = wants to help CB find a lasting relationship
Internal Dilemma = taking risks is acting counter to his family’s best interestsCharacter Four = Zora (Janice Smith)
Role = represents the band members, a potential love-interest for CB
Traits = Momma Bear, clever, restless, falls into relationships too easily
Want = to help her son escape the band
Need = someone who can help her
Flaw = feels powerless
Wound = was trapped in an abusive relationship
Secret = her collar does not lock
Hidden Agenda = to dissolve the band
Internal Dilemma = she can either stick with the band to help her son escape, or she can leave and save herselfA. What parts of the profiles can be improved?
I added in improvements as I created these updated profiles.B. How can characters fulfill their roles more effectively?
Script space could be used to expand on the possible relationship between CB and Zora.
Slick needs more screen time to demonstrate his traits.
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I like how quirky and fleshed out your characters are.
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Bill Curley Rewrite Lesson 4. Name: Protagonist Dr. Tomo Nikigami. Role: Climatology Professor Core Traits: Intelligent/Sincere/ Perceptive Want/ Need: To avenge a cover up of Global Warming 50 plus years ago. Flaw/ Wound: Loss of wife to cancer. Secret Agenda: To expose the CIA and oil industry. Internal Delema: Should he expose a life threatening lie and risk his life doing so. Why Role: Dr. Nikigami was muzzled years ago. He now has a score to settle and, in addition, must warn the President of a monster hurricane called “Cane”. Name: Antagonist Robert Conley, Jr. Role: Psychotic oil exec. Traits: Manipulator/ Explosive/Dishonest Want/Need: To dominate oil industry with billions made the result. Flaw/ Wound Loss of only son in a FL. shark attack. Secret/Agenda: To discredit climate crisis scientists. Internal Delema: To ignore a pesky climate scientist or have him eliminated. Role: Conley and Nikigami are Polar opposites. Both provide conflict, controversy and intolerance for each other.
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I’d like to see this formatted for readability and have the characters fleshed out more… right now they are lacking dimension.
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Jonathan Clark’s Character Profiles
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”
Filling out the Character Profiles makes each character come alive. Examining these Profiles then leads to the necessary Character Arcs for each Character. Adding the resultant tapestry of necessary Character Arc scenes to the patchwork of necessary plot scenes will then really deepen and inform the overall plot/outline. Having the Characters more fully developed enhances the overall, of course, but seriously pumps up the subplots necessary to deepen the whole story (and thus the entertainment and saleability factors). It’s like adding pieces to the big puzzle, but now you can see what those puzzle pieces have to be in order to fit them all together. Holes in the external plot can now be filled in with confidence. This is like the mortar between the bricks of my Story. It’s awesome to now have a concrete process to do this for any and all stories.
Character Profile #1:
A. Name: Vincenzo Peruggia
B. Role in the Story: Vincenzo is the protagonist who steals the Mona Lisa, is forced to sell forgeries of the painting by a gang, and falls in love with the gang leader’s fiancee.
C. Core Traits: aimless, intense, impulsive, resourceful.
D. Motivation: Want = to get his family back (represented by the Mona Lisa). Need = to overcome his past and learn to value himself and life in general (represented by Italia).
E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = Major lack of direction in life, aimless. Wound = His family’s death, causing him to lose his belief in love and the magic of life.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = he’s the one who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and now he’s selling forgeries. Hidden Agenda = he has secretly fallen head over heels in love with the gang leader’s fiancee, Italia, and it’s giving him a whole new lease on life that’s in complete contrast to the crimes he’s being forced to commit.
G. Internal Dilemma: He wants to save the Mona Lisa, and yet that’s what’s keeping him under the gang’s thumb. Also, he’s in love with Italia, but pursuing her will likely lead to his and/or her death.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in the story? His impulsivity can lead him anywhere. And besides, he actually was the person who stole the Mona Lisa.
I think I need to incorporate Vincenzo’s loss of Faith as part of his Character Arc, so that there’s a stronger emotional release when he gets his Faith back at the end.
Character Profile #2:
A. Name: Italia Chaudron
B. Role in the Story: Italia is Vincenzo’s love interest, who helps him find himself again, but she’s also the unwilling bride-to-be of Vincenzo’s nemesis, Count Edwardo De Valfierno, so he’ll have to fight for her and her for him.
C. Core Traits: Free spirited, passionate, rebellious, stuck.
D. Motivation: Want = to be free. Need = to get away from her controlling family and fiance.
E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = Feels helpless/stuck. Wound = Her mother’s death, the only one who truly understood her.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = She’s sick, most likely TB like her mother. Hidden Agenda = She’s fallen in love with Vincenzo, wants to experience love to its fullest before she dies.
G. Internal Dilemma: She’s sick, and doesn’t really have the energy her rebellious nature needs her to have in order to break free, and also, she loves Vincenzo but doesn’t want him to be killed by her fiance.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Like the Mona Lisa come to life, she really is the catalyst that gives Vincenzo his direction in life, representing love, family, beauty, and the magic that is life itself.
As with Vincenzo, I think I need to bring her Faith into focus more, to reveal that particular Arc. Perhaps she has her mother’s bible, and insists Vincenzo swear his love to her on that bible? (Thus forcing Vincenzo to confront his own Faith?) Something…
Character Profile #3:
A. Name: Count Edwardo De Valfierno
B. Role in the Story: As leader of the gang that has Vincenzo in its grip and as fiance to the woman Vincenzo loves, De Valfierno is our powerful antagonist.
C. Core Traits: grandiose, narcissistic, controlling, sociopathic.
D. Motivation: Want = to be an actual Count. Need = to marry Italia, an actual blue-blood, to legitimize himself and his offspring.
E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = unable to feel love or understand true art. Wound = told by his mother that he’s the illegitimate son of an actual Count, but he was shunned, which is why he was raised with absolutely nothing.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = he’s not an actual Count, he’s just a sociopathic criminal. Hidden Agenda = He wants to legitimize himself and his offspring by marrying an actual blue-blood, and he’ll kill anyone who gets in his way.
G. Internal Dilemma: he tries to act like an aristocrat, but he’s just a street-smart, uneducated criminal, so he doesn’t really know how. And the truth is: he hates aristocrats.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Not only is he the head of the gang that has Vincenzo in its grip, but he’s also the sociopathic fiance to Vincenzo’s true love, a double threat.
Character Profile #4:
A. Name: Yves Chaudron
B. Role in the Story: Chaudron is not just Italia’s father, he is the unreliable narrator, telling us the story of Vincenzo as he would like his interviewers (and us) to hear it.
C. Core Traits: art obsessed, failed family-man, gambler, aristocratic.
D. Motivation: Want = to return his family to its place of honor, by building up its collection of true artworks. Need = to get away with stealing the Mona Lisa.
E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = his addiction to gambling. Wound = after his wife’s death, he lost all his family’s artworks and become beholden to De Valfierno due to his gambling addiction.
F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = pretty much everything he’s telling his interviewers is a lie, especially that he painted the forgeries. Truth is, he wasn’t good enough. It was Italia who painted them. Hidden Agenda = he’s trying to get away with stealing the real Mona Lisa.
G. Internal Dilemma: He needs to lie to get away with his theft, but tell enough of the truth to be believable, so it’s a real tightrope walk.
H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Chaudron is the one actually telling the story, so without him there is no story. Also, he’s tied into all the characters in one way or another and so he can make up any story he wants to convince the interviewers there’s ‘no here, here’ so he can avoid prosecution and get away clean with the Mona Lisa.
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