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Lesson 8
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Carole Avila – Character Journey Track
What I learned doing this assignment is the importance of strong characters and the number of elements that go into creating a particular character.
ADLEY:
A. What is their Character Profile?
1. Role: Innocent
2. Traits: Argumentative, angry (because her parents are making her stay at Grandma’s for her summer vacation
3. Fears: Being killed on he birthday, being unloved, being alone
4. Wants/Needs: Close family connection, wants to do her part to end the curse
5. Likability / Rooting factors: Digs deep for inner strength, is willing to hear the truth about herself
6. How they react under stress: At first she’s scared, but then she finds her inner strength.
7. Relationship with other characters: Tense with her parents, immediate connection with Victor, admires Victor’s familyB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Arrives at her Grandmother’s mansion and is overcome with creepy feelings
2. Denial: Doesn’t believe in the curse or a demon hiding in her room
3. Their reaction at first horror: Scared to pieces, confused about what she heard and saw
4. Relation to group after first horror: Has to work with Victor and his great-uncle behind her parent’s back.
5. How they fight back: Learns she can buy time by breaking the bones with a heavy object. Says the counter-curse while staring in the eyes of the demon.
6. End Point: Does her part. Is nearly killed by demon until her father and great-uncle Pablo drag her out from under the bed.
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Greater appreciation for family. You have to overcome your fear to confront the demon.VICTOR:
A. What is their Character Profile?
1. Role: Rescuer
2. Traits: Genuine, caring, concerned, honest, kind
3. Fears: Fear of death, fear of losing Adley
4. Wants/Needs: Acceptance, wants a serious relationship with Adley with her parents’ blessing
5. Likability / Rooting factors: Extremely loyal to loved ones, reassuring
6. How they react under stress: Holds it together, almost goes over the edge with the monster, but then comes back to save the day
7. Relationship with other characters: Loved by all except Adley’s parents who don’t like his family’s spiritual valuesB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Sitting alone in the library at a table; approaches Adley first
2. Denial: Can’t believe how strong the monster has grown
3. Their reaction at first horror: Shock, fear
4. Relation to group after first horror: Wants to prove himself as brave
5. How they fight back: Crawls under Adley’s bed to the monster’s portal in hopes of throwing hematite handle at it (to contain the monster’s essence.)
6. End Point: He and Adley make plans to continue seeing each other as her parents decide to remain at Grandma Aggie’s mansion.
7. What insight does their survival bring to the others/audience? It takes a lot of courage to face your demons.CAROLINE (Mother):
A. What is their Character Profile?
1. Role: Moral One
2. Traits: Belief in strong family values, usually optimistic
3. Fears: Growing apart from Adley, afraid for Adley to be friends with Victor because she thinks he’s a bad influence.
4. Wants/Needs: Wants a better relationship with her daughter, wants a happy family
5. Likability / Rooting factors: Tries to be the perfect mom to Adley, wants to try hard in their relationship. Tries to remain upbeat.
6. How they react under stress: Goes hysterical, hard to reason with her
7. Relationship with other characters: Tries to find solutions but generally isn’t helpful. Isn’t initially well liked.B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Gets out of car with Adley, but won’t admit she’s just as creeped out
2. Denial: Doesn’t believe in curse. Thinks Adley has mice in her room.
3. Their reaction at first horror: Scared to death, goes into hysterics
4. Relation to group after first horror: More humble, nervous but quiet
5. How they fight back: She gives her permission for Adley to join Victor in confronting the demon
6. End Point: She’s happy, accepts that Adley and Victor are a couple
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Hysterics just makes things worse.ROGER (Father):
A. What is their Character Profile?
1. Role: Moral One
2. Traits: Will do anything to make their family stronger, is amiable
3. Fears: Doesn’t want his daughter to be unpleasant, doesn’t believe in the curse
4. Wants/Needs: Wants a close family, wants to live at the mansion
5. Likability / Rooting factors: Very loving, wants a strong relationship with Adley
6. How they react under stress: He doesn’t lose it completely, but faces his fear and helps the kids
7. Relationship with other characters: He follows Great-uncle Pablo’s lead. He is overall respected by his own family and Victor’s familyB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Gets out of car with family after first arriving at the mansion.
2. Denial: Doesn’t believe in the curse, believes Adley has mice in her room. Is afraid Victor would be a bad influence on Adley.
3. Their reaction at first horror: Stunned, scared but still able to react
4. Relation to group after first horror: Is still willing to help fight the demon with the others
5. How they fight back: Rushes to Adley’s room where Victor went under the bed. Roger and Great-uncle Pablo pull both Adley and then Victor from under the bed.
6. End Point: He is glad it’s all over. Welcomes Victor’s family into their home.
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? To trust that others may know more than himGREAT-UNCLE PABLO:
A. What is their Character Profile?
1. Role: Leader
2. Traits: Calm, knowledgeable, kind, patient
3. Fears: Evil
4. Wants/Needs: Wants to protect Adley and his family, especially Victor
5. Likability / Rooting factors: Keeps everyone in balance and harmony, is willing to do what it takes to help Adley
6. How they react under stress: Remains cool, but flustered when others not doing their part
7. Relationship with other characters: Well respected by allB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: At Victor’s house, when Adley first meets him
2. Denial: Justifies Adley’s parents in not wanting her to hang around Victor and his family
3. Their reaction at first horror: Fearful, but continues to direct the group
4. Relation to group after first horror: A bit more flustered
5. How they fight back: Tells Adley and Victor what to do, pulls Adley and Victor from the room
6. End Point: Prepares a sacred ritual to take away the demon’s power once and for all
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? That calm headedness and knowledge rule. -
What I learned doing this assignment is going through each character’s path started to give me a bigger picture of the movie as a whole.
Amanda
A. What is their Character Profile?
- Role: Out of Control/Obnoxious. Amanda, a highly paid actress who had a recent scandal and looks down on everyone in the group.
- Traits: Attention seeking, scandalous, stuck up
- Fears: Being forgotten or ostracized
- Wants/Needs: Wants to recover her reputation/needs to acknowledge her past mistakes
- Likability / Rooting factors: Not exactly likable but is willing to apologize when she has made a mistake
- How they react under stress: Utter panic and unleashed anger
- Relationship with other characters: Looks down on them. Feels she is owed praise and attention from them.
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
- Character Intro: Walks past a gaggle of reporters demanding to know if rumors about scandal are true. She smiles for the cameras but says nothing.
- Denial: Thinks she is too famous an actor to come to harm.
- Their reaction at first horror: Ignores it completely thinking it has nothing to do with her.
- Relation to group after first horror: Becomes even more distant, thinks they are out to get her.
- How they fight back: With surprise and outrage
- End Point: Stabbed by Dylan
- What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? She’s the second actress to go missing. Something is clearly wrong with the situation at this point.
Chuck
A. What is their Character Profile?
- Role: Moral one. Chuck, a religious man driven by his faith with a strong sense of right and wrong.
- Traits: Driven by faith. Thinks no matter what happens, God meant for it to be that way.
- Fears: Going to Hell
- Wants/Needs: For others to buy into his religion. Needs to survive Dylan
- Likability / Rooting factors: While he is religious, he doesn’t push it on others and he accepts people for who they are.
- How they react under stress: Prayer. Believes God will protect him.
- Relationship with other characters: Kind and outgoing.
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
- Character Intro: While others are rehearsing lines, Chuck is reading the Bible
- Denial: Doesn’t believe Dylan has it in him to be evil
- Their reaction at first horror: Prayer
- Relation to group after first horror: Becomes a bit of a leader but is not trusted by all of the actors because Chuck keeps saying God will protect them.
- How they fight back: First by prayer but then tries to bring the group together to fight
- End Point: Electrocuted through one of Dylan’s traps
- What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Even after his death, Dylan can still kill.
Ravi
A. What is their Character Profile?
- Role: Rebel/Rulebreaker. Ravi, never wants to follow the script, always playing pranks, and possibly a red herring as well.
- Traits: Uses humor to make friends. Hates structure
- Fears: Starving to death
- Wants/Needs : Wants to get his acting career going. Needs to please Dylan to do so
- Likability / Rooting factors: He’s funny and entertaining
- How they react under stress: Cracks jokes
- Relationship with other characters: Hated by Chuck but the rest of the group enjoys his antics
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
- Character Intro: Ravi is cracking jokes about the character he’ll be playing in the movie
- Denial: Thinks Dylan is going for something cathartic and it will make them all stronger actors
- Their reaction at first horror: Complete disbelief. Is sure it’s all been staged somehow.
- Relation to group after first horror: Goes from being liked to being disliked when he makes jokes no one is asking for.
- How they fight back: Expects others to take charge but is willing to do whatever they say.
- End Point: Caught in a trap by Dylan, is forced to put on the best performance of his life and then is ended right in front of Alessandra
- What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Dylan is out of control and has no bounds, except, he will not kill if the cameras are not rolling.
Virginia
A. What is their Character Profile?
- Role: Innocent. Virginia, was called in at the last minute to be part of the project and has no idea what is going on.
- Traits: Sweet, kind, naive and nervous
- Fears: Public speaking
- Wants/Needs: Wants to do a good job and go home. Needs to escape the death trap Dylan has devised
- Likability / Rooting factors: Isn’t here for herself. Not a trained actor and really is just trying to help someone out.
- How they react under stress: Confusion
- Relationship with other characters: Tries to get to know them but they don’t want much to do with her
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
- Character Intro: Virginia has to introduce herself to everyone and explain why she’s there in the first place
- Denial: At first thinks everything is how things are supposed to go on a movie set.
- Their reaction at first horror: Tries to go along with Dylan but ends up dying.
- Relation to group after first horror: The first victim
- How they fight back: Loud screaming
- End Point: First to die when Dylan stabs her away from the view of the rest of the actors
- What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? It starts the horror and begins the mystery of why someone might be killing actors
Alessandra
A. What is their Character Profile?
- Role: The rescuer. Alessandra, a struggling actress who is also an on-call nurse and is one of the first to realize people are getting hurt.
- Traits: Takes charge, not afraid of blood, and knows how to heal injuries
- Fears: Other people dying when she can’t save them
- Wants/Needs: Wants to be a star. Needs to dedicate her life to healing others
- Likability / Rooting factors: Is a healer and a helper. Takes charge but in a way that is not insulting.
- How they react under stress: Doesn’t worry for herself but is very concerned how things are affecting the rest of the group
- Relationship with other characters: Everyone in the group likes her
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
- Character Intro: Alessandra changes out of her scrubs into her costume
- Denial: Mildly suspicious at first but when she sees blood on Dylan she knows it’s real
- Their reaction at first horror: Anger. Takes charge immediately
- Relation to group after first horror: Becomes the de facto leader
- How they fight back: From a distance. Gathers information and weapons, directs others
- End Point: Alessandra kills the killer
- What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Alessandra is a survivor, highly traumatized, not as much from her being in the situation as from seeing all the others die in front of her when she couldn’t help.
Carrie
A. What is their Character Profile?
- Role: Lover. Carrie, who is only agreeing to do this film for her boyfriend James
- Traits: Madly in love with James but is actually a great actress
- Fears: Losing James
- Wants/Needs: Wants to please James. Needs to dump James
- Likability / Rooting factors: Is deeply in love. Is willing to go far to fight for that love
- How they react under stress: Checks to see how James reacts
- Relationship with other characters: Most of them try to tell her to dump James
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
- Character Intro: Carrie tells James he owes her big time for coming to the shoot
- Denial: Is pretty sure things are normal on the set
- Their reaction at first horror: Grabs James
- Relation to group after first horror: Most of them ignore her but she doesn’t care as long as James is still there.
- How they fight back: Believes James will save her
- End Point: Dies when James has to choose between his own life and hers
- What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Bargaining with Dylan is not going to work
James
A. What is their Character Profile?
- Role: Love interest. James who only says he cares about Carrie. He is actually only interested in sleeping with as many people as he can.
- Traits: Flirtatious and unfaithful
- Fears: Someone will expose him for the fraud he is
- Wants/Needs: Wants to sleep with as many people as he can. Needs to put someone else above himself for once.
- Likability / Rooting factors: He is a smooth talker
- How they react under stress: Laughs it off
- Relationship with other characters: Carrie is obsessed with him. Amanda wants to sleep with him. Everyone else thinks he’s a jerk.
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
- Character Intro: James is having a fight with Carrie over his infidelity
- Denial: James thinks it’s all some kind of joke
- Their reaction at first horror: Worried he won’t get to hook up with Amanda.
- Relation to group after first horror: Only Carrie and Amanda like him at all and after the first horror, Amanda hates him too.
- How they fight back: Looks out for himself but does team up with other guys when he thinks they have a shot at winning.
- End Point: Chooses to sacrifice Carrie to save his own life and is immediately killed for it by Dylan
- What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Dylan is relentless about how he wants the movie to go. If actors don’t play their roles, they die.
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Susannah’s Character Journey Track
3. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
What I learned doing this assignment is how easy it can be to flesh out characters asking these simple yet key questions. The questions are to the point and fill in the gaps.A. What is their Character Profile?
Bonnie
Role: leader
Traits: convincing, deceptive
Fears: nothing
Wants/Needs: wants to remain hidden. Needs to help killer
Likability / Rooting factors: Seemingly is the main hero
How they react under stress: calm, she feigns fear
Relationship with other characters: it’s a close community, she knows them well but has hidden resentment and hatred for themB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
Character Intro: is overlooking the swamp, deep in thought before finally getting up to join others
Denial: says there is nothing at all to be worried about
Their reaction at first horror: tries to keep everyone calm, still denying
Relation to group after first horror: she becomes their leader, guides them through events
How they fight back: guides others but for nefarious reasons
End Point: leaves town with killer, seemingly gets away with it
What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Her morals gave her a different life pathWaylon
Role: Rescuer
Traits: First to take action, eager to prove himself
Fears: fears failure, letting others down
Wants/Needs: wants to be the hero, needs to find his place in the world
Likability / Rooting factors: he is heroic, considerate and kind
How they react under stress: he is initially scared, but quickly steps up
Relationship with other characters: he is very supportive, gets on with all except Zoe sometimesB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
Character Intro: Calls to Bonnie from a short distance, telling her to join the search party
Denial: is certain there’s nothing big going on, no killer
Their reaction at first horror: attempts to rally town
Relation to group after first horror: doesn’t become the team’s leader but settles for second in command
How they fight back: he tries to use makeshift weapons against the killer
End Point: he dies trying to be the hero
What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Heroes often die without winningHorace
Role: Complainer
Traits: anxious, a downer
Fears: most things, living his life the way it is
Wants/Needs: wants to leave town and start his life over, needs to forget the past
Likability / Rooting factors: he’s honest, tries his best
How they react under stress: he is fearful
Relationship with other characters: he doesn’t have friendships, it’s all businessB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
Character Intro: seen in background of gathered townspeople, part of search party
Denial: is certain nothing happened to drunk as nothing happens in the town
Their reaction at first horror: desperately makes plans to leave town
Relation to group after first horror: he annoys the group but they rely on him as much as the others
How they fight back: he tries to run
End Point: dies trying to flee
What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? You cannot run from your problemsZoe
Role: Rebel
Traits: Cold, sarcastic
Fears: she’ll die in this town one way or the other
Wants/Needs: wants to leave town for good, needs to broaden her horizons
Likability / Rooting factors: she’s tough, she’s good inside
How they react under stress: gets angry, confronts the aggressor
Relationship with other characters: she’s well-liked and she actually likes the townspeople despite her coldnessB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
Character Intro: Zoe is part of the search party
Denial: thinks the drunk will turn up eventually
Their reaction at first horror: thinks the drunk is hurt but not dead, must keep searching
Relation to group after first horror: she stays with the group for survival, wants to leave
How they fight back: she tries to sneak away
End Point: she dies after leaving the group in anger
What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Rash decisions could be your lastElijah
Role: Moral one
Traits: philosophical, questions everything
Fears: that the town is doomed, deserves to die
Wants/Needs: wants others to know they did wrong and must make up for it, needs to find good in people worthy of living
Likability / Rooting factors: he holds others responsible, tries to do the good thing
How they react under stress: he is mostly calm, uses logic and reason to understand the situation
Relationship with other characters: he is liked but not respected as much as he should beB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
Character Intro: is seen speaking to the lead cop about what could possibly be happening in their town, but the cop dismisses him
Denial: he denies some outside force is at work, denies anyone is safe
Their reaction at first horror: he suspects there is more going on than a simple murder
Relation to group after first horror: they wont listen to what he has to say, his theory is foolish to them
How they fight back: he gathers evidence for his theory in an attempt to reason with the killer
End Point: he is proven to be right, but he dies in the process
What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Moral reflection is necessary to liveMagnolia
Role: loner
Traits: fearful, quiet, keeps to self
Fears: people and the bad things they can do
Wants/Needs: to be left alone, to find some measure of peace within herself
Likability / Rooting factors: she’s innocent
How they react under stress: is easily scared, runs
Relationship with other characters: most don’t understand her, most don’t want to, some fear herB. What is their Character Journey for this story?
Character Intro: is last to arrive for search party, is told off for being late
Denial: doesn’t want to stay with the group but feels pressured to
Their reaction at first horror: wants to go home
Relation to group after first horror: the group pressures her to stay with them
How they fight back: eventually she uses her voodoo skills to learn killer’s weakness
End Point: she almost defeats the killer but Bonnie’s betrayal stops her
What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Bonnie and the killer think she is dead, but she crawls out from the swamp with a mission to make them pay -
Jessica Tremblay’s character journey track
What I learned doing this assignment is it’s important that every character – even secondary characters – have a character journey. It was fun to create a character journey for inanimate characters in my story (bunny, doll) that are the secondary characters. I also learned that it’s the monster (not Joanna) that must kill the Manager for the ending to be satisfying.A. What is their Character Profile?
Joanna
1. Role: outsider
2. Traits (main characteristics): Thief. Shoplifter. Cares little about others and the hurt she causes.
3. Fears (Primal fears): Someone taking something from her.
4. Wants/Needs (main motivations): love, needs to learn to share and give and love
5. Likability / Rooting factors: she wants to be close to her new boyfriend, but is afraid she screwed it up when she stole money from him and his dog accidentally died in her kitchen so now he blames her.
6. How they react under stress (numb out, denial, avoid it, blame others, dramatize, angry, give up, shut down, deflect, etc.): in denial
7. Relationship with other characters: keeps people at a distance. People are monsters!Joanna
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: She’s a shoplifter who blew her chance at love by stealing from her one-night-stand. When she learns her father died, she will go empty his apartment.
2. Denial: she hides
3. Their reaction at first horror: to escape
4. Relation to group after first horror: needs comforting. She hugs her bunny really tight. Start overfeeding it.
5. How they fight back: she removes all protective equipment. Willing to risk everything, including her life, to save a doll she got attached to.
6. End Point: She helps the beast. Defeats the manager.Tells Mike the truth about the white rabbit and what it meant to her
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? To get love, you need to learn to share, be willing to sacrifice, be self-less.Mrs. Larsen
1. Role: The carrier who brought the horror in the building
2. Traits (main characteristics): senior.
3. Fears (Primal fears): being alone
4. Wants/Needs (main motivations): love, wants a companion
5. Likability / Rooting factors: she is a lonely old lady who had her parrots stuffed and plays its song recording.
6. How they react under stress (numb out, denial, avoid it, blame others, dramatize, angry, give up, shut down, deflect, etc.): terrified, but thinks she deserve to die because of what she’s done
7. Relationship with other characters: maternal, protective, willing to sacrifice herself.Mrs Larsen
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Peeks out her door, asks who Joanna is, denies Joanna’s father had any pets
2. Denial:can’t believe the creature is still alive
3. Their reaction at first horror: she knows she’s not going to make it. Passive when facing death.
4. Relation to group after first horror:Asks Joanna to leave her behind. She dies (or so we think)
5. How they fight back: She’s not dead. She tells Joanna how she found the creature and brought it here.
6. End Point: She dies.
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? The person responsible for the horror must pay and die for their sin.Building Manager
1. Role: Monster Bait
2. Traits (main characteristics): greedy
3. Fears (Primal fears): someone taking something away from him, someone discovering his scheme of stealing from residents
4. Wants/Needs (main motivations): money, retire in the south, buy a condo building to manage in Florida
5. Likability / Rooting factors: clueless, fun to watch, bad dresser, sleezy
6. How they react under stress (numb out, denial, avoid it, blame others, dramatize, angry, give up, shut down, deflect, etc.): will always try to use the bad situation to his advantage
7. Relationship with other characters: wants to control everyone. Kill them. Order them around. Make them do what he wants. He enjoys power. And seeing people powerless and depending on him.Building manager
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Joanna catches him stealing from her father apartment.
2. Denial: Furious. Can’t believe old folks brought an animal in the building. Pets are not allowed!
3. Their reaction at first horror:Not phased out by the creature. Just angry it’s there. Just hurting from its bite.
4. Relation to group after first horror: Angrier than ever that Joanna used monster against him. He goes after Joanna.
5. How they fight back: He kicks creature back into the locker, threatens the pups,
6. End Point: monster kills him.
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? He was greedy, wanted to kill for money. He goes what he deserved.Doll
1. Role: Leader
2. Traits (main characteristics): plastic, movable arms and legs and head, it has several layer sof clothes (both pink and blue) so we don’t know the sex until the end.
3. Fears (Primal fears): being forgotten, injured, dismembered
4. Wants/Needs (main motivations): love, affection, being cuddled and taken care of
5. Likability / Rooting factors: it acts as Joanna’s ally in storage, they high five each other.
6. How they react under stress (numb out, denial, avoid it, blame others, dramatize, angry, give up, shut down, deflect, etc.): despondent. Shut down.
7. Relationship with other characters: acts as a moral support, buddy, helper, motivatorDoll
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: An abandoned doll inside Mrs. Larsen’s locker (probably belonged to her dead child)
2. Denial: turns its back
3. Their reaction at first horror: hide under blanket.
4. Relation to group after first horror: strapped to Joanna’s back for protection
5. How they fight back: high five Joanna after a fight
6. End Point: Joanna takes care of me, adopts me and takes me out of storage.
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? We know Joanna grew a maternal instinct while taking care of the doll, so she’s now ready to take care of her baby.
Bunny
1. Role: Monster bait
2. Traits (main characteristics): handstitched, purple fabric
3. Fears (Primal fears): being dismembered
4. Wants/Needs (main motivations): love, affection, wants to calm people down
5. Likability / Rooting factors: calm, full of lavender, created by Joanna’s mother as a present before she died.
6. How they react under stress (numb out, denial, avoid it, blame others, dramatize, angry, give up, shut down, deflect, etc.): willing to sacrifice, calm, stoic
7. Relationship with other characters: quiet moral supportBunny
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Found in a box of keepsakes inside father’s locker
2. Denial: Bunny is being squeezed by Joanna for comfort.
3. Their reaction at first horror: Bunny is being eaten by the beast.
4. Relation to group after first horror: Bunny is being sown back and filled with lavender again
5. How they fight back: Bunny is being thrown to monster like a grenade. Its contents (lavender) acts like catnip for the monster.
6. End Point: Bunny is destroyed, but it’s okay, it served its purpose, Joanna doesn’t need her childhood toy anymore.
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Joanna learned to leave the past behind and move on.Cop / boyfriend
1. Role: Moral One
2. Traits (main characteristics): wants to know the truth
3. Fears (Primal fears): Lose his dog or someone he loves.
4. Wants/Needs (main motivations): Love
5. Likability / Rooting factors: Cries after his dog dies, not afraid to speak the truth and show his true self
6. How they react under stress (numb out, denial, avoid it, blame others, dramatize, angry, give up, shut down, deflect, etc.): will attack and do anything to protect the ones he love.
7. Relationship with other characters: has a big heart, instantly finds something likeable about everybody
Cop/boyfriend
B. What is their Character Journey for this story?
1. Character Intro: Prevents her from running into traffic after the rabbit, he saves her life.
2. Denial: his dog died. The girl he likes won’t even talk to her truthfully or share something personal about herself.
3. Their reaction at first horror: Cries after his dog dies, humiliates Joanna by saying he knows she stole money from him.
4. Relation to group after first horror: —
5. How they fight back: —
6. End Point: happy Joanna finally shares with him the truth about why she was chasing rabbit
7. What insight do their deaths or survival bring to the others/audience? Showing emotional vulnerability will bring you closer to your loved ones.-
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