Day 2 Assignment

[David]

What did I learn during this assignment? That the more attention you give to the project. The more you let it consume your day and thoughts. The deeper down the rabbit hole your story can go. I have 4 main characters and have completed 2 Character Descriptions. I am in the process of creating the irony between the 2 main investigators.

Pushing back the thoughts. It has all been done before. My idea is … (Fill in blank) so it is not worth the time…

Character and Role in the Show – Jakob – An ex-police officer that had a UFO encounter while on duty now investigates paranormal activities to exonerate his record and prove himself right.

Noteworthy Traits – Existential thinker, factitious, speaks his mind, skeptical of people.

Intriguing history – How much his life and behavior have changed since becoming obsessed with investigating the supernatural.

How do they support or drive the conflict with other characters – Judgemental of people, thinks he has it all figured out, and will tell people his alternate belief systems.

Intriguing relationships with other characters – Rebecca, Julianne

The sequence of the character in the Pilot:

Start – A divorced Father is reflecting on how far away the UFO research has taken him from normal life. Is waiting to obtain documents that prove aliens exist on the planet

Middle – Meets Rebecca at Julianne’s office on campus and gets involved with her investigation while asking for information from her Government connections.

End – Finds out from Rebecca that the documents were a disinformation setup. Introduces her to Julianne, an old friend in the UFO research community.

[Emmanuel Sullivan]

Emmanuel Sullivan’s Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is the characters created are so complex and constantly evolving as we all do but drilling down to the essence of who they are is difficult.

Character: Andrew Brice

Role in the show: The co-chairman of a presidential foundation, father of 3 adult children and married to Molly.

Noteworthy traits: Conservative. Driven. Can be harsh.

Intriguing history: Told he would never reach the highest office in the country.

Intrigue: Wants to destroy the Democrat party.

Mystery: How and when did he become a NASCAR driver?

Drive conflict: Ambition hurts the people he loves closest to him.

Irony: Invited to speak about drug, alcohol, sex and gaming addictions but can’t admit he has a gambling addiction.

Unpredictable: Acts on instinct that derails the foundation’s growth.

Intriguing relationship: Mark, Molly, his children and the press.

START: A former republican president anxious to mark his legacy with an innovative foundation that coexists with the opposite party.

MIDDLE: His desire to crush the Democrat party clashes with his need to portray a positive and useful foundation.

ENDING: He struggles to maintain a volatile family and partisan organization.

Edited Version

A former Republican president hell-bent on destroying the Democrat party struggles to maintain a bipartisan foundation that was formed to work across the political spectrum. He’s supportive of the foundation’s mission, but at every opportunity, the former president seizes the moment to damage the liberal agenda. He’ll use his children, wife, political associates and even levels of the federal government to reach his goal.

Character: Mark Cason

Role in the show: The co-chairman of a presidential foundation, father of 2 adult children and married to Sarah.

Noteworthy traits: Liberal. Progressive. Manipulator.

Intriguing history: The voting public did not select him for another 4 years.

Intrigue: Wants to run for US president again.

Mystery: Father to a younger family. When did this happen?

Drive conflict: Using others to achieve personal vices.

Irony: Enjoys fundraising for politicians on the campaign trail but hates raising funds for the foundation.

Unpredictable: Using others to achieve personal vices.

Intriguing relationship: Andrew, Sarah, younger family, politicians.

START: A former democrat president celebrates the idea of launching a bipartisan foundation.

MIDDLE: He’s not all in because his deeper desire is to campaign for his party and run as a presidential candidate.

ENDING: He struggles to maintain two families, a foundation fueled with family issues and politicians eager for his support.

Edited Version

A former Democrat president with his heart in two places, one as a dedicated family man and the other focused on winning the white house, struggles to maintain an even balance amidst self-inflicted chaos. Beating republicans in congressional seats is his goal but his second family demands more of his time, which derails his ambitious moves and may destroy his family, along with his political life.

[Daniel Melin]

Daniel Melin’s Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is the value of grinding it out, even when it feels like you’re just producing garbage. I felt like I was only producing laughably bad character elements, but when I stuck with it, I found that I had a much hookier and interesting series of character descriptions at the end of the process. I know it will only continue to improve from here.

Who is the character? Role in
the show? Levi: Aspiring Magician. <div>

Noteworthy traits: Purposeless,
cowardly, but compassionate.

Intriguing history: His
timidity caused his sister to fall victim to one of his friends who
date-raped her. Lizzie, the ruler of Everlasting Summer, claims that Levi
has been coming to Everlasting Summer for a long time, but Levi has no
memory of it.

Intrigue? Will Levi manage to
break the curse he is under? Will he and Mark reach common ground on how
to use magic, or will they break apart?

Mystery? Why does Lizzie think
that Levi has been to Everlasting Summer before?

How do they support or drive
the conflict with others? Levi’s attempts to learn magic wreak havoc in
his daily life. His attempts to pry into the mysteries of Everlasting
Summer place him in increasing jeopardy with Lizzie.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes
that exist with the character. He has always played it safe, but craves
adventure and danger.

Opposing agendas/etc. that
naturally causes conflict with other characters: Levi wants to stop Lizzie
from continuing to use her young captives to hunt down Louis.

Unpredictable? Levi grows
increasingly risk-prone as he learns more about magic

Intriguing relationship with
one or more characters: Pretending to be a loyal acolyte of Lizzie,
conflicted friend and mentor relationships with Mark and Miguel.

Start: A purposeless young many drifting aimlessly from job to job, looking for some deeper meaning in his life.

Middle: When a werewolf is discovered in his hometown, he begins to delve deeper into the world of magic, which leads him deeper into his own past, and his family’s past.

Ending: He gets in way over his head, and finds that he has made things worse rather than better by meddling in forces he doesn’t fully comprehend yet.

Edited Version:

Levi is adrift in his life, aimlessly wandering from job to job, hoping to find some deeper meaning to his life. When a werewolf attacks someone in his hometown, he starts learning about magic, and thinks that he has found the purpose he has lacked in his life.

Unfortunately, Levi’s forays into the world of magic drag up old family ghosts, strain his relationship with his boss, who is also a personal friend, and pit him against the mentor in magic he has found. Most dangerous of all, Levi finds himself under the curse of a powerful witch named Lizzie, who is turning young boys into werewolves in her vendetta against her unfaithful husband, whom she has transformed into a deer.

As Levi’s efforts to master magic grow more drastic, he has to find a way to lift the curse that has been placed on him while still preserving his relationships with his friends and family.

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Who is the character? Role in
the show? Mark, experienced magician.

Noteworthy traits Cynical,
clever, driven.

Intriguing history: He has been
learning magic for a long time. He flirted with it as a young man, then
grew more fascinated with it, but then grew obsessed with it after his
wife divorced him.

Intrigue? Mystery? Will Mark
find Oberon’s staff? Will he get the acclaim he thinks he deserves? Why
did his wife divorce him? Did his wife divorce him because he became
obsessed with magic, or was it the other way around?

How do they support or drive
the conflict with others? Mark can be very egotistical, and this causes
conflict in his relationship with Levi. He outright doesn’t like Miguel,
and takes every opportunity he can to insult him.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes
that exist with the character: drawn to the romanticism of magic, but in
many other respects is a very rational person.

Opposing agendas/etc. that
naturally causes conflict with other characters: Wants Levi’s help, but
wants to keep his library of magical books a secret only for himself.

Unpredictable? His ambitions
cause more and more problems with those around him, and there’s no telling
what he’ll do.

Intriguing relationship with
one or more characters: Tense mentor/mentee relationship with Levi.

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Start: Mark is a widely read and accomplished magician who is hunting for powerful magical artifacts.

Middle: He finds out that a young friend of his, Levi, may have a connection to the staff of Oberon, and agrees to teach him so that he can have some additional help looking for something that would increase his reputation drastically.

Ending: He soon alienates his friend and pupil and finds himself farther away than he anticipated from reaching his goal.

Edited Version:

Mark has built up a store of magical knowledge, with which he plans to make himself a household name. He is looking for a magical artifact called the staff of Oberon. He soon finds out that a friend of his, Levi, may have stumbled by accident on Oberon and Titania’s fairy court, which has been taken over by a witch named Lizzie. Mark convinces Levi to learn all he can about Lizzie’s fairy court, which she has renamed Everlasting Summer, and see if he can learn anything about where Oberon’s staff might be.

As Mark and Levi learn more, their approaches to magic begin to split, and Mark soon breaks with his friend and pupil, finding himself soon having to rethink everything he thought he knew about magic in the process.

Who is the character? Role in
the show? Miguel. Ambitious contractor and career man. </div><div>

Noteworthy traits Ambitious,
Aggressive, hardworking.

Intriguing history: Did a stint
in prison for assault, rough childhood raised by a man who was not his
real father, and often physically abused by his mother.

Intrigue? Mystery? How will
Miguel deal with deal with the magical occurrences that are breaking into
his life? Will his temper continue to get the better of him, or will he
overcome his demons?

How do they support or drive
the conflict with others? Miguel constantly demands better performance
from Levi at work, which calls him to be focused on the task at hand, but
his imagination constantly drifts to what he’s been studying.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes
that exist with the character Has a soft tender side, but this is often
concealed by his ego and his short temper.

Opposing agendas/etc. that
naturally causes conflict with other characters: He wants to make a lot of
money and retire early, and he wants everyone around him to work as hard
as he does.

Unpredictable? His temper rears
its head at inopportune times, and he often self-sabotages by making
reckless decisions.

Intriguing relationship with
one or more characters: He has a lot of history with his fiancé, Milly,
and owes her a lot, but he has a much more passionate relationship with
his lover, Leticia. He sees a lot of potential in Levi, but is angry
beyond words when he feels he doesn’t live up to that potential.

Start: Miguel is an ambitious but troubled man with a successful contracting business.

Middle: He loses most of his employees because they didn’t tell him that they were illegals, and then takes on a friend to help him pick up the slack, which proves more difficult than he anticipated. He then makes a series of self-sabotaging decisions in his personal life, creating drama in his relationship with his fiancé and straining his relationship with his son.

Ending: The magical forces at work in the world, that he dismissed have now turned his life upside down, and seem about to tear his family apart.

Edited Version:

Miguel is the owner of a successful contracting company and a happy family with his fiancé, his son, and his fiance’s daughter. He runs into a bit of bad luck when he has to let go of his employees, who it turns out, were illegals.

He takes on his friend, Levi, as an employee to pick up the slack, but Levi’s growing interest in magic soon takes up so much of his attention that he creates as many problems for Miguel as he solves. Miguel then begins seeing an old flame of his without his fiance’s knowledge, which places a strain on his home life. Levi’s magical preoccupations soon start creating real havoc, and Miguel has to learn to appreciate a new and more mysterious side of life, which may hold the key to him confronting his demons and holding his family together.

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[Joseph Eastburn]

Joe’s Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is by writing character descriptions, events, history and plot begin to take shape. A magical process!

START: Present the character as someone we can relate to. Ruby Kane, Lead Detective in a small-town police department; is beset with a cheating husband, haunted in flashback by her dead father’s constant ruminations about the dark history of the town; has a bipolar daughter, an eccentric mother, and a colorful team at work.

MIDDLE: Conflict, intrigue, and issues. She has an unknown rapist preying on older women in the town; when she researches past offenses, she finds out there were nine other older women raped in the town, all of it hushed up. When through good detective work, she and her partner, Curtis, find the suspect they think is guilty, she is told by her husband and a cadre of important figures in the town that the suspect cannot be arrested but detained at home; she arrests him anyway, and with a team of lawyers, he gets off, and is relocated to a nearby town.

ENDING: A final punchline that hooks us and sends us into the future of the story. Ruby follows him and realizes he’s still offending; she stops a rape, and assures the victim that she’s taking him into custody, but takes him to the mountains, injects him with insect venom, sprays him with lemon pledge, and leaves him to die. When she finds out the history of the town as a hunting ground, she decides to deliver her own vigilante justice.

START: Present the character as someone we can relate to. Brian ‘Thor’ Vinter, Police Chief in a small-town police department; handsome, he cheats on his wife, has sponsored a pool to see who can seduce the most hot girls working in the department; appears to take orders from the elders of the town.

MIDDLE: Conflict, intrigue, and issues. When his wife catches who appears to be the prime suspect in a rape of an older woman, he’s infuriating when he directs her to follow orders and put him on house arrest, but Ruby charges him anyway. Later when he’s killed, and more rapists are killed, his department comes under pressure to find the vigilante killer of the rapists.

ENDING: A final punchline that hooks us and sends us into the future of the story. Becomes the poster boy for incompetence when he can’t find the killer of the rapists; the elders of the town are pressuring him to stop the killings. Is having sexual confusion.

START: Present the character as someone we can relate to. Rodion Kane (Komarov); Deceased father of Ruby, haunting presence, always hunting rain beetles, something happened with his daughter, is trying to make amends, coach her.

MIDDLE: Conflict, intrigue, and issues. He’s a seemingly paranoid purveyor of the dark history of the town, constantly teaching Ruby spy tradecraft while they’re hunting rain beetles; he’s in conflict with Lula, his wife; knows the history of the town.

ENDING: A final punchline that hooks us and sends us into the future of the story. In flashback, tries to convince Ruby that there’s a ghost work underlying the warped history of the town as a hunting ground that stemmed from a “Donner Party” like tragedy that befell the founders of the town.

[Donna Stockwell]

Donna Stockwell’s Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is how focussed and specific the journey of the characters becomes.

BEN is a security salesman, working long hours starts to become frustrated with wife who shows she is not happy in his traditional marriage, tries to show encouragement of wife’s business by also selling/giving cosmetics to wives of clients. Increasing frustration with wife’s unhappiness, turns to control women who look like his wife by forcing look-a-likes to put wife’s cosmetics while he’s watching, which turns him on, and ultimately turns into accidental murder, which gives him feeling more power and control.Since wife leaves him, reminders of wife have him alternating between fury and fear of being alone and power and control by raping and killing.

PATRICE is a narcissistic wife and mother sells cosmetics door to door, is especially harsh on her daughter. Frustrated with absence of husband, starts asking daughter’s boyfriends to do odd jobs. Delusional with how badly her daughter treats her boyfriend, Patrice increasingly shows kindness and spends more time with the boyfriend until it’s a full blown affair. Patrice decides to leave her family behind and marry her new lover.

JASPER, a grave digger, accidentally kills his mother and moves in with his brother’s family. But Jasper misses his mother so much that he digs her up, and paints her face with Patrice’s makeup, holds her and talks to her all night. When he confides in his brother, he agrees to help him secretly bury the bodies of the ladies Ben kills. When Jasper finds his mother is missing one night, and the situation threatens the actions of Ben and his brother.

[Renee Brown]

Renee Brown’s Character Descriptions

What I learned by doing this assignment is that I lack a solid anti-hero in my main character line up. I need to develop the Skyflier overlord, Dauntus, and bring him to the foreground. Also, one character I had as a main is backing into the shadows and is being replaced by Suzanne – a character that came alive 2 assignments ago.

Renee Brown’s Alien Earth: Main Characters

Tallas is the prophecy puppet master and wise man of the most ancient alien civilization on earth – the Longheads. He is training the One, who, according to prophecy will unite all alien species on earth. Only thing is…the prophecy was manufactured 150,000 years ago, and Tallas is still faking the “newly found” scriptures to keep the alien factions from destroying each other and humanity. He holds a grudge against the Deepers for an ancient act of genocide, yet he is raising one of their outcast hatchlings as his own.

Through clandestine rituals, Tallas telepathically downloads ancient knowledge to select humans then uses them as pawns. He harbors a secret love for the high priest’s mate and has been nursing it for 300 years. And the planet that has docked in lockstep orbit with earth? It is inhabited by Tallas’ long-lost ancestors. To keep the peace between humanity and all alien species, Tallas must give up his grudge and explain to an entire planet of ancient Longheads the state of their new home. As the series progresses we see Tallas’ journey of the last 600 years as he evolves from a naïve prophecy initiate, to a forger of ancient texts, to the jaded yet hopeful Longhead that just might be earth’s salvation.

Anauk is the first-born son of the Skyflier’s overlord. A resilient rebel, a fighter, and a lover, Anauk is a skyflier who cannot fly. Don’t let the cool kid act fool you — Anauk is a profound social activist. He charms everyone…except the object of his affection. He has ambitions to rule the Skyfliers, but for the good of all, not for the exploitation of the planet. The Skyfliers control access to the alien base on the dark side of the moon, and Anauk runs the Black-Market transports. His fee operates on a personal sliding scale and factors in his own very un-Skyflier-like political agenda. He struggles with obligatory loyalties to his father and his deep desire to Avenge his dead mother. This explains his broken wing, and his profound family disfunction.

Anauk allies with Tallas to protect the One and, in the beautiful, remote ice caves of Antarctica, he meets his true mate then repulses her with the arrogant protective shell he has polished his entire life. As the series progresses, Anauk bonds with his new inter-species alliances and wrestles with expectations and inner calling as he forms the Coalition of Truth and ignites the rebellion against tyranny. Anauk can fly again, but he will have to place himself in the hands of the Deepers. And Saltar’s biotech comes at a dangerous cost.

Saltar. Sultry, shrewd, and devastatingly beautiful, this reluctant leader of the Deepers is a triple threat and a double agent. The only female descendant left in the Deepers royal line, Saltar is forced to leave her peaceful sea farming life to rule when the Reptilisander council murders her mother. She craves love but can trust no one, and she protects her tender and lonely underbelly by ruling the Deepers with stone cold cunning and red-hot seduction.

Her species is blamed for the near annihilation of the ancient Longheads, but Saltar has suspicions that the Longhead origin ship was destroyed by another foe, and she is on a personal mission to prove it. Willing to trade her species’ biotech to access the base on the dark side of the moon, Saltar seduces, trades, and manipulates her way around sworn enemies and forbidden sexual tensions to give an ancient relic to the human military liaison in hopes that he will help her prove her theory of how the Starfinder was really destroyed.

She plays both sides of the Longheads and the Skyfliers and will do almost anything to get what she needs — Not because she is power hungry, but because it’s the only way she can protect her hatchlings. Saltar craves a simple, natural life but must navigate through her vicious matriarchal system and the tangled bed of alien factions to get to where she really wants to go – to exonerate her species and complete her unfinished life.

Steelman is the top-secret military liaison to all earth alien factions. Powerful, broken hearted, and reclusive, Steelman accidentally killed his wife long ago and grapples with guilt every second of every day. His father was an alien liaison before him and taught Steelman to always and only eat organic; not to be healthy and happy, but to save his life — as the series unfolds and the Greys come onto the scene, we learn how they have been conditioning their food source since the 1940’s: aka GMO humans.

Charged with returning concise intel to the military complex, Steelman betrays his duty and sabotages the elite human’s plan to destroy the alien base on the dark side of the moon. Why? Because he is in love with an alien, and she is being hidden on the moon base along with his unborn child.

When the Longhead origin planet appears between earth and mars, all hell breaks loose within the human covert complex. Steelman rides the wave of chaos and surrounds himself with the team he needs to come out on the right side of history. He knows how the factions tick and he has made friends as well as enemies within them. As the series progresses, we see Steelman’s military expertise morph into covert alliances as he partners with an unconventional archeologist to unravel an ancient mystery of murder and alien espionage.

Suzanne has salt of the earth moxie and the wisdom of years to back it up. Since the age of nine, she’s had visions of ancient cultures and a strange looking man with an elongated head. This subconscious programming led her to a career in archeology. She struggles with her mainstream colleges and has to hold her fringe theory tongue in order to keep her academic funding. This chafes her ass, and she occasionally funnels some of that funding to research alternative ancient history.

After publicly going head-to-head with the propaganda machine working to cover up the planet parked right next to earth, Suzanne’s sarcasm and irreverence gets her fired and her career demolished. She fears she will be killed for what she thinks she knows until Steelman takes her under his top-secret wing. Steelman’s relic has an impossible carbon dating, and she baulks until he introduces her to the Longhead man who has haunted her dreams since childhood.

Forced to acknowledge what she previously chalked up to fanciful imagination, and armed with the archeological smoking gun, Suzanne systematically crumbles human understanding of ancient history. As the seasons progress, we see Suzanne grow from frustrated and resentful academic to unofficial interspecies archeological expert and finally to the leader of the rebellion against tyranny and translator of ancient truth to humanity.

[Barbara Gilmore]

What I learned from this assignment is that I’ve created a baseline for my characters there are still some gaps but I will continue to fill those gaps and build out the characters throughout this course.

Green Lake

Jess Pearson

Jess Pearson is an ex-big city senior detective sent to investigate a murder and disappearance with a similar MO to that of her brother five years ago and in the same small town, Green Lake, where her family used to summer vacation.

She’s not averse to solving cases quickly through her secret hacking skills but in a small town everything is off the grid including the crime statistics at the local Sheriff’s office.

However, that’s not the only secret she has. She wonders how far she’ll get in her quest to take over Sheriff Moore’s small, but powerful office and whether Sarah Watson will ever forgive her.

Sheriff Linda Moore

Sheriff Linda Moore almost thirty years on the job is not ready to retire but has few options when ex- big city detective, Jess Pearson, arrives to work alongside her on a murder and disappearance case. Sheriff has history with Jess’ family and with Jess’ arrival she now knows for sure that she’s on borrowed time.

Sarah Watson

Sarah Watson artist and architect is on a mission to green Green Lake but is facing opposition from the local oil producers. Besides, she doesn’t have a right to tell others what to do, her family has owned the only gas station in town for the last 50 years. But Sarah is determined to lead the town to a more sustainable future that is until Jess Pearson walks back into her life. She finds herself in constant fight or flight mode and wonders whether she’ll ever be able to finish what she started.

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[Cooper James]

What I learned from this assignment is the previous work helps you create compelling characters without tossing a bunch of info onto a page and hoping it sticks. Also using the previously created BW Framework gives you a resource to pull great info from and if the info sucks so will your characters, but you can always go back and fix them – as I have. 🙂

EDGEMONT

ROLE IN SHOW: SIMONE – A single mother caught in a battle defending her twin sons and aging father’s family fortune – Edgemont.

Noteworthy traits: Smart. Maternal. Assassin.

Intriguing history: She doesn’t know which Senator is the father of her twin sons.

Intrigue: She will risk her life to save Edgemont and her family’s fortune. Will she be killed?

Mystery: How does she not know who the father is of her twins.

Support or drive conflict with others: Going into battle with Region 26 against her father’s wishes.

Irony: She wants to protect her family but puts their lives in danger by going into battle.

Opposing agendas/etc: Simone is against her father, King, selling Edgemont. She disapproves of her son, Roman running for Senator in Region 26. She wants to bring down Senator Green.

Unpredictable: Risks everything by going into Region 26 to kill Senator Green.

Intriguing Relationships: King, Roman, Owens, and Senator Green.

START: A single mother determined to save her family and their future by bringing down the man who might be the father of her twin sons.

MIDDLE: She is willing to risk her life in battle against Region 26. She is willing to use her sexuality to win. Will she have to go against her father and son?

ENDING: She is outgunned in every way and risks too many lives to achieve her goal.

EDITED VERSION

A single mother wants to save her family and their future. But she must risk her life to take down the man who might be the father of her twin sons. She is an assassin who uses her sexuality when necessary.

When she learns Senator Green is up for re-election, she decides to take him down. To save her family and Edgemont she’ll risk her life and reopen the old wounds she’s worked hard to put behind her.

ROLE IN SHOW: KING Father and grandfather. Owner of Edgemont whose best days behind him.

Noteworthy traits: Strong understanding of politics.

Intriguing history: He gained Edgemont through marriage through his missing wife.

Intrigue: Willing to use his family to gain power. Will he be able to help Roman become Senator? Will he be killed?

Mystery: What happened to his wife, Simone’s mother?

Support or drive the conflict: Helping Roman become Senator against his mother Simone’s wishes. Selling Edgemont.

Irony: Drinks a lot when faced with challenges. Scheming to help Roman to become a Senator while being schemed on by Mrs. Conners.

Opposing Agendas/etc: Trying to sell Edgemont against Simone’s wishes.

Unpredictable: Will do anything to get power before he dies.

Intriguing relationship: Roman, Mrs. Conners, and Simone.

START: An aging father and grandfather willing to sell his family’s hotel to gain power in Region 26 by helping his grandson become Senator.

MIDDLE: He’s willing to sell out his daughter and use anyone who can help his grandson win.

ENDING: Outsmarts himself when he aligns himself with the wrong people.

REVISED VERSION

He’s a father and grandfather willing to sell out his family to get power in Region 26. But will his girlfriend, Mrs. Conners scheming ways cost him everything? He is a master politician and believes selling Edgemont will lead to the life he’s always wanted. His daughter disagrees and stands firmly in his way of achieving his life goal.

When he is offered three hundred million to sell Edgemont and the vast mountain it sits on, King’s dream of taking control of Region 26 becomes his only focus. He convinces his grandson to run for Senator in Region 26 and provides support. Using Mrs. Conners in his scheme, King will abandon his daughter, grandson, and homeless kids living in Edgemont.

ROLE IN SHOW: ROMAN The charming son and favorite grandson willing to backstab his way into power.

Noteworthy traits: Charismatic. Smart. Manipulative.

Intriguing History: Convinced his grandfather to back him for Senator in Region 26.

Intrigue: Willing to cross all moral boundaries. Willing to sell out his mother, sleep with his grandfather’s girlfriend, Mrs. Conners. Will his grandfather catch him?

Mystery: How did he become his grandfather’s favorite?

Support or Drive the conflict: Going against his mother’s wishes. Trying to undermind his brother, Remy.

Irony: Acts powerful but is weak. Wants to lead but is needs his mother’s approval.

Opposing agendas/etc.: Sleeping with Mrs. Conners behind his grandfather’s back. Wants to sell Edgmont against his mother’s wishes.

Unpredictable: Power-hungry and will do anything to get it.

Intriguing relationship: King, Mrs. Conner, and Remy.

START: A charismatic son with a desire for power will do anything to get it.

MIDDLE: Agrees to go along with his grandfather’s plan to run for Senator in Region 26. Will his grandfather catch him sleeping with Mrs. Conners?

ENDING: In over his head when it comes to politics.

REVISED VERSION

A charismatic son with a need for power agrees to his grandfather’s plan to make him Senator. But he must cross his mother and twin brother, Remy to keep his grandfather happy.

When Mrs. Conners seduces him into her bed they scheme against his grandfather for absolute power. To make his plan work he must play both sides without making any mistakes – and he’s good real good.

ROLE IN SHOW: Remy The favorite son helping his mother save Edgemont from being sold off the developers. One day he wants to run Edgemont.

Noteworthy traits: Fearless risk-taker. Weapons expert. Dedicated son.

Intriguing history: Rescues disconnects for Region 26. Doesn’t know who his father is.

Intrigue: Willing to risk his life to rescue people/disconnects from Region 26. Will he get caught or killed?

Mystery: Why does he risk his life to save others?

Support or Drive the conflict: Supports his mother against his grandfather and Roman. Rescues people from Region 26.

Irony: Protects his mother but refuses to follow her leadership which puts both of their lives in danger.

Opposing agendas/etc: Wants to save Edgemont but rescues people from Region 26 which causes them to attack Edgemont.

Unpredictable: He won’t take his mother’s advice. He has a short fuse.

Intriguing relationship: King, Roman, and his girl in Region 26.

START: A momma’s boy who helps his momma save the family and Edgemont. But he puts everyone’s lives in danger when he brings a disconnect, Johnny, from Region 26.

MIDDLE: Willing to become an assassin to bring down Regin 26. Will he be killed? Will he help his grandfather and brother win?

ENDING: In over his head, outgunned, and turns to vices to escape.

REVISED VERSION

A momma’s boy who won’t listen to his momma’s advice. Wanting to be a hero, his reckless behavior leads to Edgemont coming under attack when he brings Johnny, a disconnect to Edgemont. He is a ruthless fighter who doesn’t back down from a fight.

When Edgemont comes under attack by Region 26, Remy becomes a spy to take down Region 26 from the inside. Outgunned and outmanned he risks his life to help his mother save their family fortune – Edgemont. He might be that hero if he can stay away from his vices of sex and drugs.

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[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee Character Descriptions Module 2 Lesson 2

Grace:

START: Grace is a hardworking, successful, professional woman who searched many years for love and found late in life with Sam.

MIDDLE: When Sam is dying of cancer, he slips into a coma. While in the coma, his children oust Grace from his life. Grace launches an investigation and places herself in danger.

ENDING: When she narrowly escapes being killed with the help of the psychic next door, the psychic sees the only way for Grace to be safe is to transport her back to her past life. Until Grace relives her past life and learns the lessons, she cannot return to her present world.

Sam:

START: Sam is a successful physician from a prominent NYC family who semi-retired to Atlanta GA. After 2 bad marriages and a relocation, he meets Grace and finally finds love. He spent a lifetime in NYC bailing his children out from a series of bad choices to keep them out of jail and preserve his family legacy. When he finally finds happiness he is diagnosed with cancer. He reaches out to his estranged children hoping to make peace and preserve the family legacy before he dies.

MIDDLE: Sam falls in a parking lot at a Doctors’ appointment and then slips into a coma. He is rushed to the hospital with Grace by his side. She reaches out to his children thinking Sam would want to see them before he dies. They arrive and immediately take steps to oust Grace from his life.

ENDING: When Sam awakes from a coma, he is told that Grace has left him and will not return. Sam does not believe his children and tries desperately to reach her. But his children place guards at his door and will not return his cell phone. His only communication is with the medical staff who don’t believe him.

Carlton:

START: Carlton is a successful ego driven hedge fund manager on Wall Street. After a very nasty divorce, he placed most of his assets in offshore accounts. He has a falling out with his father when he once again asks for a bailout to protect his business. And Carlton is being sued by his ex-wife again for money to support her and their children.

MIDDLE: Carlton’s sisters know of his financial situation. They have also been bailed out by their father from drug mule activity, bullying, and extortion. When Carlton boards the plane for Atlanta, his sisters contact him and threaten to expose his secrets unless he can manipulate the fathers’ will and make them the beneficiaries.

ENDING: Carlton must deceive his dying father to save his business, reputation, and his personal financial empire.

What I learned doing this assignment was that it is fun to brainstorm a characters’ profile by using the framework and asking the questions. The character intrigue can also trigger certain plot ideas.

[Joseph Eastburn]

<div>Joe’s SECOND STORY Character Descriptions</div>

What I learned doing this assignment is My main characters have surprised me today. They’re capable of much more, and I realized a comic element in the plot that I didn’t see before.

Who is the character? Role in the show? Henry Seymour, a mild-mannered, polite older man, who was a neighborhood hero
when he saved a local kid from drowning.
Noteworthy traits He is strong, but
vulnerable, possibly a book-worm, tends to have slight memory problems, is
funny, maybe a little absent-minded, but when crossed, has a surprising temper.
Intriguing history: Could never settle
down; went to the police academy; was an adjunct professor, a poor salesman,
worked in advertising, but never lasted long. He’s a daydreaming loser,
but an interesting one; he constantly surprises everyone.
Intrigue? Mystery? Had a suicide
attempt in the last year.
How do they support or drive
the conflict with others? He has sex-addiction, freely admits it; goes to sex-addicts
anonymous. He’s very unpredictable; no one’s sure what he’s going to do
next.
Irony — Opposites or paradoxes
that exist with the character: He seems benign, like an
absent-minded old man, but has a fire in his belly when crossed, and like
a dog with a bone, won’t let go.
Opposing agendas/etc. that
naturally causes conflict with other characters: He’s completely
unrealistic, a dreamer, but when pushed, can be obstinate, and won’t give
in.
Unpredictable? He constantly
surprises everyone around him, partly because he’s always lived a secret
life, has always sneaked around and shoplifted, and has a wild part of him
that no one sees—until it comes roaring out.
Intriguing relationship with
one or more characters He has a lovey-dovey relationship with Romee, and
is perhaps gullible, but believes it when she tells him she loves him. She
touches him, and he can’t help loving her.

· START: Present the character as someone we can relate to. An older man who seems harmless and benign, gullible, like every horny guy on the planet who has never experienced much sex, certainly not love; we’re afraid he’s going to be fleeced.

· MIDDLE: Conflict, intrigue, and issues. When pressed, he expresses surprising skills that no one thought he possessed. He’s unpredictable, and has the ability to go a little crazy when crossed.

· ENDING: A final punchline that hooks us and sends us into the future of the story. When he’s lost everything, he becomes a Kamikaze, and goes farther than anyone thought possible.

3. Organize the answers and choose which you are going to use in your description of that character.

4. Sequence the info and write a START, MIDDLE, and END. Write a ROUGH DRAFT of the character description.

5. Continue steps 2 – 4 for each main character.

Who is the character? Role in
the show? Romee Daal, the Dutch girl,
who is 25.
Noteworthy traits – Intriguing
history Beautiful, sexy Dutch woman who is expert at posting sexy photos
online and expressing deep, emotional feelings of love for Henry, while
constantly asking him to send more money. Her father died when she was
young. A modern-day Heidi with a spectacular body.
Intrigue and Mystery? Certain things don’t
add up, like when she says her parents have CCTV installed in the house; like
when she never posts the photo when she says she’s in Vegas, who’s taking
these sexy, posed photos of her? Is she working with someone? Is it a man?
Is she a man? Is she a sociopath?
How do they support or drive
the conflict with others? She is relentless in the rhythm with which she
smooths Henry’s ruffled feathers and then posts another jaw-dropping photo
and gets him to send her more money.
Irony — Opposites or paradoxes
that exist with the character She seems really slutty, and a
sociopath, but expresses such seemingly true expressions of love to Henry
and really seems to mean it.
Opposing agendas/etc. that
naturally causes conflict with other characters: Appears out to
fleece Henry and maybe even get his wife’s pension. Is relentless in
getting money over the internet, will not stop asking for what she wants
and succeeds.
Unpredictable? Does she turn
against the violent people she’s in the scam with? Is she finally willing
to make love to Henry, and they get caught or stopped, and it increases
the audience’s hope that they will have sex.
Intriguing relationship with
one or more characters Her relationship with Henry, and words of love
appear to be authentic, and when she turns out to be his daughter; Henry
is tormented all over again, and Romee is willing, since she’s a hustler, to
have sex with Char, and wants Henry to watch.

· START: Present the character as someone we can relate to. A spectacularly beautiful, sexy woman who speaks in broken English, who we’re a little in love with ourselves; although, we’re afraid that she’s going to fleece Henry.

· MIDDLE: Conflict, intrigue, and issues. All the various strategies she used to get money out of Henry; when the plot is revealed; she turns and her behavior is surprising. She turns out to be more authentic than we thought—she’s not a sociopath, after all, just a lonely, desperate woman using the internet to make her way.

· ENDING: A final punchline that hooks us and sends us into the future of the story. Romee is searching for love, wants sex and a father, not necessarily in that order!

Who is the character? Role in
the show? Charlotte ‘Char’ Seymour, Henry’s wife.
Noteworthy traits – Intriguing
history She put herself through law school and worked hard for 20 years,
became a partner, supported Henry and the family, and retired with a nice pension.
Intrigue and Mystery? She’s not the shrinking
violet that people think she is. She is very possessive of Henry, very
cost-conscious, and is more wily than people think she is. She has a
secret in her past that would surprise a lot of the people who underestimate
her.
How do they support or drive
the conflict with others? She is very stubborn and persistent, and wants to
be right. It’s the principal of the thing. And she’ll fight for her point
of view to the end.
Irony — Opposites or paradoxes
that exist with the character She feels like she’s not pretty
enough, nor sexy enough, but is very smart, and will figure a way to beat
Henry at his little game and best him and get what she wants.
Opposing agendas/etc. that
naturally causes conflict with other characters She’s quietly argumentative,
and never forgives or forgets, and will ultimately go to the mat to win,
and in the end, does win.
Unpredictable? Again, in her own
quiet way, she breaks all the rules and gets things done, and takes risks
that no one thought she would take.
Intriguing relationship with
one or more characters She outwits Henry at his own game, and finds a way
to do what Henry was doing—take care of a sexy young woman, but get what she
wants, rather than what Henry wants. She ends up Romee’s lover, much
to Henry’s torment.

· START: Present the character as someone we can relate to. A seemingly loyal, boring, conventional wife who’s getting cuckolded by her husband, but outsmarts everyone at the finish.

· MIDDLE: Conflict, intrigue, and issues. Is fiercely possessive of Henry and her marriage and family; outwits even some gangsters, and shows Henry her amazing willingness to fight for his love..

· ENDING: A final punchline that hooks us and sends us into the future of the story. But in the end gets Henry’s love and his torment, which is just a cherry on top.

[Molly Gagnon]

Molly McNeal Carrington Manor Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is how breaking down each of these aspects helps to build a better description of the character.

Gwenn Forrester

Who is the character? Role in the show?

Gwenn Forrester Occupational Therapy Assistant, main Character

Noteworthy traits: Hopeful, Vulnerable, Naive, financially untrustworthy, pleaser, codependent, dishonest

Intriguing history: Gwenn made poor financial decisions and invested in property in Southern California in 2009 using her student loans and the investment went bad now she has to pay back over 200K

Intrigue? Willing to commit a fraud to save patients and keep a job. Will she be turned in by Abigail the moral police? Or the Dr that catches her in the act? Mystery? How will she get her demented mother to sign over her POA so she can get the student loan department off her back, and the Adult Protective Services to stop calling her about her mother.

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? Gwenn supports Terry in her requests to create miracles with patients through fraud and this upsets Abigail who refuses to lie on any paperwork. Gwenn begins to fall for the married Dr, and is in conflict with her demented mother who is in and out of reality.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character. She has been a moral therapist until she had to lie to pay off her huge debt, and she realizes her patients may die of neglect if she does not just give them the basic care they need.

Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally causes conflict with other characters Gwenn’s agenda is to get her mother to sign over her financials to her so she can take her book money to pay off her loans, keep Abigail happy so she can keep fraudulently billing medicare, and save her one capable patient from going to jail.

Unpredictable? She gets more outrageous in attempts to save patients in order to justify her fraudulent behavior.

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters, Terry, her boss is in love with her, she is falling for the married Dr, She is beginning to see that Earl has more than one screw loose, she attempts to be civil with Karly in HR, her tireless attempts to keep Abigail happy as a person begin to naw at her hopeful spirit.

3. Organize the answers and choose which you are going to use in your description of that character.

4. Sequence the info and write a START, MIDDLE, and END. Write a ROUGH DRAFT of the character description.

Start – Gwenn, a hopeful therapist, comes out of school in the hopes to pay off her 200K student loan debt by becoming dishonest to both keep a job and save patients who are neglected at the facility.

Middle- Desperate to pay off her loans she attempts to get her mother who has dementia to help sign over her financial rights, she falls in love with a married Dr. and will do ANYTHING to save a patient even if it means committing crimes.

Ending – Being codependent she gets herself deeper into lies as she comically tries to get herself out of debt, and throws everything she has to save each patient to no avail.

Rough draft of character description GWENN FORRESTER

Gwenn is an attractive woman with thick long hair. She is a hopeful and down to earth Occupational Therapy Assistant who is Quirky and naive. Thrown into a job working at a disengaged skilled nursing facility with patients who are not capable of getting better. After several clear conversations with co workers and her boss she is told to fraudulently bill for her patients and in turn her co dependence with work and patients begin.

As she gets more and more desperate to pay off her 200k student loan debt from poor financial decisions, she proves herself more unstable and yet caring as the job continues. In order to stay ahead of the others in the facility she has to cover her tracks and attempt to save all her patients no matter how tough the case. Her reason for moving back to Portland is to help her mother who has been absent for most of her life. Gwenn is constantly dealing with Adult Protective Services as her mother is in denial of the severity of the dementia. Being codependent she gets herself deeper into dishonesty and deceit as she comically tries to get herself out of debt, and throws everything she has to save each patient to no avail.

Terry Henry

Who is the character? Role in the show? Gwenn’s Boss

Noteworthy traits: Loud, inappropriate, gay, not very bright but is a people pleaser

Intriguing history: No one knows if she is married to a man or a woman, she has worked for this company for 15 years

Intrigue? Mystery? Will she discover that she is gay? Will she tell Gwenn that she loves her? Will she threaten to turn Gwenn in for fraudulent billing?

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? Gwenn is a “yes” model Employee for Terry but as Terry discovers her heart belongs to someone else it causes tension in the relationship and their dynamic changes.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character She is gay and doesn’t know she is gay, like NO IDEA but it is obvious to everyone she works with due to her blunt way of hitting on all the woman.

Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally causes conflict with other characters. She is in conflict with Abigail because she refuses to fraudulently bill for her time, Terry wants her fired but can’t because she knows too much about her past. Earl is constantly rocking the boat through his all natural remedies on patients that are unwarranted and uncalled for .

Unpredictable? You never know what is going to come out of her mouth mostly if it’s profound and personally relatable.

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters. She is in love with Gwenn, Wanting to fire Abigail, and suspicious of the Dr’s motive overseeing the facility.

Terry Henry

Beginning – Terry is a fun loving people pleasing partier who is threatened by no one except Gwenn who she is secretly in love with. Terry is married to a man or woman which non of the characters can figure out, but is obviously over the top gay.

Middle- Terry’s sexual harrassment begins to heaviliy weigh on her rehab staff, and as she get’s more nervous about her true identity of a lesbian she begins to make more mistakes and appear even more incompetint.

End- After Terry comes out of the closet and goes through a horrible divorce she begins to become more focused on patient outcomes and work duties making it almost impossible to work with her.

Rough Draft Terry Henry

A wide shouldered butch looking woman is loud and inappropriate with her comments and professional conduct. She is fun loving and loves to party, loves her patients and sets her own path doing things, “my way.” Terry is married to a man or woman but no one can figure it out. Terry is pressured to get numbers in but as she emotionally falls apart so does her job. As she evolves into a lesbian her love for Gwenn gets to be stockerish, and manipulative to try to win her heart.

As Terry get’s closer with her staff and shares more of her personal life with them her sexual harrassment makes all of the employees uncomfortable. Terry lost her mom at a young age and realizes her love of women stems from her lack of one growing up. Terry has a mystery in her past with Abigail even though she can’t stand her and desperately wants to fire her but can’t due to their history. Will Terry win over the heart of Gwenn? Or her company as she shifts her focus from personal relationships to work, making it almost impossible to work for her.

Spirit Cain

Who is the character? Gwenn’s mom Role in the show? To be the antagonist to Gwenn.

Noteworthy traits: Lofty in her dreams and ambitions, free spirit, highly intelligent, published famous author, eccentric, hoarder, emotionally distant.

Intriguing history: She was a famous author and made lot’s of money from a best selling novel.

Intrigue? What is she trying to hide by not signing over her POA to Gwenn besides her dementa? Mystery? Who is the man that drops in to say hello, and does she have money?

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? She is so charming and eccentric that she lies to everyone about everything but not on purpose.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character Highly intelligent/ suffers from dementia, Looks like her shit is together but she is broke and lost

Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally causes conflict with other characters, She does not want her freedoms to be taken away under the care of her daughter who has made terrible financial choices

Unpredictable? ALL THE TIME, She struggles to remember important details but yet remembers the most important ones that make her look competent to stay at home.

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters, With Gwenn and the Dr’s wife, they knew each other before the trauma.

Beginning – Spirit is a highly intelligent published author who only wears Kimonos not tied, and nothing else. She is strong willed and when she wants to be very well spoken. She does not show emotion as she is from Wyoming where you just rub dirt in it.

Middle – As she keeps putting herself at risk the authorities have to get more involved with her care. APS gets upset with Gwenn as she should know better, but they too get snowed by her on again off again memory.

End – She finally signs over her POA to Gwenn, or does she?

Spirit Cain Rough Draft Character description

Spirit walks around her house wearing only Kimonos because she states, “They are the most comfortable.” What she is hiding is that she does not remember how to put on clothes anymore but never let’s anyone know. Gwenn is on to her and so is APS as they go back and forth to her condo to turn off burners, put out fires, turn down the heat, and find out why she called 911 again???

Spirit was raised to show no emotion, she is eccentric in that she pretends to be artsy, but is really just a hoarder of books and things. She grew up poor and that makes her want to hang on to everything in case she needs it in the future. Her books are like living beings to her, she talks to them, addresses the author by name as if they are friends, and has many more delusions. She is the most witty character on the show, a comedic genius if nothing else.

Dr. Roger Rogers (OMG I LOVE IT!)

Who is the character? Dr. Rogers,Role in the show? The Dr who oversees the care of the patients at the facility.

Noteworthy traits: Ridiculously handsome, flirtatious, married, intelligent, big heart, Loves woman, Feels trapped at Carrington Manor but cannot leave

Intriguing history: Dr. Rogers got in some trouble with alcohol and has a deal with the administrator to stay there and do pee tests until probation is up.

Intrigue? Dr. Rogers is really there to watch over his wife.Mystery his wife is a patient at the facility,

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? Hates Terry, doesn’t understand why she is so her, Abigail drives him nuts with her moral righteousness, he thinks Earl is strange, and Loves Gwenn.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character He thinks Gwenn does too much for the patients but ends up going out of his way to to help Gwenn with a patient

Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally causes conflict with other characters/ Abigail is super Christian and Sam has a reputation for being a ladies man even though he is married.

Unpredictable? Never sure if he is going to make the move on Gwenn, Who is his wife?

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters. His wife who is a patient at the facility.

Beginning – Dr. Roger Rogers is in his late 30’s handsome bald Dr who is to oversee all the patients at Carrington Manor. He is a fish out of water. He is really caring for his patients but it is strange to see someone so young in this type of setting. He is whispered about by the nurses constantly and being hit on daily by all the women he works with. He reminds them constantly that he is married but rumors fly about him being with every single nurse there.

Middle – No one really knows why he is there? But Terry is in charge of giving him pee tests to check his blood alcohol levels. People feel sorry for him and his addiction issues but that does not stop anyone from both trusting his expertise and wanting to get him in the sack. He is a flirt with large biceps, he loves to work out and appears extremely healthy. His past is a mystery and his wife is an even bigger mystery.

End – He care deeply for the patients and ends up putting his license on the line to save one.

Dr. Roger Rogers Rough Draft Character description

Handsome tall and bald Dr. Rogers is the only normal physician who works at Carrington Manor. He is so normal he barely fits in. But rumors fly about his infidelity and his reputation for having every single nurse in the facility is huge. He is in his late 30’s -40’s and is a geriatric practicioner. He has disdain for Terry, he finds her borish and stupid, but has to pee in a cup weekly for her as he got in trouble with the physicians board for drinking on the job. No one knows why he is there, and no one has ever met his wife. He is funny and loves to joke around with Gwenn and the other Dr who works there. He has secrets from his past that will eventually be revealed. Will he fall in love with Gwenn? Or does his secret love for children draw him closer to Sally?

Who is the character? Abigail Neil Role in the show? Physical Therapy Assistant

Noteworthy traits: Holy roller, Rightous, hard worker, uptight, perfectionist, bully, Loves her patients, results driven, stuck, menopausal,

Intriguing history: Been with the company for 15 years

Intrigue? Has a strange past with Terry Mystery? Why is her father in jail?

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? No person, right about everything, bossy controlling

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character Holy roller but Dad is in Jail

Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally causes conflict with other characters She wants a raise but Terry hates her

Unpredictable? Every once in a while will go out of her way for a patient and seems really caring

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters, She is friends with no one really but pretends they are all friends.

Beginning – Abigail is all about…… Abigail. She is the most bossy and controlling therapist there. She is always sick or having a headache heart ache or something.

Middle – Every once in a while she shows a softer side to herself and helps a patient a great deal.

End – Begins to align with Earl to try to get rid of Terry.

Rough Draft Character Description Of Abigail

Abigail is in her 50’s and looks like an angel sent down from Heaven. She has flawless skin, blonde hair and big beautiful eyes. If there was ever a “no” person Abigail is it. She is righteous, bossy and consistently on everyone’s nerves. She is not a team player, she is narcissistic. Does not share the equipment and uses Gwenn’s niceness to get things her way. She is consistent with the patients and does not waiver on her treatments. She has no ability to be creative and is just black and white. Every once and a while she will have a really touching moment with a patient, you will just start to melt the ice and then she will be back to herself.

Her father is in jail, so she says. She is close to God and talks about right and wrongs a lot alluding to people who may not be telling the truth and perhaps, “God will judge thee when the time is right.” She thinks Terry is idiotic and can’t stand her but realizes she knows enough to throw her under the bus but never does. She is cunning, baffling and bitchy. But the patients LOVE her and respect her. Not so much for her coworkers. She gets along with Earl the best because they are around the same age.

Earl Brooks

Who is the character? Earl Brooks Role in the show? Physical Therapist

Noteworthy traits: Holy roller, Righteous, hard worker, non conformist, hippy conspiracy theorist, hard core Bush fan, intelligent, loving

Intriguing history: Been with the company for 25 years

Intrigue? He is almost into Vodoo Mystery? Why does he not brush his teeth? Why does he wear heals?

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? Tries to be a peace maker but gets very opinionated about politics and healthcare conspriicy

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character Hippy conspiracy theorist

Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally causes conflict with other characters Constantly pushing the envelop brings in oils, and weird stuff for his patients to drink, carries around a plunger, Smokes but is healthy

Unpredictable? He pretends to be the Dr in charge

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters, allies with Abigail,

Start – Physical Therapist with Cancer fights against modern medicine and only believes in alternative approaches for himself and the patients. Has one purpose to convert everyone to his POV

Middle – Fraudulently fills out his documentation to make himself look good, pushes his patients into uncomfortable situations, comes in high

End – Will do anything to keep his job to avoid his family and his cancer.

Rough Draft Character Description of Earl Brooks

Earl is in his late 50’s and has been a physical therapist with Superior Care Services for 25 years. He is tall and has hearing issues and looks like he has not brushed his teeth in 20 years. Intelligent and thoughtful he is willing to go out of his way to help his patients as long as they are willing to have lengthy discussions on alternative medicines and conspiracy theories. He is often seen carrying a plunger to work on peoples knees.

Behind the scenes he is dealing with prostate cancer, and is treating his symptoms alternatively. Known for being an animal hoarder he has filled up his farm with multitudes of animals that he has left his wife and daughters to take care of. As he neglects his family he pours everything he has into his patients that only get better when he “tells” the story.

WOW I may have over done it here!

[Norene Smiley]

NORENE SMILEY – MOD 2, LESSON 2 ASSIGNMENT – CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

What I learned from doing this assignment – This exercise helped me distill parts of the characters down to meaningful and telling details, attempting to refine and choose just the right words for clarity and brevity. It also opened up new plot points and aspects of the characters I hadn’t considered before!

SCRAP

*Role: A darkling orphan rebels against her guardian, yearning for independence <div>

Noteworthy Traits: sly, agile, stubborn, untrusting, insecure, lonely

*Intriguing History: rescued as an abandoned baby and given mechanical heart to survive, igniting an ancient end-of-world prophecy

*Intrigue/Mystery: why is there chaos and malfunctions wherever she goes?

*Support/Drive the Conflict with others: she is the unknowing and reluctant instrument that will bring the battle between machines and the natural world to a head

Irony (Opposites/paradoxes): Scrap yearns for a home and family but pushes others away and threatens everyone’s survival

*Opposing Agendas with others: she challenges Bardo’s restrictions and protection; she fights against Agrippa’s authority and devious plan to bring about machine supremacy to the detriment of humankind

*Unpredictability: she embodies a curse that increasingly makes her act out, thwarting others and herself

Intriguing relationships: Bardo, Agrippa, Fidget, Toodie

START: A darkling orphan with a mechanical heart is wrenched from her guardian and the protection of The Keep by attacking Machines

MIDDLE: motherly Agrippa Chafe and the Institute for Child Protection; children are mysteriously disappearing; navigates the foreign mechanical world to find Bardo; joins the underground resistance to stop Agrippa’s plan for machine supremacy

ENDING: She causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes, endangering friend and foe and herself.

EDITED VERSION

Scrap, a rebellious orphan with a mechanical heart, longs for a normal loving home and resents the superstitions of her devoted guardian Bardo and the restrictions of The Keep.

When she is wrenched from their hidden sanctuary and flung Outside during an attack by machine mercenaries, she realizes what she has lost. Desperate to find Bardo and navigating a treacherous alien world with only her junkdaw Fidget for support, she is drawn to the motherly Agrippa Chafe and the safety of the Institute for Child Protection. But children keep disappearing from the Institute. Is she next? And why are the dark shadow people from the underbelly of city so cautious around her, even though they want her to join them? Why are the regulators and automatics after her? Scrap has to learn who to trust and who to betray, who to save and who to sacrifice, how to use her analytical skills and determination to survive.

Scrap is willing to risk everything in this world where machines rule and mindless humans are shunted off to pleasure domes on the plains outside the city. If only chaos and destruction did not erupt wherever she goes. If only she didn’t feel like she wasn’t in control of herself. If only she wasn’t her own greatest threat.

BARDO HOAGG

*Role: superstitious guardian of The Keep and rescuer of the infant Scrap </div><div>

*Noteworthy Traits: huge and bumbling, reluctant to change, indecisive and shape shifts when stressed, doggedly devoted to duty, good at fixing things, will evade and distract, secret keeper

*Intriguing History: once an engineer in Tranquil, disenchanted with increased reliance on machines, he retreated to hidden The Keep to devote himself to preserving last vestiges of natural world; he rescued Scrap as an infant and saved her by giving her a mechanical heart, igniting the fateful prophesy

*Intrigue/Mystery: keeping secret of prophesy from Scrap

Support/Drive Conflict with others: he contains danger Scrap embodies causing her to rebel; he works with resistance to thwart machine dominance

Irony (Opposites/paradoxes): he is huge but can pass unnoticed; he loves Scrap but has to act as her jailor

Opposing Agendas with other Characters: once part of the machine world, now in direct opposition; must get to Scrap before Agrippa does

Unpredictable: sometimes indecisive when torn between duty and saving Scrap

*Intriguing relationships: torn between protecting Scrap and knowing that he must ultimately stop her to prevent the prophesy being fulfilled

START: Bardo Hoagg is an engineer who has retreated from the machine-obsessed city, to devote himself to preserving last vestiges of nature in The Keep before they disappear forever.

MIDDLE: He gives Scrap a mechanical heart to save her, putting an ancient prophesy in motion that is destined to destroy the natural world. When the child is snatched, Bardo has to reach her before Agrippa Chafe and the regulators can harness her power. He cannot be revealed or will jeopardize resistance movement.

ENDING: shifting loyalties, denial, hard decisions

EDITED VERSION

Bardo Hoagg, a disenchanted engineer who has retreated from the machine-obsessed city, to devote himself to preserving the last vestiges of nature in The Keep before they disappear forever. He is a shape-shifter who uses his ability to go unnoticed to collect detritus on nightly forays into the city.

Discovering an abandoned infant, he thwarts natural laws by giving little Scrap a mechanical heart to save her. This action puts an ancient prophesy in motion that is destined to destroy the natural world he is duty-bound to preserve. As she grows, Bardo fails to tell Scrap the truth, even when she defies him and The Keep’s restrictions. He is afraid to lose her. When the child is snatched from their hidey-hole despite his precautions, Bardo has to use his knowledge of the mechanical world to reach her before Agrippa Chafe and the regulators can harness her power. He has to risk revealing himself and the shadow resistance he has been supporting before time runs out.

What will he do if he does manage to get to her before the machines? Will he destroy the one he loves to save the world?

AGRIPPA CHAFE

*Role: The motherly Head Director of the Institute for Child Protection in the mechanized city of Tranquil. </div><div>

*Noteworthy Traits: ruthless sociopath, needs recognition of her superiors, vindictive if she doesn’t get what she thinks she deserves, petty

Intriguing History: She was a child of the Shadowland, selected to train as support staff for the corporate empire of the city. She caught the eye of the Regulator and has benefitted from his patronage ever since. Despite being mentored by the Regulator, she has had to fight her way up to a position of power.

*Intrigue/Mystery: what is she doing with the children under her care?

*Support/Drive Conflict with others: she will do anything to reach her goals – manipulate, deceive, destroy anyone or thing that stands in her way – her peers, underlings, machines, superiors, her son

Irony (Opposites/paradoxes): Supported by Regulator/wants to be the Regulator; Hates children/job is to care for them.

*Opposing Agendas with other Characters: Even though she wants recognition from the Regulator, she plots to impeach him. She wants to use Scrap to finally reach total machine supremacy.

Unpredictable: erratic mood swings; can be nurturing one minute and treacherous the next

Intriguing relationships: treats Nancy, her son, like dirt but expects him to love and fawn over her; love/hate with the Regulator

START: Agrippa Chafe is a vicious sociopath in a position of power as the Matron of the Institute of Child Protection, even though she hates children.

MIDDLE: mentored by the Regulator but she plots to overthrow him and take power. Her goal is to make machines the dominant force to the detriment of humans. Scrap is key to making this plan a reality.

ENDING: he has been using the Institute’s children to fuel the machines that run the city. What is one more child?

EDITED VERSION

Agrippa Chafe is a vicious sociopath in a position of power as the Matron of the Institute of Child Protection, presenting herself as a nurturing mother figure even though she hates children. She strives to be recognized for her superior intellect and work to make Tranquil a leading metropolis, where machines make life effortless for the feckless humans.

Having been selected as a youth to work for the bureaucracy, she caught the eye of the Regulator and benefitted from his patronage as she clawed her way up the corporate ladder. Now she plots to overthrow him, enslave humans and get one step closer to her goal to make machines the dominant force once and for all. Scrap is key to making this plan a reality and Agrippa would do anything, sacrifice anyone to capture her.

She has been using the Institute’s children to fuel the machines that run the city. What is the destruction of one more child in the scheme of things.

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[Marcus Armstrong]

Marc Armstrong’s Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment was that character development is going to be the most challenging part of writing for me. Between my job work demands and just an overall sense of not knowing where to go, I am submitting this response nearly 75 days late.

Nikolas Sutton

Role: Vigilante whose sole purpose is to avenge the murders of his family & other innocents.

Noteworthy traits: Moral character. Competitive sportsman. Overly confident.

Intriguing history: Source of rage comes from being held down by kidnappers while his girlfriend Sabrina was raped.

Intrigue? Inexperienced in combat and the use of weapons, yet pursues his targets fearlessly with reckless abandon. Will his girlfriend discover the truth? Will his drug trafficking be discovered?

Mystery? Nikolas comes home to find his parents, two brothers and sister have all been shot dead in a seemingly random manner.

Drive conflict? Nikolas’ revenge on Bryson’s brother causes Bryson much grief, yet it appears Bryson’s brother was innocent.

Irony: Seemingly morally upright, but is actually quite despicable.

Opposing agendas/conflict: His vengeance endangers his best friend and girlfriend.

Unpredictable? Rationalizes his actions as just steps in a sporting game.

Intriguing relationships: Nik alienates his best friend Brandon and the relationship gradually shifts from friends to near enemies. Is Charlie a true ally of Nik or does he have a revenge motive from high school? Will Nik discover Bryson’s affair with Sabrina and will it put a target on Bryson?

ROUGH DRAFT

START: A former high school star athlete turns vigilante to avenge the murders of his family. When he kills three of the four murderers, but one escapes, he decides to take the law into his own hands and similarly pursue other deserving criminals. His moral conviction and sense of sport helps him rationalize his newfound love by offering his captured targets one last fighting chance and releasing them only to be pursued a second time. If he catches them again, he will kill them, but if they evade capture for 10 days, they are forever free from Nik’s pursuit.

MIDDLE: Traits, inexperienced in use of weapons and combat, but pursues his targets with reckless abandon. Source of latent anger comes from years before when he witnessed his girlfriend being raped while he was detained. When Nik happens to see them, he is overtaken by rage with no intention of giving these rapists a second chance.

ENDING: Among Nik’s first victims was a falsely accused man whose brother Bryson is now out for revenge. It seems this innocent killing wasn’t Nik’s only stain. His longstanding stint as a drug trafficker contradicts everything he stood for, and it also may have been the real motive for his family’s murder.

Brandon Leek

Role: Nik’s best friend and chief confidant who helps by setting traps, but won’t kill.

Noteworthy traits: Loyal, certified genius, emotionally stoic

Intriguing history: Father’s suicide led to alcoholism, which he overcame only to become addicted to opioids.

Intrigue? Extremely intelligent and highly analytical, but will these assets be impaired by opioid use?

Mystery? Father’s suicide as the cause of his substance abuse is slowly revealed.

Drive conflict? Will his jealousy over Charlie’s blooming friendship with Nik drive him to harm or even kill Charlie or vice-versa?

Irony: Overcame alcohol only to become addicted to opioids.

Opposing agendas/conflict: A loyal asset to Nik whose addiction may endanger both of them.

Unpredictable? Opioid addiction leads to erratic behavior.

Intriguing relationships: The mutual hate between him and Nik’s girlfriend because to erode his friendship with Nik. He becomes rivals with Charlie over an alliance with Nik. Will their growing hatred for each other result in harm or death? His opioid addiction developed from Nik’s trafficking business, but Nik doesn’t make the connection.

ROUGH DRAFT

START: Best friend of Nik and his loyal confidant, who steadfastly maintains that he will help set traps for Nik, but will not kill. Has recently recovered from alcoholism only to develop an opioid addiction. It is slowly revealed that his substance abuse issues started after his father’s suicide.

MIDDLE: Brandon is a certified genius, highly analytical, but emotionally stoic. However, will his opioid abuse sabotage his intelligence and analytical capabilities? Will the erratic behavior caused by this addition, endanger him and Nik?

ENDING: His ongoing hatred for Nik’s girlfriend, Sabrina, has slowly eroded his friendship with Nik. Will Nik’s growing friendship with Charlie incite jealousy within Brandon sufficient for him to harm, or even kill, Charlie?

Charlie Anderson

Role: An outcast from high school where he was bullied, who goes through a similar tragedy as Nik, witnesses Nik in action and wants to get involved.

Noteworthy traits: Socially quirky, enamored with Nik, deceptive.

Intriguing history: To compensate for being perpetually bullied in high school, he secretly pursued the martial arts and is a black belt in Jiu Jitsu.

Intrigue? Due to his past, Charlie seems to be a big unhinged. Will he try to hurt or even kill Brandon or stick to killing the bad guys?

Mystery? What is Charlie’s true end game?

Drive conflict? Charlie’s attempt to sabotage Nik and Sabrina’s relationship by lying to her about Nik having an affair inadvertently leads to her affair with Bryson out of vengeance.

Irony: Charlie was bullied by Brandon in high school, but now Charlie bullies Brandon out of jealousy. Charlie’s weakness is female attention and his trigger is being judged, but he falls for a woman who is very judgmental. A genius with poor decision-making ability.

Opposing agendas/conflict: Desire to replace Brandon as Nik’s best friend.

Unpredictable? Charlie’s bullied past has him emotionally on-edge at all times.

Intriguing relationships: Charlie and Nik have become friends, but Nik is unaware that Charlie lied to Sabrina and has bullied Brandon to get there.

ROUGH DRAFT

START: A high school classmate of Nik and Brandon and outcast who was bullied due to his social quirkiness, suffers a loss similar to Nik, witnesses Nik in action exacting revenge and wants to get involved. He is enamored with Nik and is willing to deceive in order to be closer to him, including lying to Sabrina about Nik having an affair just to drive a wedge in their relationship.

MIDDLE: Unbeknownst to Nik and Brandon, Charlie has secretly attained the level of Jiu Jitsu black belt to compensate for his past. Charlie seems to be a bit unhinged and has begun to bully Brandon as he was bullied by Brandon in high school. Will he try to hurt or even kill Brandon or stick to killing the bad guys?

ENDING: It appears that Charlie desires to replace Brandon as Nik’s best friend; however, Nik is unaware that Charlie lied to Sabrina and has bullied Brandon to get there. What is Charlie’s true end game?

Bryson Volgard

Role: Brother of one of Nik’s first vigilante targets who only wants to avenge his brother’s death.

Noteworthy traits: Lethal, rages, wants to be his daughter’s hero.

Intriguing history: Raised in an abusive household, he is now an ex-Army Ranger with PTSD, and with his wife’s help, has learned how to live peacefully until Nik enters his life.

Intrigue? Has promised his wife that he has finally left his violent ways and desperately wants to be his daughter’s hero, yet he is now hiding his intense desire to avenge his brother’s death.

Mystery? He has enlisted the help of a fellow Ranger, but the viewer does not know who this mystery person is.

Drive conflict? To get intel on how to find Nik, he befriends Nik’s girlfriend Sabrina.

Irony: Poses as a meek family man, but is a raging killer. He has worked hard to be a devoted family man, yet he allows himself to be seduced by Sabrina.

Opposing agendas/conflict: Inadvertently puts Sabrina and her family in danger when he tracks Nik to her house.

Unpredictable? When Bryson finally finds Nik, he is shopping with his family.

Intriguing relationships: Bryson’s attempt to befriend Sabrina solely for intel on Nik backfires when they begin to have an affair, further complicating his double life.

ROUGH DRAFT

START: Brother of one of Nik’s first vigilante targets who only wants to avenge his brother’s death. Raised in an abusive household, he is now an ex-Army Ranger with PTSD, and with his wife’s help, has learned how to live peacefully until Nik enters his life.

MIDDLE: Accomplished in combat and quite lethal, Bryson poses as a meek family man to hide the raging killer within. He desperately wants to be his daughter’s hero and has promised his wife that he has finally left his violent ways; however, he is now hiding his intense desire to avenge his brother’s death from his family, but locates Nik while shopping with them. Will meek family man or raging killer prevail?

ENDING: To get intel on how to find Nik, he befriends Nik’s girlfriend Sabrina, who seduces him based on false pretenses. What started as a mistake has now turned into a full-blown affair, further complicating his double life. He has inadvertently put Sabrina and her family in danger when he tracks Nik to her house.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by  Marcus Armstrong.

[Leah Gunderson]

Leah Gunderson: Three Circles of Characters

What I learned doing this assignment is to know three levels of relationships between the characters.

A. Main Character’s Circle

1. Iman (supportive mainstay): Hero who is determined to rebuild Basra, Iraq
2. Amal (hope): Love interest
3. Faizah: Iman’s mom who is educated, beautiful, and politically connected.
4. Hamal (lamb): Iman’s father who is a business man and he is against extremism.
5. Shayan (courteous): extremist leader recruiting youth for his cause

B. Connected Circle

1. Saad (good luck): Shayan’s recruiter

2. Haidar (lion): Iman’s best friend who wants revenge on USA

3. Kareem (generous, noble): orphaned after bombings and homeless

4. Omar (life, flourishing): opportunistic and power seeking

5. Samir (companion in evening talk): Shayan’s son

C. Environment Circle

1. Military Personnel (various groups)

2. Market

3. Convicted Thieves and Traitors

4. People on Street

5. Religious leaders

6. Business people

7. Wives

8. Siblings

9. Flashbacks to Basra as “The Bride of Iraq”

10. Shayan’s army