Day 5 Assignments

[Megan Schemenauer]

Megan’s Character Emotions – Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is…analyzing characters at this level of depth is challenging, but I enjoy when a moment or line of dialogue in the show proves my analysis on point. I’ve also learned you can’t necessarily answer all the questions from a single episode.

I’m also starting to notice that reveals are staggered and layered as a season progresses. I just wonder if I’ll be able to lay out a season plotline with this much detail and intrigue (yes, the show is growing on me). Staggering reveals seems challenging!

TITLE: Riverdale

CHARACTER: Archie Andrews

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes to become the new varsity football captain and to be a songwriter / fears he won’t have time for both or won’t succeed at both

B. Motivation: Want / Need: wants to succeed in both football and music / needs to figure out what he wants more because he can’t excel at both

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: base negative emotion: insecurity / public mask: popular football player who can do it all, going for a football scholarship

D. Weaknesses: overbooked, insecure

E. Triggers: Smart-mouth football players beating him down, people telling him he can’t do something

F. Coping Mechanism: occasional aggression, his music

CHARACTER: Betty Cooper

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes to get to the bottom of her family’s secrets / fears she’ll never live up to her sister

B. Motivation: Want / Need: wants a relationship / needs to fix her relationship with her mother and sister

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: base negative emotion: overshadowed by her crazy older sister / public mask: good girl, reporter

D. Weaknesses: insecurity

E. Triggers: mentions of her sister

F. Coping Mechanism: talking to friends and family, focusing on others’ problems and investigating, writing in her diary

CHARACTER: Veronica Lodge

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes to ??? / fears her mother’s secrets or being out of the loop

B. Motivation: Want / Need: wants to start over and make friends / needs to accept her past, especially what happened to her father

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: base negative emotion: attracted to Archie, her best friend’s crush? / public mask: a supportive friend to Archie and Betty

D. Weaknesses: seeing people upset (a soft heart)

E. Triggers: mentions of her father’s crimes

F. Coping Mechanism: bravado

CHARACTER: Cheryl Blossom

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes to ??? / fears moving forward on her own

B. Motivation: Want / Need: Wants to find her brother’s killer and to be the center of attention / needs to accept his death and forgive herself

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: base negative emotion: loneliness / public mask: bitchiness

D. Weaknesses: fears her neglectful, abusive parents, overly attached to her dead twin, stuck in the past

E. Triggers: talking about Jason

F. Coping Mechanism: snotty, attention-seeking behavior; sleeping in her dead brother’s bed

[Tom Minier]

<div>Tom’s Character Emotions</div>

I was surprised by how easy this these personality traits came through. I credit it to last lesson really forcing me to know who these characters are and where they are going. This lesson helped gain a deeper understanding of who each of my characters and gave me ideas for how they can build each other up and break one another down.

ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three main characters in this show.

Show: The Good Place

Character: Eleanor

Hope/Fear:

Hope – To stay in the good place

Fear – Being discovered as a fraud

Want/Need:

Want – To be accepted

Need – To become a better person

Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask:

Base Negative Emotion – Jealousy

Public Mask – Cool, calm and collected

Weaknesses:

Compulsive, narcissistic, ego-driven

Triggers:

Feeling as though someone else is better than her

Coping Mechanism:

Manipulation, drags them down to her level

Character: Jason

Hope/Fear:

Hope – To stay in the good place

Fear – Being discovered as a fraud

Want/Need:

Want – To fit in

Need – To be himself

Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask:

Base Negative Emotion – Weak or inadequate/depressed

Public Mask – Buddhist monk

Weaknesses:

Not very bright, no ambition

Triggers:

Being told he can’t be himself

Coping Mechanism:

Acting out, rebelling

ASSIGNMENT 2: My Show

Poe

Hope: Equality, fairness

Fear: Status quo, tedium

Want: To be heard

Need: To be respected

Base Negative Emotion: Anger

Public Mask: Street soldier

Weakness: Singular focus, intolerant, can’t accept failure

Triggers: Racism, inequality

Coping Mechanism: Strategize, revenge

Angela

Hope: To find a reason for living

Fear: Her life is insignificant and not worth living

Want: To find a purpose

Need: To see that there is good in the world

Base Negative Emotion: Hopelessness

Public Mask: Tough and uncaring

Weakness: Feels worthless, disconnected, physical pain

Trigger: Seeing people being taken advantage of and watching resources be wasted

Coping Mechanism: Lash out, reckless behavior, witchcraft, sticking up for others

Peter Cetera

Hope: To be recognized as a musical genius

Fear: Dying a nobody

Want: Fame and success

Need: To be accepted

Base Negative Emotion: Self-doubt

Public Mask: Overconfidence

Weakness: Narcissist

Triggers: Anything that threatens his image

Coping Mechanism: Puts others down

Dani

Hope: People can be more tolerant of one another

Fear: Society is becoming more polarized

Want: Everyone to get along

Need: To take a stand

Base Negative Emotion: Frustration, anxiety

Public Mask: Moderator Avoid confrontation

Weakness: Disrespect, being told she is a push over

Coping Mechanism: Helping others

FM

Hope: To become a rapper and be able to support his family

Fear: No one will take him seriously

Want: To help his family recover their farm

Need: To believe in himself

Base Negative Emotion: Fear

Public Mask: Texas gentleman

Weakness: Obsessive

Triggers: Being told he can’t do something

Coping Mechanism: Works harder

Stu

Hope: He still has a place in the world, relevance

Fear: He is being left behind, obsolete

Want: To return to a simpler time

Need: To accept a changing world and grow with it

Base Negative Emotion: Loneliness

Public Mask: Survivor, he has it all together

Weakness: Stuck in his ways, unwillingness to change

Triggers: When others tell him to get with the times

Coping Mechanism: Withdraws

Trish

Hope: A world that aligns with her values

Fear: The invasion of people that don’t look/think like her

Want: To be right/power

Need: Dominance

Base Negative Emotion: Anger

Public Mask: Charming, engaging, team mom

Weakness: Lacks compassion, sympathy and empathy; intolerant

Triggers: Anything that goes against her world view

Coping Mechanism: Becomes venomous

Florida Man

Need: The world will awaken to a higher level of consciousness

Fear: The world will continue to become more polarized and continue on it’s trajectory

Want: To be right

Need: To trust others

Base Negative Emotion: Apathy

Public Mask: Charismatic, care free

Weakness: Detached from reality

Triggers: When others dismiss what he considers profound wisdom

Coping Mechanism: Insulting others, acting out

Jenny

Hope: To find a job

Fear: She can’t be independent

Want: Not to be homeless

Need: To find purpose

Base Negative Emotion: Despair

Public Mask: Laid back, go with the flow

Weakness: Doesn’t like to speak up or inconvenience people

Triggers: Watching others be put down

Coping Mechanism: Shut down

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by  Tom Minier.

[Megan Schemenauer]

Megan’s Character Emotions – Part 2

What I learned doing this assignment is…these characters have already started to come to life in my mind. When I try to experiment and plug in a trait that doesn’t seem to fit their personality, it doesn’t stick. It’s jarring. It’s equivalent to dressing someone out of their comfort style. While I’m glad my characters seem so self-aware, I hope this eccentricity doesn’t stifle my creativity in the weeks to come.

TITLE: My Future Self

CHARACTER: Lexie

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes to find a successful life of her own / fears being insignificant, a nobody

B. Motivation: Want / Need: wants a more exciting life / needs to love and accept herself

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: base negative emotion: selfishness / public mask: good, hard-working student; obedient, helpful daughter

D. Weaknesses: easily peer pressured or flattered, naïve

E. Triggers: failure, conflict

F. Coping Mechanism: over performance, withdrawal, flight

CHARACTER: Betsy

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes for a secure family and friends group / fears people leaving or betraying her

B. Motivation: Want / Need: wants security / needs confidence

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: doubt and mistrust / public mask: blasé

D. Weaknesses: speaking without thinking

E. Triggers: fear of loss, competition

F. Coping Mechanism: aggression, fighting, alters state

CHARACTER: Cerise

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes to inspire the world and heal herself and others through her art / fears confrontation

B. Motivation: Want / Need: wants greater freedom / needs to learn to speak up for herself

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: base negative emotion: anger / introverted artist

D. Weaknesses: vengeful, unforgiving

E. Triggers: inequity

F. Coping Mechanism: avoidance, withdrawal

CHARACTER: Alexis

A. Situational: Hope / Fear: hopes for a more fulfilling life / fears dying alone

B. Motivation: Want / Need: wants to excel / needs to prioritize people

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: base negative emotion: selfishness / public mask: self-sacrifice and duty to country

D. Weaknesses: denial, lying

E. Triggers: failure; animals, babies, families

F. Coping Mechanism: withdrawal, working out, shooting range

[Jeff Glenn]

Binge-Worthy TV Lesson 5

Jeff Glenn’s Character Emotions

Doing this assignment I learned is that the important things about a character are deeper than the surface. I always used to hear people say you should know what your character has for breakfast. If this is meant to tell you to know everything about the character it is true, but it is not a very useful example. Breakfast menus live on the surface. What we really need to learn about a character are their emotions and motivations.

Assignment 1

Example show: The Night Of

Nisar Khan

A. Hope: to be acquitted of murder, Fear: spend the rest of his life in prison

B. Want: freedom, Need: to be believed

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: resignation to new life, Public Mask: holding on to some hope

D. Weaknesses: over-valuing people’s opinion of him.

E. Triggers: being confronted with his deceptions

F. Coping Mechanism: silence at first and then reluctant admission of guilt

John Stone

A. Hope: to give an adequate defense Fear: his lack of ability

B. Want: win the trail, Need: to be taken seriously

C. Base Negative Emotion: Apathy, Public Mask: being invested

D. Weaknesses: lack of experience as a trail lawyer. Being out of his depth. Feeling inadequate

E. Triggers: When someone moves in on his territory

F. Coping Mechanism: At times shutting down, at other times manipulating

Assignment 2

My Show: Farmland

Cody Lesueur Profile

A. Hope: reintegrate into small town life Fear: rejection

B. Want: family life Need: self-acceptance

C. Base Negative Emotion: Shame, feelings of unworthiness Public Mask: being an even-keeled, nice guy,

D. Weaknesses: being too passive, allowing others to get their way and never having any fun

E. Triggers: fear of really living, being confronted,

F. Coping Mechanism: shutting down, lying

Tracy Butchart Profile

A. Hope: to have a carefree life Fear: being committed to one place or person

B. Want: to forget about her childhood trauma Need: healing

C. Negative Emotion: weakness, worthlessness, Public Mask: stoicism, confidence

D. Weaknesses: not letting people in, not accepting help

E. Triggers: images of violence, threats, thoughts of losing her current life in any way

F. Coping Mechanism: isolation, being in nature, surrounding herself with familiar things (her tea, book, van etc.)

[Dave Arena]

Binge-Worthy TV – Lesson 5

What we learned during this assignment is you really need to know these characters on a deep emotional level so that profile can inform how to write their action and dialogue. Because, two characters could have the same wants but for different needs and/or they have different triggers, wounds/weaknesses, and coping mechanisms, which would cause them to do things, say things, and react completely differently given the same set of circumstances. We think this is how you really create characters that have a unique voice and personality from each other.

Example Show: The Righteous Gemstones

ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three main characters in this show.

Jesse

A. Situational: Hope – take over the church from Eli / Fear – not being good enough

B. Motivation: Want – Power / Need – Respect

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Insecure / Public Mask – Arrogant

D. Weaknesses – bad judgment

E. Triggers – getting called out / caught

F. Coping Mechanism – Attack (usually with a boneheaded plan)

Judy

A. Situational: Hope – to be considered an equal Gemstone / Fear – She’ll never get it

B. Motivation: Want – she wants a more significant role in the family business / Need – Approval / Significance

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Hurt / Public Mask – Tough

D. Weaknesses – Immature

E. Triggers – Rejection

F. Coping Mechanism – angry outbursts

ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show<div>

Our show: Couple Goals

1. For each of your main characters, brainstorm an Emotional Profile, filling in the following:

Liz

A. Situational: Hope – to be the go-to expert on swinging and relationships / Fear – judgment

B. Motivation: Want – to be authentic / Need – validation

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – insecure / Public Mask – tough

D. Weaknesses – short-tempered

E. Triggers – being disrespected

F. Coping Mechanism – confrontation

Eric

A. Situational: Hope – Start his own business / get out of the rat race / Fear – uncertainty

B. Motivation: Want – freedom / Need – provide for his family

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – insecure / Public Mask – sense of humor

D. Weaknesses – self-deprecating / lacking confidence

E. Triggers – being lied to

F. Coping Mechanism – shuts down / gets quite

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[Mr. Brunken]

Rodney Brunken’s Character Emotions

What I learned from this class is that emotions and varied and are often covering up some inner wound in characters.

Reverend Boggs:

Hope and Fear: He hopes to be affirmed as an upstanding and important fixture in his community. He’s afraid of rejection.

Want/Need: He wants recognition, but what he needs is love and acceptance.

Masks: His base negative emotion is fear of rejection and his mask is grandiosity.

Weakness: His need for approval

Triggers: Rejection and ridicule

Coping Mechanism: To bully others

Brooks:

Hope and Fears: To live up to his father’s example and is afraid he won’t.

Motivation: Validation in the eyes of the community

Mask: Bravado

Weakness: His need for love and acceptance by women

Triggers: To be ignored

Coping: Aloofness

Ana:

Hope and Fear: Hopes to be integrated fully into the community in spite of her status as an hispanic woman.

Motivation: Wants to prove herself as just as good as any male physician.

Mask: Uses her beauty to intimidate men.

Weakness: Is an alcoholic

Triggers: Men who bully her

Coping Mechanism: Her sexuality

[Suzanne Frank]

Suzanne’s Character Emotions part 2

What I learned doing this assignment … everytime I do it, I improve it. Things shift and deepen, so hold any conclusions loosely. Also, thought I had five main characters, but I have seven.

Hazel:

Motivational want/need: wants to save the world/prove her former lover/boss wrong. Needs to be right, to be recognized as the “leader” and to be in life/death control

Situational hope/fear: to blend in and be appreciated/to be found out

Base negative: her “specialness” is performance-based, she must deliver or she might “lose” her ability

Mask: compassionate people person, your new best friend

Trigger: people not taking her “advice”

Coping mech: cast aspersions, lie, deny, and keep track

Secret ID: an angel of death

Zephyr:

Motivational want/need: to live inside her destiny; needs to take care of others

Situational hope/fear: that she hasn’t screwed up her life/she’s too late

Base negative: she is flawed, so everyone leaves her

Mask: cool mystic chick with everything figured out

Trigger: someone who doesn’t need help

Coping mech: smother with attention, neediness, overgiving

Secret ID: she’s connected to one of the terrorists

Maelle:

Motivational want/need: to escape the pain; to speak her truth and own herself

Situational hope/fear: that her life could have meaning, even now/that she will be rejected

Base negative: she is too much, physically and emotionally

Mask: determined to kill herself, but with humor and good food and plenty of wisecracks

Trigger: being talked down to, being told to be quiet

Coping mechanism: eat

Secret ID: the Commander

(Dadpilot):

Motivational want/need: to redeem himself/to be forgiven

Situational hope/fear: to pass muster; being found out

Base negative: he should have died, his life is a waste

Mask: mid-life crisis bon vivant

Trigger: any kind of guilt

Coping mechanism: he listens to his internal Judge (who is literally a character following him) or turns to his Handler

Secret ID: the murderer/the spy

Giorgio

Motivational want/need: to find his love

Situational hope/fear: to find his way to her; she wasn’t real OR she is a monster

Base negative: he doesn’t “get” to have a life, he only lives for the village

Mask: indigent but useful runaway teen

Trigger: ticking clocks

Coping mechanism: tries to figure out another way to find her

Secret ID: he knows all the Truths

Mayor:

Motivational want/need: to not be blamed; to keep her city safe

Situational hope/fear: that life returns to normal/there is no more normal

Base negative: she was set up to fail because of race & gender

Mask: efficient & master of her circumstances

Trigger: allll the know-it-all white guys who have descended on the city

Coping mechanism: research and interviews

Secret ID: the primed sacrifice

Handler:

Motivational want/need: to execute this job/justice to be done

Situational hope/fear: that everything has been blown out of proportion, or invented/the world is about to irrevocably change

Base negative: he’s powerless within the system

Mask: super competent, unemotional, professional

Trigger: his wife (who is threatening to become an ex)

Coping mechanism: the city of a thousand great bars and everything is walking distance!

Secret ID: the Eavesdropper

[Sharilyn Kyle]

What I learned fro doing this assignment is…you can’t write subtext. It surges from how the characters react, which you have to brainstorm.

“Big Little Lies”

Renata

A. Queen Bee status / Rejection

B. Power(dominance) / Self-esteem

C. Worthless / Important

D. Her 6year-old

E. Rejection

F. Fight Back

Celeste

A.Peace / Exposure

B. Power(respect) / Approval

C. Shame / Perfection

D. Husband Perry

E. Perry

F. Violent sex

“8Bytes” Erin

A. Weight loss / Rejection

B. ?? A Life outside of her room / Acceptance

C. Worthless / Know-it-all

D. Food / unknown family

E. Exposure

F. Snacking

Patty

A. Nonbinary Love / Judgment

B. $$ / To be understood

C. Guilt / Pride

D. Loss of family

E. Religious rhetoric

F. Getting you told

Ms. Chen

A. Self Control / Disorder

B. Power(organization) / Security

C. Smallness / Self-importance

D. hurts those she helps

E. Deception, liars

F. Physical outburst

Walley

A. Success / Poverty

B. Recognition (appreciation) / Validation

C. Confusion / Genius

D. Any kind of woman

E. being belittled

F. Shrinking back, surfing the web

[Evelyn Petros]

Evelyn’s Assignments: BW TV – M1 – L5 – A1&2

What I learned doing this assignment: I need to think more deeply about each character, what motivates them, what triggers them, and how these cause them conflicts with other characters in a/my series. This was a difficult assignment for me. I don’t know if I’m up to it, but I’m going to keep going.

ASSIGNMENT 1 – “Big Little Lies”

Madeline Martha Mackenzie

A. Hope – hopes for fulfilment in her family life. Fear – fears she is losing control of her emotions & theconsequences to her family; fears not being needed by her daughters as they grow up and aren’t as dependent on her.

B. Motivation: Want – Wants excitement in her life; to be more than “just” a mother; feels that something is missing; Need – to feel needed by those she loves. Needs the security that marriage can/should provide; needs to feel competent to drown out feelings of inferiority because she did not go to college and has no “real” career.

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Dissatisfaction with herself and her life. Public Mask – an activist, righting wrongs and fixing problems of others because she doesn’t know how to fix her own.

D. Weaknesses – Overly romanticized view of marriage causing a war between her head and her heart about marital expectations; low self esteem because she didn’t go to college. Gets too involved with other peoples problems since she doen’t know how to solve her own.

E. Triggers – Thoughts of exciting sexual experiences from her past with Joseph. Injustices trigger her actions. Tries to stop Abigail from making mistakes, some of which she herself made.

F. Coping Mechanism – Talks too much and too fast to cover up her sense of inadequacy. Fights injustices around her, but is conflicted and somewhat paralyzed by her own problems.

Celeste Wright

A. Hope – Hopes to cure her husband’s violence without having to break up their family. Fear – She fears that his violence will one day kill her, but denies and supresses it. She fears scandal if the town learns that she doesn’t have the picture-perfect perfect life she pretends to have.

B. Motivation: Want – To stay married to Perry because he’s a good father to their sons.

Need – To appear to others as the perfect wife and mother.

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Shame for her victimhood. Public Mask – Denial of being a victim of marital violence.

D. Weaknesses – Blames herself for her husband’s volatility. Tries to protect Perry and excuse his violence against her. Feels she deserves his violent treatment of her. Puts her boys’ welfare above her own.

E. Triggers – The violence.

F. Coping Mechanism – Pretending that all is well and that she’s not hurt, and catering to Perry.

Jane Chapman

A. Hope – Hopes to put the rape behind her. Fear – That her parenting is harming her son.

B. Motivation: Want – To protect her son and give him a good life. Need – To feel whole and healthy.

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Inner turmoil and seething emotions. Public Mask – Hides behind a mask of gentle sweetness.

D. Weaknesses – Feels she is damaged goods, and not in the same league as her affluent friends.

E. Triggers – Nightmares of the rape haunt her. Unjust accusations of her son as a bully.

F. Coping Mechanism – Running, dancing, listening to loud music, keeping a gun in her nightstand to try to work off her emotions and feel safe. Lies to her son to protect him from the trauma his father inflicted on her.

ASSIGNMENT 2 – “Opera Aloha” written by E.A. Petros

Mira Santiago (32)

A. Hope – She hopes to put her latest romantic fiasco behind her and become financially secure. Fear – that she’llwreck her career by singing the lead role in “La Traviata.” Fear of failure in both career and love life.

B. Motivation: Want – She wants the whole enchilada (career, marriage, family). Wants to be first choice for opera roles instead of always a substitute. Wants to be loved and appreciated.

Need – She needs well-paying opera gigs to avoid bandruptcy and not have to temp nights in law offices to make ends meet; she needs stability in her career and love relationships.

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – low self esteem, caused by her relationship failures and the competition she faces in her career as an opera singer. – Public Mask – wisecracking diva persona and antics to hide her fears and feelings of inferiority. After her latest romantic fiasco, vows celibacy and plays hard to get to protect herself.

D. Weaknesses – She no longer trusts her romantic instincts; has aviophobia (fear of flying) and claustrophobia (especially in elevators) due to a tragic event in her past. She can’t be around cats because she is highly allergic and asthmatic. She’s a chocoholic.

E. Triggers – Air turbulence in planes; being confined in elevators andother small spaces. Hates being manipulated by her agent; hates being asked to violate her morals & sensibilities onstage and off. Being around cats freaks her out, resulting in asthma attacks.

F. Coping Mechanism – Creates “scenes” to fight back when frustrated. Binges on chocolate when nervous or upset; relies on certain self-created religious rituals to protect herself and ward off disasters; uses deception to avoid violating her morals and get what she wants; vows celibacy after her latest romantic fiasco to avoid getting hurt again. Cries when emotional.

Jake Sutherland (38)

A. Hope – To overcome his depression and PTSD & get back into shape after Daphne Dee Bliss left him. To be a good father to his adopted Vietnamese son. Fear – That he’ll never love or be loved again.

B. Motivation: Want – Wants to be needed. Needs love. A bit of a “savior” mentality. –

Need – To nurture those he loves, through his cooking and caring acts. Needs to shape up and start liking himself again.

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Guilt that he never does enough. Blames himself for the loss of his Vietnamese fiancé during the Vietnam War. Defensiveness. Public Mask – Bravado, overdoing.

D. Weaknesses – Somewhat obsessive compulsive. Goes overboard with his enthusiasms.

E. Triggers – Seeing women being mistreated by men triggers his “savior” mentality.

F. Coping Mechanism – Raises tropical flowers in his greenhouse, reads romance novels and writes love poetry when life becomes too much. Cooks, overeats, overdrinks, mopes alone.

Winston Irving Trapnell (40)

A. Hope – To have love affairs but avoid marriage. Fear – Fear that women in his life will abandon him. Fear of the consequences of another divorce to his finances. Fear that women are just after his money.

B. Motivation: Want – To be unencumbered. Likes children, as long as they aren’t his. Need – Needs to have a woman in his life, but only if it’s short term and with no commitments.

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Shell-shocked by his three divorces. Describes himself as one of “The Walking Wounded.” Public Mask – Charming, happy, carefree bachelor.

D. Weaknesses – Loves opera and soprano voices.

E. Triggers – Romantic commitments, so he’s always the dumper and not the dumpee.

F. Coping Mechanism – Works off emotions by playing tennis & golf, riding horses, mountain climbing, running marathons, racing cars. Considers dating a sport. Analyzes and rationalizes.

Daphne Dee Bliss (24)

A. Hope – To be rich. Fear – Fear of abandonment by men, so she is always the dumper, and never the dumpee.

B. Motivation: Want – She wants to be rich and at the top of her career. Need – Money, fame.

C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – Jealousy, distrust. Public Mask – Sweet, carefree, charming .

D. Weaknesses – Uses sex to entrap men. Lies, schemes & covers them up.

E. Triggers – Competition with other women for the men she loves.

F. Coping Mechanism – Deception: subconsciously punishes her parents for disowning her, by seeking out older, wealthy bachelors, causing them to fall in love with her and taking advantage of them financially, thinking she can get away with it. Attacks rivals using passive aggression.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by  Evelyn Petros. Reason: I had forgotten to add Daphne Dee Bliss's Need, so I made the correction