Lesson 2

[Jan Fantl]

WIL: doing this assignment is…keep returning/ / stay in the question and keep then going forward by fine tuning.

Assignment M2 L2 Thirst

ROLE: Oliver a silently unappreciated black sheep of the family returns for his parents funerals – and must investigate the real reasons for their deaths – stopping at nothing.

Noteworthy Traits: good Investigator, brilliant interrogator, relentless officer/ police officer.

There are these reasons he left town, almost never visited home and deeply dislikes his family despite his granny and his mother

Intrigue? Willing to investigate himself, fight with homicide, town hall, his general , his family, risk his career. Will uncle Hans or the forces behind him, be able to stop him ?

Mystery: What is this WM water deal and had his parents to do with it? ? What are the real reason he left town, and he can’t stand his tribe / family?

Drive conflict: forcing himself and Marie into deadly situations, refuses to spy on Stefanie

Irony: returns home to bury parents – to find love, peace and joy.

Opposing agendas : investigating own family while being with Marie who works for the water mill.

Unpredictable: Will he cross lines to become a vigilante?

Intriguing relationships : Marie, Stefanie , the notary, uncle Hans, Clarice, Johann

Intriguing side kicks: ISAF Pavel, USA Army , drone pilot, secretary assist in the MP HQ

Oliver is a good investigator, a brilliant interrogator, and a relentless military police officer. He is the silently unappreciated black sheep of the family who returns home for his parents’ funerals. He must investigate the real reasons for their deaths and will stop at nothing to uncover the truth.
However, his uncle Hans or the corrupt middle class behind him of this stuffy hometown may try to stop him. He deeply dislikes his family, except for his granny and his late mother. Oliver left town for some reason and rarely visited home. Finding into a modern poly armoire relationships among Marie, Stefanie and him, they discover a huge illegal water deal and its connection to his parents.

In the therapy with Stefanie he also learns to open up about the real reason he left town and his strained relationship with his family.

He forces himself and Marie into deadly situations and refuses to spy on Stefanie. Though he finds peace and joy with his loved ones, he may ultimately choose to cross the line and become a vigilante to achieve justice.

Role: Marie, a nightlife bar tender working on her career as eco photographer will risk her well being to expose her families wrong doings – falls in love with Oliver, shortly after with his therapist,

Noteworthy traits: Intelligent, independent, compassionate.

Intriguing history: Her family’s connection to the water mill and the town’s corrupt dealings.

Intrigue: Willing to risk her heritage and safety to help uncover the truth. Will the water mill’s powerful and dangerous owners find out?

Mystery: What is the true extent of the water mill’s involvement in the corrupt dealings of the town, and how much does Marie know?

Drive conflict: Torn between family and her growing feelings for Oliver. Putting herself in danger to help him.

Irony: Falling in love with the person who is Oliver’s therapist to explore her bi sexuality

Unpredictable: Which life path and – style will she choose ?

Intriguing relationships: Oliver, Stefanie, her father Hans, the water mill owners, and her own family.

START:

Marie, an eco photographer and bartender, meets Oliver, a military officer returning home to bury his parents.

MIDDLE:

As Marie helps Oliver investigate his parents’ death, she falls for him and shortly after his therapist, Stefanie, and grapples with her family’s corrupt ties to the town.

END:

Marie works with Oliver and Stefanie to expose the dangerous owners of the water mill and confront her family’s wrongdoings.

Marie, a young and ambitious eco photographer, works as a bartender in the town’s nightlife scene, where she meets Oliver, a military officer coming to visit to bury his parents.

Despite discovering their cousins, Marie is torn between her growing feelings for Oliver and loyalty to her family. As they work to uncover the truth about his parents’ deaths, Marie falls in love with Oliver’s therapist, Stefanie, leading her on a journey to explore her sexuality. However, her family’s connection to the town’s corruption creates uncertainty for Marie as she confronts their wrongdoings.

Her family has a long-standing connection to the corrupt dealings in town. Despite Marie is determined to uncover the truth feels from time to time uncertain how to remain her position as her fathers heir and the nice life waiting.

Marie must confront her family’s wrongdoings and works determined and intelligently with Oliver and Stefanie to expose the water mill’s dangerous owners and their involvement in the town’s corrupt dealings.

Stefanie

Who is the character? Role in the show? Therapist / Guardian

Noteworthy traits – proactive, aware, intellectual

Intriguing history – her own war experiences and trauma

Intrigue – revenge against military, commotion w other scientists, will the General find out that she is not spying on Oliver?

Mystery? What is her personal connection with Johan and Clarice? What is she hiding from her own time in war zones?

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? She forces Oliver to ego further back than the war to his youth; She discusses with Marie how to introduce the plan for the triplet with Oliver

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character. Oliver & Stephanie, assigned to spy on each other, become teammates.

Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally causes conflict with other characters

Unpredictable?

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters. Stefanie sleeps with her patients girl friend while encouraging him to open up.

START: Stefanie is a war PTSD therapist and guardian to Oliver, who’s ordered to see her while on leave.

MIDDLE: They become entangled in a web of deception and personal trauma, including Stefanie’s connections to the water mill. Marie seduces Stefanie for a bi sexual experience and convinces her to invite Oliver into a polyamorous relationship.

END: Stefanie, Oliver and Marie form a strong bond while successfully deceiving their general.

Stefanie is a psychologist specializing in treating war PTSD. When Oliver is ordered by his general to seek therapy during his leave, he becomes her new patient. Oliver is more interested in talking about his parents’ suspected murder and funeral, and Stefanie becomes his sound board to help him cope with his family and the townspeople. However, as Stefanie’s personal connections to the water mill are revealed, matters become more complicated. To add to the complexity, Marie falls for Stefanie and seduces her, leading them to experiment with bisexuality. Stefanie’s unpredictable behavior, including sleeping with her patient’s girlfriend, troubles her, but Marie convinces her to invite Oliver into a polyamorous relationship.

Stefanie’s proactive and intellectual nature, as well as her intriguing history and relationships, make her a key player in the team efforts to uncover the truth about Oliver’s parents’ deaths and the water mill deal. As they dig deeper, they realize that they have been told to spy on each other by their general. Stefanie and Oliver decide to form a counter-conspiracy to fool their commanding officer. Meanwhile, Stefanie reveals her own hidden trauma from her time in war zones. She encourages Oliver to explore his past beyond the war and into his youth which leads to a dramatic and historical moment for Oliver.

Stefanie and Oliver successfully deceive their general and form a strong bond in the process. With their threesome relationships intensifying, they must confront their own loyalties and emotions while pursuing the truth.

[Cat Miggs]

Cat Miggs Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is by breaking it down, brings out the highlights of the interesting parts I want to share.

Susan–

Role: a meek Forest Ranger gets a second chance at life and now owes the Trees a favor.

Noteworthy traits: magical abilities, helpful and a mess up

Intriguing history: after losing child custody turns out to be the best thing that has happened to her.

Intrigue: discovering she can communicate with the trees and opens a whole new world

Mystery: How is Susan the key to saving the forest?

Drive Conflict: when she uses magic for good, something bad happens too

Irony: She was a bad mother and wife but she’s a hero in the forest.

Intriguing relationships: Mystery Forest Ranger, Wilma the Tree and the Shadow

START: a meek Forest Ranger gets a second chance at life and now owes the Trees a favor.

MIDDLE: She gains magical abilities to communicate with the trees that opens a whole new world. When she performs magic for good, something bad happens too.

ENDING: She’s labeled as a bad mom and wife but in the forest she is the key to saving it all.

Mystery Forest Ranger–

Role: a tree spirit who normally helps humans see their soulmates but when assigned to help Susan save the forest he can’t kick the habit trying to find her soulmate.

Noteworthy Traits: a sucker for love, easily distracted, has a hard time breaking habits

Intriguing history: the forest gave his kind shelter after theirs was destroyed

Intrigue: can he stay on mission.

Mystery: Who is Susan’s soulmate?

Drive Conflict: staying on task, comedy of errors when talking with Susan

Irony: Assigned to be Susan guide but just gets her more deep in the issue at hand

Intriguing relationships: Susan, Wilma the Tree and the Circle of Trees

START: a tree spirit who normally helps humans see their soulmates but when assigned to help Susan save the forest he can’t kick the habit trying to find her soulmate.

MIDDLE: It’s a comedy of errors when it comes to Susan and his relationship all while trying to stay on task.
ENDING: Besides helping Susan save the forest the real question on Mystery Forest Ranger mind is Who is Susan’s soulmate?

Wilma The Tree–

Role: a rainbow eucalyptus tree, the only one in the forest and leader of the Circle of the Trees

Noteworthy Traits: Stubborn, Bossy, Controlling

Intriguing history: was once a human many, many years ago

Intrigue: The secrets Wilma has about Susan’s past.

Mystery: How Susan and the Shadow are connected to Wilma?

Drive Conflict: doesn’t like the idea that Susan, a human, has magic but knows she needs Susan’s help and is the key to saving the forest.

Irony: Hate’s humans but need them at the same time.

Intriguing relationships: Susan, Mystery Forest Ranger, the Shadow

START: a rainbow eucalyptus tree, the only one in the forest and leader of the Circle of the Trees. Doesn’t like the idea Susan, a human, has magic but knows she needs Susan’s help and is the key to saving the forest.

MIDDLE: Slowly reveals secrets of Susan’s past that Susan didn’t even know.
ENDING: How Susan, the Shadow and Wilma are all connected.

[Chanda Haynes]

What I learned doing this assignment is that the character descriptions that are done well provide a visual of what this character will be like. But also gives you a peep into the world from each character’s perspective.

Pete Roberts, the Founder and President of Green Diamonds, is a man with an end goal. He consistently ranks on the Forbes Top 420 Cannabis Companies in the US. Well educated and groomed by some of the best of the best in canna world. Pete has come a long way from his humble beginnings in Haiti. Often labeled a “sellout,” by his black colleagues, Pete has been known to utter “all lives matter” in exchange for money, power, and privilege.

When Pete and Tony Jones join forces, they become unstoppable in the cannabis arena, soaring ahead of his nemesis, Willie Jones. His newfound success all but guarantees him his spot back on the Cannabis Commission panel. But the governor is not so sure, as Pete’s secrets start to surface. A string of mystery children and unscrupulous business deals lead us back to how Pete Roberts came to know the Jones family.

Henry Jones, a smooth talking, debonair business concierge returns to town for a visit with his good ole Uncle Willie, aka Portland’s Cannabis Commissioner, Willie Jones. Henry presents proof that Willie used Henry and his twin Heather’s inheritance, without their consent, to launch his thriving cannabis business, Jones Farmacy. Henry, opts to be repaid with interest, or he’s going to the Cannabis Commission with this information. Willie is unable to honor a request that large without arousing suspicion, instead he offers Henry the CEO position at the company, with a hefty salary and a percentage of any new business deals he lands. Henry accepts the deal on the grounds that his CEO appointment begin immediately. Henry is facing death threats and foreclosures due to his reckless gambling addiction. In true Jones fashion, he is never going down without a fight. He analyzes his position, and prepares to strike back.

Willie Jones, Cannabis Commissioner and owner of Jones Farmacy, a growing cannabis business, has reached a crossroads when it is time to make good on the couples’ retirement that he promised his wife of 25 years. She convinces him to handoff control of the company to his son and co-founder, Tony. Willie’s plans go awry as he is now being blackmailed by his nephew. His son feels unappreciated and announces his resignation from the company, and the Governor appoints him with another four years is his Commissioner seat. He must make some tough decisions and draw some hard boundaries or he stands the risk of losing everything, including himself.

Tony Jones, is the co-founder of the multi-million dollar cannabis giant, Jones Farmacy. As the eldest son of Cannabis Commissioner, WIllie Jones, Tony was pretty much born into the bud business. Unlike his father, Tony’s knowledge goes beyond planting and farming, and into the legislative and regulatory side of things. Because of his extensive knowledge, he is invaluable to cannabis businesses on the legal side of things. Due to his alcoholic past and questionable decision making, his father has limited his level of responsibility in the company.

But after twelve years sober, Tony is tired of being shutout by his father, and demands a bigger role in the company. He reaches his breaking point when his clueless cousin returns to town and is appointed CEO of the company. Tony announces his resignation from his father’s company, and shortly thereafter, he accepts a smoking deal to run the company of his father’s number one competitor. As the competition with his father intensifies, and his personal relationships take some unexpected turns, Tony realizes money and power are nothing if you don’t have the people you love in your life.

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[Karen Angermayer]

Binge Worthy Modul 2 Lesson 2: Assignment

Karen Christine´s Character Descriptions

My show THE GOOD BANKER

What I learned doing this assignment is that staying open and just filling in the blanks helps a lot to go through this process with ease. I also noticed that editing the short versions by starting anew and not clinging to the words of the previous version brings even deeper traits of the character to the surface.

Main character: Wolf-Dieter (55)

Role in the show: A scammed banker who has lost everything (money, family, reputation). Instead of giving up he chooses to detect the scammers, acquiring all that is necessary to be a scammer himself.

Noteworthy traits: brilliant, clear headed, responsible, maybe a bit too rational

Intriguing history: There used to be a competition with a fellow student that WD has long forgotten. WD got the job in the bank back then.

Intrigue: He is willing to fight for his reputation (interestingly more than for his marriage with Sabine), taking risks and breaking the law several times to find the scammers and get the money back – and so undo his failure.

Mystery: Finds out that his wife Sabine has a relationship with his collegue for years, it´s a man that is much funnier in public and riskier.

How do they support or drive the conflict with others: he keeps secret his investigation who the scam team is and where the money is, thus behaving strangely in the eyes of his co-workers, principals, and his wife/family, in his commitment to undo his failures he does not notice the estrangement of Sabine and his kids, and is bringing himself in situations that could be deadly, and cost him at least the rest of what he has

Irony: Re-establishing his reputation by becoming a criminal/gangster.

Opposites or paradoxes: absolutely stubborn and rational, deep inside wants to break free for so long (never talked about it, felt responsible for the family and the company), always true to his values

Opposing agendas: Trying to detect the scammers and transferring huge amounts of money while the police is behind him and no one must know

Unpredictable: This world is new to him, he makes mistakes, but also feels joy and new strength

Intriguing relationships: Emily, Jonas and his therapist Martha

Start: An always correct banker is scammed in a perfidious way, and loses his own money and millions of his clients. In the attempt to undo his failure, he secretly investigates, willing to do everything to bring the money back.

Middle: Clear headed and brilliant as he is, he manages to quickly become an expert in the parallel universe of crypto banking, and a scammer himself. All behind the back of his family, co-workers and the police!

Ending: Manages to navigate through this dangerous and hidden world (with some bruises and facing life threatening situations), develops unexpected joy and ambition in this former foreign world. After finding out that the scam was not about the money, but about him, and that he lost his wife Sabine long before that, he follows a completely different road, and breaks free in a new way.

Edited version:

Wolf-Dieter

Shortly before his promotion good banker Wolf-Dieter, over decades supercorrect, straightforward and caring for family, friends and clients, is perfidiously scammed. In his attempt to prove that it wasn´t his fault and showing that he´s still the person in charge, he is willing to do everything. Even become a criminal himself.

On his journey through the intriguing but tremendously risky crypto world, he discovers new strengths, respect and a joy he had lost. And: his power to destroy everybody who did not trust him and let him down – with only a few clicks.

Main character: Emma (19)

Role in the show: scammer, friend, mother of an unborn, lover

Noteworthy traits: Strong as hell. No doubts. No regrets. Clear vision of her future.

Intriguing history: Highly gifted, earned a scholarship which she did not use, because she got pregnant, no contact to her family,

Intrigue: leads a normal life at the counter of a fastfood restaurant in a mall, nobody knows about her parallel job in the scam team

How do they support or drive the conflict with others: short-tempered, radical, wants the baby that Jonas did not want and denies

Irony: Working on her financial freedom and independence, at the same time being dependent on Jonas, and working at the restaurant in a toxic environment

Opposing agendas/etc: was part of the scam team that betrayed Wolf-Dieter, now wants to help him without Jonas and Juli knowing

Unpredictable: After drinking and smoking joints she opens herself up – only to withdraw the minute after.

Intriguing relationship with one or more characters: Wolf-Dieter, Jonas, Juli

START: pregnant employee at a fastfood restaurant, sees her chance to make some quick money joining the team of her spouse Jonas

MIDDLE: discovering that they are scamming in a big way, she wants to leave the team, but is threatened by Jonas and Juli. She stays, secretly helping Wolf-Dieter to find his gone millions.

ENDING: We learn why she broke the contact to her family, and why she really refused the scholarship for an elite university. In Wolf-Dieter she learns a new trust in somebody, and finds her new place in life, being able to lay down the rebel and punk in herself – while at the same time being true to herself. She also gains a new kind of freedom and trust in herself (and her motherhood) she has never experienced before. Which not only arises from the financial freedom that used to be her main goal.

Edited version:

Emma (19) is the complete opposite of Wolf-Dieter (55). Short-tempered, intuitive, not caring about what others think or say.

Her job at the fastfood restaurant where snobby and boring bankers eat, and being part of the scam team (with lots of money waving at the horizon) is only a means to an end: freeing herself from Jonas, creating a good life for her baby, and finally forgetting the picture her parents had in mind for her, a brilliant future after attending one of Germany´s top elite universities. Her parents still don´t know that she never went there.

She´s surprised to find out that Wolf-Dieter is not the man she supposed, and commits herself to help him secretly to reverse the scam behind the back of Jonas, Juli and the third party who gave the order.

Risking her life and that of her unborn baby and fighting for justice side-by-side with Wolf-Dieter, who has become an unexpected mentor for her, though they often disagree, she discovers her new ability to love and trust herself and others.

[Kristina Zill]

KZ’s Character Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is…how to turn character bullet points into a binge-worthy description, full of intrigue.

OLIVER: Oliver wakes up in his apartment to find he is suffering from amnesia. He remembers some parts of his life and draws a total blank on others. He sets about trying to find clues to his identity, and in doing so, meets and falls for Tony, a young man in a relationship with Oliver’s much older, abusive and controlling neighbor, Nolan, who also happens to be a best-selling author of supernatural thrillers.

Oliver becomes a suspect in the murder of Raymond, a young man who had flirted with Tony. Now Oliver risks the jealous wrath of Nolan, and risks enduring the same fate as Raymond. Liberating Tony and living freely with him becomes Oliver’s obsessive goal. But as Oliver uncovers more clues about his identity, it looks like he himself may be the one who killed Raymond.

NOLAN: Nolan is a best-selling author of supernatural thrillers, who fears his best days are behind him. His publisher has rejected his latest novel because the formula is stale. His lover, Tony, is half his age and inflames Nolan’s jealousy through unexplained disappearances and flirtations with younger men.

Nolan bases his fictional characters on real-life people, changing just enough details that he prevails in defamation suits, but the latest accusation is that he actually killed Raymond, who was flirting with Tony, and it’s suspected that he did so for revenge, but also to be able to write convincingly about death. As he is investigated, he incorporates the detective into his new story.

TONY: Tony is a beguiling trickster, who wants to be free of Nolan’s oppressive jealousy, but he also needs the ego strokes that come with being the inspiration for the lead character in his lover’s novels. He’s used to men falling in love with him, and he uses them to taunt Nolan. But now one of his lovers is dead, and the other is in the hospital, and he just started a thing with Oliver. He himself isn’t sure if he’s really in love with Oliver, or is he just using him, but it sure feels like the real thing.

MICHELLE: Michelle had a romance with Nolan before she transitioned. When she was Michael, her fictional counterpart was the lead in Nolan’s novels. Now he uses her as the butt of jokes. Her recent lawsuit against Nolan was dismissed since she had signed an N.D.A., at the time enjoying how he was portraying her. Since she dared to bring a suit against him, she fears what he will do to her in the fictional world – perhaps killing her in a gruesome way.

She has a crush on the detective investigating Raymond’s death. Nothing would make her happier than if Detective Uhm found either Nolan or Tony (or both) guilty of the murder, and she does everything she can to make that happen.