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Lesson 4
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Brenda Boddy’s Intriguing Character Layers
What I learned doing this assignment: I had previously thought about character traits. Then I came up with backstories, which helped this process. Finally, I added the intriguing character points listed below. This actually helped pinpoint the way the story could go and prompted me to change several characters so that they weren’t just ‘good team players’ that didn’t have much interest.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
1. Think about your Example Show. Make a list of the places you’ve already seen Character Intrigue in the previous episodes.
Wells has a secret. Blake has an agenda to get the people, from the arc, to Earth. Bellamy doesn’t want the arc people to come down, which puts him at odds with Blake, but he respects her when she is able to mercy kill another kid. Gracie has a wound (the commander killed her parents) that causes her to kill Wells. Bellamy is in competition with John Murphy to control the other kids-Bellamy beginning to lean toward having rules and consequences, John trying to rule out of terror and violence.
ASSIGNMENT 2
1. For your Inner Circle characters, fill in any of the Intrigue items that apply.
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- Character Name: Justice Baird
- Role: Protagonist – wants to go home. Needs to learn how to function
in the new future.- Hidden agendas: He needs to keep who he is quiet, so he doesn’t end
up as a lab experiment.- Competition: Cuervo runs the local Mexican cartel. She believes he
is one of her men. He conflicts with the predecessor of his own body.- Conspiracies: He conspires with his new family and team to conceal
who he really is.- Secrets: That he is a lawman from 1908.
- Deception: That his is not Justice Baird. That he reincarnated into
this body.- Wound: Left is 4-year-old kid behind.
- Secret Identity: Previous Texas ranger.
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- Character Name: Jewel – Craves safety and security.
- Role: BORTAC team member
- Hidden agendas: Working with Internal affairs to investigate
Justice. Is willing to cross lines to target sexual offenders. Has a soft
spot for street kids (will bolt cut a chain of a fast-food garbage can to
allow hungry street people access). She will hang someone for being part
of the sex-trafficking ring she belonged to.- Competition: Miley who falls in love with Justice. Justice – she doesn’t
trust men.- Conspiracies: With internal affairs to take Justice down. Potentially
with a homeless shelter or community center.- Secrets: She was abused in the foster care system, then snatched up
as a sex slave when being homeless. Cuervo’s kid was the leader of the sex-trafficking
ring.- Deception: She masks as a BORTAC unit while targeting sex predators
and killing them on her own.- Wound: See secrets.
- Secret Identity: Undercover for internal affairs
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- Character Name: Mason
- Role: BORTAC team member
- Hidden agendas: Wants to be commander.
- Competition: All other agents
- Conspiracies: Will cross lines to keep a friend, yet he absolutely
wants to play by the rules. This conflicts with himself. He secretly loves
when a bully is put down and feels vindicated.- Secrets: Justice is his big secret that he works to protect. He also
bullies animals, which are beneath him. This conflicts with Justice who
treats them well. He also hates his dad.- Deception: Tries to come off as the big buddy, but underneath he’s
jealous.- Wound: He was beat up as a kid and no one ever liked him. He is
pathetically eager to have a friend.- Secret Identity: The good guy on the surface, with rage underneath.
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- Character Name: Miley
- Role: BORTAC agent
- Hidden agendas: Bleeding heart for the misfortunate.
- Competition: Jewel who is also attracted to Justice.
- Conspiracies: She is bulimic and has bad self-esteem. She tries hard
to be whoever she needs to be to attract Justice.- Secrets: She killed her mom who had cancer and asked for assisted
suicide.- Deception: Her mom’s friend knows what she did and wants Miley to assist
her with suicide also.- Wound: Everyone around her dies. Her two brothers were killed also.
One fell from a tree, and one was in a car accident.- Secret Identity: Who she THINKS Justice wants her to be.
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