42 character development questions!

johannescena:

PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND GESTURE.
1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy?
2. How much physical space do they use, active and at rest?
3. How do they position themselves in a group? Do they like to be the center of attention, or do they hang back at the edges of a crowd?
4. What is their size and build? How does it influence how they use their body, if it does?
5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why?
6. What are they like in motion–in different environments, and in different activities? What causes the differences between these?
7. How do they physically engage with other people, inanimate objects, and their environment? What causes the differences between these?
8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell?
9. How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions?
10. What energizes and drains them most?
11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use?
12. How are they bodily expressive? How do they use nonverbal cues such as their posture, stance, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, and hands?

DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT.
13. How do they greet the world — what is their typical attitude towards life? How does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be expressed?
14. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?
15. What kind of inner life do they have — rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives?
16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like?
17. Are they more shaped by nature or nurture — who they are, or what has happened to them? How have these shaped who they’ve become as a person?
18. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why?

CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS.
19. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?
20. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships?
21. What kind of relationships do they tend to intentionally seek out versus actually cultivate? What kind of social contact do they prefer, and why?
22. How do people respond to them, and why might these responses differ?
23. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a social situation difficult?
24. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their “persona” from their “true self”, and what causes that difference?
25. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?
26. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in how they handle them, if it does?

ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES.
27. What do they strongly like and dislike, in any category? Why?
28. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to accomplish it? Why?
29. What kind of activities, interests, and hobbies do they have? What significance and impact do these have in their lives, both positive and negative?
30. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much?
31. Is there anything that counts as a “dealbreaker” for them, positively or negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins their day? Why?
32. Do they have any “props” that are a significant part of their life, identity, activities, or self-presentation somehow? What are they, how are they used, and why are they so significant? How would these props’ absence impact them, how would they compensate, and why?

THINKING AND LEARNING.
33. How do they learn about the world–what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things?
34. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?
35. How and why do they internalize knowledge? What effect has that had on them?
36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this?
37. Have they had any special education or training that colors their means of learning about or understanding the world? Conversely, do they lack some kind of education considered essential in their world? What kind of impact has this addition or lack had on them?
38. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought processes? What, and why?
39. What sort of questions or thoughts recur in their lives, either specifically or as a theme? Why are these never answered, or answered permanently to their satisfaction?
40. What do they wonder about? What sparks their curiosity and imagination, and why? How is this expressed, if it is?

FREE FOR ALL.
41. What associations do they bring to mind? Words or phrases, images, metaphors or motifs? Why?
42. I have a question of my own!

Ask muse how good they are at..

rp-starters-ask-box-fillers:

💋 – kissing
👼 – babysitting
🍛 – cooking
💃 – dancing
🎭 – acting/performing arts
🍻 – tolerating alcohol
😠 – managing with their temper
📝- planning and following their plan
🎤- singing
🙊 – keeping secrets
🌷- taking care of plants/pets
😈 – manipulating with others
🏊 – swimming
😂 – telling jokes
📰 – keeping track of world news
📚 – worlds history knowledge
⌚- keeping track of time
💪 – staying fit
😏 – lying
🚗 – driving a car
👗 – dressing with style
🔮 – magic
🔪 – melee weapons
🔫 – ranged weapons
💞 – expressing their feelings
😓 – acknowledging mistakes
🎺 – playing an instrument
🎁 – making gifts
✊ – keeping promises

Syx wasn’t much for seduction. Not that he didn’t understand it, but the first approach felt nearly impossible. So he fell back to what he always did to get another’s attention. He built a thing. In this case a floating bot, dark metal and trailing gossamer ribbons like a decorative tail. It hovered and spun in an odd little dance around the brooding man that had caught Syx’s eye.

never-so-bad:

syx-blue:

never-so-bad:

“And what do we have here?” Zagam’s eyes widened in surprise, first wary, to see a strange artefact floating around him, but relaxed immediatly when noticed it was just trying to call his attention, thing that did succesfully. His gaze soon moved towards the blue man that for one second he thoug might be Mr. Drake. It wasn’t him, of course. The colony was not the same neither the energy. Another blue man?
Zagam flashed him a charming smile leaning forward on his chair, there is the resting area of the exhibition. “Pretty artefact you have here. Is it yours?” He asks with playfully interest.

“Ah… I’ll keep that in mind,” Syx smiled wryly at his mistake, “It’s in the industrial district. An old fire station,” he gave the street address, “It’s covered in graffiti, but the wall you’re looking for will be marked with a sideways blue six and ‘go away’,” he narrowed his eyes, “I’ll put out the entrance mat too… the door is holographically camouflaged.”

-”I’m sorry I think I missed a detail. Did you say Holographically?” he smiles and glares a questioning look at Syx. to find the district and the address was not a problem but the words were new to him and he doesn’t walk through walls unles she has to break them.

“Like the watch? They’re different of course, the watch is hard-light projection, combined with the invisibility field that I use on the car. My security on Evil Lair is just a normal hologram that hides the physical door. I’ll leave it open for you, otherwise, you’d never get through the bio-scan,” Syx rattled off then gave him a wry smile, “I’ll have to call the Brain Bots off and reset their protocol after you get there. It requires a bio-scan. Just watch out for the teeth, they’re rather playful.”

AU Symbols!

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↻ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are caught in a time loop

☢ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are in a post-apocalyptic wasteland

♬ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are in a band together

✔ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are in a teacher/student relationship(nothing sexual)

♂ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are gender-bent

☥<—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are reincarnated as new people.

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℧ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are going into business together

⌘ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are treasure hunters

⇕ <—- Leave this in my ask if you want to see an AU where our characters are in a “Honey, we shrunk the kids” scenario

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The Evil Lair

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It had taken a lot of hunting, but Roxanne thought for sure she was in the right area. It had been months since Megamind had kidnapped her. Weeks since she’d last seen the blue man and had a disgruntled conversation with him on her balcony. She hated to admit it… but she was worried about him. 

He’d been a huge part of her life for nearly a decade now. It was hardly a friendship… but he’d never forgotten an anniversary or birthday (though that might have been Minion, she wasn’t sure). They’d had a system, a working relationship. She’d drunken cocoa with him of failed schemes. Seen the cracks in his mask… the man beneath the villain. Just enough to trust him. To know there was more to Megamind than the smug idiot he pretended to be.

Roxanne tried to convince herself that it was just to find out what plots Megamind had for the city. If he was taking this long to kidnap her again, then it must be something big. He’d never just… give up. That wasn’t the Megamind she knew. No matter how many times she’d told him to ‘just give it up’ and that he’d ‘never win’… she’d never seen it actually affect him. But now…

Parking her yellow scooter in an alley, Roxanne pulled up the map on her phone. This was the next building on her list. Pulling through public records she’d cross referenced all the vacant lots in the warehouse district against their dimensions, police reports, and electricity usage. It had taken a lot of coffee and time, but he’d narrowed it down to ten buildings. This was the fourth candidate on the list. 

Looking up at it, the building hardly seemed different from those around it. Covered in graffiti and with piles of junk outside. She patted her pocket, her small handgun inside. She’d gotten the concealed carry permit shortly after Megamind had started kidnapping her, though she’d only ever pulled it on the man once. But that was back before she’d realized he’d never do anything worse than inconvenience her, as long as you didn’t count mild rope burn and smelly bags. 

The wall she approached, however, finally had something promising. Blue spray paint told everyone to ‘go away’ and ‘no one lives here!’ but the street code also said the building was claimed and lived in. She was once again thankful to have learned the homeless codes during the different interest pieces she’d done over the years. What made it all the more likely was that all the gang symbols for the area had been crossed out. It looked like she might have a winner! Now to find a way in…