Stupid Character meme thing.
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1. Character Profile Worksheet
Basic Statistics
Name: Alexander “Sonny” Taggart Boyd
Age: 22 (currently)
Occupation: Student, Grocery Clerk
Talents/Skills: low center of gravity, quick study, contemplative
Parents: Adeline Hansen, Jamie Boyd (divorced)
Siblings: Jack Allen Boyd
Spouse: none
Children: none
Physical Characteristics
Height: 3'5”
Race: Pomeranian (fox face)
Eye Color: naturally brown, right eye is glazed over and blinded
Hair Color: cream top coat, off white undercoat
Skin color: pale
Shape of Face: fox shaped face though a little chubbier
Distinguishing features: blind eye, tattoos show under thin mangy fur
Hobbies: cannibalization, seeking enlightenment. Sonny is a writer, and enjoys music and games as well.
Style comfortable and loose fitting. Cargos, hoodies, snarky t-shirts. Work uniform consists of a polo, loose fitting slacks, and an apron
Greatest flaw: Self centered. His own reality is often distorted to exclude others. He sometimes disregards people entirely as if they were merely an obstacle or an object rather than anything with sentience. This is not a mentality of narcissism but simply one of unmindfulness.
Best quality: Adaptive. He prides himself on the ability to “fake it till you make it.”
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background: An underachiever in lower education he slacked off to avoid the expectations of his family and peers. He's naturally intelligent and possesses a potential that exceeds his effort by several fold. He's a student on and off as he struggles with his past mistakes as an underachiever and the ever present issue of affording higher education.
Any Mental Illnesses: Mental illness is only in the mind of the beholder. To say one mind is sick is to know your own.
Learning Experiences: Critical thinker, Adaptive, Flexible. Sonny's daily life comes with problems uncommon to most people. The more he wants something the more complicated it becomes to achieve. His approach to obtaining his goals consist mostly of trial and error or through belligerent spear head techniques
Character's short-term goals in life: Make it to tomorrow.
Character's long-term goals in life: Achieve enlightenment and self perfection.
How does Character see himself/herself? A normal guy. Sonny recognizes his own strengths and weaknesses and finds them unremarkable from anyone elses. He feels he has more weakness than others but also perceives himself as having the strength to deal and overcome with those weaknesses. He feels that his biggest obstacle is not knowing how to self motivate or how to ascertain his lessons are always learned. Sonny fears failure and ignorance beyond all else and feels that beating the latter prevents the former.
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? He hopes he is underestimated. Little expectation of him keeps others from being disappointed. If everyone thinks of him as lesser he feels no pressure. He doesn't want to be judged as anything but ordinary and in some cases, sub-ordinary. This way anything exceptional he does will actually mean something, not just to others but him as well. Outside of his social circle he can wear whatever face is required. He's loved at work for being energetic and charismatic even though he detests both qualities.
How self-confident is the character? Only in his deepest need can he find confidence. He has a strong inner resolve but only for survival. He often finds it hard to finish projects he starts for fun or to try many new things at a time even though he'll claim to be open-minded.
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? Emotions have caused him nothing but trouble. Crying was punished as a child and anger only lead to hurt or loss throughout his life. He desperately leans to logic and rational thinking but some days are worse than others.
Emotional Characteristics
Strengths/Weaknesses: His strength is reading others. He knows where when and how to push people's buttons and often just with a glance or short conversation he can sum an individual up. The weakness lies in his confidence in this ability leading him to objectify some of these individuals and not ever leaving room to be surprised. He understands people like a student understands a textbook. In theory there's nothing to it but in practice he's awkward and doesn't convey thoughts well.
Introvert or Extrovert? Extrovert. He wants to reach out and has difficulty being alone but just barely.
How does the character deal with anger? Is bad about bottling it up until he explodes but has built patience, and reinforces it with logical reasoning. He vents by complaining, rationalizing, and devising graphic “what if” scenarios.
With sadness? Distracting himself. Sadness's treatment still seems to illude him.
With conflict? Often without thinking. His body takes over and settles things physically or harshly, Remaining level headed under stress is his current practice.
With change? Flexibility is everything. If your plan didn't cover this, now's your chance to learn something.
With loss? Loss is failure, failure is unacceptable. He takes loss personally and dwells on it a long time to prevent future mistakes or to try and understand why it happened.
What does the character want out of life? To be admired and to be pleased with himself.
What would the character like to change in his/her life? He would establish wise ambition within himself.
What motivates this character? Fear
What frightens this character? Failure
What makes this character happy? Accomplishment
Is the character judgmental of others? Exceptionally
Is the character generous or stingy? Give or take. He feels no connection to material and thus is very generous but more abstract concepts: time, patience, opportunity; he can be really selfish
Is the character generally polite or rude? Tends to have a more casual tone. To those who expect politeness he can be rude. To those who anticipate rudeness probably get rudeness. To those who don't expect or don't care either way, he tries to make a polite impression.
Spiritual Characteristics
Does the character believe in God? Sonny believes in a God but finds the comprehension of a God to be unfeasible. God has either done its part and moved on or just observes us like ants because it's bored.
What are the character's spiritual beliefs? We can only live to the best of our ability. We borrow life and the earth we live on. We should strive to improve it and then one day return it. Our goals should be to learn and do as much as we can in life and in the end we'll let God decide if it was enough.
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? Religion has no place in his heart and mind. The spirit doesn't belong to a group and therefore a group cannot improve it. Spirituality is important because it's all we truly have. All bodies eventually become dust and that can either spell freedom or grief for the spirit.
Basic Statistics
Name: Alexander “Sonny” Taggart Boyd
Age: 22 (currently)
Occupation: Student, Grocery Clerk
Talents/Skills: low center of gravity, quick study, contemplative
Parents: Adeline Hansen, Jamie Boyd (divorced)
Siblings: Jack Allen Boyd
Spouse: none
Children: none
Physical Characteristics
Height: 3'5”
Race: Pomeranian (fox face)
Eye Color: naturally brown, right eye is glazed over and blinded
Hair Color: cream top coat, off white undercoat
Skin color: pale
Shape of Face: fox shaped face though a little chubbier
Distinguishing features: blind eye, tattoos show under thin mangy fur
Hobbies: cannibalization, seeking enlightenment. Sonny is a writer, and enjoys music and games as well.
Style comfortable and loose fitting. Cargos, hoodies, snarky t-shirts. Work uniform consists of a polo, loose fitting slacks, and an apron
Greatest flaw: Self centered. His own reality is often distorted to exclude others. He sometimes disregards people entirely as if they were merely an obstacle or an object rather than anything with sentience. This is not a mentality of narcissism but simply one of unmindfulness.
Best quality: Adaptive. He prides himself on the ability to “fake it till you make it.”
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background: An underachiever in lower education he slacked off to avoid the expectations of his family and peers. He's naturally intelligent and possesses a potential that exceeds his effort by several fold. He's a student on and off as he struggles with his past mistakes as an underachiever and the ever present issue of affording higher education.
Any Mental Illnesses: Mental illness is only in the mind of the beholder. To say one mind is sick is to know your own.
Learning Experiences: Critical thinker, Adaptive, Flexible. Sonny's daily life comes with problems uncommon to most people. The more he wants something the more complicated it becomes to achieve. His approach to obtaining his goals consist mostly of trial and error or through belligerent spear head techniques
Character's short-term goals in life: Make it to tomorrow.
Character's long-term goals in life: Achieve enlightenment and self perfection.
How does Character see himself/herself? A normal guy. Sonny recognizes his own strengths and weaknesses and finds them unremarkable from anyone elses. He feels he has more weakness than others but also perceives himself as having the strength to deal and overcome with those weaknesses. He feels that his biggest obstacle is not knowing how to self motivate or how to ascertain his lessons are always learned. Sonny fears failure and ignorance beyond all else and feels that beating the latter prevents the former.
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? He hopes he is underestimated. Little expectation of him keeps others from being disappointed. If everyone thinks of him as lesser he feels no pressure. He doesn't want to be judged as anything but ordinary and in some cases, sub-ordinary. This way anything exceptional he does will actually mean something, not just to others but him as well. Outside of his social circle he can wear whatever face is required. He's loved at work for being energetic and charismatic even though he detests both qualities.
How self-confident is the character? Only in his deepest need can he find confidence. He has a strong inner resolve but only for survival. He often finds it hard to finish projects he starts for fun or to try many new things at a time even though he'll claim to be open-minded.
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? Emotions have caused him nothing but trouble. Crying was punished as a child and anger only lead to hurt or loss throughout his life. He desperately leans to logic and rational thinking but some days are worse than others.
Emotional Characteristics
Strengths/Weaknesses: His strength is reading others. He knows where when and how to push people's buttons and often just with a glance or short conversation he can sum an individual up. The weakness lies in his confidence in this ability leading him to objectify some of these individuals and not ever leaving room to be surprised. He understands people like a student understands a textbook. In theory there's nothing to it but in practice he's awkward and doesn't convey thoughts well.
Introvert or Extrovert? Extrovert. He wants to reach out and has difficulty being alone but just barely.
How does the character deal with anger? Is bad about bottling it up until he explodes but has built patience, and reinforces it with logical reasoning. He vents by complaining, rationalizing, and devising graphic “what if” scenarios.
With sadness? Distracting himself. Sadness's treatment still seems to illude him.
With conflict? Often without thinking. His body takes over and settles things physically or harshly, Remaining level headed under stress is his current practice.
With change? Flexibility is everything. If your plan didn't cover this, now's your chance to learn something.
With loss? Loss is failure, failure is unacceptable. He takes loss personally and dwells on it a long time to prevent future mistakes or to try and understand why it happened.
What does the character want out of life? To be admired and to be pleased with himself.
What would the character like to change in his/her life? He would establish wise ambition within himself.
What motivates this character? Fear
What frightens this character? Failure
What makes this character happy? Accomplishment
Is the character judgmental of others? Exceptionally
Is the character generous or stingy? Give or take. He feels no connection to material and thus is very generous but more abstract concepts: time, patience, opportunity; he can be really selfish
Is the character generally polite or rude? Tends to have a more casual tone. To those who expect politeness he can be rude. To those who anticipate rudeness probably get rudeness. To those who don't expect or don't care either way, he tries to make a polite impression.
Spiritual Characteristics
Does the character believe in God? Sonny believes in a God but finds the comprehension of a God to be unfeasible. God has either done its part and moved on or just observes us like ants because it's bored.
What are the character's spiritual beliefs? We can only live to the best of our ability. We borrow life and the earth we live on. We should strive to improve it and then one day return it. Our goals should be to learn and do as much as we can in life and in the end we'll let God decide if it was enough.
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? Religion has no place in his heart and mind. The spirit doesn't belong to a group and therefore a group cannot improve it. Spirituality is important because it's all we truly have. All bodies eventually become dust and that can either spell freedom or grief for the spirit.