1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence – literal or imagined – did the father have? 2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence – literal or imagined – did the mother have? 3. Brothers, sisters? Who do they like? Why? What do they despise about their siblings? 4. What type of discipline was your character subjected to at home? Strict? Lenient? 5. Were they overprotected as a child? Sheltered? 6. Did they feel rejection or affection as a child? 7. What was the economic status of their family? 8. How does your character feel about religion? 9. What about political beliefs? 10. Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted? 11. How do they see themselves: as smart, as intelligent, uneducated? 12. How does their education and intelligence – or lack thereof – reflect in their speech pattern, vocabulary, and pronunciations? 13. Did they like school? Teachers? Schoolmates? 14. Were they involved at school? Sports? Clubs? Debate? Were they unconnected? 15. Did they graduate? High-School? College? Do they have a PHD? A GED? 16. What does your character do for a living? How do they see their profession? What do they like about it? Dislike? 17. Did they travel? Where? Why? When? 18. What did they find abroad, and what did they remember? 19. What were your character’s deepest disillusions? In life? What are they now? 20. What were the most deeply impressive political or social, national or international, events that they experienced? 21. What are your character’s manners like? What is their type of hero? Whom do they hate? 22. Who are their friends? Lovers? ‘Type’ or ‘ideal’ partner? 23. What do they want from a partner? What do they think and feel of sex? 24. What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually? 25. What are their hobbies and interests? 26. What does your character’s home look like? Personal taste? Clothing? Hair? Appearance? 27. How do they relate to their appearance? How do they wear their clothing? Style? Quality? 28. Who is your character’s mate? How do they relate to him or her? How did they make their choice? 29. What is your character’s weaknesses? Hubris? Pride? Controlling? 30. Are they holding on to something in the past? Can he or she forgive? 31. Does your character have children? How do they feel about their parental role? About the children? How do the children relate? 32. How does your character react to stress situations? Defensively? Aggressively? Evasively? 33. Do they drink? Take drugs? What about their health? 34. Does your character feel self-righteous? Revengeful? Contemptuous? 35. Do they always rationalize errors? How do they accept disasters and failures? 36. Do they like to suffer? Like to see other people suffering? 37. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories? 38. Are they basically negative when facing new things? Suspicious? Hostile? Scared? Enthusiastic? 39. What do they like to ridicule? What do they find stupid? 40. How is their sense of humor? Do they have one? 41. Is your character aware of who they are? Strengths? Weaknesses? Idiosyncrasies? Capable of self-irony? 42. What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain? 43. Does your character have any secrets? If so, are they holding them back? 44. How badly do they want to obtain their life objectives? How do they pursue them? 45. Is your character pragmatic? Think first? Responsible? All action? A visionary? Passionate? Quixotic? 46. Is your character tall? Short? What about size? Weight? Posture? How do they feel about their physical body? 47. Do they want to project an image of a younger, older, more important person? Does they want to be visible or invisible? 48. How are your character’s gestures? Vigorous? Weak? Controlled? Compulsive? Energetic? Sluggish? 49. What about voice? Pitch? Strength? Tempo and rhythm of speech? Pronunciation? Accent? 50. What are the prevailing facial expressions? Sour? Cheerful? Dominating?
Midlander or Highlander, let’s get some love going. Reblog this with a screenshot of one of your darlings, male or female.
As a bonus, give a compliment to the person you reblog from! Tell them what you like about their character; is their glamour gorgeous? Do you really like their coloring? Are you a fan of their character portrayals? Give some love, it feels like we need a little more spread around!
( Compliments not needed on reblogging this one. It’s flattering enough having this lovely dame gracing my character list. )
(His biggest fears are imprisonment and death. He refuses to rot away in a prison and he’s not ready to die yet. He’ll fight tooth and nail to avoid either. Though he’d definitely rather die then end up in any kind of prison.)
(Her biggest fears are being crippled and primals. She doesn’t want to be held back or have to stop seeking her dreams by an injury that would cripple her. Nor does she wish to become Tempered by a primal.)
(His biggest fears are heights and getting close to people. Heights is mostly things like flying or being near edges up high. If he can’t see the drop that might await him then he has an easier time keeping a lid on that fear. He fears getting close to people because he worries they will only hurt or leave him.)
(Thanks for asking! @pearlofhope Tumblr doesn’t want to let me tag you though. XD)
(Destiney and Stefan both had a rather average childhood and loving home life. Their parents were supportive and kind. Destiney had friends and actively went exploring with her best friend. Stefan often played the loner and sat at home with books. Things didn’t fall apart for them at home until about they were about fifteen. Stefan ran away and Dest was sent to Ishgard to other relatives. Dad was killed in the fighting with the Garleans. Dest still goes home to visit her mother at times now though.)
(Lance’s home life was a bit stern and cold especially after he reached an age to be old enough to begin learning to use a sword. His parents expected a lot from him as the eldest son. He was expected to serve House Dzemael and marry well. He pretty much disappointed them on both of those things. Which began the divide between him and his father an grandfather. So his family life has been strained for a long time.)
(Keaira had a very happy home life. She the eldest of four kids to a father who works in the Brass Blades and a mother who is an alchemist. Her parents have always encouraged her to pursue her interests and explore the world. They want her to make a life for herself.)
(Alexois… Oh boy. His is the tragic home life. Father who refused to acknowledge him. Mother who didn’t care about him and sold him to a highborn Ishgardian. Rescued by his mentor who taught him to be the cruel man he is today.)
Spirit of the Warlock 