How do you create a Benevolent Character?
What makes her Benevolent?
Is it her Goal?
How does her Origins translate her Benevolence?
What makes her Likable?
What makes her Relatable?
What makes her Memorable?
Origins
- Birth
- Where was the Character born?
- Was it a difficult place to live in?
- Did she enjoy her life?
- Did she quit this place?
- Voluntarily?
- Does she still live in this place?
- Environment
- Did she grow up in a Rich environment?
- Did she grow up in a Wealthy environment?
- Were parties a common thing?
- Were gifts common?
- To which kind of ceremony did she participate?
- Were they festive ceremonies?
- Did people enjoy each other?
- Did it develop a want in her?
- A want to help people?
- Family
- Where Family members generous?
- Did they take care of her?
- How likeable were they?
- Did they treat other people well?
- Did they help others?
- Did she had many friends?
- Did she have any?
- Were they good to her?
Identity
- Name
- What’s the Character’s name?
- How does it reflects her Benevolence?
- Who gave her this Name?
- What’s its meaning?
- How was it chosen?
- Who was she meant to be according this person?
- Goal
- What does the Character aim for?
- What does she think about most of the time?
- What should she accomplish?
- Which kind of ambition does she display?
- Towards what?
- When did it come to her?
- When did this goal became fundamental to her?
- Behavior
- Does she offer gifts?
- Does she share her food with others?
- Does she share any of her goods with others?
- With whom?
- How does she view other people?
- Does she loathe anyone?
- Does she judge people easily?
- Does she a hate an individual?
- Does she a hate a group or a category of the population?
Evolution
- A Need for Evolution
- Benevolence is a rare trait.
- Most of the time it is the result of coercion.
- A forceful education.
- It could be an hypocritical act.
- An act dissimulating one’s intention.
- Was she always a Benevolent person?
- Was she always open?
- Did she need to change?
- How so?
- Was she selfish?
- Was she aggressive?
- Was she nefarious?
- Progressive Evolution
- Did the Character intended to become more Benevolent?
- Was she forced to do so?
- Because her Behavior was causing Issues?
- What were these Issues?
- What are the Character’s Weaknesses?
- What kind of Pain do they cause her?
- To which Crisis do they lead her?
- Do the Character develop a Wish to Change?
- Which Difficulties does she encounter through this change?
- Who does she need to meet in order to change?
- How can others help her Change?
- Through the Creation of relationships?
- Through the Dissolution of relationships?
- How do these Relationships end?
- Can you reimagine them?
- Can you re-tell this Relationship through a different Story?
- In a different Environment?
- How will this Tale go?
- Crisis
- Which Event lead to the Character’s change?
- How do they induce a Progressive Change?
- How does this change manifest?
- How is it Displayed?
- Did the Character develop New Goals?
- Which Goals?
- Can they share them?
- With whom?
- Is she willing to share them?
- Did it develop her generosity?
- Understanding
- Which new Insights does Benevolence open to the Character?
- Now the Character has changed, she may enjoy her life more.
- Is she Grateful?
- It may help her assess her Own Role in the World.
- As well as her Own Role in a Group.
- It helps her develop Empathy.
- She may start to understand Others Issues as she’s now confronted to them.
- It may develop her Patience.
- Her Resilience.
- And increase her Efficiency.
Roles
- Advisor
- How does she help others to become more Persistent?
- How does she help others to become more Patient?
- How does she help others to become more Affable?
- How does she Deliver her message?
- How does she Promote her message?
- How does she Build her reputation?
- How does she Manage her reputation?
- How does she insufflate a Responsible behavior?
- How does she manage her resources?
- Guide
- How does she Guide others?
- How does she listen to their needs?
- How does she listen to their wishes?
- How does she allow them to reach their goals faster?
- Which kind of Roadmap does she use?
- Which Process does she use?
- Why did she start helping others?
- Can she explain it to other people?
- Can she be honest?
- Can she share her reasons?
- How does she help 1 find her Goal?
- How does she assist 1 to manage her Doubts?
- Builder
- Does she craft Gifts?
- Does she craft Toys?
- Who does she offer them too?
- Does she only sell them?
- Does she give them away?
- With which intent?
- What does she build?
- Why does she build it?
- Does she intend to enhance people’s lives thanks to it?
- Does she intend to change people’s Behavior?
- How so?
- Does she want people to change, like she did, and become better?
- Sponsor
- Does she intend to become wealthy?
- Does she intend to share this Wealth?
- Which resources are fundamental to her?
- How does she treat her Allies?
- Her Partners?
- Her Clients?
- Her Team mates?
- Which Relationships does she open to her Allies?
- How does she manage Resources?
- How does she supply her Team mates?
- How does she assist them?
- How does she manage them?
- How does she catalyse their growth?
