How to Create a Supportive Character?

Origins

• Where is she born?
• How does this environment influence her actual behavior?
• What was she lacking?
• What was her main concern?
• Where did she go to rest?

• Who raised her?
• Was she loved?
• What did she learn?
• From whom?
• Does she mention them?
• Are they still alive?
• Are they still accessible?
• Did she keep in touch with them?

• Whom did she grow up with?
• Were they friendly?
• Was she ostracized?
• Are they still with her today?
• Does she mention them?
• Did she keep in touch with them?

• Why did she quit her Birthplace?
• How did she leave?
• When did she leave?
• Was she still a child?
• Whom did she leave with?
• Was she alone?
• What did she leave behind?

• Can she recover it?
• Can she return?
• Would she return?
• Is she nostalgic?
• Does she need help?
• From the Protagonist?
• What for?

• What was she doing before the Story begins?
• Was she resting?
• Was she having an Argument?
• Was she Fighting with a relative?
• Was she looking for a place to stay?
• Was she pondering?

Relationships

• To the Protagonist
• When does this character meet the Protagonist?
• How do they meet?
• Where do they meet?
• When do they collaborate?
• How do they collaborate?
• After which crisis do they decide to ally?
• What does she bring to the Protagonist?

• To the Antagonist
• When does this character meet the Antagonist?
• How is the Antagonist introduced to her?
• Did they collaborate?
• Were they allies?
• Did she change sides?
• Why?
• Did the Antagonist damage her?
• What trouble did she cause to her?
• What trouble did she cause to her birthplace?

• To other Team members
• Does she integrate easily to the Group?
• After whom did she arrive?
• Before whom did she arrive?
• Did she know any of them beforehand?
• With whom does she have affinities?
• On which matter?

• To the other Characters
• Is she aggressive towards strangers?
• Is she suspicious?
• Is she benevolent?
• Is she aloof?
• Does she ask questions?
• Does she try to compromise?
• Does she look for the peaceful resolution?

Reliable

• Supplier
• What does she bring to the Protagonist?
• What does she bring to the Team?
• Is she close to the Supplier?
• Is she the Supplier?
• How does she Use objects?
• How does she Upkeep objects?
• Does she take care of Objects?
• Does she use them with Parsimony?
• Is she frugal?
• Does she display Long-term behavior?
• Does she display acts of Sustainability?
• Does she Stock?
• Does she waste things?

• Sponsor
• Is she close to the Sponsor?
• Is she the Sponsor?
• Does she network?
• Is she persuasive?
• Is she forceful?
• Is she bashful?
• Does she bribe?
• Does she threaten?

• Stability
• Is she measured?
• Is she tempered?
• How does she Solve issues?
• Is she Patient?
• Is she Resilient?
• Does she have a resting place?
• What’s her definition of Home?
• Who is she the most at ease with?
• Who does she need the most when she struggles?

• Plan
• Does she take Initiatives?
• Does she look for Sequences?
• Does she create Procedures?
• Does she apply Procedures?
• Does she have an interest for Strategy?
• Is she Predictable?
• Does she have typical moves?

Empathetic

• Empathy
• How does she display empathy?
• Who is she empathetic with?
• Who is she in Resonance with?
• When does she make efforts?
• What weaknesses does she recognize?
• What behaviors does she reject?
• What strengths does she recognize?
• What kind of Suffering does she Recognize?

• Compassion
• Whom does she have Affinities with?
• Whom is she Helpful with?
• When does she offer Assistance?
• Is she patient when it comes to people?
• Can she be nice?
• What does she Accept?
• What does she Reject?

• Sympathy
• When does she display Sympathy?
• During which Trials?
• What steps does she go through to understand someone?
• What type of Pain can she recognize in another?
• Does she get upset easily?
• Is she often sad?
• When does she Struggle?
• Who does she Struggle with?

Confrontational

• Change
• Does she catalyze change into others?
• Does she display her will to get better?
• Does she make other doubt themselves?
• In which contexts?

• Rigor
• Does she get angry?
• Does she waste resources?
• Does she instill this into others?
• Does she criticize them because they are less able than her?
• How does she deal with Conflicts?
• Does she Waver?
• How straightforward is she?

• Arbiter/Advisor
• When does she question the Protagonist decisions?
• Which alternatives does she provide
• How equitable is she?
• How does she define Objectivity?
• How does she define Equity?
• How does she define Fairness?

• Crisis
• How does she face Enemies?
• How does she Improvise?
• How does she Fight?
• Does she need others help?
• How does she cope with Handicaps?
• How does she assist the Protagonist?
• How does she synergize her skill with the Protagonist’s?

Evolution

• What is she aiming for?
• What is her Destination?
• Why does she aim for these goals?
• What Crisis does she still have to go through?

• Habits
• How does she start the day?
• Does she have a favorite beverage?
• How many times a day does she eat?
• Does she nap?

• Progression
• How is she in the Early Stages of the story?
• How is she after each Crisis?
• How is she in the Late Stages?
• How is she in the Epilogue?

• Age & Experience
• A Supportive character is 1 of the most Valuable.
• If she Regresses it will be noticeable.
• As she is needed by other team members.
• And this regression will be more damageable for the Team.