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.

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