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

• With 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?

• With 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 he cause to her?

• What trouble did he cause to her birthplace?

• With 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?

• With 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?