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42 character development questions!

PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND GESTURE.
1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy?
2. How much physical space do they use, active and at rest?
3. How do they position themselves in a group? Do they like to be the center of
attention, or do they hang back at the edges of a crowd?
4. What is their size and build? How does it influence how they use their body, if
it does?
5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do
they favor? Why?
6. What are they like in motion�in different environments, and in different
activities? What causes the differences between these?
7. How do they physically engage with other people, inanimate objects, and their
environment? What causes the differences between these?
8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell?
9. How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions?
10. What energizes and drains them most?
11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones,
inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use?
12. How are they bodily expressive? How do they use nonverbal cues such as their
posture, stance, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, and hands?

DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT.

13. How do they greet the world � what is their typical attitude towards life? How
does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do
they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be
expressed?
14. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral
codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they
have? How do these tend to be expressed?
15. What kind of inner life do they have � rich and imaginative? Calculating and
practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their
lives?
16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like?
17. Are they more shaped by nature or nurture � who they are, or what has happened
to them? How have these shaped who they�ve become as a person?
18. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some
developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would
cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would
you especially like to see, and why?

CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS.

19. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ
if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of
strangers? Why?
20. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they
behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends,
family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships?
21. What kind of relationships do they tend to intentionally seek out versus
actually cultivate? What kind of social contact do they prefer, and why?
22. How do people respond to them, and why might these responses differ?
23. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a
social situation difficult?
24. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their �persona�
from their �true self�, and what causes that difference?
25. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about
getting it?
26. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in
how they handle them, if it does?

ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES.

27. What do they strongly like and dislike, in any category? Why?
28. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to
accomplish it? Why?
29. What kind of activities, interests, and hobbies do they have? What significance
and impact do these have in their lives, both positive and negative?
30. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if
they get either too little or too much?
31. Is there anything that counts as a �dealbreaker� for them, positively or
negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins
their day? Why?
32. Do they have any �props� that are a significant part of their life, identity,
activities, or self-presentation somehow? What are they, how are they used, and why
are they so significant? How would these props� absence impact them, how would they
compensate, and why?

THINKING AND LEARNING.

33. How do they learn about the world�what is their preferred learning style?
Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking?
Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking
patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together?
Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things?
34. How do they understand the world�what kind of worldview and thought processes
do they have? Why?
35. How and why do they internalize knowledge? What effect has that had on them?
36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches
like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is
their opinion on this?
37. Have they had any special education or training that colors their means of
learning about or understanding the world? Conversely, do they lack some kind of
education considered essential in their world? What kind of impact has this
addition or lack had on them?
38. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought
processes? What, and why?
39. What sort of questions or thoughts recur in their lives, either specifically or
as a theme? Why are these never answered, or answered permanently to their
satisfaction?
40. What do they wonder about? What sparks their curiosity and imagination, and
why? How is this expressed, if it is?

FREE FOR ALL.

41. What associations do they bring to mind? Words or phrases, images, metaphors or
motifs? Why?
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