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A character survey, stolen (lovingly) from Raincrow |
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I was really monumentally bored, so here's a survey thing on the main character of a story I'm working on. It is superficial and means nothing, like all surveys. Read it. Don't read it. It's all the same to me.
1. What is your character's name? Eric Blaine
2. What kind of character is it (furry, anime, etc) and any particular race? A human in an exaggerated version of the real world (OK, cats can talk, but they choose not to, so it still counts as real world). Being a character in a comic, he is drawn, but rather than aping a generic style, I am using my own unique one.
3. What is the first thing your character would think of when he/she first wakes up? "Cold... hungry..."
4. Your character's favorite outfit would be? For the vaaaaaast (you can tell I really mean it because of how I drew out the "v" wink majority of the story, he has only one outfit. Duct-taped tennis shoes, worn out old jeans, a strange brown-green jacket, a black tie, and a beat up fedora. He likes it just fine, although he would appreciate shoes that didn't fall apart.
5. When your character looks into a mirror, what's the first thing they would notice? How gaunt he looks.
6. Does your character have the same tastes in food as you? Eric has a very broad taste in food (althought most of the time it's just whatever he can get his hands on). I suppose that makes it similar.
7. How is your character similar to you? We both like philosophizing and talking about theories and things. We both tend towards the introverted.
8. How is he/she different? Eric sees life as process; he is undesisive and, in the worst sense, unopinionated. I am not. I would find Eric infuriating in the "would you just make up your mind and take a stand?" kind of a way.
9. If your character could speak, would they have the same voice as you? "If" he could speak? Of coarse he can speak. Anyway, not really, mostly as I'm a teenage girl and he's a grown man. His voice isn't particularly deep, but it's definately lower than mine. He also talks more slowly and a bit more quietly than I do.
10. If you were to suddenly become your character, what do you think you'd do? Get a job and a normal life.
11. Is there something about your character that you don't like how others think of them? I haven't shown my character to many people, but they've all pretty much liked him so far.
12. What advantages does your character have over you? He's adventurous and willing ot take a chance. He can stand a pretty large amount of physical discomfort. And he doesn't complain.
13. What disadvantages? I said he's willing ot take risks? Well, only certain risks. A good portion of his life is dictated by fear. There is no situation, anywhere, that he's completely happy with. As stated before, he can stand physical discomfort, but that doesn't mean he likes it. And yet he's still too scared to come in out of the rain.
14. Do you have any secrets relating to your character that only you know? Only what happens to him at the end of the story.
15. Do you have any secret drawings only you know about? I draw Eric insessantly. There are plenty of drawings I haven't shown anyone, but they aren't "secret."
16. Do you have any plans for your character or are you working on something big relating to him/her? Does an entire graphic novel devoted to him count?
17. What misconception(s), if any, do people have about your character? Well, from other characters, that he's stupid, or lazy. He's not either, he knows exactly what he's doing and why.
18. If you could have just ONE characteristic from your character, what would it be? To not care what others think about me.
19. Have you made any characters that go along with yours, based on real-life people, that have the same relationship with your character as you with the real-life person? Not really. One character (Schrodinger) is based in part on my cat, but the relationship is nowhere near the same. My relationship with my cat is, "Shut up, and stop clawing the screen door!" Eric's relation with Schrodinger is, well, a friend.
20. Have you written any stories about your character? No, none at all. He just sits in the back of my head. That big old script I'm working on? Oh, that's nothing.
21. How has your character changed since his/her first creation? Eric was originally a gimmick. "Ooh, how about a character who's a hobo by choice? That could be funny." He has since evolved into a much more real person. Exaggerated; you wouldn't know anyone really like him; but still deep and complex and identifiable.
22. Is your character a virgin? Yeah. He's not too good with (or in any particular desire of) romantic relationships.
Zonderling · Sat Jan 21, 2006 @ 01:46am · 1 Comments |
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