Building characters.

writerterri · Oct 7, 2005

This is where a character is born. As a group we will create a fictional character. Each person chooses one question and put it in the Title box. Answer the question below it. When all the questions are answered then we will move into the more unconventional questions. Then we will create a question about this person. It will be interesting to see how a seemingly real person will evolve out of this. It will be our very own AW Freak-en-stein. Be as creative as you want to be and pick the questions in order, please.

Name.

Nick name? Why?

Hair color and style

Color of eyes. Contacts or glasses?

Facial features-

Any birthmarks or scars? Where and how?

Who are their friends?

Who are their family members? (Can be answered a few times.)

Which group or click do they surround themselves with?

Which one(s), friends or family,are they closest to? Why?

Which one(s), friends or family, do they not get along with? Why?

What is their biggest fear? Why? Who have they told?

Where were they born? Where have they lived and where do they call home?

Does the character drive a car or a motorcycle? What kind?

Where does the character go when their angry?

Do they have a secret?

Who have they not told and why?

What makes them cry?

Have they ever been in love? If so, who?

Have they ever had a broken heart? How did it happen?

writerterri · Oct 7, 2005

Name

Carl James Pannelle

brokenfingers · Oct 7, 2005

Nickname: Panhead

Yeshanu · Oct 7, 2005

Color of eyes. Contacts or glasses?

Brown with shades

writerterri · Oct 8, 2005

facial features

A cool good looker. Slim, sexy jawline. Nice lips. Not too full, not to thin. 7 O'clock shadow, neatly trimmed. Strait but not perfect teeth. Chews on cinnimon flavored toothpicks. One dimple on the left cheek show it's self when he slightly smiles. Thick lashes line his dark eyes. His complexion, tan. Vioce, deep and confident. He never stumbles over his words, he knows just what to say. His eyes are his best feature though. He's good looking but not model perfect.

Paint · Oct 8, 2005

Scars

Vertical scar in his right eyebrow, giving him an amused questioning look.
He was caddying for his father and dad's golf club caught him in the eye. His father was in a rage over his game and threw the club. Dad gave him $50 and a triple banana split for his wound.

alleycat · Oct 8, 2005

Who are their friends?

Carl is a loner for the most part. He's in an on-again, off-again relationship with Marsha Sullivan, an investment banker who also has a wild side. His only real friend is Walter "Red" Jordan, who in turn has been a hippie, a biker, a short order cook, a musician, a longshoreman and a cattle rustler until finally settling down to run a motorcycle repair shop outside of town called Big Red's. Red is now in his sixties but can be as wild as ever on occasion. Red is the only man that Carl really trusts.

Glynis · Oct 8, 2005

Family
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Carl has an older brother, Dave. His parents still refer to him as "Davey" when they're being nostalgic. Yeah, they have to look back pretty far not to see the man Dave became. Time has not been kind to him and Daddy's money did nothing but smooth his fall into dope and deception.

Carl doesn't have much time for Dave. He tried to help him out a few times over the years only to get burned. Literally. Last time he saw his older brother Dave torched Carl's apartment in a drug fueled rampage.

peer54 · Oct 8, 2005

What is his biggest fear?

Carl is afraid of water. He can't stand large bodies of water. It's not that he's afraid of drowning, he just hates the fact that he can't see what's beneath the water's surface. It may be that he saw 'Jaws' too young. His folks like to joke about how he refused to take a bath when he was 4 years old because he was convinced that there was a shark in the tub.

When people ask why he isn't swimming, he tells them that he can't swim. It's better to be ridiculed for a lack of skill than to confess the truth and have everyone laugh at him. Sometimes, he has nightmares about drowning.

He's never told anyone about his fear of water.

Elincoln · Oct 8, 2005

Where were they born? Where have they lived and where do they call home?

Carl was born in Las Vegas, Nevada where his mom was working her way up the ladder in one of the casinos as a pit boss. She was staying with her sister in a local suburb, but moved to Atlantic City when Carl was four. She claimed for health reasons, but never elaborate. While there, they lived in a small but nice home somewhere in Galloway Township till Carl went to college at New York University. He moved back to Nevada to stay close to his family's roots. Though Carl owns a home along the Jersey Shore (Ocean City to be more precise), he spends most of his time in the finer motels along the strip.

Paint · Oct 9, 2005

Cars and motorcycles

Carl's dad loved the older classic cars. Once they owned a black hearse with pink satin interior. Carl and Davey loved to ride with dad when it was empty, because it had no backseats and they rolled around like little peas on a plate. Another childhood favorite car was a 57 chevy, red and black. The boys earned ice cream waxing it on Sundays.
Mom drove a motor scooter back and forth in Vegas. She could be seen in her work clothes, a mini-skirt and black knee boots heading for work. Now mom drives a black and siver chrome Hummer and loves it dearly.

Yeshanu · Oct 9, 2005

Where does the character go when [he's] angry?

Carl gets in the car and drives into the countryside, going nowhere. He leaves his cellphone behind, and cranks up the CD player in the car. When he's used up half his tank of gas, he drives back home.

Arc_Honest · Oct 10, 2005

Hes Secret-

Hes a masocist: at an early age his partents found him doing self destuctive things, such as the-knife-through-your-fingers-game. eventually at high school one of his friends found him banging his head on a fryin pan, earning him the nick name: Panhead

ANNIE · Oct 10, 2005

Who Hasn't he told his secret to

Marsha his on again off again girl friend. He doesn't think she'll understand- Hell he doesn't understand why he wants to hurt himself. How could he explain it to her? Red knows- Red knows him better than any other living soul.

writerterri · Oct 10, 2005

What makes him cry?

Cutting onions- Carl is tough skinned. He cried once, when his granny died.

Arc_Honest · Oct 11, 2005

He was in love, once. In middle school, a girl by the name of Millia. He had asked her out, but in an uprising of nervousness he started bending his fingers back, and cracking his knuckles. Millia found this distubing and ran out crying an frightened. Ever since hes sunken inside himself, secluding from social relation (as seen by with Marsha) an often ends in falure. Now he'd only say he loves his cars, his family, and his sunday drives.

writerterri · Oct 11, 2005

Building characters (part two)

Nice Writer's. Now we have a basis for a character.

I'm posting part two in a new thread.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Building characters.

writerterri

It's a dorky day!

writerterri

It's a dorky day!

brokenfingers

Walkin' That Road

Yeshanu

Elf Queen

writerterri

It's a dorky day!

Paint

Warrior of Truth

alleycat

Still around

Glynis

peer54

i rite gud

Elincoln

Official Daydreamer of AW

Paint

Warrior of Truth

Yeshanu

Elf Queen

Arc_Honest

ANNIE

writerterri

It's a dorky day!

Arc_Honest

writerterri

It's a dorky day!