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Basic Main Character Overview Sheet

Sometimes, to me, very detailed character sheets are –to put it lightly– overwhelming. Even I don’t know half of the things listed on them. But that’s just because detailed character planning is not my style. If I micro-manage my character from the get-go, I feel like I put them “in a box” and like they cannot grow within the story.

I suppose, if I were a parent, you could say that I release my children out into the world with little-to-no guidance and just stand on the sidelines, taking notes of what happens to them. Which is why it’s probably a good thing I don’t actually have children.

So, I use the following character sheet for my main character(s). It is very basic but covers a lot of the “big stuff”. I’d thought there had to be other writers out there with the same process as me (hopefully lol) and maybe if you’re one of those writers, you’d like to see other examples of basic character sheets.

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[Character Name] [
age] — [height] [short physical description]

Clothing style/frequently worn clothes:

Eye color: Hair color and style: Other distinguishing physical traits:

Verbal tags: (distinguishing elements to their speech pattern) Characteristic tags: (distinguishing elements to their personality/movement)

Race/Ethnic group:

Level of Education: Occupation: Past Occupations: Skills, Abilities, or Talents:

Admirable personality traits: Negative personality traits:

Things that make angry & how they deal with anger: Things that embarrass & how they deal with embarrassment: Fears & how they deal with fear: Bad habits or vices:

Sense of Humor:

Physical/Mental illness or affliction: (if applicable)

Hobbies/Interests: Favorite Foods: Favorite Place: Item(s) special to character:

Person/friend close to character: Description of home, home life, and economic status:

Brief family history:

Most painful experiences in character’s past:

Character’s goals: Character’s motivation: Character’s conflict:

Summary of Fatal Flaw:

Their Song: (that you most identify with that character)

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Jared doodle

my silly guy - he deserves to be happy every now n then

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their polyamorous swag

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this sucks so bad im gonna (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) divide my personality into different characters and solve personal dilemmas by having debate-style discussions with them

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Any day now

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Pondering my orbs.

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those ads for ai integration on phones are so funny bc it seems like they cant. come up with that many use cases that arent already on a phone? "ask gemini to give you recipes when youre cooking!" "use our AI assistant to find the perfect gift for your girlfriend" yeah or i could just like. google it. you've spent millions on a slightly fancier version of an alexa. good job man.

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congrats on the divorce

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"Andy" being oh-so sweet with Sam:

if it werent for their professional relationship, a romantic one (with Crimson also ofc) would be so good!!

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he's free now

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Online conservative guys obsessed with movie casting have spent years insisting that all that matters is that the actor looks as much like the character as possible. So you can't try to make the cast more diverse, you have to cast who looks like the character exactly. Anyway after one round of people suggesting a trans actress who looks uncannily like Zelda play Zelda in the Legend of Zelda movie they're going "well, there are more important things than looking like the character". Fellas, I'm starting to think these people just want to keep marginalized people from playing anyone

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"average darkner gets divorced 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average darkner gets 0 divorces per year. Divorces G. Spamton, who lives in a dumpster & gets divorced over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted