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• 1 2017-12-06T12:01:38-08:00 What Makes Us Who We Are 10 Creating your main character image_header 2017-12-16T02:53:57-08:00 We're almost to writing, but there's the slightly large detail of who your main character or characters are going to be. I'm putting this last because all of the other parts matter in creating your character. With a grasp of everything else, let's sit down and figure out who they are and their purpose in this scene of your story (if you need to refresh yourselves about what the task was or your answers, each part's title is a note, clicking on it will pull up the text on that slide, pressing go to note on the bottom will bring you back to that part so you can review your activity).
  In Choose Your Fantasy, you chose the mood of their journey and lives.
  In Enlarging Your World, you figured out the location and description of this place which helps determine their purpose being here.
  In What's Up, People, you figured out their culture, appearance, and roots (for the purpose of this part if you did a different race there because you're using an actual human race and aren't creating anything for your main character, do focus on your main character to describe them).
  In So You Want To Play With Magic, you created the magic system and how a magic user would wield it or how a non-magic user might respond to people who do use it.
  Now let's combine all the info that we put together and describe our characters.
  Activity: Basing off of all the data put together a description of your character (later on in the semester we'll put much more focus into character development, this is just to build within the scene).
  
  Example: Alex is a seemingly stereotypical muscle man from Greece with a dark past. In Greece he was a sailor with his partner as part of a fishing crew. However, out in the seas they ran across the sirens, whose enchanting song lured everyone to their deaths except Alex who remembered how Odysseus and his crew were told to plug their ears with beeswax. Lacking beeswax he put his earbuds in and blasted music at max volume so he couldn't hear the sirens...only to watch as all of his friends and the man he loved jumped off the edge of the boat to follow the song and drowned. After seeing how the presence of the Gods and their monsters caused such death, when Atsa came telling him of an opportunity to seal them away again he jumped for the chance so nobody else would suffer like he did. Because homophobia is rather rampant in Greece he doesn't reveal he isn't straight, so being tall, tan, and muscular from hard work sailing leads to women fawning over him which makes him deeply uncomfortable. He's trapped in Ceo because after Jon, a character who had most of his mind erased by the force opposing the Gods that Alex thinks they should ditch to be able to better save the world, said fae once which brings their attention Alex decided in his rather rash nature to say fuck it and repeat the word multiple times leading to the fae picking them up because they were actually willing to forgive Jon and not take them but Alex basically made them want to teach him a lesson. Because his first exposure to mythology coming back to the world was death of the guy he loved he's highly distrustful of the magic and everything else that came back with the Return.