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Writing A Character: Questionnaire

It’s here! Here is a list I put together of 50 of my favorite questions to help develop a character. A lot of these I didn’t come up with myself, so to all those Tumblr users who made the original individual questions, thank you! Credit for those goes to them! Here you go:

What is your character’s name? Does the character have a nickname?

What is your character’s hair color? Eye color? What kind of distinguishing facial features does your character have? Does your character have a birthmark? Where is it? What about scars? How did he get them?

Describe your characters family. Any brothers or sisters? If so, what’s there relationship like? Are they still in contact? Describe their parents or guardians if any. How were they treated growing up? What’s their relationship with their family now?

Describe your characters friends. If they are a more developed character, you could fill out some of these questions for them. How close are they to their friends? How did they meet?

Is your character in a relationship? What’s her/his name, how did they meet, how close are they? Describe dates they have or how they spend time together.

Have they ever had their heart broken?

What is in your character’s refrigerator right now? On his bedroom floor? On his nightstand? In his garbage can?

How does your character prefer to dress? Does this reflect on their personality?

How would someone who knows your character describe them?

How would your character describe themselves?

What is your character’s house like? How is it decorated?

What is your characters bed/bedroom look like? Is it messy or perfectly tidy or somewhere in between?

Age? Do they act this age?

Any nicknames? Do they like being called this?

Where do they live? How long have they lived here? Describe this place as well as you can. What are the people there like?

Health (is this person usually sick? or very resilient?)

Is your character more athletic or intellectual or artistic, or something different all together?

How do they feel about religion or other issues that affect them or their communities?

Who is someone that your character confides in?

Does your character have a secret? Do they keep it well hidden or do they reveal it on occasion? To whom?

Who does your character care about most?

Any children? If so, what ages? Describe them.

Would your character kill to protect anyone? Who? Why?

Who or what would your character die for?

Does your character drink/smoke/or do drugs? How do they feel about this? How do others feel about this?

Favorites? Food, color, etc.

What kind of music do they listen to?

Describe their hobbies. Are they a musician, an athlete, what do they like to do?

Describe their personality.

Introvert or Extrovert?

Social or a bit socially awkward? How do they feel in social situations?

How do they react to medical treatments/doctors?

Fears?

Anxiety, paranoia, or any mental health issues?

What does your character dream of at night? If they ever have nightmares, what are they about?

Has your character ever been depressed? Why?

Give a backstory. Why does your character act the way they do? Does this backstory affect that?

How does your character react to loss? Have they ever lost anyone close?

What are some flaws/weaknesses your character has?

What are some good qualities about your character?

What are some of your character’s greatest achievements?

What makes your character smile? Laugh?

What makes your character sad? Cry?

Describe an antagonist, if any, your character has? What are they like?

Does your character have any disabilities/obstacles? Does your character overcome them? How?

Is there something they are likely to die from? What?

Do they believe in the paranormal? Life after death?

If your character went through something that left them completely disabled, how would they react?

What makes your character angry/upset? Where do they go when they are angry? Who do they confide in?

How does your character feel about violence?

Alright! I hope you find this useful! If you have any questions at all about these, send me an ask with the number from the question, and I’ll answer it about a character from my horror blog, John. Happy character developing!

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Height Difference AUs

1. “I’m in a bookshop and I really need that book can you get it for me??? Wait you’ve read that book? let’s have an in depth conversation about it.”

2. “You were trying to reach for a box of cereal and a whole shelf’s-worth of cereal boxes fell on you here let me help”

3. “We’re both baristas and sometimes I have trouble reaching for things and I show up to work one day to find a personalized stool with hearts and my name on it i hATE YOU but also thanks”

4. “You are very tall and I am very short so you run into me all the time and honestly this is getting ridiculous”

5. I’m in art class and I just opened a cupboard to find a tiny person (you) squished inside and you just looked at and said “shh i’m hiding”

6. “We’re on the bus and I’m really not trying to take up your space I’m sorry I just have rlly rlly long legs” 

7. We’re at a concert and I can’t see a thing let me sit on your shoulders, maybe?” 

8. “You’re afraid that you’ll lose me in big crowds so you always hold my hand but now you just hold my hand when there’s only, like, five people around and I’m getting vry suspicious” 

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It’s funny how this was just meant to be an anatomy practice x’D but I look forward to it to make it something heart-warming of my precious babies. *-* It killed me but I’m glad how it turned out.

This is kind of a story that I’m planning with my friend n3rd-p0w3r . We still can’t find an appropriate name for this series so for now we just name it “Detective Au”.  We are working on the characters profiles, and so far we only have Aoi’s (blackhaired guy) and Shina’s (ginger). 

This picture is just something that we visualize waaaaaaay to the future. 

Anyways here is the Tumblr where we are going to summit more “Detective Au” stuff. LAIFAU

I hope you can look forward to it! xD

Artali Aoi belongs to n3rd-p0w3r 

Ueno Shina belongs to me

#Artali Family #Ueno Shina #Artali Aoi #Detective Au

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Master post of au’s that need to be written

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HUGE ASS AU MASTERPOST

hello im charlie or radicalrumps and im gonna show u some gr8 aus I have found here on tumblr (almost 300 aus wowie)

(ill try and update this everytime I find a new post kk)

Keep reading

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some of my college experiences that would make good au prompts:

“i have the only dorm room with a bathtub in the building, wanna check it out?”

related au to the above: i also have a walk in closet and when we were checking it out, my awful roommate came home and we don’t want to walk out of it, ‘cause i’m avoiding her, so now we’re stuck in the closet and whoops we’re hooking up

i fell asleep on the game room pool table in the dorm and you woke me up and brought me back to my room

i wrote a poem about wanting to hook up with a guy in my class and now i have to read it in front of everyone and listen to them critique it, including the unknowing subject of the poem

you came over for “help studying” and my roommate came home five minutes after we were done hooking up and you got roped into a conversation about her dogs and everyone is uncomfortable

staying over at the boy’s room and waking up in the middle of the night to have sex while his roommate is asleep and every time, his room mate yells “STOP FUCKING, JESUS CHRIST” right when we’re about to finish

i work in the cafeteria on campus and every day you check the deli to see if i’m working bc apparently i make the best sandwiches. later, we meet at a party and your drunk ass introduces me to everyone as “the sandwich lady.”

introducing my friend from the bible belt to porn by showing her the weirdest porn we could find (”ARE YOU READY FOR THIS CLOWN DICK?” “no, i am not.”)

we’re both in the same department and somehow end up with almost identical schedules every semester, even our elective classes, like how does this happen and also i wanna fight you????

you’re walking me back to my dorm at night and i know you like me but you keep beating around the bush, so i’m gonna stand in the middle of the street and refuse to move until you say it

this is the first time i’ve stayed over in your room and you didn’t want to wake me up when you went to work, so i didn’t wake up until after noon and your two roommates that i’ve never met are staring at me??

wow, that guy that always sits next to me in class looks really familiar - OH MY GOD HE’S MY EX BOYFRIEND’S SUITEMATE AND HE’S DEFINITELY HEARD US HAVING SEX

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Writing Master post V3 -OTP/ Au Edition-

Who: -Hogs the blanket -Cuts the others hair -Makes coffee for the other every morning -Picks up the pizza -Likes their music on full volume -Complains about the crumbs on the bed -Is ticklish -Sings and which one plays the music -Proposes -Put the peeps in the microwave -Forgot to put the cat outside before sex -Posts vines of the other doing embarrassing shit -Breaks the most phones -Dies first -Would be lactose intolerant -Thinks they can do something really well even though they can’t -Is more likely to get kicked out of the bed -Uses the computer most -Wraps presents horribly and has to get help from the other -Excitedly wakes up their partner on Christmas morning -Holds the mistletoe over the both of their heads -Sets up the Christmas lights and who holds the ladder -Gets angry at little kids and tells them Santa isn’t real -Bails the other out of mall jail for telling kids Santa isn’t real -Placed mistletoe in every room of the house to get in as many kisses as possible -Cooks normally? -Starts the fights -Is more likely to pay for dinner? -Remembers things? -Cusses more?

Imagine: - Multilingual characters calling their lover pet names in their mother tongue is one of my favorite things.

-Getting slightly too drunk in the middle of the afternoon and slow dancing to dumb cheesy old music and kissing in a way that’s more laughter than actual kissing, mouths clumsy and hands gripping tight and sunlight slanting over them as they move lazily together

-Curling up on the sofa together, feet tucked under thighs and arms around shoulders, watch the kind of crap TV that only airs at 3am because they don’t want to go to untangle themselves to go to bed

-Hectic mornings when they each need to be somewhere and they’re rushing around each other, ducking into bathrooms and bedrooms and kitchen cupboards, pausing to straighten tops and press kisses to cheeks

-Going through old photos together and collapsing into laughter every three pictures, and zooming in on ones where they’re pulling awful faces or ones that were taken at just the wrong moment

-Getting ready for nights out together, standing shoulder to shoulder as they brush their teeth or get their faces ready or style their hair, knocking elbows and hips as they try and hog more space

-Standing quietly together in the kitchen after long, exhausting days, leaning into each other for support, breathing in the smell of home, fingers carding through hair and stroking down spines, until they feel like they can relax and smile properly again

-Multilingual characters switching to their native language when they get too aroused / emotional / angry

-Multilingual characters slipping into their mother tongue when they hey drink or are to tired/lazy to bother with the mental acrobatics of speaking the common tongue

-Getting drunk and cooking together.

AUs:

-Meeting while waiting for hours on end in the emergency room -Monopoly night -Pointing guns at each other, tears in their eyes, because they’re both commissioned to kill. -Commiserating on a night shift at McDonald -You were the only one that offered to help me move in -Marching band -Sharing a high school school textbook and leaving each other notes and answers in page corners -Working in a museum -Panicked yelling in unison because of lost baggage in between connecting flights -The guy living below me has a really loud alarm clock that always wakes me up at the ass crack of dawn  -I went to investigate a scream and found my neighbor standing on a chair to avoid a rat/cockroach/snake  -My neighbor has a really squeaky bed and my bedroom is right below theirs  -Someone keeps stealing my doormat  -My pet tarantula escaped and I forgot to warn the guy below me who is scared of spiders  -I need you to pet sit my pet this weekend and I forgot to mention it’s a giant snake, the mice are in the freezer, thanks bye!  -The apartment above me has left their tap on or something and water is LEAKING THROUGH MY CEILING WTF!  -My neighbor’s sister got the wrong house number and barged into my apartment -The guy next door/my roommate always steals my coffee, so I started to make extra -Accidentally fell asleep on each other on the train   -Always in front of me in line for the coffee shop with a ridiculous order that takes forever to make   -“I moved into the apartment next door and it’s 100% haunted please let me crash here for the night”   -“I may or may not have robbed a bank just now and please help me get away I’ll repay you in sexual favors and also cash”   -Neighbor who’s way too enthusiastic about LOTR soundtracks   -That one asshole costumer that always comes in 5 minutes before the store is about to close   -“I don’t know you but you were at that party last night and long story short I now have your name tattooed on my ass”   -“Could you please move your bed a little further from the wall I’m trying to work” -“My friends dared me to go on this roller coaster but now that we’re at the top it looks way too scary and hello hot person sitting next to me (careful i might puke)”   -“I was trying to take a sneaky picture of you because i told my friend about the hot guy on the train and she wanted to see but you totally noticed and yeah this is awkward”   -“That is a hideous shirt you should totally just take it off” -“That asshole stole my song at karaoke night”   -Met on the fire escape outside the apartment for smokes   -Ice hockey rival teams   -Hot lifeguard   -“you were rollerblading across the street and i almost hit you with my car but holy shit you look really hot in leg warmers”  -“we’re rival superheroes in a city that really doesn’t need any in the first place”   -“we’re next door neighbors in an apartment building with really thin walls and we talk a lot but we’ve never seen each other in person”   -“alternately, we’re next door neighbors and we scream at each other through the walls and the landlord demanded we work it out and holy shit i would’ve never guessed you were this hot”   -“you’re a flute player and I’m a percussionist and our love is forbidden”   -“I’m a hospital nurse and you’re on drugs and you won’t stop flirting with me” -“we both have insanely drunk friends at this party and they’re making out and hey we could just follow their example”   -“i follow you on tumblr and i have a huge crush on you and I’m pretty sure i ran into you in a coffee shop what do i do”   -“you’re the lead in the school play and you keep glancing at me when you’re singing to the love interest”   -“we’re both single riders on a super intense roller coaster and we somehow ended up holding hands, do you maybe wanna get some ice cream”    -“I’m the newspaper person and i accidentally nailed you in the face with a paper when you were opening your door, of course i would love to come in for coffee”  -“we’re the only people at party city working on Halloween and you look really hot in that costume wanna make out in the back” -I got up at 2 am to get some snacks at the convenience store down the street and opened my door to find you trying to sleep on the floor of the hallway because your roommate has his fiancée over so i guess i’ll lend you my couch for the night   -my stupid cat sneaked out on the balcony and into your open window and he has this habit of destroying furniture and pissing everywhere so i followed him inside and you came home earlier than i expected and found me in the middle of your living room but i swear i’m not a burglar ok -you left your USB flash drive in the library computer and i had to go through your files to figure out who you are and i ended up reading the entirety of this book you’re working on and wow you’re actually really good???? -i was trying to read in the park and your stray football fucking knocked me unconscious -This really cute guy rented the apartment over the bakery/flower shop/store i work at and i keep trying to find excuses to be outside when he comes home -it’s 3 am and you’re blasting off classic rock at full volume and your music taste might be awesome but some PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FUCKING SLEEP YOU SHITHEAD -my best mate somehow fucked up my TV and tonight is the season premiere of this show i really really like and no live stream will work on my computer so will you please let me watch it on your TV i promise I’ll go back to my flat once it’s over -look I’m glad you have a healthy sex life and all but will you please try not to pierce a hole through my ceiling with your bed thanks -“we’re in the same art class and I’m awesome, but you’re not and you’re failing and you need help so I guess I’ll tutor you” -“I mistook you for my best friend and jumped on your back in public and now I’m embarrassed” -“we’re playing the same music quartet and you keep glaring at me from across the set-up and I don’t know why” -“I’m a jeweler and you always come in to buy stuff so I assume you have you have a significant other and don’t hit on you, but it turns out you’re just really nice to your mom” -“you’re a delivery person and why do you always order so much STUFF” -“I work at Starbucks and you come in so often that I know your daily order and write encouraging notes on your cup” -“I work at a sex toy shop and you come in frequently so I assume you have a significant other, but you just like coming in to make fun of how weird the toys are” -“you work at a museum and I like to come by a lot in my free time and wait why do you seem to follow me around from exhibit to exhibit” -“we both like walking in the park at night and I think you’re a stalker so I accidentally attack you and give you a black eye sorry” -“we met through mutual friends and you call me a different name but I don’t have the heart to correct you” -“you work at a botanical garden and when I go, I get stung by a bee and have an allergic reaction and you accompany me to the hospital because no one else will” -“I’m a bartender and I have to cut you off after a certain amount because you’re drinking to forget your ex and I end up calling you a cab” -“you’re dressed as the Easter bunny at our town’s Easter egg hunt and I take my younger sibling, but she’s afraid of people in costumes and you accidentally make her cry and you take off the bunny head to apologize and hey you’re kinda cute” -“you were a child actor in that one TV show that I can’t remember the name of and I can’t stop staring at you I’m so sorry I’m just trying to figure this out” -“we follow each other on instagram but don’t know each other that well and I was snooping through and liked a picture from 176 weeks ago oh god” -“we live in adjacent apartments and the walls are really thin, so I hear you sing every morning in the shower at 6:30 and you’re actually really good and I stand next to the wall and sing the next lyric just to see what would happen” -“we live in the same apartment complex and I accidentally leave my laundry in the washer for a minute too long and you decide to take out all my wet clothes to put in yours just as I walk in” -“I work in a grocery store and I’m putting new items on the shelf in the refrigerated section and just as I’m putting a new carton of milk on the shelf, you reach in and our hands touch”   -FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST -I can’t tell whether this is a date because you asked to see a movie but I’m still not sure you’re queer, and I’m toeing the line because maybe you’re just trying to make friends -One of us thinks this is a date but the other thinks it’s an informal job interview -I decided to flip a coin about every decision in my life for a week and that’s how we ended up on a date -We’re both meant to be going on blind dates with other people but we sat down at the wrong table and got our hopes up -We took each others underwear from the laundromat by mistake -I got drunk and sent a sexy naked pic to my ex but I sent it to you instead by mistake -We had one really bad date and never spoke again and now our friends have set us up on a blind date -“I’m calling to cancel our date because I’m actually in the ER right now, sorry. …I mean, sure, I guess you can come down here, but… okay…” -We had sex at the office party but we’re both workaholics so we don’t normally date -We’re going on a blind date - but wait a moment, aren’t you that went down on me in a back alley behind a club year ago? … what do you mean “which one”? -You bought me at a charity auction and you’re probably a serial killer -You’re my waiter and I’m on a really crappy date with an asshole -Your appointment with a sexual therapist was right after mine and we got talking in the waiting room -We’re on a blind date, but wait a moment… aren’t you that guy who gave me a hand job at a Renaissance Zaire a year ago?… what do you MEAN “WHICH ONE”? -We both picked the same power ballad at karaoke so we sang a duet -We’re both trying to take advantage of the unlimited appetizers deal on separate dates at TGI Fridays and I got the mozzarella sticks and I’m on my sixth plate and I want to die, can I PLEASE swap you for some of your wings?

-‘I met you last night when you were drunkenly patting my dog in my backyard at 3 in the morning and when i asked you what the hell you were doing you slurred something about dogs being great and then you threw up on my feet and then fifteen minutes later you were passed out on my couch so that’s why you’re here right now also what the frick is your name and why were you patting a dog in a stranger’s backyard in the middle of the night’

-‘I’m an Ikea employee and every day for the last week I’ve had to ask you to leave the store because you keep coming in and sleeping in the beds seriously are you homeless or something I can call a shelter’

-'I don’t know who you are but we keep running into each other on the street and getting into screaming arguments over the stupidest things and I’m actually looking forward to our next meeting because you’re annoying as hell but gdi you’re hot as frick and its kind of fun to argue with you’

-'I’m in my underpants in a laundromat waiting for my clothes to get washed and your clothes are in the machine next to mine and I noticed that when you put your clothes in they were all covered in blood what the frick’

-'Last night was a haze for both of us and somehow we woke up hungover in a bed that isn’t either of ours and also neither of us recognize this apartment we should probably get out of here before someone calls the cops on us’

-'Last night was supposed to be a one night stand but we drunkenly got each others names tattooed on each others ass cheeks so now its kind of hard to forget you’

- 'you found me hanging by my fingertips from your window and I don’t want to tell you I was trying to rob you but idk how else to explain this and I don’t want to go to jail and also you’re kind of cute we should make out when I’m not clinging onto your window ledge for my life’

-Little bruises and cuts that show up are actually little injuries that happened to your soul mate -Being reunited after surviving the zombie apocalypse unknowing if the other was alive or dead -Rescuing their partner from a recon mission gone wrong -Drama school rivals being cast as romantic opposites because they have “crazy sexual tension” -“Are we both robbing the same house oh fuck” -Growing up together in a rough neighborhood -Mutual friends always dragged to the same inane barbecues -Where everybody is born with heterochromia

Other:

-a ghost getting brought back to life but they’ve been a ghost for so long that they have trouble adjusting.

-a little girl who grows up thinking all doors are automatic but actually she’s haunted by a really polite ghost

-what if your phobias are based off how you died in a past life

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#aoi #shina #yamaki #art #detectives au #shit dai posts

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Neighbor AUs by me feat. my actual neighbor

Go follow said neighbor! 

1) “ive only seen you come out of your house once when you ran shrieking after your indoor cat who bolted outside" au

2)  “i definitely just accidentally opened a package that was not meant to be delivered to me and oh god i did not order these im too ace for this” au

3)  “your lawn is in shambles and youre making the whole neighborhood look bad so im going to yell passive aggressive comments at you until you get off your butt aND MOW YOUR LAWN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS” au

4) “So your tv is facing the window and you’ve been watching ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ for three days straight I just want to make sure you’re okay” au

5) “I’m learning to drive and I crashed into your fence and part of your garden I’m so sorry I’ll put the fence back and help you replant.” 

6) “We have bedroom windows that face each other and because of this you know my room is still princess themed and I know that you wear cookie monster pajamas”

7) “My parents make me drive you to school because you literally live next door but you’re aLWAYS late.” 

8) “Sometimes when I can’t sleep I’ll sneak out, walk to your house and throw pebbles at your window. You let me in and we cuddle while you read aloud to me.” 

9) “I’ve known you since birth, basically, and we grew up to be complete opposites so now we never talk even though we still live next to each other.” 

10) “You’re always outside playing basketball and I’m always out working on my car. We’ve never talked but wow you’re so pretty.” 

P.S. #7 is how my parents fell in love <3 

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We met in Vegas one night and woke up next morning in a honeymoon suite naked, hungover and married AU

You are my annoying next door neighbor and you keep me up all night with your partying AU

You’re an underwear model and there’s a giant billboard of your toned body just across from where I work so I have to look at you every day AU

We accidentally switched our suitcases from the airport terminal AU

We live door to door and your loud singing in the shower every evening annoys the shit out of me AU

We meet every day on our lunch break by the hot-dog stand and one time I forget my wallet so you buy me a hot-dog (it was not a date ) AU

You are my dentist and I have the bigest crush on you and one time you give me too much laughing gas so I end up telling you that AU

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Height Difference AUs

1. “I’m in a bookshop and I really need that book can you get it for me??? Wait you’ve read that book? let’s have an in depth conversation about it.”

2. “You were trying to reach for a box of cereal and a whole shelf’s-worth of cereal boxes fell on you here let me help”

3. “We’re both baristas and sometimes I have trouble reaching for things and I show up to work one day to find a personalized stool with hearts and my name on it i hATE YOU but also thanks”

4. “You are very tall and I am very short so you run into me all the time and honestly this is getting ridiculous”

5. I’m in art class and I just opened a cupboard to find a tiny person (you) squished inside and you just looked at and said “shh i’m hiding”

6. “We’re on the bus and I’m really not trying to take up your space I’m sorry I just have rlly rlly long legs” 

7. We’re at a concert and I can’t see a thing let me sit on your shoulders, maybe?” 

8. “You’re afraid that you’ll lose me in big crowds so you always hold my hand but now you just hold my hand when there’s only, like, five people around and I’m getting vry suspicious” 

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airport-related aus tho:

i fell asleep on your shoulder and you were too polite to move or wake me up au

we have the same luggage and didn’t check the tags before we left so i’m calling you to exchange suitcases (and you also had some interesting things in your bag so i’m excited to meet you) au

author of book gets seated next to someone reading their book and making entertaining faces at each scene au 

bonding solely via eye contact over that annoying person on our plane that we’re both slowly becoming more and more exasperated about au

you fell asleep and i started making funny faces at your kid to keep them amused and the steward mistook us for a couple au

actually, any mistaken for a couple au

i’m afraid of flying and you were incredibly helpful and tolerant and sweet about it au

i made a horrible first impression at the gate or in line for airport food but now we’re sitting next to each other au

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