#characteristics

Do you have any advice on how to (practice?) writing a more diverse cast of personalities?

While I will readily admit putting the same type of character in everything I write, I agree this can become a problem that's hard to figure out. Here's some things you can try.

Shake up your media. Find yourself watching the same things over and over? Switch genres. Note how characters talk and interact. Even if you'll never write a romance or a sci-fi epic, taking notes from character types that stick out to you can help. If you're not sure where to start, pick a few favorite actors and check out the different media they're in. Note how they change their body language and vocabulary from role to role, and how those changes make these characters stick out. Remember: The most important part of this process is to take notes on what makes these characters work. You want to make that technique work for you!

Pre-write characteristic templates. Distinguish body language, verbal tics, and outlooks (a pessimistic character versus an optimistic one) before you start writing. When editing, go through and make sure these characteristics are on the page. You don't have to go overboard and give people thick accents and catchphrases, but you do want to take a hard look at characters that come off the same in dialogue. Is a quiet character talking too much? Is someone who should be aggressive coming off as too calm? Remember that you can always fix this when editing!

Do some low-stakes writing exercises. If it's a real struggle to nail this down, throw your characters into some scenarios that won't end up in the final product. How do they act when they get the wrong order? Get stuck in an elevator? What's the most frustrating situation you can out your calmest character in? What's the most uncomfortable situation you can subject to your main character? You likely won't use this in your main story, but you will be able to gleam insights - and snag some dialogue! - for when these characters are facing down a dragon or negotiating their way out of a gunfight.

Body

descriptors; ample, athletic, barrel-chested, beefy, blocky, bony, brawny, buff, burly, chubby, chiseled, coltish, curvy, fat, fit, herculean, hulking, lanky, lean, long, long-legged, lush, medium build, muscular, narrow, overweight, plump, pot-bellied, pudgy, round, skeletal, skinny, slender, slim, stocky, strong, stout, strong, taut, toned, wide.

Eyebrows

descriptors; bushy, dark, faint, furry, long, plucked, raised, seductive, shaved, short, sleek, sparse, thin, unruly.

shape; arched, diagonal, peaked, round, s-shaped, straight.

Ears

shape; attached lobe, broad lobe, narrow, pointed, round, square, sticking-out.

Eyes

colour; albino, blue (azure, baby blue, caribbean blue, cobalt, ice blue, light blue, midnight, ocean blue, sky blue, steel blue, storm blue,) brown (amber, dark brown, chestnut, chocolate, ebony, gold, hazel, honey, light brown, mocha, pale gold, sable, sepia, teakwood, topaz, whiskey,) gray (concrete gray, marble, misty gray, raincloud, satin gray, smoky, sterling, sugar gray), green (aquamarine, emerald, evergreen, forest green, jade green, leaf green, olive, moss green, sea green, teal, vale).

descriptors; bedroom, bright, cat-like, dull, glittering, red-rimmed, sharp, small, squinty, sunken, sparkling, teary.

positioning/shape; almond, close-set, cross, deep-set, downturned, heavy-lidded, hooded, monolid, round, slanted, upturned, wide-set.

Face

descriptors; angular, cat-like, hallow, sculpted, sharp, wolfish.

shape; chubby, diamond, heart-shaped, long, narrow, oblong, oval, rectangle, round, square, thin, triangle.

Facial Hair

beard; chin curtain, classic, circle, ducktail, dutch, french fork, garibaldi, goatee, hipster, neckbeard, old dutch, spade, stubble, verdi, winter.

clean-shaven

moustache; anchor, brush, english, fu manchu, handlebar, hooked, horseshoe, imperial, lampshade, mistletoe, pencil, toothbrush, walrus.

sideburns; chin strap, mutton chops.

Hair

colour; blonde (ash blonde, golden blonde, beige, honey, platinum blonde, reddish blonde, strawberry-blonde, sunflower blonde,) brown (amber, butterscotch, caramel, champagne, cool brown, golden brown, chocolate, cinnamon, mahogany,) red (apricot, auburn, copper, ginger, titain-haired,), black (expresso, inky-black, jet black, raven, soft black) grey (charcoal gray, salt-and-pepper, silver, steel gray,), white (bleached, snow-white).

descriptors; bedhead, dull, dry, fine, full, layered, limp, messy, neat, oily, shaggy, shinny, slick, smooth, spiky, tangled, thick, thin, thinning, tousled, wispy, wild, windblown.

length; ankle length, bald, buzzed, collar length, ear length, floor length, hip length, mid-back length, neck length, shaved, shoulder length, waist length.

type; beach waves, bushy, curly, frizzy, natural, permed, puffy, ringlets, spiral, straight, thick, thin, wavy.

Hands; calloused, clammy, delicate, elegant, large, plump, rough, small, smooth, square, sturdy, strong.

Fingernails; acrylic, bitten, chipped, curved, claw-like, dirty, fake, grimy, long, manicured, painted, peeling, pointed, ragged, short, uneven.

Fingers; arthritic, cold, elegant, fat, greasy, knobby, slender, stubby.

Lips/Mouth

colour (lipstick); brown (caramel, coffee, nude, nutmeg,) pink (deep rose, fuchsia, magenta, pale peach, raspberry, rose, ) purple (black cherry, plum, violet, wine,) red (deep red, ruby.)

descriptors; chapped, cracked, dry, full, glossy, lush, narrow, pierced, scabby, small, soft, split, swollen, thin, uneven, wide, wrinkled.

shape; bottom-heavy, bow-turned, cupid’s bow, downturned, oval, pouty, rosebud, sharp, top-heavy.

Nose

descriptors; broad, broken, crooked, dainty, droopy, hooked, long, narrow, pointed, raised, round, short, strong, stubby, thin, turned-up, wide.

shape; button, flared, grecian, hawk, roman.

Skin

descriptors; blemished, bruised, chalky, clear, dewy, dimpled, dirty, dry, flaky, flawless, freckled, glowing, hairy, itchy, lined, oily, pimply, rashy, rough, sagging, satiny, scarred, scratched, smooth, splotchy, spotted, tattooed, uneven, wrinkly.

First with, the decimal traps/numbers.

Some extra traits are also:

They have a hard time communicating with words so the only words they say Is "squeak", still trap B tries to teach them.

Like stated in one of the posts of the ask blog, difference to a avarage trap mouse they're smaller and different

They behave less agresively but instead they're more hyperactive.

Now, Let's go on with malarm shall we?

Other traits in malarm are:

Despite being literally stappled to the high-wall, he keeps an eye if anything goes wrong.

Like trap mouse, he Isn't much of a talker. In fact, he's mute.

Whenever code 32-12 goes off, he emits a similar sound an megafone alarm would do.

The Virtue Continuum

1: Integrity: (definition) firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: incorruptibility.

This Virtue is designed to show that your character has a framework of laws and morals that they govern themselves with and exemplify via their actions. Thusly, when this virtue is taken to the extreme via Legalism, your character refuses to change, seeking to engage in extreme observance and conformity to the exact letter of the law over its spirit. Conversely, being deficient in integrity makes your character susceptible to Corruption, either weaponising the framework to control a population or enriching yourself at the expense of others.

2: Discernment: (definition) the ability to see and understand people, things, or situations clearly and intelligently.

This Virtue is designed to show that your character has the experience and capacity to read the room, identify motives, and discern people's exact intentions with a sharp, clear mind. Judgmentalism takes this Virtue to the extreme by focusing on and emphasising extreme scrutiny, heavy accusations and extreme uncharitability based on your character's own personal or moral standards. Foolishness would be when your character/s are operating in an extremely naive, simple way, overly trusting, and entirely too easy to swindle or manipulate.

3: Love: (definition) affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests or warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion.

Love is a powerful Virtue that governs and guides the dynamics and relationships of your characters in your stories. Without Love, there are no daring escapes, fated reunions, or anguish at the loss of a loved one within a tragedy. The extremity of Love is Enabling/Enablement, where a character will bend over backward, handwaving, excusing, over-extending themselves to protect the enabled character from ever facing any kind of consequence. Whereas Selfishness is the complete absence of Love, where your character is cold, manipulative and driven exclusively by self-interest to the extreme disregard of others in all of their relationships.

4: Respect: (definition) a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and deserves appropriate treatment or regard

Respect is a Virtue often conveyed through the care and trust your characters will give one another in certain scenes or moments. Like a character respecting the talents of a wizened healer after they saved their lives, or the admiration and consideration two lifelong friends have for one another and their achievements. Idolatry is when admiration or a sense of how important someone or something becomes an overwhelming drive for your characters; everything they do would be to venerate a person, place, or object they value as greater than themselves. Whereas Disregard isn't even perceiving those people, places, or things as worthy of notice, to view that person, place, or thing as utterly without purpose or value.

5: Humility: (definition) freedom from pride or arrogance. The quality or state of being humble

Humility is very much a Virtue designed for more socially oriented characters. A state wherein your character needs to maintain a sense of measure to ensure they never overplay their hand or throw themselves into a conflict they're ill-equipped to handle. Degradation is an inflated and damaging extreme of this virtue, as it leads to your character viewing themselves, their talents, and all of their achievements as worthless and that they are a strain on everyone else because of how pathetic they are. The other extreme, lies Pride, wherein your character may view themselves as the centre of the universe, that everything they do is amazing and that nothing they scheme up could or would ever go wrong

6: Diligence: (definition) steady, earnest, and energetic effort: persistent and careful hard work

Diligence is a Virtue all about ensuring that everything goes according to plan by doing everything right, cleanly, and quickly. Any act or labour, job or task your character needs to do that is dangerous or requires planning is definitely the place where you would want your character to be at his most diligent, careful, and prepared. The excessive extreme is Workaholism, the practice and drive to obsessively overextend, overwork, and stress your character over every avenue and action they've taken to achieve their goal. The inverse of the Virtue is Slothfulness, complete indifference and apathetic indifference to the labour, action, mission or to the resolution of the aforementioned work.

7: Temperance: (definition) moderation in action, thought, or feeling : restraint

Temperance is the Virtue of measured control. It is the way of structuring your responses to be even-handed and to avoid allowing outside influences to affect you. Specifically in avoiding short-sighted or irrational responses to major changes/events. Strictness is Temperance to an extreme degree, it is a natural state when experiencing Judgementalism, sticking to a routine of intense discipline and narrow scope to keep a sense of control via stress and implied/real punishment for failure. Whereas Licentiousness is the complete and total abandonment of restraint and Temperance of a person. Their morals are eroded due to prioritising their hedonistic desires or as an extension of moral or legal Corruption. Everything means nothing unless it serves the licentious figure and their desires.

8: Courage: (definition) mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty

Disney love is not based on imagination but is based on written books for example Peter Pan, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast. The other route is a collection of non written works such as Mulan, and the Aristocrats where it derived from imagination or feedback from the clientele.

Does Disney struggle with promoting it ideal definition of love?

Yes, it does struggle with promoting it's ideal definition of love as love is not the main focus in the narrative of the story. The are other words that need to be mentioned which is narrated through the World of Disney. The word like resilience, strength, bravery, fierce were being promoted through the World of Disney. The other one was Friend and their relationship to one another. I think the World of Disney represents the different archetypes of characteristics and personalities within a group living together and communicating with others and enjoying the archetypes of personality and characteristics.

Does it need to change what it focus on?