Fit4Fun

Now your character has a shell, memories, thoughts and opinions. Now onto the character of your character to explore what kind of person your character is.

Traits

Traits are like a coin, you can come up heads or tails: good and bad. Everyone has good traits and bad.

Good Traits: Loyalty, Bravery, Kindness, cleverness, Strength, Courage, politeness, Honour

Bad Traits: Greedy, Vain, cruel, Anger, Vindictiveness, Spitefulness, Impulsive, rude, arrogant

Characters need both good and bad. No person is wholly good or evil.

Reasons why

No character is simply kind because they are. No character is spiteful without reason. Characters are clay, moulded by experience. Explore a character’s background and pinpoint certain events that give your character reason to be. In ASOIAF, we can see Sansa/Alayne becoming witty and sarcastic in the Alayne sample chapter in Winds of Winter after a few months under Littlefinger’s wing. In PJO, Luke Castellan becomes bitter and resentful after a failed quest, turning him against Olympus and his dad.

Traits = Motives

Personal traits are the death of straightforwardness. Characters may reject a plain and simple path because they are too loyal, too impulsive, too spiteful and too polite. Harry is too loyal and far too brave. He puts himself in danger to save people even when a safer option is there. Use traits as roadblocks for a character to bump into and then eventually crawl over. Good traits may be the downfall of a character. Ned Stark was too honourable. Bad traits sometimes help a character. Littlefinger is a liar and a betrayer and yet he is still alive in ASOIAF.

They’re his pride now!

punchbuggydragon:

breelandwalker:

irontargaryen:

*cracks neck* my time has come

Okay, first? Pay off all your debts. Take out a small loan and pay it off right away.

Buy several hundred vacant houses. Schedule repairs for said houses with reputable contractors and make sizable down payments in advance. Get everything in writing and hang onto those deeds.

Buy a large open parcel of land that is being auctioned for development. And when I say large, I mean LARGE.

Sink millions into paying off people’s Kickstarters / college loans / medical bills / mortgages, and give generously charity organizations. That alone will carry off a lot of money.

Once you’ve got things down to a reasonable level, say $1m, buy yourself a house, furnishings, appliances, and a dependable car. Pay everything off so that you own it free and clear. Purchase about $200k worth of something easy to liquidate (i.e. gold, gems, bonds, stocks). Put the rest onto prepaid credit cards and wait for Monday to roll around.

NOW THE FUN BEGINS.

You now have commendable credit and a shining public reputation.

Fix up and flip those houses, sell them for fair market value or below to families who need them, or create non-profit homeless shelters. (After all, it’s not like you need to “make” money, this is all running on the proceeds from the property sales.)

Sell the parcel of land to developers, or donate it to public works as a park or open space. Have them name it after you.

Retire to your fully furnished home. Liquidate your extra assets, or leave them to appreciate in value for a later date. Make Christmas epic with those gift cards. Keep the extra money in the bank and keep your day job.

And don’t worry about taxes when return time rolls around, because you’ll be able to write off several millions’ worth of charitable donations.

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