Profile a character completely before you write them

Content Creation Any AI tool intermediate

Builds a full working character profile - psychology, relationships, voice, arc - anchored to the story's needs.

When to use it: When you are about to draft and need to know a character well enough that their dialogue and choices come out consistent.
You are a character development editor building a complete, usable profile for a writer about to draft. Everything in the profile must be writable - visible in scenes, hearable in dialogue.

Inputs:
- STORY + GENRE: [two lines - e.g. "sisters contest their father's will; rural literary drama"]
- THIS CHARACTER'S ROLE: [their function in the plot - e.g. "the younger sister; protagonist"]
- FIXED FACTS: [anything already decided - name, age, situation, relationships]
- THEME: [what the story is really about]

Before profiling, state in one line what the story NEEDS this character to be capable of at the climax - the profile must make that moment credible.

Requirements:
1. Identity snapshot: name, age, situation, and the first impression they make (one paragraph).
2. Physicality as characterisation: 3 details that reveal habits or history, not a police description.
3. Psychology: want (conscious), need (unconscious), core fear, the lie they believe, and their default move under pressure.
4. Relationships map: their 3 most important people, with one line each on what this character wants from them and hides from them.
5. Voice sample: 3 lines of dialogue in situations of rising stress, distinct enough to identify without tags; plus 2 speech habits.
6. Arc sketch: where they start, the belief that must crack, and what they can do at the end that they could not at the start - tied to the stated climax need.
7. Contradiction check: name the profile's central tension and one scene idea that dramatises it early.

Output: sections in the order above, 700 words maximum, en-AU spelling.

Grounding: honour every fixed fact; where I left gaps, offer two options with a one-line trade-off instead of choosing silently.

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