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Today’s Topic: How to develop characters (II)
So… one day, I decided to try something new. A character generator. I clicked on: “write me a profile”, and the machine created a character. At the end of the presentation, it stated: For privacy reasons, your creation will be removed from the web at 10:31 am GMT and later deleted from our server unless you choose to publish it.
WTF!!! Is this combinatorial creativity? Original work? Trash? Let’s read it out loud…
Toby is a friendly former tradesperson who is obsessed with creating playlists
~ A Quick Character Profile ~
Toby Tom McCallister is a 73-year-old former tradesperson who enjoys eating out, watching television, and running. He is friendly and creative, but can also be very unkind and a bit impatient.
He is Zimbabwean who defines himself as straight. He finished school and then left academia. He is obsessed with creating playlists.
Physically, Toby is in good shape. He is short with pale skin, dark brown hair, and black eyes.
He grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. His parents separated when he was small, but remained friends and provided a happy, stable home.
He is currently married to Eli Cooper Evans. Eli is 9 years older than him and works as a burglar.
Toby has one child with his late wife Mason: Hana aged 48.
Toby’s best friend is a former tradesperson called Ralphie Wood. They have a very firey friendship. They enjoy podcasting together.
Basic Information
| Name: | Toby Tom McCallister |
| Nicknames: | Teo / Short Toby |
| Reason for nicknames: | Derived from Tom / Descriptive |
| Date of birth: | Wednesday, 19th Jan 1949 (Age 73) |
| Star sign: | Capricorn |
| Nationality: | Zimbabwean |
| Ethnicity: | East Asian |
| Social class: | Middle-class |
| Religion: | Agnostic |
| Sexuality: | Straight |
| Education: | High school |
| Political views: | Centre |
| Relationship status: | Married to Eli Cooper Evans |
| Career paths: | Culinary / Tradesperson |
Physical characteristics
| Height: | Short |
| Shape: | very fine build |
| Build: | heavily built |
| Hair color: | dark brown |
| Eyes: | Black |
| Face shape: | Round |
| Glasses/lenses: | None |
| Distinguishing marks: | None |
| Other words that might be used: | clipped, little, short, squat, stumpy |
Personality
| Positive characteristics: | friendly, creative |
| Negative characteristics: | unkind, impatient |
| Words often used: | creative, friendly, impatient, unkind |
| Other words that might be used: | affable, amiable, amicable, brutal, chummy, companionate, comradely, constructive, cordial, couthie, couthy, cozy, creative, cruel, eager, edged, fanciful, favorable, fictive, friendly, generative, genial, hard, harsh, heartless, hurtful, imaginative, impatient, impatient of, informal, ingenious, inhumane, intimate, intolerant of, inventive, matey, neighborly, neighborly, notional, originative, pally, pitiless, productive, restive, rigorous, short, social, stinging, unforbearing, unkind, unsympathetic, well-disposed, yeasty |
| Moral: | not at all |
| Stable: | Sometimes |
| Loyal: | Sometimes |
| Generous: | Sometimes |
| Extrovert: | Very |
| Compassionate: | not at all |
| IQ: | 91 |
| Hobbies: | eating out, watching television, running, podcasting, extreme ironing, sewing, ferret racing, going to the movies, glamping |
| Obsessions: | creating playlists |
| Diet | eats meat |
| Favorite foods: | donuts, cheese on crackers |
Employment
| Kitchen Assistant | Big Eats | 1967 – 1971 | resigned |
| Sous Chef | Big Eats | 1971 – 1975 | resigned |
| Chef at chain restaurant | Big Eats | 1975 – 1987 | resigned (7 year itch) |
| Chef at chain restaurant | Reliable Curries | 1987 – 1997 | resigned |
| Tea maker | Dana and Daughters | 1997 – 2001 | resigned |
| Tradesperson’s assistant | The Barker Brothers | 2001 – 2005 | resigned |
| Trainee tradesperson | Dana and Daughters | 2005 – 2008 | resigned |
| Tradesperson | The Barker Brothers | 2008 – 2019 | retires |
Background
| Early years | Toby grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. His parents separated when he was small, but remained friends and provided a happy, stable home. |
| Formative years | Toby got his first job as a kitchen assistant at the age of 18 Toby decided not to go to college. |
Political Views
| Abortion: | Undecided |
| Racial equality: | very pro |
| LGBTQ rights: | Undecided |
| Subsidized healthcare: | Undecided |
| Gun control: | Undecided |
| Nuclear disarmament: | very against |
| Death penalty: | Pro |
| Tax cuts for the wealthy: | Against |
| Protecting the environment: | Undecided |
Hell, no! This generator is not for me. I cannot get into the character: feel like him, think like him, act like him. Maybe, another one…
Well, that’s all for today!
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