Comprehensive Character Attribute Form

Type of character (protagonist, antagonist, sidekick, etc.):Protagonist

Character’s name: Cordelia

Goal: To end a broken war

Flaw: Inability to face the past

Age: 16

Sex: Female

Height: 5ft

Weight: 124lbs

Race: Mermaid

Hair colour: Blonde with green and blue highlights

Eyes: Green

Grooming: Bathes often

Clothing: Coral printed playsuit and mismatched trainers

Health issues: Skin dries out if not in ocean at least once a day

Physical abilities: Strong swimmer

Speech (accent):

Parents: Mother she lives with and father unknown

Siblings: none

Friends: 2 best friends who are twins

Best friend (or person closest to): 2 best friends she grew up with

Least favourite people: A girl in the student council

Enemies: The 3 crows

Pets: none

Residence: small beach shack near the ocean

Neighbourhood: quiet, secluded

Cultural background: unaware of who she is

Religion (and attitudes about religion): none

Memberships: used to have membership at the local pool

Schooling: was home-schooled until everything crashed around her

Attitude toward school: Scary and a little worrying

Popularity: made new friends but not completely loved for who she is

Mentors: none

Heroes: her mother who risked everything to set her free

Favourite sports: swimming

Work experience: none

Hobbies: swimming

Likes and dislikes (music, movies, TV, books, etc.): her best friends, books on fairy tales and far off places

Fears: the truth she buried

Dreams: to swim around the world

Life goals (in 5, 10, 30 years): to know her father

Nervous habits: starts drawing when nervous

Foibles: easily scared

Reasoning style: rational person who believes everything happens for a reason

How would your character’s friends describe her or him? Someone who is up for a challenge but also extremely loyal

Is your character shy or bold? bold

Is your character talkative or taciturn? Can be talkative but only once she gets to know people

What most irritates, embarrasses, or bores your character? People who think they are better than everyone else

How would your character complete the sentence “My life is a chaotic mess”?

Other things I thought of while filling out this form: Her life was flipped upside down in one day and she lost her only family.

Cordelia: She has no memory of her father but knows her mother doesn’t like talking about him so she never asks and always does as she is told. She is a loyal person who is willing to do anything to make her mother happy. She usually wears loose fitting clothes often adorned with sea life like her favourite coral printed playsuit and mixes things up by wearing oddly coloured shoes. Her favourite colours are blue and green and for reasons she did not know that her skin would begin to crack every day unless she swam in the ocean. Her best friends are twins and exact opposites who would describe her as extremely loyal. Upon her daily swim in the ocean on her 16th birthday she grew a tail which started a lot of events from bad people coming after her to her mother sending her away with her friends leaving her to question who she really is and if her mother was still alive.

Emma Amos

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