Sunday, December 1, 2013

Iversity: The Future of Storytelling Unit 2: Character Profile & Hook

YOUR CHARACTER PROFILE LIST

Gender: Female
Age: 16
Physical Description (Size, Weight, Defining Attributes…): average height/weight, pink hair in flipped shape that looks vaguely like a tulip
Personality/Nature:  Himeno is kind of a stereotypical genki girl, very cheerful and smiling and impulsive. She's sweet, but she's not afraid to stand her ground and she values herself the most.
Ambitions/Desires: to be recognized, to belong
Is mostly seen as: improper (by her stepsisters + stepmother + the house maids), a wonderful girl (father), kind & observant (Sasame), idiot/impulsive (Hayate)
Sees her/himself as: being worthy of attention,
Loves: her father, her deceased mother, flowers, platonically the other knights, it is implied she may have a crush on Hayate by the end of the series
Believes in: herself, the knights (eventually)
Trusts: herself
Fears most: not being able to take care of or protect the people she cares about
Fights for: the people she cares for
Hates: being left behind, being yelled at and not knowing why
Most important event in life up to date: her mother's death (pre-series), her father's remarriage (pre-series), meeting the leafe knights (1st episode), being the White Pretear (final episode)
Most influenced by: her mother's memory, her father's alcoholic depression, the knights's history
Best Friends: Yayoi
Worst Enemies: Fenrir, Sasame briefly when he turns Dark
Relationship/Family status: step-daughter of a rich business woman, daughter of a single father, doens't quite feel like she belongs in her new family, though
Social/Ethnic Background: her biological mother died when she was young, this sent her father who wrote trashy romance novels into an alcoholic depression and they lived more or less in abject poverty with her becoming parentified, until he met Natsue a rich widowed businesswoman with two daughters of her own from her previous marriage.
Occupation: n/a
Education: high school student, martial arts training, cooking
Hobbies: gardening, martial arts
Special Skills/Talents: green thumb, martial arts skills, Pretear - in combination with the Leafe Knights has the ability to transform them into elemental weapons and shields, at the peak of her selflessness, she can turn fenrir's red snow white and revive the Knights.
Flaws: impulsivity
Disabilities: like the Leafe Knights at the peak of her power, she can drain her own energy too deeply (and the only solution is spoilers)
Special behaviourism(s), quirks,…: gives pep talks to herself, talks to flowers/plants
Style (Dress/Life Style): casual/comfort. Most often seen in her school uniform or the various transformations she undergoes when paired with her knights
Name: Awayuki Himeno
Nickname: Tulip-Head
TV Series, this character is in: Pretear - The New Legend of Snow White
Think about what makes this protagonist worth following through a whole series of episodes. What is it that HOOKed you?
The whole theme of belonging is a big one for me and the fact that the knights are trying so hard to bring her to their side in the first couple episodes. And then the twist in the middle when they finally tell her the truth.