Deeper Detail;
character development worksheet
PART I: PHYSICAL
FULL NAME: Mackenzie Peta Richards
SEX: Female
AGE: 31, January 1st
HEIGHT: 5'7"
WEIGHT: 134lbs
SHAPE: Curvaceous; round hips, toned thighs/calves, buxom bosom. Rounded face; voluptuous lips, small nose, arched eyebrows.
HAIR: Dark, near black; naturally colored, short style, cropped around shoulders, unkempt, tussled appearance.
EYES: Rounded eyes; blue in color, 20/20 vision, expressive of emotions -mischief, woe, laughter.
POSTURE/STANCE: Has Military training; holds self well, slouches in private, relaxed and casual. Adheres to SOP with military/army events.
IDENTIFIERS: Scar on side left middle finger; laceration from childhood, working on car with Dad. Disjointed pinky on right hand; broken in bomb blast, can click/slip in and out of place. Mild pollen allergy, allergic to latex.
APPEARANCE: Attractive; curvy but not overweight, unkempt in a grunge kind of way, slightly bent nose, messy hair but not greasy or oily. Usually has motor oil/grease/diesel on person.
RACE & HEREDITY: Caucasian, Irish/American; takes after father, light skin, dark hair.
SPEECH: Mixed accent; Texan/New York light drawl. Drops vowels when drunk, slurs when tired. Generally loud and clear spoken.
FITNESS: Maintains military level fitness; uses boxing and weight training. Runs to burn off excess energy.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual; displays casual flirtation with female persons, unknown to have followed through with flirtations.
HABITS: Chews lip ring when nervous, if lip ring is out, chews lip. Drums foot against table/chair/desk/wall/floor when bored.
PART II: SOCIOLOGY
CLASS: Middle class; remained there following fathers death.
OCCUPATION/CAREER: Army/Military contracted mechanic, Sergeant in Army. Devoted mechanic, skilled and able at work. Works for herself as well as Army, can and will take outside commissions. Specialises in vintage cars.
EDUCATION: Public schooling; moved through three high schools. Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, Masters in Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering. Attended Syracuse University for Bachelors and Masters, attained PhD at Military Academy.
HOME LIFE: Mother, Cara-Lee, lives in Tennessee. Father, Henry, deceased when Mac was 16. Strained relationship with mother, closer to father up until his death. Formerly engaged; Mac's fiancée was killed in the line of duty.
RELIGION: Non-practising Catholic. Formerly from Catholic schools, Mac still has her faith, she just doesn't practise it.
PLACE IN COMMUNITY: On base mechanic for Washington Army facility. Close with Army personnel, good friends with CO and General of the base. Comfortable in her role.
RECREATION/ENTERTAINMENT: Reads Auto-Work magazines, buys car part catalogues. Favors non-fiction books and documentary shows; interested in all military/army/navy documentaries and war movies. Visits Army bases and museums in spare time.
FRIENDS: Close with her Uncle Raymond, good friend with CO, Captain Sykes -almost older brother figure. Looks to General Stone as surrogate Father figure.
PLACES: Calls Texas home, has bought apartment in New York. Prefers to travel rather than stay still. More of an outdoors person, likes to drive from place to place. Wants to do another year travelling.
PART III: PSYCHOLOGY
MORALS: Monogamous, believes in 'an eye for an eye' and karma. Never cheated on a partner, will have casual sex if unattached.
AMBITION: Following military, looks to open own shop -keep working on cars, potentially own several vintage vehicles.
REGRETS: Loss of fiancée, loss of father -unable to tell Dad about mutant powers, unable to share her success with him. Losing touch with mother and sisters, emotional detachment.
TEMPERAMENT: Mostly a realist, has slight flights of fancy. Death of father at young age -pivotal age- pulled away optimistic views, killed a few dreams. Tends to live life now.
FEARS: Losing people, letting them get too close and losing them. Failure in a battle situation, losing self worth. Phobia of large fish and snakes.
ABILITIES: Skilled mechanic, good listener, sounding board for ideas. Loyal to 'family' and comrades. Speaks stilted Spanish.
INTELLIGENCE: Above average intelligence, mostly common sense and life smarts. Slightly lazy and under applied.
PART IV: HISTORY
• Third birthday; visited Military History Museum in Nampa
• Watching 'The Great Escape' twelve times in hospital waiting area while Mom was in labor
• First day of school; wearing Dad's tags
• Jillian walking for the first time
• Moving to Florida; visiting the base with Dad
• School play; getting the role of MacDuff
• Watching Dad fix up the Chevy, explaining everything he did
• Cutting finger on Chevy engine; spending the night at A&E
• The Map; placing the first post-it notes up, in Dad's handwriting
• Moving to Texas, Dierdra's birth
• Driving in the Chevy for the first time, to a base ball game in San Antonia
• Leaving Texas and going to Tennessee, not fitting in at an all girls school
• Adding places to the map and heading to the US Reserve
• Dad's death
• Exclusions at school, mild depression and emotionally withdrawing from family
• Stress induced onset of mutant powers
• Figuring out mutant powers and what they did, but keeping it a secret
• Graduating High School and getting partial scholarship to Syracuse University
• Living with Uncle Raymond in New York
• Losing virginity to Mike Matthews in his dorm
• Getting Bachelors degree and taking a year to travel
• Driving across country, adding to The Map with new places and facts
PART I: PHYSICAL
FULL NAME: Mackenzie Peta Richards
SEX: Female
AGE: 31, January 1st
HEIGHT: 5'7"
WEIGHT: 134lbs
SHAPE: Curvaceous; round hips, toned thighs/calves, buxom bosom. Rounded face; voluptuous lips, small nose, arched eyebrows.
HAIR: Dark, near black; naturally colored, short style, cropped around shoulders, unkempt, tussled appearance.
EYES: Rounded eyes; blue in color, 20/20 vision, expressive of emotions -mischief, woe, laughter.
POSTURE/STANCE: Has Military training; holds self well, slouches in private, relaxed and casual. Adheres to SOP with military/army events.
IDENTIFIERS: Scar on side left middle finger; laceration from childhood, working on car with Dad. Disjointed pinky on right hand; broken in bomb blast, can click/slip in and out of place. Mild pollen allergy, allergic to latex.
APPEARANCE: Attractive; curvy but not overweight, unkempt in a grunge kind of way, slightly bent nose, messy hair but not greasy or oily. Usually has motor oil/grease/diesel on person.
RACE & HEREDITY: Caucasian, Irish/American; takes after father, light skin, dark hair.
SPEECH: Mixed accent; Texan/New York light drawl. Drops vowels when drunk, slurs when tired. Generally loud and clear spoken.
FITNESS: Maintains military level fitness; uses boxing and weight training. Runs to burn off excess energy.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual; displays casual flirtation with female persons, unknown to have followed through with flirtations.
HABITS: Chews lip ring when nervous, if lip ring is out, chews lip. Drums foot against table/chair/desk/wall/floor when bored.
PART II: SOCIOLOGY
CLASS: Middle class; remained there following fathers death.
OCCUPATION/CAREER: Army/Military contracted mechanic, Sergeant in Army. Devoted mechanic, skilled and able at work. Works for herself as well as Army, can and will take outside commissions. Specialises in vintage cars.
EDUCATION: Public schooling; moved through three high schools. Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, Masters in Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering. Attended Syracuse University for Bachelors and Masters, attained PhD at Military Academy.
HOME LIFE: Mother, Cara-Lee, lives in Tennessee. Father, Henry, deceased when Mac was 16. Strained relationship with mother, closer to father up until his death. Formerly engaged; Mac's fiancée was killed in the line of duty.
RELIGION: Non-practising Catholic. Formerly from Catholic schools, Mac still has her faith, she just doesn't practise it.
PLACE IN COMMUNITY: On base mechanic for Washington Army facility. Close with Army personnel, good friends with CO and General of the base. Comfortable in her role.
RECREATION/ENTERTAINMENT: Reads Auto-Work magazines, buys car part catalogues. Favors non-fiction books and documentary shows; interested in all military/army/navy documentaries and war movies. Visits Army bases and museums in spare time.
FRIENDS: Close with her Uncle Raymond, good friend with CO, Captain Sykes -almost older brother figure. Looks to General Stone as surrogate Father figure.
PLACES: Calls Texas home, has bought apartment in New York. Prefers to travel rather than stay still. More of an outdoors person, likes to drive from place to place. Wants to do another year travelling.
PART III: PSYCHOLOGY
MORALS: Monogamous, believes in 'an eye for an eye' and karma. Never cheated on a partner, will have casual sex if unattached.
AMBITION: Following military, looks to open own shop -keep working on cars, potentially own several vintage vehicles.
REGRETS: Loss of fiancée, loss of father -unable to tell Dad about mutant powers, unable to share her success with him. Losing touch with mother and sisters, emotional detachment.
TEMPERAMENT: Mostly a realist, has slight flights of fancy. Death of father at young age -pivotal age- pulled away optimistic views, killed a few dreams. Tends to live life now.
FEARS: Losing people, letting them get too close and losing them. Failure in a battle situation, losing self worth. Phobia of large fish and snakes.
ABILITIES: Skilled mechanic, good listener, sounding board for ideas. Loyal to 'family' and comrades. Speaks stilted Spanish.
INTELLIGENCE: Above average intelligence, mostly common sense and life smarts. Slightly lazy and under applied.
PART IV: HISTORY
• Third birthday; visited Military History Museum in Nampa
• Watching 'The Great Escape' twelve times in hospital waiting area while Mom was in labor
• First day of school; wearing Dad's tags
• Jillian walking for the first time
• Moving to Florida; visiting the base with Dad
• School play; getting the role of MacDuff
• Watching Dad fix up the Chevy, explaining everything he did
• Cutting finger on Chevy engine; spending the night at A&E
• The Map; placing the first post-it notes up, in Dad's handwriting
• Moving to Texas, Dierdra's birth
• Driving in the Chevy for the first time, to a base ball game in San Antonia
• Leaving Texas and going to Tennessee, not fitting in at an all girls school
• Adding places to the map and heading to the US Reserve
• Dad's death
• Exclusions at school, mild depression and emotionally withdrawing from family
• Stress induced onset of mutant powers
• Figuring out mutant powers and what they did, but keeping it a secret
• Graduating High School and getting partial scholarship to Syracuse University
• Living with Uncle Raymond in New York
• Losing virginity to Mike Matthews in his dorm
• Getting Bachelors degree and taking a year to travel
• Driving across country, adding to The Map with new places and facts