101 Questions You Should Be Able to Answer About Your Character
Basics
1. What is your full name? Do you have a nickname?
Phineas Flynn, Some people call me Phin.
2. How old are you? When is your birthday?
I'm 19, and my birthday is September 30th.
3. Where were you born? Where do you live now? Are you patriotic?
I was born in Danville, New Jersey. I live on the campus of Disney University, which is in Anytown, USA. I'm pretty homogenized American, yep.
4. Who are/were your parents? (Names, occupations, personalities, etc.)
My mom is Linda Flynn-Fletcher, and my stepdad is Lawrence Fletcher. Mom's an upbeat, but sarcastic stay-at-home, on-the-go mom, and dad works as a museum curator who does lectures about odd and rare artifacts. Dad's from Worchestershire, England.
5. Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?
I have an older sister, Candace, she's four years older than me and she's really loving and protective of me and my brother Ferb. She's your typical girl-next-door type of lady. And I've got an older stepbrother, Ferb, and he's my best friend. He's pretty quiet, but he's not shy. He's probably the most interesting guy I've ever had the pleasure to know - also one of the smartest!
6. What is your occupation?
I'm a full time college student right now, and my major is in mechanical design.
7. How tall are you? How much do you weigh?
I'm 6'2" and weigh 188 lbs.
8. What color is your hair? What color are your eyes?
It's red, and they're brown. My hair is a perpetual mess, and people have sometimes said my eyes are more hazel than they are brown, but for all intents and purposes, I say brown, because they're on the brown end of hazel.
9. What is your race?
I'm a human. I'm also Irish-American.
10. To which social class do you belong?
Upper middle class, though I think that Ferb and I are pretty well off since were really good at keeping tabs on our bank account that we put all our funding in.
11. Do you consider yourself to be attractive? Do others?
I guess so? I don't really pay attention, but I know I'm on the above-side of average.
12. What is your style of dress?
Casual stuff. I wear a lot of jeans and t-shirts, with button up shirts over, and always steel-toed shoes, because I never know when I'm going to be doing heavy lifting.
13. Do you have any scars? Tattoos? Birthmarks? Other unique physical features?
I have one tattoo, actually! It's across my collarbone and it's a quote from Albert Einstein - "Imagination is more important than knowledge." It's one of my favorite quotes, considering the guy was a genius, and he put imagination above his own brilliance and knowlege. I like to live up to it.
I also like to consider my hair as a "unique physical feature". In my canon, I've got a triangle shaped head!
14. Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?
I'm allergic to certain ingredients in perfumes, and I'm pretty scrawny, actually.
15. Are you right- or left-handed?
I've trained myself to be ambidextrous, but I'm actually a righty.
16. What does your voice sound like?
Well, I've been told my voice is a little nasal, but very upbeat and positive sounding. I can carry a tune.
17. What kind of vocabulary do you use?
A combination of east coast slang and science geekery!
18. List three quirks or other defining characteristics.
I love to invent, I try to think up things that could be useful to someone, or could be fun for everyone!
I've been told I'm pretty oblivious to subtle hints about stuff.
I'm a vegetarian - I can't eat things I know have had a face before. It's just really sad to think about!
19. How often do you bathe? Do you wear perfumes?
Daily, sometimes twice daily. And nope, I can't, see answer 14.
20. What kind of facial expression do you commonly wear (dour glare, wry smile, etc)?
I usually have a smile on my face.
21. Do you use body language? How?
Sure, I don't know anyone who doesn't! I talk with my hands a little, but I shrug a lot, and tilt my head, and y'know. Normal body language stuff.
22. Do you have a commonly used saying?
Yes, yes I do.
Childhood
23. What is your earliest memory?
That's got to be when I first met Ferb and my stepdad. That was a really exciting day for me.
24. How much schooling have you had? Did you enjoy it?
I've been through primary, middle and high school, and now I'm in college. I LOVE school. Not as much as my friend, Baljeet, obviously, I mean, who would like it that much? But yeah, I love learning.
25. Where did you learn most of your knowledge and skill?
Most of it, I learned through textbooks and school, but since Ferb is just about the biggest human depository for useless facts, I think he helped out a lot. Dad, too.
26. How would you describe your childhood in general?
It was pretty awesome!
27. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I think that changed day to day. If I couldn't do it right then (and believe me, I did a LOT of it), I wanted to do it when I grew up. I think I settled on ride designer and inventor when I was about 15.
28. When and with whom was your first kiss?
*Nervous chuckle* Yeah, about that...
29. Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?
Not... well, I mean, I haven't been kissed yet, kinda not planning on answering this one for a while.
30. Do you have a notorious or celebrated ancestor? Does that affect you?
Quite a few, but other than stories? I don't think most of 'em really affect me that much.
Influences
31. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?
So far? I think the summer that I was 11 kind of turned everything around. We vowed to do something really incredible and memorable every day, and we did. It was awesome.
32. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I can't really decide between all of my inventions, discoveries, or things I helped out with - but my favorite achievement was when Ferb and I finally got our first patent!
33. What is your greatest regret?
Why would I have any regrets?
34. What is the most embarrassing or shameful thing ever to happen to you?
I've had a lot of embarrassing moments, but I think the most embarrassing was finding out that one of our prototype transporter rays didn't transport clothes along with. *eegh face*
35. Do you have any secrets? If so, what are they?
I've got a couple secret crushes and I secretly know Perry is a secret agent, but I never told anyone, even Perry himself. I keep it to myself because well, it'd blow his cover if I told anyone I wasn't as oblivious as I acted about that.
36. What is the most evil thing you have ever done?
I don't think I've ever done anything evil. Maybe a little sneaky, but never outright evil. I guess talking to our local Evil Genius could count.
37. When was the time you were the most frightened?
I'm not sure, there were a lot of times I kind of risked my life but none of them hold up higher than the others.
38. Have you ever traveled outside of your country? If so, to where?
Yep! I've been to England, and to France (briefly), and to Australia, to outer space, and prehistoric times (those count, because it wasn't the USA yet.)
Beliefs
39. What is your alignment?
I suppose I could call myself Neutral Good.
40. Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic?
Optimism! All the time!
41. Do you believe in a god? If so, which one and why?
Enh, I'm pretty non-religious. I'm agnostic.
42. Do you believe in an afterlife?
I don't see why there wouldn't be one.
43. What is your greatest fear?
That would be if any of my family got hurt or died. I really don't like the idea of any of them disappearing, either.
44. What makes you angry? Sad? Happy? Why?
Emotional things? I dunno, that all really depends on the situation. I mean, a zombie would be really scary in person, but on a movie screen, they're not scary at all. You know, everything needs context.
45. Do you think people are basically good or basically evil?
I think it depends on who they are and the factors around them. I think people have the ability to be both, or neither, or somewhere in between them at any given time.
46. What are your views on politics? Religion? Sex?
I keep up with political stuff but I don't really enjoy talking about it. Religion is good for some people, but I try not to get myself too bogged down in dogmatic mentality. Er, wouldn't... wouldn't know.
47. What are your views on gambling, lying, theft, and killing?
I like to make friendly wagers on occasion but I wouldn't go to vegas to test my luck over ridiculous odds. Lying isn't in my nature. Theft is petty and weak, in my opinion. Killing is wrong.
48. How far will you go to defend your beliefs?
Enh, I'll debate a little but I won't get all worked up about it.
49. How much do you value money?
It's useful, but I'm not greedy about it.
50. In your opinion, what is the most evil thing any human being could do?
Kill another creature.
51. Do you believe in self-sacrifice for the greater good?
Yes!
52. Do you believe in the existence of soul mates and/or true love?
After seeing mom and dad? Yeah. I believe in true love.
53. Are you superstitious?
Not really.
54. How much do you respect the beliefs and opinions of others?
Very much! I think if it works for them, then it's okay by me.
55. How honest are you about your thoughts and feelings?
Incredibly honest. Sometimes I'll keep things close to the vest because they might hurt someone else, buuuut generally I'm forthright.
56. Do you have any biases or prejudices?
I like the Jets, and think that the Patriots are cheats.
Dealing With Others
57. Who is the most important person in your life, and why?
My best friend and stepbrother, Ferb. He's always been my foil, he keeps me out of making horrible decisions.
58. Who is the person you respect the most? Despise the most? Why?
I respect everyone equally, and I don't hate anyone.
59. Do you have a significant other? Who?
Er. Not... not yet.
60. Do you have a lot of friends? Who is your best friend?
Sure do! My best friend (other than Ferb) is Isabella Garcia-Shapiro. We've been friends since we were kids.
61. How do you relate to members of the same race? Class? Sex?
Normally, I guess?
62. How do you relate to members of a different race? Class? Sex?
Er, equally normally?
63. Have you ever been in love? If so, describe what happened.
Nope.
64. What do you look for in a potential lover?
Okay, what the heck? These questions are really starting to weird me out. I dunno. I like a nice personality, and intelligence, and it doesn't hurt if she's cute, either.
65. How close are you to your family?
Very! We still keep in touch, and I made sure we had a primo family plan on our cell phones so we don't have to pay to call each other.
66. Do you want a marriage, family, and/or children?
Er, eventually? But I'm only 19, who thinks about that stuff when they're in college?
67. Do you tend to argue with people, or avoid conflict?
I try to change the subject to something we both can agree on, or I try to find something about their argument that I'm copecetic with and run with it.
68. Are you a listener or a talker?
I'm definitely a talker.
69. How long does it usually take for you to trust others?
Instantly. I trust people, until they give me reason not to.
70. Do you hold grudges?
Nope. Life's too short for that.
71. Do you tend to take on leadership roles in social situations?
Yep!
72. Do you like interacting with large groups of people?
Oh heck yeah, I do! I love being on stage, I love going to parties, and anywhere where there's a crowd.
73. How well do you express yourself?
I think I express myself really well, all things considered.
74. How quickly do you judge others?
Not at all. Why would I do that?
75. Do you care what others think of you?
Sometimes!
76. Do you have any enemies? How or why are they your enemy?
Nope!
Personal Taste and Opinions
77. What is your favorite pasttime? Color? Food? Possession?
I love building things. Orange. Mango. I dunno, I really like my laptop!
78. What are your preferences in arts and/or entertainment?
I like a little bit of everything, but I'm huge into music.
79. Do you smoke, drink, go whoring, or use drugs? Why or why not?
Nope, nope, nope, nope. Don't need that stuff to have a good time.
80. How do you spend a typical Saturday night?
Either working on coursework or enjoying a night out with my friends.
81. What is your most cherished fantasy?
Seriously? Right now? I kinda don't wanna say. Er. Well, it involves this girl...
82. How long is your attention span?
When it's something I love doing, it's infinite. When it's anything else, I tend to space out quickly.
83. Do you laugh a lot? What do you find funny?
Yep! I find a lot of stuff funny. Slapstick comedy's pretty cool.
84. Is there anything that shocks or offends you? If so, what?
Yeah, the way some guys treat women, the way animals are treated when they're bound to be food, puppy mills, stuff like that. I get offended by all that stuff. And a little sad when I think about it. And a bit angry, too.
85. How do you deal with stress?
I go on a walk and think things through.
86. How much athletic ability do you have? Artistic?
I'm pretty athletic - I like running and jumping and playing sports, but only casually, I think I'm pretty artistic, I do like painting and building and creating. I also LOVE making music.
87. Do you like animals? Do you like children?
Yes! I love animals. Kids are cool, too.
88. Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?
I'm spontaneous with my planning? I'm a little of both.
89. What are your pet peeves?
See 84.
Self-Image
90. What is your greatest strength as a person? Weakness?
I think I'm a positive and imaginative person. I'm pretty aloof, I think.
91. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I'd be more attentive to detail, like Ferb.
92. Are you generally introverted or extroverted?
I'm definitely the extrovert of the family.
93. Do you like yourself?
Yep!
94. Do you have a daily routine? How do you feel if your day is interrupted?
Yep, usually. I don't mind interruptions though.
95. What goal do you most want to accomplish in the next six months? Your lifetime?
I hope to get all my coursework and exams done and in my lifetime? I hope to really have as much packed into it as possible.
96. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?
I don't think that far ahead. I go by a loose four year schedule.
97. If you could choose, how would you want to die?
Really old and really happy, and preferably asleep.
98. What is the one thing you would like to be remembered for after your death?
Wow, morbid question, er. I want to be remembered for my contributions to society!
99. What three words would you use to best describe your personality?
Optimistic, kind, exciting.
100. What three words would others probably use to describe you?
Probably the same three words in 99? I dunno.
101. Why are you risking your life to adventure?
I'm not risking it, I've got protective gear!