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Three Strengths - Three Weaknesses



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Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:32 pm
Tevatron says...



I want you to come up with three strengths and then three weaknesses for one of your characters. Not physical strengths/weaknesses, just ones specifically relating to their personality.

Tier One: interacting with the world
The first strength and weakness should be easy to come up with. A talent, a vice, a skill, a bad habit, that kind of thing. This deals with the more material level.

Tier Two: interacting with other people
For the second one, we get a little deeper, perhaps relating how they deal with their interpersonal issues.

Tier Three: interaction with self
The third one is where it gets tougher, despite the development level of the character. Your character is probably unaware that they posses these traits, so it takes more thinking to find them. The third strength should be their deepest and most personal, where we find their true motivation. The third weakness is the thing that really eats away at them from within, generated internally.


I'll provide an example in the post below.
  





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Character: Arthur "Art" Belmonte

Tier One

Strength: Art is a fast learner, and as a result has cultivated many skills and interests. He has a love of knowledge.
Weakness: Art gets frustrated and fixated when he can't do something, allowing his work to take over his life.


Tier Two

Strength: Art is deep down very caring when he is close to someone. He also genuinely wants to help people.
Weakness: He has difficulty letting people into his life, figuring out his true emotions, and expressing how he feels.


Tier Three

Strength: Art is empowered by his intelligence, it's his source of confidence. Feeling like he can tackle a problem is the greatest thing for him. He's the most himself when he's working, when he knows he can accomplish something concrete.
Weakness: Art has creeping self-doubt that often overrides his judgment, he thinks of himself as a loner, unable to interact with people how he'd like, unable to fix everything. Even if the goals he has deep down are unrealistic, failing to meet his own expectations makes him depressed. He also has some body image issues that bug him occasionally.
  








It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien