Role · Goal · Flaw · Relationships
Character Generator
Build a character who wants something, gets in their own way and has people who push on them. Tell the character generator who they are, pick a genre and add any traits, goals, weaknesses, background or relationships you already know. You get a profile with a name, role, appearance, personality, goal, flaw, background and relationships, and every line is written to agree with the others.
How to Use the Character Generator
Start with who they are
Fill in the role or identity, such as a retired ferry captain turned reluctant detective, and choose a genre. Everything else is optional: add personality traits, a goal, a weakness, a short background and the people who matter to them. Whatever you leave empty is invented to fit what you did write.
Read the profile as a set
Each profile has eight lines: Name, Role, Appearance, Personality, Goal, Flaw, Background and Relationships. Check that the flaw makes the goal harder, that the background explains both, and that the relationships create pressure. Ask for three profiles to compare different directions.
Edit, redo and develop
Choose Edit to change any line yourself. Use the redo icon beside a line to rewrite only that line while the rest stays as it is, or choose Develop further to add detail to every line while keeping your edits. Copy the finished profile into your notes.
Make the Flaw Cost Something
A flaw is useful when it gets in the way of the goal. A character who wants to find a saboteur and cannot ask for help has a built-in obstacle in every scene. If a generated flaw is only a quirk, such as clumsiness with no consequence, redo that line with a note that it should cost the character something in the main plot.
Use Relationships to Create Scenes
Relationships make a profile playable. A younger brother in the harbor office and an old rival at the shipyard are two scenes waiting to happen. Give the generator at least one person who loves the character and one who blocks them, then use the result as a starting list for your cast.
Three Starting Profiles to Adapt
These are example inputs you can change before generating. The results will vary with your choices.
A reluctant detective
Retired ferry captain turned reluctant detective. Personality: dry humor, stubborn, notices small details. Goal: find out who rigged the last ferry. Weakness: cannot ask for help.
A fantasy cartographer
Cartographer for a failing guild, anxious but secretly brave. Goal: finish the last true map of the old coast. Relationship: a dying mentor and a rival who copies her work.
A quiet sci-fi engineer
Maintenance engineer on a long-haul station who hides a failing sensor from her captain. Background: grew up on the lower decks. Weakness: avoids confrontation.
Build the Rest of the Story
Add a past with the character backstory generator, design an opponent with the villain generator, or pick names for the supporting cast with the character name generator.
Questions About the Character Generator
What does a generated character profile include?
Eight labelled lines: Name, Role, Appearance, Personality, Goal, Flaw, Background and Relationships. Each is one to three sentences, so the profile is short enough to read at a glance and detailed enough to start a scene from.
Can I use my own character details?
Yes. Anything you enter, such as a goal, a weakness or a relationship, is treated as given and the generator invents the rest around it. Leave all of the optional fields empty if you want it to surprise you.
Can I change one part without losing the rest?
Yes. Use the redo icon beside a line to rewrite only that line, or edit the text directly. Develop further keeps everything you wrote and adds detail to each line.
Does it cost credits?
No. Character generation is free and shares the daily request limit with the other planning tools. Every redo or expansion counts as one request.
Can I write about an existing character from a book or film?
Use your own characters. The tool is built for original characters, and fan fiction with existing characters belongs to the people who created them. For a story about existing characters, use the fan fiction generator and follow its rules.
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