Character Creator

The Prompt

Create a detailed character profile for [ROLE/ARCHETYPE] in a [GENRE] story.

**Identity:**
- Name (with meaning/origin)
- Age, appearance (3 distinctive features, not exhaustive)
- Occupation and social position

**Psychology:**
- Core motivation (what they want more than anything)
- Core fear (what they'll do anything to avoid)
- Fatal flaw (the thing that will be their undoing)
- Contradiction (how they surprise people who think they know them)

**Voice:**
- Speech patterns (5 example phrases they'd actually say)
- What they never talk about
- How they sound different when angry vs comfortable

**Relationships:**
- How they treat people with less power
- How they treat people with more power
- Their best quality according to friends
- Their worst quality according to enemies

**Arc potential:**
- What must change for them to get what they want?
- What are they wrong about at the start?
- What would break them?

Make this character feel like a real person with contradictions, not a trait checklist.

How To Use It

Specify the role the character plays in your story and the genre. The AI will create someone with internal contradictions that drive conflict naturally. Use the voice samples to maintain consistency when writing their dialogue.

Why It Works

Great characters have internal contradictions — they want two incompatible things. This prompt forces that tension through the motivation/fear/flaw structure and ensures the character can sustain a story through the arc potential section.

Variations

Antagonist builder:

Create a villain who genuinely believes they're the hero. Their goal must be sympathetic, their methods must be wrong, and they must have a point your protagonist can't easily dismiss.

Ensemble cast:

Create 4 characters for a [GENRE] story who complement and contrast each other. Each should challenge another's worldview and represent a different approach to [CENTRAL THEME].

Character voice test:

Here's a character I've created: [DESCRIPTION]. Write the same scene from their POV 3 times: first meeting someone, receiving bad news, and being caught in a lie. Show consistent voice across all three.