Character Data

Character Data: Scott Macey

Name: Scott Macey
Age: 45
Appearance: male, old, tired, sick
Occupation: gangster
Income:$10,000 a day
Class: Upper Middle Class
Occupation of parents: parents dead
Family members: Daughter, Wife
Education: College education
Place of residence: Texas
Place of birth (if different): Texas
Religion: Catholic
Ethnic Background: Irish roots
Hobbies: Being a gangster, smoking, witty puns
Pet(s): no pets

Talents: murder, drinking
Dislikes: Cancer
Eccentric Habits: Murder
Phobias: spiders
Favorite foods: pizza and fries
Manner of dress: rugged dressing, tattered clothes
Favorite color: Pink
Sound of voice: rough old man voice (smoker lungs)
Aspirations: to survive cancer
Favorite place: Any Bar
Number of friends: 2 (wife and daughter)
Drinking habits: as much as possible
Smoking habits: as much as possible
Drug habits: as much as possible
Preferences - music: country
                      Entertainment

How does this character react under stress? He smokes his cigarettes and drinks until he forgets
What does this character do to celebrate?Smoke and drink
How does s/he express anger? Drinking aggressively 
      “                         “   Pleasure? Night in with his family
What is his/her greatest secret? He is a secret gangster
What is his/her greatest desire? Immortality
What is his/her ugliest fault? Murder of multiple people

What symbol might you use to represent this character? Pack of cigarettes 

Comments

  1. AimeeMarch 15, 2018 at 7:27 AM

    Okay, so you've sketched out the basic details of this character. This appears to have been written quickly, and so you haven't given yourself a lot to go on in terms of character depth, which is the purpose of the assignment. To really understand Scott Macey, you would have to get beyond these surface level descriptions. Otherwise, he becomes flat and cartoonish----a villain who is difficult to relate to in any way. He's just a convenient tool to tell the story, and the danger there is that the plot of the story will overwhelm the conflicts of the characters. Without well developed individuals in our stories, it's easy to fall back on cliche or familiar story lines because we're moving around paper thin characters who have no substance. My recommendation for you is to go back and figure out how to make Scott more vividly real. Think about Walter White, since this is a similar story line. He has many characteristics, not just one. He is a nerdy chemistry teacher who is, at least in the beginning, a person who wants to leave his family with some money. He evolves into something different, but he has both good and bad qualities that are specific to him. How can Scott be made to have a more realistic inner life, so you can avoid creating a one-dimensional person who we don't believe?

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