ALEXIS WHITAKER: This 25 year old brunette has wavy, long, dark brown hair with dark brown eyes to match. She usually adorns herself with elaborate up-dos and glitzy jewelry and dinner wear. She is doing her best to break into the fashion industry as a model and a fashion designer. However, very two-faced and pretentious, ALEXIS holds herself with great poise to the point of being snooty and condescending to others. She looks down upon all of her younger siblings, having a particularly strong sibling rivalry with MARIA. Overall, ALEXIS embodies vanity and materialism, and puts herself ahead of everyone else.
JOSHUA WHITAKER: JOSHUA is 23 years old with dark eyes and a thin scraggly build. He is never dressed or put together very well, almost always having stubble and unkempt hair. He made it through high school successfully, but never went further than that, deciding to pursue a life as an ‘inventor and entrepreneur’. He always pursues his wealthy father for money to support his crazy and perpetually floundering ideas. He’s always talking like a salesman, trying to lure people into his latest scheme to rope him in some more money. Aside from his ridiculous spending of his father’s money on things like a house with a large pool, he also has a drinking problem. He drinks away half the money to his name, only to return to his father for more. His family see’s him, unsurprisingly, as nothing but a leech, while he only sees them as a means to get what he wants.
MARIA WHITAKER: Acting young for her age, MARIA, although 21 is very moody. Although her personality is often very ‘in-your-face’ obnoxious and sometimes energetic, she has a very catty and underhanded side as well. Her style is bold and bright, and she has black hair that is cut in a short bob. She is heavier than any of her sisters and this is one of the main reasons spurring MARIA’s intense jealousy of ALEXIS. MARIA too desires to go into the industry of fashion as a model, having gone to the same post-secondary school as ALEXIS. However, everyone views ALEXIS as being more successful and MARIA as just being the jealous copy-cat trying desperately to get the same amount of attention – which is partially true.
ELECTRA WHITAKER: ELECTRA is an old soul for her young age of 20, being the youngest sibling. She is reserved and polite, always dressed modestly and is very observant. She has long, incredibly curly red hair, and is very tall and thin. ELECTRA was always teased as a child for being a red-head by all of her siblings, and no one can pull her buttons like they do. While she is reserved and calm, when pushed to the limit her wrath is unmatched. It takes a fair bit to provoke her temper, but once it’s set free she’s a force to be reckoned with. She was always daddy’s girl, the closest to their father in the group, and she is currently in post-secondary school for law.
***************************These were my character descriptions for my play.
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Your characters are excellent, they have a lot depth. Their personalities are very clear, your examples really help create that effect. The one thing you could improve is the physical description, possibly, i feel like if there was a bit of more physical description, that would be excellent!
ReplyDeleteI like how you chose to narrow down the characters. i felt like there were too many last time. i think you did really well on teh descriptions of the characters.. y ou went above and beyond, commenting on what they'd like to do in the future, and added examples of their personality traits, making them seem like real people you know rather than scripted characters
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading these descriptions. Your images of these characters are very vivid and clear. I would love to read your play
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