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FATHER ROBERT HOLMES (mid 40s) has spent most of his life travelling through Third World countries, spreading the word of God. His faith has stood strong despite the horrors of humanity he's seen. Once the virus hit, Bobby - as he likes to be called - was convinced the apocalypse was upon us.
The dreams started soon after. The dreams that have made him question his faith. This animal that haunts him -- mocks him, must be stopped. For Bobby believes it to be Satan himself, ready to claim his bounty.
James Fleming (30's) is the consummate stoic. So little emotion passes from him that he not only approaches everything from an angle of perfect logic, but decided to go into psychology since he would be unaffected by people's continual streams of sob stories. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology as well as the medical degree that he only got to further his career rather than prescribe any medication, a practice he deplores since logic and counseling is cure for all the world's troubles. He is a doctor, but doesn't care if he is addressed as such.
This strength of responding to every situation with cool logic is also his greatest weakness. He doesn't really understand why people act the way they do despite his psychological background. He does enjoy a good laugh and has a very dry but solid wit, but that's about the extent of it. Reaching his heart and forcing a decision based purely on emotion as opposed to logic would be the greatest growth he could experience. The most unlikely things he would see happening would be a young girl getting through that exterior to love, finding the creature and it bringing him happiness/fear, or a combination of both events...
He finds the dreams both intriguing and troubling since such things go against his better judgment. All the same, he is immensely curious (as an intense curiosity practically replaces his emotion) and travels to see about this creature plaguing his sleep. He has no desire to kill anything, and in his mind, he doubts its existence, despite the growing coincidences of other people dreaming of the same thing.
I love words and the fact that when the page is blank...there's nothing there until words are formulated in my brain. Those thoughts...rushing through my viens and out my finger tips, find "life" on the page.
When people and places come to life...that to me is exciting.
MBCgirl =) My finger nails should look nice while I type - Red works!
He might. After all, he goes in for intellect that comes with age, but at the same time, logic would dictate that if he were to have a serious relationship with a future, he would need to ensure that she would have sufficient child-bearing years so that once this crisis is over (if he should survive), he could do his part is continuing the human species.
But would he tolerate a potential intellectual decline in favor of the children that may never come? Hm...
INNOCENCE, late 20s, a refugee from Nigeria, she came to the US with her young daughter to escape hardships in her homeland. In the US she fell into the company of men who filled her head with false promises, and as such wound up trapped in a life no better than the one she left behind. She was used and abused, trapped in a murky world of despair with no other means to provide for her daughter.
On one fateful day, she murdered one of her abusers in self-defence, to protect her daughter. As a result, she was jailed, and her daughter taken into care. Innocence had already spent 3 years in a state prison on the day the virus swept across the land. In the midst of the chaos, she escaped. Her immediate concern was to find her daughter, but the virus had found her first.
Innocence had all but given up on life, dead inside from the loss of her daughter, but then the dreams started – visions of a creature not of this world, and at its side, her daughter. Innocence now travels the land with the sole purpose of finding this creature; what will happen when she does, is unknown to her.
This is a really cool idea. I'll try my hand to get me back into the swing of things here.
RYAN PARKER- 18, was a high school football quarterback. He is a softy at heart. He's very mature for is age and liked by almost everyone for his always positive attitude. He's afraid of letting his father down and not making it as a football player. He also fears for his fathers life, who has cancer.
Ryan starts to have dreams of the creature. In the dreams the creature always killing Ryans father, and Ryan is always helpless to save him. With every dream that passes, his father grows more ill. He hates his dreams because he hates to see his father suffer. Whatever this creature is, Ryan has to stop it.
This is a really cool idea. I'll try my hand to get me back into the swing of things here.
RYAN PARKER- 18, a high school football quarterback who is a softy at heart. He's very mature for is age and liked by almost everyone for his always positive attitude. He's afraid of letting his father down and not making it as a football player.
You did good. There isn't a right and wrong way to do these characters and it depends on who you ask but if you are asking me then I think you need to include how your character reacts to the dreams. You don't have to say anything about the dreams they have but we need to know how your character feels about them - even if your character doesn't care either way.
The reason for this is that it is almost guaranteed to come up as a subject for your character to react to or discuss and since you aren't always in charge of your character, you don't want other authors making this decision for you.
At the end one for and one against character will remain standing. That means as soon as your character is the only for or against character left in the game then they will be safe until the end of the game.
James Fleming (30's) is the consummate stoic. So little emotion passes from him that he not only approaches everything from an angle of perfect logic, but decided to go into psychology since he would be unaffected by people's continual streams of sob stories. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology as well as the medical degree that he only got to further his career rather than prescribe any medication, a practice he deplores since logic and counseling is cure for all the world's troubles. He is a doctor, but doesn't care if he is addressed as such.
This strength of responding to every situation with cool logic is also his greatest weakness. He doesn't really understand why people act the way they do despite his psychological background. He does enjoy a good laugh and has a very dry but solid wit, but that's about the extent of it. Reaching his heart and forcing a decision based purely on emotion as opposed to logic would be the greatest growth he could experience. The most unlikely things he would see happening would be a young girl getting through that exterior to love, finding the creature and it bringing him happiness/fear, or a combination of both events...
He finds the dreams both intriguing and troubling since such things go against his better judgment. All the same, he is immensely curious (as an intense curiosity practically replaces his emotion) and travels to see about this creature plaguing his sleep. He has no desire to kill anything, and in his mind, he doubts its existence, despite the growing coincidences of other people dreaming of the same thing.
Besides, he's never been to Niagra Falls.
Ok, I bet that's more than enough.
I've got a lot of questions about this character. My mind is swirling in questions.
I envision her as a broken-hearted woman, who has lost everything that meant anything to her. Her daughter was her purpose, and when she died, so did everything that was good in the world.
She's had a hard life, and has become hardened as a result. Her time in prison turned her into a tough and resourceful person. Her only comfort comes from the handful of letters written to her by her daughter, whist Innocence was in jail.
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I find her a bit oxymoron-ish as she has rosary beads and carries a shotgun! Great job! 
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