CHARACTERS & SIBLINGS — ask game! ✨
How many siblings does your character have?
Where does your character fall in the birth order?
What is the age gap between each sibling?
Are they full siblings, half-siblings, step-siblings, or adopted?
Do they all live together? If not, why?
Who does your character connect with the most?
Were they raised together from early childhood, or brought together later?
What is your character’s earliest memory involving a sibling?
How did they feel when each sibling was born or arrived? (excited, jealous, confused, or indifferent?)
Who did they bond with first growing up?
Were they compared to a sibling often as a child?
Who took the role or a mentor?
Who got into trouble first, and who got blamed?
Who does your character struggles with the most?
Is the affection between siblings openly shown or mostly unspoken?
Do they trust their siblings with secrets?
Who do they go to when in a crisis?
Is there love mixed with resentment?
Do they feel responsible for any sibling’s happiness or safety?
Which traits do the siblings share?
Which traits clash the most?
Who is more responsible? More reckless?
Who is more emotionally expressive?
Which ones are complete opposites? Do they fight over it?
Does the character define themselves by not being like a sibling?
Do others mistake siblings for each other in behavior or reputation?
What “role” does each sibling play? (protector, peacemaker, rebel, golden child, outsider….)
Was this role chosen or forced onto them?
Who parents the others when the adults fail?
Who gets away with the most?
Who is expected to succeed?
Who usually “wins” arguments?
Has your character ever taken punishment for a sibling?
Who steps in when things go too far?
Would your character lie to protect a sibling?
Have the siblings ever failed to protect one another?
Do they believe family should always come first?
How do the siblings usually hang out together?
Are they known as a “package deal” or completely separate?
