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(1) Where were they born and where did they grow up? If these answers are different, why?
(2) What kind of school(s) did they go to? How far did they go in their education? Why did they go as far as they did or stop when they did?
(3) What was their favorite part of school?
(4) What was their least favorite part of school?
(5) Did they have a say in what they studied in school? If they went to a trade school, college, university, or professional training program, why did they choose the path they did?
(6) What socioeconomic class were they and their family as a kid? Did their familyâs socioeconomic class ever change, via upward or downward mobility? Why and how? ïżŒ
(7) What did their parents or other relatives do for work?
(8) What adults were most involved in their life as a kid?
(9) Did they get along with authority figures as a kid, or were they more rebellious?
(10) What was their position in their schoolâs social hierarchy? Did it ever change, and if so, why/how?
(11) Who was their first crush, if any? Did they know this person or were they a celebrity/public figure? If they knew their crush, did they ever confess?
(12) What is their sexuality/sexual orientation? Have they always known? When did they figure it out for sure?
(13) If they are queer, including aro/ace, when did they first come out, and to whom? Who are they out to now?
(14) What about gender? What words would you use to describe their gender identity or presentation? What words would they use to describe their own? Have they always known? Has it ever changed?
(15) If they are trans, including nonbinary/agender, when did they first come out, and to whom? Who are they out to now?
(16) Are they religious (religious beliefs) or observant (religious practices/rituals)? Have they always been so, or has this changed? Have they ever converted/reverted or deconverted?
(17) What are their favorite meals/cuisines? Do they follow any particular diets/restrictions, and if so, why?
(18) What is their favorite childhood memory?
(19) What is their worst childhood memory?
(20) What is something that scared them as a child, but not as an adult? What changed?
(21) When they were a kid, what kind of future did they want for themself? Have they achieved it? And have their goals/desires changed?
(22) What are the moral lines they would absolutely never cross? Are you sure thereâs no exception at all?
(23) What is the worst thing they have ever done to themself?
(24) What is the worst thing they have ever done to someone else?
(25) Would they stay in a relationship (platonic, familial, or romantic) with someone who annoyed or bothered them? What would they be willing to tolerate?
(26) Who was the first person they had a significant relationship with as an adult? What kind of relationship was it? How did they meet? Are they still involved?
(27) How have they or would they react to being dumped or broken up with? This could be romantic or platonic.
(28) What would make them end a relationship? What would make them completely cut all ties with a person?
(29) What tends to show up repeatedly in their dreams? How does this make them feel?
(30) What tends to show up repeatedly in their nightmares? How does this make them feel?
(31) Whatâs the worst injury theyâve ever had?
(32) Whatâs the worst sickness or illness theyâve ever had?
(33) When theyâre sick, what comfort do they prefer?
(34) Were they bullied in school? What were they bullied over? Who were their bullies and how were they bullied?
(35) Who was the first person to break their heart? What happened?
(36) Have they ever witnessed someone die? What happened?
(37) What torture technique are they most afraid of? Has it ever been used on them? If so, why and by whom?
(38) How self-aware are they of their traumas, and do they do anything about it?
(39) Have they ever hurt someone else because of a trauma reaction? What led up to it? What happened? Were they forgiven?
(40) Have they ever been abandoned? What happened? Did they ever forgive the person/group?
(41) Have they ever been betrayed? What happened? Why were they betrayed? Did they ever reconcile with or forgive the person/group?
(42) Whatâs the worst thing an abuser ever did to them?
(43) How many different abusers have they had? How did they meet and when did the abuse start?
(44) When, if at all, did they first realize they were being abused or had been previously abused? What made them realize it?
(45) Did they know the person/people who hurt them before it happened?
(46) Have they been held in captivity or imprisoned? By whom, for what reason, and for how long? Did they ever escape or get out?
(47) How would they react if they were forced to watch a loved one being hurt?
(48) What, if anything, would coerce them into participating in hurting a loved one?
(49) Would it be worse for them to be forced to watch their loved ones being hurt, or for them to be hurt while their loved ones were forced to watch?
(50) What scars do they have? Are any of them obvious or impossible to hide? Do they hide any of their scars, and if so, which ones and how?
(51) Would they be more afraid of being drowned alive or burned alive?
(52) Have they ever had any animal pets? How did they get them, and are they still responsible for their pets?
(53) Has anyone ever tried to hurt their animal pets to hurt them? How would they react if someone did?
(55) What would safety feel like for them?
(56) What do they like about their body?
(57) What would they change about their body if they could?
(58) Who do they most admire? Do they know this person or is the person a historical figure or a public figure/celebrity? What do they admire about them? Do they think they could be like them?
(59) How do they try to comfort others?
(60) What kind of relationships do they have a pattern of seeking out or falling into? Are they positive or are they toxic?
(61) Do they think they will live to old age? What are their hopes for their old age?
(62) What do they believe about gods/goddesses/the divine/the supernatural?
(63) What do they think is their best trait and why? Would people in their life agree?
(64) What do they think is their worst trait and why? Would people in their life agree?
(65) Do they think of themself as normal or ordinary, or do they think of themself as odd, a freak, or a weirdo? Why? Would other people agree?
(66) How many people are they close to? Do they think they are too open and trusting, or are they too closed off and avoidant?
(67) Of the four âfâ trauma responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn), which do they tend to exemplify? Does it change based on situation or context?
(68) What situation or experience are they most proud of overcoming, if any? How did they get through it?
(69) Do they have siblings, including half-siblings, step-siblings, and foster siblings? Where are they in age order? Are they still in contact with any of their siblings? What do they think of their siblings, and what do their siblings think of them?
(70) Where do they live now? How did they get there? Do they live with others? Who are they, and what is their relationship to them?
(71) Whatâs the worst place theyâve ever lived? What was so bad about it?
(72) What languages do they speak and understand? How did they learn them?
(73) How many bones have they ever broken? How did they break?
(74) Do they have any lifelong disabilities or chronic illnesses, including psychosocial disabilities and neurodivergence? Do they know? How old were they when they found out or realized they werenât the same as everyone else? Are they proud of or at least comfortable with their body/mind, or do they struggle with internalized ableism?
(75) Have they ever had any body parts amputated? What happened?
(76) Have they ever been in the news? What for? Did they agree or was it a surprise/secret or leaked tape? How did this affect them later?
(77) Would they prefer to be rich or famous? Why?
(78) What are their hobbies? How did they get into them? Are they able to do them regularly?
(79) Have they ever been in trouble with the law? What for? Did they actually do it? What happened?
(80) How do you relate to them? How long ago did you create them, and what do you think of them now? Do you want to hug them, be friends with them, hurt them, or something else?
(81) Are they keeping any secrets from you as their creator?
(82) What are you planning to do with them next?
(83) What race, ethnicity, culture, or species are they? How do they relate to other people of the same race, ethnicity, culture, or species? Is theirs common or relatively rare in their world? In their community?
(84) Do they have a source of inner strength? What is it?
(85) How would they define âlosing everythingâ? Have they ever lost everything?