Character Development Tarot Spread
I didnât see any of these, so I guessed I should make one! The cards can be drawn at random or you can meditate on them, you an draw as many cards for position as you want, you can se any kind of cards, runes, stones, cristals, whatever you want.This serves more as an inspiration than anything else.
Character Traits: Literally what it says. Draw as many cards as you want. You can select them yourself, if you want. Here, the traits can go from physical appearence, to personality, to behavior, to all of them.
Background: What happened to the character before the story began Whatâs their history? And most importantly: was parts of their past is still haunting them today?
Mental: What is the characterâs mental state? You can draw one card for how they are at the begining and another one for how they are at the end, or draw multiple cards. Itâs important that you link their state to the things that have happened to them. If they watched their whole family get killed, as part of their background, I doubt they will be the happiest person on earth at the begining of the story.
Emotional: Same, but with their emotional state.
Psychological: This can be a little more tricky if you donât know lots about psychology, but some research will do.
Character Arc: What is the Characterâs Arc? What is it about? What do they go through? What do they learn? How do they change? More detail in the following cards.
Begining: Strongly linked to their Backstory. How are they at the begining of the story? How is their life? How does their world work?
Journey: What makes them start their journey? How does it go? Is it freeing? Is it painful? Do they chose to start their journey, or are they thrown into it by the circumstances? What do they learn? How does it take them to the Ending?
Ending: After the journey, what are they like in the end? What has changed them? How dod they change? Do they feel better than they did in the beginig? Or worse? Or somewhere in between?
Philosophy: This is very complex, so you should probably draw many cards. Like, at least three cards for each stage the character is in (Begining, Journey, Ending). This refers to the way they see the world, the way they think. What they think is fair, what they think is right, how they see themselves in relationship to the world, etc. It depends on the personality of the character. For example, a philosophy teacher in an university wonât have the same complexity of thought as a withe cishet fuckboy.
Want: What does the character want? Will that REALLY make them happy? What are they going to do to achieve it?
Need: What does the character actually need? Do they want it too, or does it repulse them? How do they realize this is what they really need?
Lie: What is the lie that the character believes? What is keeping them back from being happy?
Truth: What truth does the character need to learn? What do they need to be happy? Do they get it in the end? It is Pretty? Is it Ugly?
Inner Conflict: Whatâs the characterâs inner conflict about? What torments them?
Goal: What is the characterâs goal through the story?
Obstacle(s): What is stopping them from achieving said goal?
Hopes: What are the characterâs hopes? What are the characterâs fears?
Strenght: What are the characterâs strong traits? What are they good at?
Weaknesses: What does your character fail to do? Do they overcome their weaknesses? Do they (learn to) accept them? How do they feel about them?
Inspiration: A random card(s) you can draw to get inspired, for anything you need.
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