42 Character Development Questions (Accepting!)
1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy?
Magic’s hands are pretty much constantly moving, either performing tricks or, as a sort of idle action, demonstrations of cardistry or other forms of fidgeting with items like coins or rings. He’s very high energy overall, and switches between actions rapidly, or will jump suddenly into a trick as soon as one pops into his mind. It’s not so much that he moves quickly overall, but rather he’ll shift gears between rather mesmerizing actions with alarming speed.
As for walking, or other gestures with his hands, he keeps a relatively average pace, what could be considered neither speedy nor slow. He does a fair amount of posing while he’s standing still, and favors his legs as he knows they’re his best asset. But at all times he definitely communicates a high amount of energy, with his movements and shifting and the excitement with which he talks.
6. What are they like in motion–in different environments, and in different activities? What causes the differences between these?
His regular gestures could already be considered a bit grand for normal conversation, but they’re nothing compared to his stage persona. Mostly because it’s important that his movements are clearly made out from anywhere in the audience, but also it’s just the most intense expression of his naturally dramatic nature.
Contrasting to both of these is how he is at home, in the privacy of his room. Sure he’ll sometimes like, cutely drape on his furniture, but his time in private is spent researching, practicing tricks, keeping logs of his developments, and! caring for his bunny, Spade. 💖
He’s very soft and gentle with Spade, having committed to memory every piece of rabbit care. If someone were to see him playing with Spade, how slowly and carefully he moves and how non-threatening he makes himself, it’d seem like an entirely different mech.
14. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?
8′) Honestly, Magic’s definitely something of a nihilist. Inherited from his creator and cultivated from a lifetime of showbiz, Magic has learned, to his chagrin, that nothing matters in his world except money– and he tries to resist contributing to this as much as possible. What Magic wants instead is to be what i’ve jokingly referred to as a pet: he wants someone to house him, provide for him, and keep him repaired, in exchange for his performing for them, taking money out of the equation so he can just focus on what he lives to do.
He has an emotional attachment to the bots that served with him under King, which would lead him to act in their favor (provided it were safe and not completely inconvenient to do so), but other than that?
Not much of anything. He’s pretty wholly dedicated to studying and performing tricks, and self-preservation so he can stay alive to do those tricks. He’s only loyal to his job insofar as they allow him to perform, but there’s p much nothing in this world that Magic would willingly take a bullet for.