nickname(s): Cory, Burke ( at work or on paper ) / my father still calls me Rina...unfortunately
age: 31
date of birth: September 11, 1989
nationality: American
occupation: Criminal prosecution attorney
religion:
sexuality: Bisexual
hometown: Calhoun, Georgia
current residence: Cedar Creek, Maywood, Maine
financial status: Range of middle to upper class
educational level: Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from University of Georgia, Juris Doctor from the University of Maine School of Law.
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father: Keandre Burke
mother: Athena Burke
siblings: Thessaly Burke
relationship status: Single, atm
when/who was your first kiss: Some boy that frequented a park that my sister and I liked to go to and he kissed me after some bad fall
are you a virgin: No
have you ever had a same sex experience: Yes
do you ever want to get married/have children: Someday!
what do you look for in a potential significant other: A lot of things, but the traits most important to me for my own relationships are respect and loyalty
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positive traits: Charismatic, dedicated, playful.
negative traits: Impatience, distant ( in certain situations ), insecure.
biggest fear: tba.
what’s more important - sex or intimacy: Intimacy
do you believe in true love: Most days, I strive to
have you ever been in love: Unfortunately
are you a leader or follower: Depends on the situation — work requires some assertiveness, but in other situations, I just prefer to go with the flow when I can
do you care what others think of you: Forever training myself not to
how do you deal with stress: Tons of coffee and comedy show binges
are you spontaneous or do you always need a plan: Depends on the day / situation — if it’s leisure, spontaneity. If it’s for work, plan plan plan
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If your character could change one physical detail about herself, what would it be? Hair, so that it is more natural. It’s currently almost always relaxed and/or straight but that gets kind of exhausting. However, being told that natural hair ain’t a good look, it takes a toll.
What is your character’s favorite physical activity? Playing basketball.
What is your character’s least favorite physical activity? Yoga. Not enough moving around.
Your character comes face-to-face with her worst enemy. What is her first reaction? Honestly, a little of a panic attack.
What is your character’s favorite weather? Sunny with the slightest breeze.
What is your character’s favorite season? End of summer / fall.
What is your character’s least favorite season? Winter. Especially in Maine.
Your character keeps a photo album of memories from her lifetime. If she could only keep one photo, what would it depict? Probably a photo of my parents, Tess and myself all huddled together, at some baseball game.
Does your character keep any pets? Because I just moved into a house, I was recently able to adopt a Bengal cat, Dot.
What is your character’s fondest childhood memory? Playing sports ( especially when my father trained ) and grubbing on nachos from the concession stands.
Someone asks your character to describe her family. How do they answer? Chaotic.
Is your character a morning person, a night owl, or something else entirely? Morning person — I prefer to get as much done in the mornings as I can, then in the afternoons and evenings, I kind of start to relax and I’m out by eleven. Is this what it’s like to be old cause I ain’t a fan.
What is your character’s least favorite color? Beige.
A stranger makes a crude comment to your character. How do they react? A smile and a simple ‘bless your heart’.
What mythological figure best personifies your character? At this moment in time, most likely a dragon. A spitfire; terrifying when need to be, but also rising from the ashes as though it’s the easiest thing to do.
Below are a series of character development questions that are, you guessed it, all about your character(s). This task is to help you get to know the ins and outs of your character! We hope that this gives you as writers a chance to explore your creations, and it gives us more insight into them. You don’t have to answer all the questions, but obviously you can if you feel so inclined. Have fun! Please make sure to tag it maywoodtask1
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full name:
nickname(s):
age:
date of birth:
nationality:
occupation:
religion:
sexuality:
hometown:
current residence:
financial status:
educational level:
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father:
mother:
siblings:
relationship status:
when/who was your first kiss:
are you a virgin:
have you ever had a same sex experience:
do you ever want to get married/have children:
what do you look for in a potential significant other:
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positive traits:
negative traits:
biggest fear:
what’s more important- sex or intimacy:
do you believe in true love:
have you ever been in love:
are you a leader or follower:
do you care what others think of you:
how do you deal with stress:
are you spontaneous or do you always need a plan:
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If your character could change one physical detail about herself, what would it be?
What is your character’s favorite physical activity?
What is your character’s least favorite physical activity?
Your character comes face-to-face with her worst enemy. What is her first reaction?
What is your character’s favorite weather?
What is your character’s favorite season?
What is your character’s least favorite season?
Your character keeps a photo album of memories from her lifetime. If she could only keep one photo, what would it depict?
Does your character keep any pets?
What is your character’s fondest childhood memory?
Someone asks your character to describe her family. How do they answer?
Is your character a morning person, a night owl, or something else entirely?
What is your character’s least favorite color?
A stranger makes a crude comment to your character. How do they react?
What mythological figure best personifies your character?
siblings: sofie yang (half-sister); henri fortier (half-brother)
relationship status: single
when/who was your first kiss: verity zhao, 7 years old
are you a virgin: no
have you ever had a same sex experience: yes
do you ever want to get married/have children: no
what do you look for in a potential significant other: someone who understands that he’s particular and needs his space; someone who challenges him but also allows him to have his particularities; someone who isn’t a pushover, but isn’t clingy.
what’s more important- sex or intimacy: intimacy sex
do you believe in true love: no
have you ever been in love: yes no
are you a leader or follower: leader
do you care what others think of you: no
how do you deal with stress: meditation
are you spontaneous or do you always need a plan: edgar has contingency plans upon contingency plans
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If your character could change one physical detail about herself, what would it be? he’s got his father’s eyes, so that.
What is your character’s favorite physical activity? boxing
What is your character’s least favorite physical activity? running
Your character comes face-to-face with his worst enemy. What is his first reaction? edgar’s throwing punches
What is your character’s favorite weather? temperate; summer rains
What is your character’s favorite season? fall
What is your character’s least favorite season? summer
Your character keeps a photo album of memories from her lifetime. If he could only keep one photo, what would it depict? sofie, daiyu, and him; 9th birthday.
Does your character keep any pets? nagini.
What is your character’s fondest childhood memory? making gingerbread cookies with his mother and sister when he was 5 years old.
Someone asks your character to describe his family. How do they answer? “You can’t choose the people you’re related to.”
Is your character a morning person, a night owl, or something else entirely? Morning. He’s up at 4 am each morning to work out and meditate before his work day begins.
What is your character’s least favorite color? orange.
A stranger makes a crude comment to your character. How do they react? Snickers. Edgar isn’t usually moved by people’s comments, especially not a stranger’s.
What mythological figure best personifies your character? Hydra. Boy’s a snake in the grass.
are you a leader or follower: is there a middle ground?
do you care what others think of you: sometimes
how do you deal with stress: exercise (he bikes a lot), in a stressful situation, oliver separates himself. he requires a quiet moment to think and regroup.
are you spontaneous or do you always need a plan: somewhere in the middle; he likes having things planned out (he’s almost neurotic about lists) but in certain situations, he can set the plan aside.
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If your character could change one physical detail about himself, what would it be? Ollie had hated his nose as a child; he’s since grown to appreciate the uniqueness it adds to his face, but he’d still change it if given the chance.
What is your character’s favorite physical activity? Soccer, hands down.
What is your character’s least favorite physical activity? Lifting weights. It’s not that he hates it, per se. He just hates the idea of exercising inside.
Your character comes face-to-face with her worst enemy. What is his first reaction? There’s definitely some sort of facial expression that says “I hate you” because Oliver is awful at the poker face.
What is your character’s favorite weather? Sunny and breezy.
What is your character’s favorite season? Summer.
What is your character’s least favorite season? Winter.
Your character keeps a photo album of memories from his lifetime. If he could only keep one photo, what would it depict? Kindergarten graduation. Probably the only one that his father attended.
Does your character keep any pets? Not yet, but he plans to get a ferret sooner or later.
What is your character’s fondest childhood memory? Playing soccer with the kids on the block.
Someone asks your character to describe his family. How do they answer? Small and broken, but good... like Stitch.
Is your character a morning person, a night owl, or something else entirely? If he had his way, he’d sleep in until around 10 am, but that doesn’t really fit with his schedule so... a morning person by force.
What is your character’s least favorite color? Brown
A stranger makes a crude comment to your character. How do they react? Depends on the situation. Along the lines of calling them out gently or ignoring it.
What mythological figure best personifies your character? something sweet and protective like a dryad...
nickname(s): Joe, Joey, J, JayJay (by like...only a very select few)
age: 33
date of birth: April 26th, 1987
nationality: American (ethnically Mexican [partially indigenous] and White [Irish and Spanish] although he just knows himself as ‘Mexican and White’),
occupation: Head Brewer/Co-Owner of Midnight Brewery
religion: Atheist
sexuality: heteroromantic/sexual
hometown: South Central Los Angeles, California
current residence: Maywood, Maine
financial status: Middle Class
educational level: High school diploma, accepted into (but did not attend) Stanford University (majoring in engineering)
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father: Paul O’Keefe
mother: Lucia Hernández (Juliette and Marie Lewis are his adoptive mothers)
siblings: He has two fully adopted siblings, and over the years in the Lewis household has had many foster siblings, all who, no matter how little or long he spent with them would consider them siblings
relationship status: single
when/who was their first kiss: if talking straight up first kiss, we’re probably going back somewhere to elementary school. if we’re talking first real kiss, somewhere around the 7th grade, probably the first girl to pay extended attention to him
are they a virgin: no
have they ever had a same sex experience: no
do they ever want to get married/have children: he has no idea. despite growing up around a loving family and couple from the age of 6, the idea of marriage is still somewhat scary to him. but it’s not even like he’s commitment-phobic, because he’s not, there’s just something still instilled inside him from his early days with his biological parents that feels like marriage means the end. As for kids, I do think he’d want to help kids in the same position he had been in and foster and adopt kids.
what do they look for in a potential significant other: first off, joseph hates games, he’s looking for somebody that doesn’t play around in the sense of not really saying what they mean or hiding things or playing some bullshit jealousy games. he’s been there before and now he’s too old for that shit and he knows what he wants. this also plays into the fact that while crushes are all well and good, at this point in his life he’s looking to, well ‘settle down’ in the sense that he just wants a comfy relationship, he doesn’t want to do the back and forth part for ages.
what’s more important- sex or intimacy: intimacy (he wants it but does find the idea of true intimacy slightly terrifying)
do they believe in true love: no, he’s too much of a realist, not that he doesn’t believe in ‘great loves’
have they ever been in love: he’s been in love with his family, but never in a romantic sense, not yet anyways.
are they a leader or follower: after being a follower got him nowhere but trouble, joseph realized he had to take charge of his life, and while he’s not one to boss people around or what to do, he does exude a quiet confidence that comes from knowing what he wants in life, and others tend to naturally follow
do they care what others think of them: in the large picture sense, no, he doesn’t, he’s staying in his own lane so he doesn’t really worry about what’s happening in adjacent lanes. but in the small picture sense, on the day to day level, he is conscious of his appearance and what people will think of it and how they react to it. he crosses the street while walking at night if he comes upon someone else, he makes sure not to stare at people (especially women), tries to offer kids friendly smiles, and tries to make sure his resting face is something as unoffensive as possible.
how do you deal with stress: walking. he took to walking as a way to help with some chronic pain issues, but after awhile, found himself walking just to walk. he swears he’s seen every bit of maywood at this point. while at this point he leads a fairly stress free life, if something does vex him, he usually walks around at night and lets his brain find a way to fix the problem, or helps him let it go
are they spontaneous or do they always need a plan: somewhere in the middle.
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If your character could change one physical detail about themsself, what would it be? He’d probably remove a few select tattoos.
What is your character’s favorite physical activity? Walking (his dog especially)
What is your character’s least favorite physical activity? Cardio
Your character comes face-to-face with their worst enemy. What is their first reaction? If said enemy does nothing? then he’ll ignore them. but if they step to him, he will react. he instantly falls back into mimicking the actions of the boys he used to get into trouble with.
What is your character’s favorite weather? He’s a Cali boy, so he likes warm weather
What is your character’s favorite season? California early Spring, Maine Summer
What is your character’s least favorite season? Winter
Your character keeps a photo album of memories from her lifetime. If they could only keep one photo, what would it depict? It’s a toss up from the one photo he has of himself and his biological mother, and the photo taken of him, Marie and Juliette at his high school graduation.
Does your character keep any pets? Joseph just started to foster a stray pitbull he found near the dumpster of Midnight Brewery
What is your character’s fondest childhood memory?
Is your character a morning person, a night owl, or something else entirely? He loves the quiet darkness the town gets after 11 o’clock or so. Night owl for sure.
What is your character’s least favorite color? doesn’t really have one to be honest. of course he has colors he wouldn’t wear or buy anything in, but its not because he has a strong dislike for them or anything, just not his favorite
A stranger makes a crude comment to your character. How do they react? Generally, due to his appearance, most people don’t make crude comments to Joseph. If they do, usually he can shoot them a practiced glare and it shuts them right up. But there was a part of him that had been instilled with the lesson that disrespect can’t be tolerated and disrespect was dangerous and could mean death if not dealt with. so there is an instinctual need to react strongly, but the older he gets the more that instinct has been fading away.
full name: Olivia Lee (she doesn’t have a middle name)
nickname(s): Liv, Livvy (siblings/close friends), Livvy-ah (parents call her this)
age: 31
date of birth: October 9th, 1988
nationality: American
occupation: Massage Therapist + Esthetician
religion: Agnostic
sexuality: Heterosexual
hometown: Maywood, Maine
current residence: Cedar Creek
financial status: Middle Class
educational level: High school diploma + vocational training
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father: Yoojin Lee (distant)
mother: Jisoo Lee (strained, they’re either arguing or not talking)
siblings: Allie Lee (distant, older sister), Eugene Lee (close, little brother)
relationship status: Single
when/who was your first kiss: Her first kiss was at the age of 14 with the younger brother of one of Allie’s boyfriends. Complicated description, but basically, she was told by Allie to not do anything when they were visiting Allie’s boyfriend. Liv, pulled a younger sibling shit-head behavior, and made out with his brother in the basement. No regrets, though.
are you a virgin: Nope
have you ever had a same sex experience: Yes
do you ever want to get married/have children: Yes, she wants to get married and have children. She, ideally, wants to make a home for herself that she didn’t have as a kid.
what do you look for in a potential significant other: She looks for loyalty and honesty. She also looks for someone that has an understanding that she needs space at times. Olivia dislikes intense blowout arguments, and will walk away in the middle of one to cool down. Liv also looks for a partner that will pull their weight in terms of housework and finances. She prefers someone who balances out her creativity with intellect. It’s not to say that Liv’s stupid, she just needs someone who is a little more serious at times, and has some sort of skills or hobbies to add to her own.
biggest fear: Her biggest fear is becoming her mother. She dislikes blowout arguments and will try to get away if things start getting too loud out of fear that she’ll say something she doesn’t mean, and/or act callous like her mother.
what’s more important- sex or intimacy: Intimacy, and intimate sex.
do you believe in true love: Yes, she does
have you ever been in love: Yes, but it hasn’t always been positive
are you a leader or follower: Both. She can take the lead when necessary, but Liv is also okay with falling back at times.
do you care what others think of you: Yes and no. She wants to be a better person than what she grew up with, but at the same time, she’s come to realize that for some people it doesn’t matter what you do if they’ve already made up their minds about you.
how do you deal with stress: Liv deals with stress by burying herself in work and projects -- it gives her distance via distraction. She also tends to restrict her food during periods of high stress. This is a negative reaction that stems from Liv feeling like when things are out of control that it is somehow her fault and that she can do something “right” by being extra cautious with food.
are you spontaneous or do you always need a plan: She’s spontaneous with things like travel and what she does in her spare time
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If your character could change one physical detail about herself, what would it be? She would like to be just a smidge shorter.
What is your character’s favorite physical activity? Swimming, with yoga and pilates being close behind.
What is your character’s least favorite physical activity? Running
Your character comes face-to-face with her worst enemy. What is her first reaction? Her first reaction is to walk the other way. She’s not going to start something unless she’s forced to.
What is your character’s favorite weather? Liv likes chilly weather. She enjoys spending time on her balcony, but isn’t going to do that in the dead of summer or in the thick of winter.
What is your character’s favorite season? Fall, see above.
What is your character’s least favorite season? Winter. She dislikes waking up and having to go outside to defrost her windshield and car locks. Waking up is already awful, combined with really cold weather when your warm house is right there, it’s a no for her.
Your character keeps a photo album of memories from her lifetime. If she could only keep one photo, what would it depict? It would be a picture of her and Allie with Eugene. Eugene is about 8 months old, and his sisters are on either side of them. They’re all drenched in water from running through the sprinkler and cheesing.
Does your character keep any pets? She has a tabby cat that her brother kind of dumped on her. He was told he couldn’t have a pet in her old apartment, so he left the cat with her.
What is your character’s fondest childhood memory? They had a tire swing out in the backyard. She would wake up early some mornings and just lean back and let her arms and legs dangle while the wind lightly twirled her around.
Someone asks your character to describe her family. How do they answer? Complicated and strained.
Is your character a morning person, a night owl, or something else entirely? She’s actually been diagnosed with insomnia. She struggles with falling asleep, and rarely can fall asleep early. Olivia will also wake up every couple of hours. On the weekends, she usually sleeps in late to make up for the gaps.
What is your character’s least favorite color? Yellow. It makes her think of pus.
A stranger makes a crude comment to your character. How do they react? Usually, she’ll ignore it, but Liv is not above tossing her drink or cracking a bottle over someone’s head. Every now and again, she gets a hair up her ass and will say something witty.
What mythological figure best personifies your character? Siren. She really likes swimming lol.
