Questions To Better Understand Your Cast Of Characters!
Or divided groups within your cast, if you have a problem with making too many characters in a story like me JAJDJAJD
What is everyone’s designated role in a road trip?
What’s each person in the group’s favorite memory altogether? Do they share the same one? Have a different one?
How long have they known each other? Have some people known each other longer than others? Whom? How does that impact the relational ties between the group?
On a similar note, how did they all come together to form as a group? Was it a singular event that united them? Was it a slow accumulation of new members of this group as time went on?
What’s their favorite collective activity to do together?
What’s the designated role of each of them when/if they go grocery shopping together?
What’s the biggest age gap/the age gap between the youngest & oldest person in the group?
What’s the smallest age gap within the group?
What’s their comfort levels about the idea of a mass cuddle session together?
Whose house do they stay at the most? Or do they all collectively live in the same area for lore/plot-related reasons?
Who’s the person whose ideas gets listened to the most?
Who’s the person whose ideas get dismissed the most? How does that make them feel? Do they ever talk about it?
Does one (or more) of the members have a parent/parents that the rest of the group collectively considers theirs as well? What’s the dynamic like with that?
Alternatively, if it’s a group of middle aged adults and older, does one (or more) of the members have a kid/kids that the rest of group collectively considers theirs as well? What’s that dynamic like?
Who is the best liar?
Who always tells the truth?
Who is the best at bending the truth?
How do they handle intra-group conflict? Poorly? Pretty well? How has it changed over the years? Who typically plays mediator? Do they like playing mediator or do it because they feel they have to?
Who gets into the most arguments with others? Or additionally—which two get into the most arguments with each other?
Alternatively, who gets into the least arguments with others? Or additionally—which two fight the least with each other?
