This may help or not help but…
…I have a little character development notebook with 8 key points on each page.
Wound. Misbelief. Response. Trigger. Problem. Fear. Good Points. Bad Points.
Those categories run throughout and every single character is given each characteristic to make them a whole.
I write quickly. After a lot of moodling. And when the character is fully formed —– hence the mis-spelling and chronically bad writing!!
I talked about Lleucu the other day. She is the Patriot. Whenever she is forced to leave Wales, she suffers a core wound which develops into a misbelief. She is therefore deeply lonely inside wherever she goes. And thinks that NoWhere is Safe.
The good/bad points are the dark and light we all carry.
Brave yet Insecure.
Resourceful yet Resentful. yadayada
Welcome to Historical Fact-ion aka the study of Human Behaviour :o)