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  • FEET – [PHENOTYPE] Wholly palpable details to draw on, like physical details and facts.

    • What does this person look like?

    • Where did they live?

    • Where do they go to school?

    • Do they have tattoos? Why?

    • Who is their best friend?

    • What is their occupation?

  • GROIN – [WANT] The groin covers all of the things about the character that are born out of impulse and desire.

    • What does this person want?

    • How does their sexuality manifest itself?

    • What about them is base and puerile? Greed? Approval? Esteem? Gluttony? You can basically run toward their approach to the seven deadly sins.

  • HEART [NEEDS] –The heart is essentially all the things they secretly need in their life to make them a better, more functional person.

    • What does this person need?

    • What will make them a more functional person?

    • Do they need to find self-confidence?

    • Do they need to find their humility?

    • Do they need to provide for their family?

  • THROAT – [VOICE] The throat is basically their posture, attempt and presentation, and affectation.

    • How does this person sound?

    • Not just the literal voice, but how does this person project themselves?

    • How do they try to come off to other people?

    • How do they actually come off to other people?

  • LEFT CHEEK [LOGICAL CAPACITY] –Basically, the left cheek is their methodology, exposing the “left-brained" abilities.

    • What is their intelligence?

    • How does it manifest itself? What is their practicality?

    • How do they solve problems?

  • RIGHT CHEEK [ARTISTIC CAPACITY] –The right cheek is their ethics and soul and exposes their “right-brained" abilities

    • What is their idealistic/artistic capacity?

    • What is their un-practicality?

    • What is their spirituality?

  • CROWN [THE FULL PSYCHE] – Who is this character?

    • Piece the body parts together to see how they work as actual psychology.

    • What are their defining memories?

    • What is their pathology? How will the behave? How would this person overcome things to behave a different way?

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