character seed #007GERMINATING
A woman who has spent her entire career exposing other people's lies discovers that every major memory from her childhood was deliberately fabricated.
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30 character secrets
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25 character flaws with consequences
Flaws written so they cost the character something on the page.
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20 character fears
Each fear paired with the life they built to avoid it.
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40 character questions
Questions that produce scenes instead of trivia.
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18 morally gray characters
Right reasons, wrong methods — with legible logic.
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Six seeds, right now
character seed #012UNSTABLE
A translator for a government he no longer believes in keeps quietly softening the threats he is paid to deliver.
dystopianemotional
character seed #018UNTESTED
The most patient nurse on the ward is only patient because she is counting something nobody else can see.
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character seed #023PROPAGATING
A man who fakes documents for refugees has never once forged anything for himself, and can't explain why.
literaryemotional
character seed #029GERMINATING
A teenager inherits a house, a debt, and a stranger's funeral suit that fits perfectly.
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character seed #034UNSTABLE
The town's beloved retired schoolteacher recognizes a new neighbor from a night everyone agreed never happened.
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