Character revelation exercise for Story and Audience

City of Lost Children
Dissecting a character

Character: One
Need/want/goal: Bonding. To be part of a family.
Actions: protect, track, retrieve, pursue, mourn, fight, extricate, endure,

Obstacles:

• His grief at allowing Little Brother to be abducted.
• Required to discover the hiding place where little brother has been taken
• The Cyclops organisation who have abducted Little Brother.
• The Siamese twins who want his strength
• A floating mine field
• A 'maze like' fortress
• psychosis inducing fleas
• Multiple clones of mad professor

Aspects of character revealed:

• His dependence on other peoples strength, love, and intelligence.
• Need of a family
• Persistence
• Innocence