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Build complex, believable characters for stories, games, or roleplay.
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Create a detailed character profile for [character name] in my [novel/screenplay/game/comic]. Genre: [genre]. Story role: [protagonist/antagonist/supporting]. Brief concept: [1-2 sentence idea]. Develop: physical description, psychological profile (Big Five personality traits + shadow side), backstory (formative events and wounds), core motivation and deepest fear, speech patterns and mannerisms, relationships with other characters, internal and external conflicts, character arc (how they change), contradictions that make them human, and a character voice exercise (write their internal monologue in a moment of crisis).
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