Characters in My Novel

Who is your favourite character?

  • Adam McCarthy

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  • Finn E. Jones

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  • Hiroki Akiyama

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  • Kiernan Miller

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  • Jamie Fisher

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The Cobalt Killer

Secondhand Wonderland
Please, please! Feel free to give all kinds of feedback on these characters! I'll update the thread one character at a time until I do at least the main five.


The Protagonist:


Basic Statistics


Name: Adam James Sebastian McCarthy


Age: 12-14 (During his trilogy)


Birth Date: 02/08/2000


Nationality: Irish-English


Socioeconomic Level as a child: Middle Class


Socioeconomic Level as an adult: N/A


Hometown: London


Current Residence: Grove Park Orphanage


Occupation: Student


Income: N/A


Talents/Skills: Can act spontaneously on impulse, has good reactions. He is quite intelligent and sociable, making his life at school easy. His athletic and marksman abilities are also very impressive.


Siblings: Deceased younger sister, Lily McCarthy.


Spouse: N/A


Children: N/A


Parents: James and Alice McCarthy (Both Deceased).


Grandparents: James and Elisabeth McCarthy, David and Alexis Holloway.


Grandchildren: N/A


Significant Others: N/A


Relationship skills: Quite sociable, humorous and charming.


Physical Characteristics:


Height: 5’10”


Weight: 9st 6lbs


Race: Caucasian


Eye Colour: Brown


Hair Colour: Brown, fairly dark


Glasses or contact lenses: N/A


Skin Colour: Olive


How he dresses: Generally quite smart, preferring to wear shirts rather than a casual t-shirt or jersey.


Mannerisms: Isn’t a stranger to placing his hands on his hips/belt. Tends to sometimes use his hands in pointing demonstration when angered.


Habits: Run his fingers backwards through his hair, and twiddles with the hair above his right temple.


Health: Well fed, athletic.


Hobbies: He enjoys playing both sport and video games. His favourite sports include football, softball and sprints, while his favourite video games are tactical, stealthy and/or shooters.


Style: Quite elegant, smart.


Greatest flaw: Can sometimes be arrogant, controlling and indecisive


Best quality: Charming


Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes


Educational Background: Studies at Grove Park College, courtesy of his orphanage


IQ: 144


Character's short-term goals in life: Protect those that he loves.


Character's long-term goals in life: Settle down in the perfect house with his future family.


How the character sees himself: Passionate, intelligent, funny and determined.


How the character believes he is perceived by others: He understands that people recognise his assets but fear that they judge his flaws.


How self-confident the character is: Very, but he can get nervous or become indecisive in certain situations, social or otherwise.


Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof: He is both logical and loving, never letting the two overlap.


That which would most embarrass this character: If people could know his feelings without understanding them.


Emotional Characteristics


Strengths/Weaknesses: Determined, but can be rash. Logical, but sometimes arrogant. Charming, but a bit indecisive.


How the character deals:


With anger: When angered, things may transpire into an argument. When angered by the villain, Adam likes to blow off steam by doing some shooting. What helps most, however, is revenge.


With sadness: When sad, Adam likes to find comfort in the company of his loved ones.


With conflict: When torn between two decisions, Adam’s best friend is logic; more easily visited in solitude.


With change: If it’s a good change, then Adam won’t complain much. If it is bad, however, Adam will make it ‘right’.


With loss: Revenge.


What the character wants out of life: Adam wants to enjoy his time with the people he calls his friends and family.


What the character would like to change in his life: Adam would like to return to his life before he met Hiroki Akiyama.


What motivates this character: Adam is motivated by the wish to protect his loved ones.


What frightens this character: Adam is afraid of being alone, more so than of losing.


What makes this character happy: Adam loves passing the time with friends and family.


Is the character judgmental of others: Sometimes, Adam is a bit judgemental, but only with good reason and his deductions are often right. He certainly isn’t afraid to resent others based on his first impressions of them.


Is the character generous or stingy: Adam is quite generous, but will refrain from giving to people whom he heavily dislikes.


Is the character generally polite or rude: He is polite to those who he believes deserve it and not to those he does not. Therefore, he can come across as both charming and arrogant.


Spiritual Characteristics


Does the character believe in God: No, but he respects other people’s beliefs.


What are the character's spiritual beliefs: He is entirely agnostic and believes only in the scientific anatomy of living beings.


Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life: Not personally, but at school he is surrounded by religious people.


What role it plays: He merely stands by and respects others.


How the Character is Involved in the Story


Character's role in the novel: Protagonist


Scene where character first appears: The first scene.


Relationships with other characters:


1.Hiroki Akiyama: -- Hiroki is Adam’s colleague and ally in their endeavours. Hiroki later becomes Adam’s vice when the IISSE is formed.


2.Jamie Fisher: -- Although they are best friends, Adam resents Jamie. He finds him to be annoying and foolish, but likes something about him; acknowledging that Jamie couldn’t live without him.


3.Finn E. Jones: -- Adam goes to school with him. Although there is a two year age gap, the two are close friends, and Adam finds himself looking out for Finn quite often.


4.Kiernan Miller: -- Kiernan helps out at the orphanage as her parents run it. She and Adam grow very close throughout the story.
 
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Next Character!


Basic Statistics


Name: Finn Edward Jones


Age: 12


Birth Date: 28/08/2002


Nationality: English


Socioeconomic Level as a child: Middle Class


Socioeconomic Level as an adult: N/A


Hometown: London


Current Residence: Bromley


Occupation: Student


Income: N/A


Talents/Skills: He is quite a talented sportsman, being good at football and sprinting like Adam. He’s quite good at improvising and is able to use his youth to manipulate others, not often for bad.


Siblings: Two younger sisters and a younger brother.


Spouse: N/A


Children: N/A


Parents: Henry and Marion Jones.


Grandparents: Henry and Anna Marie Jones, William and Susie Richardson.


Grandchildren: N/A


Significant Others: N/A


Relationship skills: Kind, funny and adorable.


Physical Characteristics:


Height: 4’8”


Weight: 6st 6lbs


Race: Caucasian


Eye Colour: Blue


Hair Colour: Fair


Glasses or contact lenses: N/A


Skin Colour: Natural Tan


How he dresses: Finn dresses like any other boy his age; he wears a smart uniform to school, but wears casual shirts, jeans and a hooded fleece when he goes out.


Mannerisms: Is quite accustomed to looking up as he talks to others as he is used to being among the youngest in school. He doesn’t tend to move too much when talking, but will use his hands like most others.


Habits: Sometimes crosses his arms, fiddles with his sleeve and looks down.


Health: Well fed, athletic.


Hobbies: He enjoys playing both sport and video games. His favourite sports include football, softball and sprints, while his favourite video games are very much suited to his age; so are generally quite child-friendly and some are sporty. However, he isn’t a stranger to playing games marketed for people older than him.


Style: Like others his age. Cool, casual.


Greatest flaw: He is young and naive


Best quality: Thoughtful and sociable


Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes


Educational Background: Studies at Grove Park College


IQ: 104


Character's short-term goals in life: Have fun.


Character's long-term goals in life: He’s too young to think so far forward but, like anyone else, he wants to earn good money and settle down.


How the character sees himself: Quite smart, probably funny, kind and sporty.


How the character believes he is perceived by others: He doesn’t take too much time to think about what others might think about him.


How self-confident the character is: Fairly, but he is young.


Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof: Although he is moderately smart, he is young and so emotion takes precedence.


That which would most embarrass this character: If he were teased by his friends because of something personal, however trivial it may be.


Emotional Characteristics


Strengths/Weaknesses: Smart, but young. Sociable, but naive. Kind and thoughtful, but blind to complex emotions.


How the character deals:


With anger: When angered, Finn will generally just remove himself from the situation and cool off.


With sadness: When sad, Finn might pass some time alone. However, if Adam were to find him, he would surely comfort him.


With conflict: When torn between two decisions, Finn isn’t ashamed of confronting others for help.


With change: In such terms, Finn can be quite passive.


With loss: Finn has never truly lost anything.


What the character wants out of life: Finn only wishes to enjoy the time he has with the people around him.


What the character would like to change in his life: Finn would like to have peace for Adam.


What motivates this character: Finn is motivated by his friends and family.


What frightens this character: Finn is afraid of the dark and loneliness.


What makes this character happy: Finn loves passing the time with friends and family.


Is the character judgmental of others: Finn is young and naive, so he is both incapable of being judgemental as well as not being very good at judging people and things anyway.


Is the character generous or stingy: Finn is very generous.


Is the character generally polite or rude: Finn has been raised to be polite.


Spiritual Characteristics


Does the character believe in God: No, but he doesn’t really know what to think.


What are the character's spiritual beliefs: He is entirely agnostic and believes only in the scientific anatomy of living beings.


Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life: Not personally, but at school he is surrounded by religious people.


What role it plays: He is simply agnostic.


How the Character is Involved in the Story


Character's role in the novel: Secondary Character


Scene where character first appears: The scene in which Adam meets him after beginning Year 10.


Relationships with other characters:


1.Adam McCarthy: -- Adam goes to school with him. Although there is a two year age gap, the two are close friends, and Adam finds himself looking out for Finn quite often.


2.Kiernan Miller: -- Finn has grown to know and like Kiernan as he encounters her regularly when he hangs out with Adam.


3.His Friends: -- Finn is just about average in terms of popularity. He has a fair few friends at school that he hangs out with.


4.His Family: -- Finn is quite close with all of his family members, although his father sometimes works late nights.
 

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