character portraits
Written persona descriptions
Character portraits are visual depictions of fictional or historical figures, typically focusing on the face and upper body to convey personality and identity.
In games and visual novels, character portraits appear during dialogue to show who's speaking: The character portrait changed to show her angry expression.
Writers also use the term for detailed written descriptions that capture a person's essential nature.
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- protagonistStory's central figure
- personalityCharacteristic mental patterns
- heroOne admired for courage
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
moral compass · fatal flaw · motivations · temperament · backstory · painting · archetype · villain · narrator · fears · vignette · weaknesses · strengths · caricature · psyche · inner life · epithets · societal role
character portraitsplot summaries
Condensed story outlines
action sequences · incident reports · story outlines · narrative arcs · plot outlines
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