skills/ai-film-pipeline-master/references/phase-01-story-generation/LOOKUP-char.md

# `char.` — 129 cards

One family of cards from this phase. The whole phase is in [`LOOKUP.md`](LOOKUP.md); what each file is for is in [`INDEX.md`](INDEX.md).

| Card id | Title | File |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `char.addiction_logistics` | Addiction Written as Logistics | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.age_specific_logic` | Age-Specific Logic: Children and Elders | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.agent_read` | How the Role Reads to an Agent | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.alone_behaviour` | What They Do Alone | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.animal_character` | The Animal With Its Own Want | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.antagonist_case` | The Antagonist With a Case | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.assumed_identity` | The Assumed Identity | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.audience_surrogate_trap` | The Audience Surrogate Trap | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.audition_scene` | The Audition Scene | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.backstory_economy` | Backstory Economy | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.behavioural_continuity` | Behavioural Continuity Under Many Hands | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.bible_entry` | The Show-Bible Character Entry | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.cannot_afford` | Defined by What They Cannot Afford | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.cannot_change` | The Character Who Cannot Change | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.carried_object` | The Carried Object | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.cast_size_limit` | Cast Size and the Runtime | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.casting_line` | The Casting Line | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.changed_name` | The Name That Was Changed | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.character_dossier` | The Dossier Instead of a Draft | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.character_interview` | The Character Interview | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.class_tell_survives_money` | The Tell That Survives the Money | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.coached_authenticity` | The Real Person Given the Film's Line | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.combine_characters` | Combine Two, Cut One | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.community_built` | Built by a Community, Not a Psychology | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.competence_cost` | Competence Has a Price | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.competence_fails` | The Competence That Fails | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.competence_first` | Competence First | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.condition_as_constraint` | The Condition as a Constraint Set | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.costless_condition` | The Condition That Costs Nothing | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.courtship_behaviour` | Courtship Behaviour | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.crowd_member` | One Face in the Crowd | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.decorative_exotic_name` | The Decorative Foreign Name | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.defining_action_entrance` | The Defining Action Entrance | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.degraded_decision` | Exhaustion, Hunger and the Degraded Decision | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.deserving_setting` | What They Think They Deserve | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.desire_made_physical` | Desire Made Physical | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.desire_second_want` | The Second Want | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.diaspora_character` | The Diaspora Character | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.disability_expertise` | Disability as Accumulated Expertise | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.ensemble_grid` | The Ensemble Grid | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.entrance_against_type` | Entrance Against Type | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.evil_twin` | The Evil Twin | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.exists_to_be_lost` | The Character Who Exists to Be Lost | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.family_role` | The Role the Family Assigned | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.frightened_alone` | Frightened and Unobserved | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.god_character` | Writing a God | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.half_remembered_return` | The Returning Minor Character | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.hands_test` | The Hands Test | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.honorific_system` | The Honorific System as a Map of the World | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.idiolect_sheet` | The Idiolect Sheet | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.incompetence_zone` | The Incompetence Zone | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.informed_attribute` | The Informed Attribute | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.inherited_ease` | Inherited Ease Against Earned Ease | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.inside_outside_culture` | Inside and Outside a Culture | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.kinship_address` | Kinship Terms for People Who Are Not Kin | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.lie_in_one_line` | The Lie in One Line | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.likeable_vs_interesting` | Interesting Beats Likeable | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.limits_before_the_person` | Name the Limits Before the Person | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.living_subject_reader` | The Subject Who Will Read It | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.load_bearing_contradiction` | The Load-Bearing Contradiction | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.long_series_character` | The Character Across Eighty Episodes | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.machine_character` | The Machine and the Artificial Mind | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.management_day` | The Management Day | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.money_specifics` | Money on the Page | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.mouthpiece` | The Mouthpiece | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.name_as_design` | The Name as Design | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.never_list` | The Never List | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.never_says` | What They Never Say | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.normal_baseline` | What They Think Is Normal | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.occupational_perception` | The Job Shapes the Eye | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.offstage_change` | Change Offstage | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.only_reacts` | The Character Who Only Reacts | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.panic_behaviour` | Panic Written From Inside | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.passive_protagonist_fix` | Curing the Passive Protagonist | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.personified_place` | The Place That Behaves Like a Person | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.physical_signature` | The Physical Signature | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.pity_lever` | The Condition as a Pity or Inspiration Lever | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.pregnancy_clock` | Pregnancy as a Clock Inside the Body | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.pressure_ladder` | The Pressure Ladder | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.prize_love_interest` | The Person Written as a Prize | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.profanity_budget` | The Profanity Budget | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.protagonist_test` | The Protagonist Test | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.protagonist_who_is_wrong` | The Protagonist Who Is Wrong | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.protected_static_role` | The Recurring Character Who Must Not Develop | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.rank_and_person` | The Person Inside the Rank | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.real_person_composite` | Real People and the Composite | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.recasting` | Recasting and the Character Rewritten for a New Actor | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.relapse_beat` | The Relapse That Proves the Change | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.relationship_self` | A Different Self for Each Person | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.reluctant_protagonist` | The Reluctant Protagonist | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.reputation_before_entrance` | Reputation Before Entrance | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.seduction_competence` | Seduction Competence, and Its Absence | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.silence_as_trait` | Silence as a Trait | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.smaller_in_this_language` | The Character Who Is Smaller in This Language | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.softened_for_the_reader` | Softened for the Reader Who Will Read It | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.speaks_for_others` | The Person Who Cannot Speak Only for Themselves | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.species_logic` | Species Logic in Children's Animation | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.specificity_not_representation` | Specificity, Not Representation | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.status_flip` | The Status Flip | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.status_transaction` | The Status Transaction | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.stress_tell` | The Stress Tell | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.superstition` | The Private Superstition | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.supporting_character_want` | Give the Supporting Character One Want | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.sympathy_beat` | The Sympathy Beat | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.tailored_opponent` | The Tailored Opponent | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.ten_second_person` | A Person in Ten Seconds | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.the_double` | The Double | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.the_exception` | The Exception | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.the_missed_one` | The One They Will Miss | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.the_secret` | The Secret | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.theory_of_others` | The Theory of Other People | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.trade_vocabulary` | Trade Vocabulary | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.trait_not_character` | The Trait Mistaken for a Character | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.transliteration_choice` | Spelling a Name in Another Alphabet | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.twins` | Writing Twins | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.unearned_change` | Unearned Change | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.unit_member` | The Character a Unit Made | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.unlikeable_lead` | Holding the Unlikeable Lead | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.vertical_archetype` | The Vertical Archetype, Then the Complication | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.want_need_sheet` | The Two-Column Want/Need Sheet | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.wealth_as_objects` | Wealth Written as Objects | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |
| `char.what_breaks_first` | What Breaks First | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.what_they_notice` | What They Notice | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.who_pays_most` | Who Pays the Most | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.wound_as_rule` | The Wound as a Rule of Conduct | [cat-char.md](cat-char.md) |
| `char.wound_questionnaire` | The Wound Questionnaire and Its Limits | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.write_for_known_actor` | Writing For and Against a Known Actor | [cat-char-3.md](cat-char-3.md) |
| `char.writing_the_believer` | Writing the Believer | [cat-char-2.md](cat-char-2.md) |
| `char.written_for_a_non_actor` | The Part Written to Be Sayable | [cat-char-4.md](cat-char-4.md) |