(My
story has changed drastically as I found adding in archetypes and more
characters conflicted with the short, simple story I had previously
planned)
Hero/Protagonist-->
Name: Atlas Fontaine
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165lbs
Beauty: He's okay
Strength: Average
Race and Ethnicity: White
Background: Highly obsessive compulsive as a child and continuing through adulthood. Has a history of mental illness including DID (dissociative identity disorder), formally known as multiple personality disorder. Married four times. Failed career as a comedian.
Desires: To get married and stay married and be successful in his career again.
Intelligence: Fair, has a hard time remembering things, common trait in DID cases.
Style of Outfit: Plain and casual.
Temperament: Very calm and kind. Humorous.
Obligations: To get rid of his alter (or other identity), Salt.
Atlas has struggled with his obsessive compulsive behavior throughout his entire life. He found relief for himself in comedy, and quickly became successful. After getting married for the first time at a very young age, his wife could not handle life with him any longer. The stress triggered a severe reaction in Atlas' psyche and caused a deep depression. When he finally was able to marry again, a new identity had come into his life, calling himself "Salt". Unknowing Atlas watched three more marriages quickly fail before he finally realized he was not alone in his head. He sought help from close friend and psychiatrist, Sadie Sybil, to get rid of Salt, but Salt seems to want something very similar.
Villain/Antagonist-->
Name: Salt
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165lbs
Beauty: Takes more care of himself that Atlas
Strength: Above average, he runs on rage
Race and Ethnicity: White
Background: Salt developed sometime after his alter Atlas' first failed marriage. He believes Atlas doesn't deserve the body they share, as he is weak, and is determined to snuff out Atlas' identity for good. He is classified by Sadie as extremely violent, and will harm himself to harm Atlas. Salt has more control over the two's identity switch and can go between himself and Atlas faily often, causing Atlas to have large gaps in his memory. This made it very easy to cause Atlas' three other divorces.
Desires: To get rid of Atlas and do as he pleases.
Intelligence: Very intelligent. He is sometimes able to recall what Atlas has done.
Style of Outfit: Much flashier than Atlas.
Temperament: Manipulative and evil
Obligations: To get rid of his alter, Atlas.
Salt formed his own name and created his own look. He is fully aware that he was not the original alter, but fully believes he deserves it more than Atlas. He has gotten Atlas into a lot of trouble and caused him to lose any job the kinder of the two manages to get. He keeps them both in shape and presents himself differently from his alter, causing them to look distinctly different in the way they present themselves. Everything that makes Atlas weaker makes Salt stronger, so the more destruction he causes, the closer he gets to fading Atlas out for good.
Wise woman-->
Name: Dr. Sadie Sybil
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Height: 5’7”
Weight: Don’t ask (but it’s 150lbs)
Beauty: Average
Strength: Average
Race and Ethnicity: African American
Background: Sadie is a family friend of Atlas since their childhood. She worked her way through school, achieving her P.H.D., and is now a practicing psychiatrist. Realizing her friend had a problem, Sadie took in Atlas as her patient in return for an interesting case study. She has seen both Atlas and Salt, and is using multiple methods to try and repress the more evil of the two.
Desires: To find cures for mental illnesses and make a name for herself… or find a husband like her mother wants her to.
Intelligence: Very high
Style of Outfit: Business attire
Temperament: Patient, as she has to be, but firm
Obligations: To rid Atlas of his alter, Salt
Sadie believes she is ridding the world of Salt for the good of people around her. She uses a mixture of hypnosis, cognitive memory tricks, and medication, to help Atlas fight his inner demon. She does, however, realize that Atlas needs to find more strength in himself, or her therapies will be useless. She struggles with her own insecurities of never becoming what she wants herself to be.
Child-->
Name: Avery Aidens
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 110lbs
Beauty: “Cute”
Strength: More inner strength than outer
Race and Ethnicity: White
Background: Never really sure of who she was and who she wants to be, Avery floats around from job to job, finally resting at one in a pet store, where she meets Atlas. She sympathizes with his obsessive compulsive behavior, but is unaware of his alter. She fills in for him when he disappears for days at a time.
Desires: Make a name for herself and do something worthwhile
Intelligence: Nothing to brag about
Style of Outfit: Casual
Temperament: Overjoyed, masking the deep-rooted insecure nature
Obligations: To aid Atlas in his struggles with his mental illnesses
Avery is very innocent. She hasn’t seen much of the world, but wants to know it all. She works very hard to motivate herself each morning and likes to think she has an impact on the people she talks to, which she probably doesn’t. She likes Atlas because he likes it when she talks to him, and she feeds on the attention.
All the characters share their own form of an identity crisis. They all want to be their own person (some more extreme than others) and make a name for themselves somehow. They have to answer the questions: "Who am I?" and "What do I want?"
Hero/Protagonist-->
Name: Atlas Fontaine
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165lbs
Beauty: He's okay
Strength: Average
Race and Ethnicity: White
Background: Highly obsessive compulsive as a child and continuing through adulthood. Has a history of mental illness including DID (dissociative identity disorder), formally known as multiple personality disorder. Married four times. Failed career as a comedian.
Desires: To get married and stay married and be successful in his career again.
Intelligence: Fair, has a hard time remembering things, common trait in DID cases.
Style of Outfit: Plain and casual.
Temperament: Very calm and kind. Humorous.
Obligations: To get rid of his alter (or other identity), Salt.
Atlas has struggled with his obsessive compulsive behavior throughout his entire life. He found relief for himself in comedy, and quickly became successful. After getting married for the first time at a very young age, his wife could not handle life with him any longer. The stress triggered a severe reaction in Atlas' psyche and caused a deep depression. When he finally was able to marry again, a new identity had come into his life, calling himself "Salt". Unknowing Atlas watched three more marriages quickly fail before he finally realized he was not alone in his head. He sought help from close friend and psychiatrist, Sadie Sybil, to get rid of Salt, but Salt seems to want something very similar.
Villain/Antagonist-->
Name: Salt
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165lbs
Beauty: Takes more care of himself that Atlas
Strength: Above average, he runs on rage
Race and Ethnicity: White
Background: Salt developed sometime after his alter Atlas' first failed marriage. He believes Atlas doesn't deserve the body they share, as he is weak, and is determined to snuff out Atlas' identity for good. He is classified by Sadie as extremely violent, and will harm himself to harm Atlas. Salt has more control over the two's identity switch and can go between himself and Atlas faily often, causing Atlas to have large gaps in his memory. This made it very easy to cause Atlas' three other divorces.
Desires: To get rid of Atlas and do as he pleases.
Intelligence: Very intelligent. He is sometimes able to recall what Atlas has done.
Style of Outfit: Much flashier than Atlas.
Temperament: Manipulative and evil
Obligations: To get rid of his alter, Atlas.
Salt formed his own name and created his own look. He is fully aware that he was not the original alter, but fully believes he deserves it more than Atlas. He has gotten Atlas into a lot of trouble and caused him to lose any job the kinder of the two manages to get. He keeps them both in shape and presents himself differently from his alter, causing them to look distinctly different in the way they present themselves. Everything that makes Atlas weaker makes Salt stronger, so the more destruction he causes, the closer he gets to fading Atlas out for good.
Wise woman-->
Name: Dr. Sadie Sybil
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Height: 5’7”
Weight: Don’t ask (but it’s 150lbs)
Beauty: Average
Strength: Average
Race and Ethnicity: African American
Background: Sadie is a family friend of Atlas since their childhood. She worked her way through school, achieving her P.H.D., and is now a practicing psychiatrist. Realizing her friend had a problem, Sadie took in Atlas as her patient in return for an interesting case study. She has seen both Atlas and Salt, and is using multiple methods to try and repress the more evil of the two.
Desires: To find cures for mental illnesses and make a name for herself… or find a husband like her mother wants her to.
Intelligence: Very high
Style of Outfit: Business attire
Temperament: Patient, as she has to be, but firm
Obligations: To rid Atlas of his alter, Salt
Sadie believes she is ridding the world of Salt for the good of people around her. She uses a mixture of hypnosis, cognitive memory tricks, and medication, to help Atlas fight his inner demon. She does, however, realize that Atlas needs to find more strength in himself, or her therapies will be useless. She struggles with her own insecurities of never becoming what she wants herself to be.
Child-->
Name: Avery Aidens
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 110lbs
Beauty: “Cute”
Strength: More inner strength than outer
Race and Ethnicity: White
Background: Never really sure of who she was and who she wants to be, Avery floats around from job to job, finally resting at one in a pet store, where she meets Atlas. She sympathizes with his obsessive compulsive behavior, but is unaware of his alter. She fills in for him when he disappears for days at a time.
Desires: Make a name for herself and do something worthwhile
Intelligence: Nothing to brag about
Style of Outfit: Casual
Temperament: Overjoyed, masking the deep-rooted insecure nature
Obligations: To aid Atlas in his struggles with his mental illnesses
Avery is very innocent. She hasn’t seen much of the world, but wants to know it all. She works very hard to motivate herself each morning and likes to think she has an impact on the people she talks to, which she probably doesn’t. She likes Atlas because he likes it when she talks to him, and she feeds on the attention.
All the characters share their own form of an identity crisis. They all want to be their own person (some more extreme than others) and make a name for themselves somehow. They have to answer the questions: "Who am I?" and "What do I want?"
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