Developing ideas for characters

- A small family seeking refuge land on alien shores and attempt to settle but are repeatedly ostracised
- Young girl gets separated

Character 1)

Name: Daisy - delicate and beautiful
Age: Young age e.g 7-9
Job: /
Barriers: Finding family, apathetic foreigners, her young age
Aspirations: Wants to be a marine biologist - fascination with fish, specifically octopuses - wants to find her family - wants to be a normal child
Family: Little revealed about family apart from that they are loving and caring

- Black Friday massacre final duel

Character 2)

Name: Angela
Age: 37
Job: Office/ retail
Barriers: The woman standing opposite her, her role as a single mother, her disconnected children
Aspirations: the affection of her kids, that goddam flat screen TV, to connect with her kids
Family: disconnected children

- A woman battling with PTSD from a past abortion

Character 3)

Name: Andrea
Age: 28
Job: Successful rights lawyer/ or just lawyer
Barriers: Right wing family ideology + 'encouragement' to conform, PTSD
Aspirations: To be successful in her career - to overcome societal pressure
Family: Un supportive family that pressure her

- Housewife of a distant husband who she kills feeling increasingly shackled by her marriage

Character 4)

Name: Lucille
Age: 30
Job: House wife
Barriers: Her husband
Aspirations: freedom from marriage
Family: her husband

- A famous TV personality goes on a killing televised killing spree

Character 5)

Name: Barry
Age: 35
Job: TV personality, TV presenter ETC...
Barriers: Approval from a distant mother or farther
Aspirations: Approval from a distant mother or farther, attempts to find this in being loved by the masses
Family: A far superior sibling, and two unimpressed parents

- Exploitation of nature

Character 6)

Name: /
Age: 8 - 20
Job: /
Barriers: Vulnerability, insecurity,
Aspirations: Overcoming insecurity and rejecting exploitation
Family: /

- 1992 king trial re imagined

Character 7)

Name: Rodney King
Age: 20+
Job: /
Barriers: Institutional racism
Aspirations: Justice
Family: / 


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