WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME? WHAT DO THEY PREFER TO BE CALLED?Anything that starts with the letter 'C.' Today I'm Cheri. 'Sup. But actually I'm Ms. Cherelle Alicia Tanner if ya wanna gets all cordial. But once upon a time I was just simply a girl called 'CoCo.' HOW ARE THEY BEST RECOGNIZED IN A CROWD?Ummm... yeah. New hairstyle. It's gotta be the bangs across my forehead. And yeah, that and my big, dark eyes too. People call them 'Spanish Eyes.' Wutevs. I like 'em. Oh. And I am a tall girlie... like 5'10 or 5'11?
But I don't dress like i wanna try to stand out if you really need to know. People on the run usually don't. But I guess the other thing that makes me stand out is that in this whitebread town, I'm kinda' this 'exotic looking' 20-something year old chick... which doesn't help my cover but still, yeah. So I'm part black, part asian of 2 types, part latina and yeah... half white. I'm pretty well built for someone who doesn't eat a lot... yeah your girlie here is hiding a lot of muscles. So I gots smaller than average boobs-- But! I'm nicely developed in the lower half. Thumpin' bass and legs that go on foreeeeeevah...! Lit af, boi!!
Anyways...WHAT IS A STRANGER'S FIRST IMPRESSION UPON MEETING THEM? HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER SEE THEMSELVES?You gunna think I'm stuck up or that I'm super standoffish. I'll give you a half lidded stare, look you up and down, hold your gaze with a dead eyed, dark eyed stare, stare at your hand that you want shaken, then I'll make my signature 'disdaining clicking sound,' look annoyed and then ask: "Wha'choo want now...?"
I'm not stuck up. Okay, okay, okay, I admit I aaaaammmmmm kinda' sorta' a bitch sometimes, but what runaway, fugitive type can afford to NOT be a bitch... amirite...?! But I'm soooo not stuck up even though your girl here was a prototypical triple threat model/actress/singer at one point in their teen life? Yeah, I was thaaaaaat damned good and I could shake it like I was gunna take it too. Hah! Soooo not stuck up.... not anymore anyways. But I honestly just cannot be bothered to care about people no more! I need to put number one first as always. Okay so I miss my parents and my friends-- I would do anything for them-- but this life I lead now? I'm on my own and I can't be assed to care anymore...!WHERE DID THEY GROW UP? WHERE DO THEY FEEL AT HOME?I'm your prototypical good girl from the 'hood that succumbed to peer pressure then turned to a life of crime and bad decisions. I was from some Inner City where crime rates were high and living was rough err' single day, natch. I had some of my family get gunned down. I witnessed two of my friends bleed out, twitching and convulsing, babbiing crazy shit before they finally stopped moving. They gots shot in a Mickie Dee's. We was just sitting there chatting it up, talkin' it up and then bang-bang-bang. Stray bullets and that's it. My girlies went down. Gun control wut when you in gangbanger central.
I feel at home on the run. No one tells me what to do and how to live. I would rather run than get shot by accident... but if I do gets shot, I deserve it.WHO ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES?No one. Your girl CoCo is on the run. Don't need no one, don't care. Oops, I meant, Candy-- wait...! Naw, that ain't it. Cheri...! My name is Cheri right now...
My baby bro would see it though. 'Lando would see that my fake name Cherelle Alicia Tanner as abbreviated spells: CAT. It's so I remember my aliases easier. God, I miss him. You don't deserve that life. Damn and even more daaaaayam, man I should've gone on the straight and narrow, been a superstar, and moved him outta the 'hood. Oh, God please be okay Arlando... I miss you sooooooo much, baby bro... WHAT IS THEIR PROFESSION, SKILL OR LIFESTYLE? WHAT DO THEY THINK THEIR STRENGTHS ARE? WHAT ARE THEIR ACTUAL STRENGTHS?I am a Confidence Woman. And a thief. I make you believe that you need me then I take everything you own. I mark you, I read you, I get you in a false sense of security then I make you decide to scam yourself. I am an actress, a charming bitch, a fraud. I am sexy, I am worth being on your arm, I am something you desire but don't believe you deserve. I get into places most people shouldn't. I'm often hustling to get away after a hustle. But I can take care of myself too.
I pick up details and quick. I have excellent 5 senses and even better instinct. I am faster and stronger than you think. I will break your fingers and nose before I run... or I will just gun you down. I am a killer, I am focussed, and I am desperate. I have 227 g's in two separate bags and I will get away with them. I am a survivor and I will over come. I don't need you and I certainly don't feel sorry for you. CoCo out.~The woman's actual strength is becoming icy steel in a raging inferno; she is calm, collected and yet commanding. She is heroic, unfazed and daring in dire and desperate times without realizing it.~
WHAT ARE THEIR FEARS, FLAWS AND SECRETS?I cannot ever get caught. I have a quarter of a million dollars in cash with me. I can't lose it. I just can't...
I have to stop helping out random kids and animals; man, I sooooo need to focus and stick to the plan. I need to stop beating my self up and this self-loathing needs to stop; goddamn that voice that tells me to eat that bullet and make the pain all go away. I need to stop 'pulling the race card' against white people; I'm half white afterall. I need to stop letting assholes get under my skin; man, my bad attitude and mouth is gunna get me into a fight, I'mma put a hurting on someone reeeeal bad, and then comes the unwanted police attention. Then I go to jail till I die.
I need to get back to the Inner City. That's all I need to do. It's all my life is worth now. I need to pay for what I owe. I effed up royally and I need to get this money to pay for the surgery that will save my baby bro's life. Then I can finally make good, everyone and they'll be okay with me coming out of the closet and letting them know that I am... that me n' guys we... and that women for me they... yeah, they'll still gunna accept me, fo'sho...WHAT DO THEY WANT MOST? WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY NEED?I wanna finally stop running away. I wanna finally own up to what I've done. I WANNA MAKE THINGS RIGHT WITH MY FAMILY, ESPECIALLY MY BABY BROTHER!!~CoCo needs to come to grips with the truth. No matter how much money she accumulates by criminal or legit means her baby brother Arlando Charming Ellison is going to die.~
IF YOUR CHARACTER COULD HAVE ANY SUPERNATURAL ABILITY, WHAT WOULD IT BE?I don't need to be no one except myself. That or Superman. Flying and super-invulnerability at minimum... but without the whole: USA! and TRUTH AND JUSTICE! bullsh-- acutally a tight flight suit would be slammin' on this bod... natch...!WHY ARE THEY HERE IN DUSKWICK? WHAT IS THEIR OPINION OF THE STRANGE RUMORS?I'm only here to provide a service to a kind citzen; one less car. I'mma steal it and move on one town closer to my home town and Inner City.
Bad things happen to people. Weird things happen to people. Whether they good or bad, it don't matter. People take drugs, trip out, trip up and go missing. Take me for example. I'm sure there were posters of me back in my hometown. Probabaly think I'm some crack junkie hoe that ended up OD'ing and now dead and rotting in some gutter somewhere.
They even say they gots monsters here...? Believe me, I met some people just as scary as made up monsters. Ai'ight let me tell you somethin'... Monsters are real;
they just hide inside you. Listen, it's just some folk let them out more often and these folks are waaaaaay more willing to let the monsters loose upon others. They crave it.
But it's always the good people that can hide away the monsters the best. Yet those are the folks that always get hurt by monsters the most; and seems like the victims are always the innocent little ones. Makes me want to hunt down those people with willing monsters in them and put two bullets into their wicked, evil head and one bullet into their mean, unworthy heart.
The dragonflies are something pretty though, ain't they...?HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THIS CHARACTER CHANGE AND DEVELOP?~Basically the prototypical angry lone wolf turned hero... only to find out that no matter how powerful or wealthy she becomes: you cannot save everyone.~
PITCH A SMALL SUBPLOT THAT WOULD BE PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL TO YOUR CHARACTER.~She is gay. But she is Superhero level in-the-closet-gay. That needs to be addressed with a romantic arc with some nice girlie. Awkward, strung along, but defo in the adorkable cute range of romantic arc... natch...!~
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