Character Profile Worksheet
Basic Statistics
Name: Ralph Belachuk
Age: Biologically 27, born April 15th, 1900
Nationality: Canadian
Socioeconomic Level as a child: Upper middle in early childhood, lower class in later childhood
Socioeconomic Level as an adult: Upper middle class to lower-class/homeless/incarcerated, prone to rapid change
Hometown: Vegreville, Alberta, Canada
Current Residence: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada or Brisbane, QL, Australia
Occupation: Farmer, janitor, engineer, Canadian army infantryman (DCCLI), oilfield worker, construction, park ranger, bum, etc.
Income: Varies, depends on job if any
Talents/Skills: Marksmanship & firearms usage, archery, hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons, crafting & mechanical engineering, construction, farming, foraging, scavenging, cooking, music
Salary: “Good for yer health, man.”
Birth order: 2nd child, twin sister Joan died in infancy
Siblings (estranged with sister): Older sister Alexandra, younger brother Colin
Spouse (not yet met as of 1936): Miranda Valentino
Children (born 1945): Aurelia Valentino, Gabby Morgan with Colin’s wife Farrah Morgan in 1971
Grandparents: Grandpa Red died in 1903, Ralph looked up to him through stories, Grandma Joyce rapidly grew estranged with Ralph in his early teens due to her Christian fundamentalist views but she moderated due to her natural empathy
Grandchildren (describe relationship): TBD
Significant Others (friends with benefits): Freya O’Cathain (girlfriend)
Relationship skills: Very poor
Physical Characteristics:
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 181
Race: Anthro, cougar
Eye Color: Hazel, green-brown
Hair Color: Dark-brown
Glasses or contact lenses? Glasses if any
Fur color: Natural cougar colours
Shape of Face: Chiseled and built but somewhat gaunt too
Distinguishing features: Scar on left-hand cheek, tattoo on back of neck
How does he/she dress? Ralph wears mostly casual clothing, that’s often dirty, often bought cheaply as possible or stolen or scavenged.
Mannerisms: Picking his nose and eating his boogers, poor sense of hygiene, comes across as witless and loutish. Ways of thinking resemble both Deadpool, Caboose, and Charlie Kelly combined.
Habits: Drinking, smoking, poly-drug use, cannabis use, frequent belching, loud voice
Health: Body’s health is dented from extraordinarily poor living habits but otherwise incredibly endurant
Hobbies: Getting drunk or high, writing and performing music, parkour and hiking, tabletop gaming, fighting and hooliganism
Favorite Sayings: “Fuckin’ A, man.” “Life’s just life, and then ye fuckin’ die.”
Speech patterns: Mostly monotone and deadpan, quite often sounds more annoyed and angry than he actually is, heavy Canadian Prairie accent with elements of Australian and Irish
Disabilities: On the autism spectrum, rudimentary and non-intuitive understanding of non-verbal communication, sometimes hallucinates to complete inability to correctly percieve reality
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.): Crude and inelegant, quite eccentric, somewhat loutish but with a hidden respect and passion for social sciences and arts and cultures unexpected of him like military history.
Greatest flaw: Lack of empathy, ill-tempered uneducated, almost functionally illiterate, socially inept and prone to being obnoxious, sadistic and unscrupulous at his worst
Best quality: Holds his demons in, utmost loyalty when he is able to empathize, hard worker, determined fighter, abstract learner and deeply-buried intelligence underneath
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background: Dropped out of high school
Intelligence Level: Below-average to above-average, depends and varies
Any Mental Illnesses? Prone to mood swings, all-or-nothing thinking, delusions & hallucinations (everyone knows my whole life, food’s poisoned, etc.), losing his thoughts mid-speech, word salads.
Learning Experiences: Vastly self-taught, distrusts information from other people and attempts to teach and train him, views school and academic institutions with contempt.
Character's short-term goals in life: Join the military, move to Ireland with Freya, learn military things, get high school papers
Character's long-term goals in life: Learn how to read, improve his sense of empathy
How does Character see himself/herself? A worthless subhuman pile of shit that deserves to go die in a ditch.
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? Strange, sad, lonely, angry, obnoxious, a nuisance, eccentrically funny, somewhat scary
How self-confident is the character? Hates himself but trusts nobody but himself. Believes in himself 100%, and sees the best in allies and opponents alike, all but the worst guys who target the innocent and non-combatants.
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? Tries to live his best by logic but struggles at the mercy of his chaotic and swinging emotions.
What would most embarrass this character? Public nudity, indecent exposure, getting touched unexpectedly, having his clothes pulled off flies him into violent rage
Emotional Characteristics
Strengths/Weaknesses: Athletic and incredibly endurant, agile and able to dodge and strike easily, independently self-confident/Absent-minded, socially inept without the lack of confidence, poor sense of empathy
Introvert or Extrovert? Introvert, occasional extroverted qualities
How does the character deal with anger? Relies on cannabis to defuse his bad temper and remain calm and stoic and flippant instead of angry. Uses wit instead of violence.
With sadness? Isolates himself. Sleeps a lot. Doesn’t talk. Lasts for weeks.
With conflict? Fight or flight. Very poor results and lose-lose for all parties with no mediators if Ralph’s involved in conflict.
With change? Reluctant and finds it hard to adapt to new settings, but can adapt quick if he finds it logical or a dire situation.
With loss? Same with sadness, but months instead of weeks. Prone to talking to himself, and screaming psychotic rambling at people who try to talk with him.
What does the character want out of life? N/A
What would the character like to change in his/her life? N/A, though he is thankful for Freya
What motivates this character? Freya’s his scribe and mission control as well as his girlfriend, they go on missions and drug-fuelled alcoholic world adventures together like Indiana Jones’s batshit Canadian cougar relative and his Irish wolfess girlfriend.
What frightens this character? Lampreys and hagfish and leeches make him panic. He’ll instinctively screech and then bite the heads off of them, as well as snakes and bats too.
What makes this character happy? Being drunk, high, eating lots of good food, cooking good food, using firearms at shooting ranges instead of on the battlefield, sex with Freya, learning military and cultural history
Is the character judgmental of others? The most tolerant asshole you’ll ever meet until you hurt innocent people.
Is the character generous or stingy? Generous. Ralph has no boundaries as to what he’ll give away if he’s convinced it’s the right thing to do.
Is the character generally polite or rude? Quite very rude, but does try his best to learn to attempt politeness. As he warms up, he becomes much more polite, sophisticated, and empathetic if he feels he can trust the communicatee.
Spiritual Characteristics
Does the character believe in God? “God’s just a cunt living in the hollow core of the Moon.”
What are the character's spiritual beliefs? Deistic and apatheistic
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? Was raised Christian, traumatic childhood experiences involving organized religion
If so, what role does it play? Something to mock, but on occasion respect for what good it has done where it has, like liberation theology
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Character's role in the novel: Main character.
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