Love Interest

What's the first impression they make?

Write it from @Love Interest's POV.

What's their build?

Where might @Love Interest's eye keep going?

What's most memorable about their face?

What does @Love Interest notice in the first minute? The next day? The next month?

How do they dress, and what does it say about them?

Have @Love Interest dress them up. What might be different?

What are their distinguishing mannerisms?

Which ones does @Love Interest find maddening? Which ones do they fall for?

How would a stranger describe the sound of their voice?

How would @Love Interest describe it?

What kind of a person are they?

How would @Love Interest describe them in five adjectives?

What are their greatest strengths?

How do they interact with @Love Interest's strengths?

What are their deepest weaknesses?

How do they interact with @Love Interest's weaknesses?

What is their default conflict style?

Write an everyday fight scene with @Love Interest.

What is their default communication style?

Write an everyday conversation with @Love Interest in their preferred medium.

What are their...

Pet peeves? Hobbies? Routines?

What is their biggest regret?

How does @Love Interest find out, if at all?

What is their greatest fear?

How might it impact any relationship they enter?

What do they value most?

What would they sacrifice everything else to protect?

What is their biggest goal?

How does it sit next to @Love Interest's biggest goal?

What is their greatest desire?

Is it what they truly need?

What drives them?

Outside of @Love Interest?

Who are their immediate family members?

What is their relationship with them?

Who counts as chosen family?

Think friends, mentors, etc.

Who were their past romantic partners?

How did those relationships end?

Who are they at odds with?

What caused the rift?

Who depends on them?

Whose emergency contact are they?

Who is in their wider circle?

Who would be in the group chat?

Where did they come from?

How do they talk about their hometown when asked?

How was their childhood?

What would they tell @Love Interest? What wouldn't they tell @Love Interest?

What shaped them?

Think experiences, trials, etc.

Who shaped them?

Think parents, bullies, etc.

What were the turning points?

Look for the forks in the road.

Who did they think they'd become?

How far are they from that version of themselves now?

How do they love?

Who are they when they're with @Love Interest?

What is their love language?

How do they convey "I love you" before they can say "I love you"?

What is their attachment style?

How does it manifest in the relationship with @Love Interest in the beginning? The middle? The end?

What do they want from a relationship?

How does @Love Interest provide it — or fail to?

What do they fear in a relationship?

What does @Love Interest put at risk?

What bigger pattern keeps their relationships from working?

And what does loving @Love Interest help them finally see?

Put it all together now.

Given everything you've developed about them, write a summary answering: why @Love Interest, of all people?