Protagonist

What do they consider their greatest achievement?

What is your protagonist's proudest moment or accomplishment?

What is their idea of perfect happiness?

What does your protagonist want most?

What is their current state of mind?

How does your protagonist feel at the start of the story versus the end?

What is their dream job?

What role or job would your protagonist consider to be their dream job?

What is their most treasured possession?

What is your protagonist not willing to sacrifice for their goal?

Who or what is the greatest love of their life?

Who or what does your protagonist care about the most?

What is their favorite journey?

If the protagonist could choose any path, what would their ideal journey look like, and why?

What is their most marked characteristic?

What is the most defining trait of your protagonist’s personality?

When and where were they the happiest?

What time in your protagonist’s life was their happiest moment?

What is it that they dislike the most?

What drives the protagonist to action, and why does it affect them so deeply?

What is their greatest fear?

What is your protagonist’s biggest fear or insecurity?

What is their greatest extravagance?

What can your protagonist compromise on, if unwillingly?

Which living person do they despise the most?

Who does your protagonist consider their greatest enemy or rival?

What is their greatest regret?

What decision or event does your protagonist wish they could change?

Which talent would they like the most to have?

What skill or ability does your protagonist wish they possessed?

Where would they like to live?

Where would your protagonist want to make a home?

What do they regard as the lowest depth of misery?

What is the worst fate your protagonist fears?

What is the quality they like the most in a person?

What type of person does the protagonist feel most comfortable around, and why?

What is the trait they deplore the most in themselves?

What aspect of their personality does the protagonist struggle to accept or forgive?

What is the trait they deplore the most in others?

What do they find most unacceptable in others?

What do they value the most in their friends?

What trait does the protagonist look for most in their closest companions?

Who is their favorite hero of fiction?

Who in myth or legend does your protagonist identify with most, and why?

Who are their heroes in real life?

Who in the protagonist’s life has made a significant impact, and how does that person inspire them to keep going?

Which living person do they admire the most?

Who does the protagonist see as the epitome of what they want to become?

What do they consider the most overrated virtue?

What virtue does your protagonist believe is overvalued or misunderstood?

On what occasions do they lie?

Under what circumstances would your protagonist lie or bend the truth?

Which words or phrases do they overuse?

What phrases or expressions does your protagonist commonly use?

If they could change one thing about themselves, what would it be?

What personal belief or habit does the protagonist wish they could overcome, and how would it transform them?

What are their favorite names?

What names hold significance or appeal to your protagonist?

How would they like to die?

How does your protagonist envision their end, and what do they want it to be like?

If they were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do they think it would be?

If your protagonist were to be reincarnated, what would they come back as?

What is their motto?

What is your protagonist’s guiding principle or mantra?