character profile sheet

Elijah Herbert

Oct 20^th 2010

Character Profile Worksheet

Basic Statistics

Name: Melvin weird
Age:18
Nationality: Asian American
Socioeconomic Level as a child: class clown
Socioeconomic Level as an adult: weirdo
Hometown: long island
Current Residence: Westchester
Occupation: unemployed student
Income: parents provide
Talents/Skills: funny
Salary: unemployed
Birth order: only child
Siblings (describe relationship): only child
Spouse (describe relationship): no spouse
Children (describe relationship):no children
Grandparents (describe relationship): sweet and loving except him for who he is …not like everybody else who thinks he’s an idiot who wants attention
Grandchildren (describe relationship):no grandchildren
Significant Others (describe relationship): close circle of friends but they only hang out with him to laugh at the things he does
Relationship skills: poor social skills


Physical Characteristics:

Height: 5’10
Weight:175 pounds
Race: Asian American
Eye Color: light brown
Hair Color: jet black
Glasses or contact lenses? No
Skin color: paste
Shape of Face: oval or and olive shaped head
Distinguishing features:
How does he/she dress? Emo like clothing, really dark just hanging ff of him
Mannerisms: likes to make weird noises in hallway, spinning on the floor, jumping around, and childish behavior. He never really had friends or received attention from parents
Habits: (smoking, drinking etc.) he doesn’t smoke , occasional drinking, rarely crack cocaine
Health: physically healthy mentally ill
Hobbies: playing video games , hacking computers
Favorite Sayings: Yugi Oh
Speech patterns: random thoughts and words to himself and others
Disabilities: none that we know of
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.):
Greatest flaw: child like behavior an 18 year old with a 5 year olds habits
Best quality: sense of humor which is as well one of his down falls


Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: he goes to hunter college and graduated from one of the top high schools in the country. Home schooled by aunts and uncles until 9^th grade. That maybe the reason why he’s socially awkward
Intelligence Level: very intellectual
Any Mental Illnesses? He hasn’t been tested or analyzed for anything yet
Learning Experiences: im not sure if he’s learned anything quite yet because if he did I’m not sure he would act the way he does for attention.
Character's short-term goals in life: graduate college
Character's long-term goals in life: own his own comic company and be he main executive
how does Character see himself/herself? A funny fun loving guy
how does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? Misunderstood
how self-confident is the character? Not very confident so he uses humor to be more appealing
does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?
What would most embarrass this character? If he realized the only reason he has the friends he has is because they laugh at him not with him


Emotional Characteristics


Strengths/Weaknesses: His strengths are comedy and school work his weakness is social skills
Introvert or Extrovert? A little to out going really excited
how does the character deal with anger? Going to drugs
with sadness? Comics
With conflict? Ignores it
with change? Drugs
With loss? Comedy
what does the character want out of life? Just to be excepted as he is
what would the character like to change in his/her life? How he’s perceived
what motivates this character? His parent because he’s determined to be noticed
what frightens this character? Parents not excepting him
what makes this character happy? Reading books acting foolish
is the character judgmental of others? No really gullible
is the character generous or stingy? Generous, maybe even to nice
is the character generally polite or rude? Polite


Spiritual Characteristics

Does the character believe in God? No he’s atheist
what are the character's spiritual beliefs? There is no god. He believes in science
is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? None what so ever
if so, what role does it play?

What does this character want?? Need?  Wish?  Hope? All Melvin wants is his parents acceptance but he needs to grow up first. He wishes people wouldn’t judge him so harshly and gets a chance to know him. He hopes one day to own his own comic book company and have his parents take him as he is.