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Name: Zac Carpenter
Designation: Logic Character
Gender: Male
Age: 18 (or so)
Orientation: Flexible
Nickname: “Zac Attack,” a moniker left over from his days as a high school football quarterback (at least, that’s the story).
Relationships with:
- Peter Carpenter (father)
Defining Characteristic. Profit motive. Zac’s impressed by money. He’s dazzled by the high life, wants it for himself, and is willing to do anything — and I mean anything — to make a buck.
Philosophy: Anything for a buck.
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Name: Peter Carpenter
Designation:
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Orientation: Apparently Straight
Nickname: He was such a “goody-two shoes” in high school, even his friends referred to him at “St. Peter.”
Relationships with:
- Thomas McBride (high school friend)
- Zac Carpenter (son)
Defining Characteristic. Conservatism. Peter is fiercely religious, fiercely Republican, fiercely straight-laced. GIven the slightest opportunity, he will jump on a soap box and preach about liberal evils and the destruction of the American family.
Philosophy: Appearances are everything.
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Name: Kim Adder
Designation: Conscience/Helper
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Orientation: Lesbian
Nickname: Actually, Kim is the nickname, which she uses because Americans can’t pronounce the Thai name.
Relationships with:
- Nick Adder (husband)
Defining Characteristic: Honor. Kim has tremendous respect for her culture’s religious and social traditions. She wishes to make her parents proud and happy, and she is absolutely dedicated to doing the honorable thing in every situation.
Philosophy: What is, is. Accept it.
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Name: Cheryl Lockhart
Designation: Emotion Character
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Orientation: Heterosexual
Nickname: No one would dare give Cheryl a nickname.
Relationships with:
- Trent Lockhart (husband)
Defining Characteristic: Unpredictability. Cheryl is dangerously unpredictable, jumping from mood to mood in seconds, taking offense at imagined slights, and identifying enemies based solely on whim.
Philosophy: It’s all about me.
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Name: Briggs Stone
Designation: Sidekick/Faith & Support
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Orientation: Gay
Nickname: None. Everyone has always called him Briggs.
Relationships with:
- Thomas McBride (partner)
Defining Characteristic: Nurturing. Briggs is a natural-born caretaker and care giver, even when doing so is to his own detriment.
Philosophy: Wait and see.
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Name: Trent Lockheart
Designation: Henchman/Temptation & Hinderance
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Orientation: “Questioning”
Nickname: None.
Relationships with:
- Cheryl Lockhart (wife)
- Nick Adder (yoga and massage client)
- Thomas McBride (old flame from college years)
Defining Characteristic: Guiltlessness. No matter what he does, or how it effects other people, Trent refuses to take any responsibility or feel any guilt for the consequences or the repercussions of his actions. He gleefully positions this as a symptom of his own enlightenment and “evolved spirit.”
Philosophy: There are no accidents.
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Name: Nick Adder
Designation: Impact Character/Reconsider
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Orientation: Gay
Nickname: In high school, received a chess club nickname of "Nine Moves Nick" for his ability to think nine moves ahead of his opponents. Thomas once called Nick this in public, and other kids -- because young Nick was extremely overweight, picked up the name, changing it to "Nine Tons Nick."
Philosophy: Everyone has a price.
Relationships with:
- Kerry (partner)
- Thomas (former high school friend)
- Trent (spiritual advisor, yoga instructor)
Defining Characteristic: Nick is obsessed with systems, and his biggest thrill is figuring out what makes something (or someone) tick. He sees every interaction as a game with a winner and a loser, and Nick is absolutely determined to be the winner. If someone says, "I'll never do X," Nick dedicates himself to creating a situation in which that person will, in fact, do X ... and then gloat over the victory.
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Name: Thomas McBride
Designation: Main Character/Seeker
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Orientation: Gay
Nickname: In high school, was called “Tato” because of his pale skin and couch-potato tendencies.
Philosophy: Don't rock the boat.
Relationships with:
- Briggs (partner)
- Nick (old high school best friend)
- Trent (old flame in college, “the one that got away”)
Defining Characteristic: Thomas can’t let things go. If something’s seasoned perfectly, he’s compelled to season it just a little more — until it’s ruined. If his hair is perfect, he’s compelled to fiddle with it just a little more, until it becomes a glop of hairspray and gel. If a paint job is perfect, he will futz around with the trim so long, he’ll eventually smear the trim color over the adjacent wall color … and then make things worse by trying to just paint over the smear … and then make things worse by spilling a bucket of paint on the carpet while trying to repaint the entire wall.
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