Dealer's Choice- Characters

Characters- The Twin Slices: "First" and "Second"
1. How does your character think?
The slices both think as identical twins, and they both want simple lives, to merely live in their home and examine those passing by.
2. How does your character think he/she thinks?
Both slices have dreamt of one day seeing the world, but they accept that reality constricts them.
3. What does your character want?
They both want to take an afternoon nap in their home.
4. What does your character think he/she wants?
They both wonder if the wrapper sometimes just contains them.
5. What does your character believe?
They have simple beliefs, and prefer not to think too much about the heavy details in life.
6. What does your character think he/she believes?
They do sometimes each question if their life really has meaning.
7. What is your character’s truth? Mythology?
The slices firmly think they are meant to watch over their siblings and the outside world as well.
8. What is your character’s real truth? Real Mythology?
They somewhat know from their past mother's death that humans aren't as trustworthy.
9. What does your character need?
They both need to understand what humans feel their purpose is.
10. What does your character think he/she needs?
They both think they only need watch humans.
11. What actions does your character undertake?
The first slice is the only one who is alive enough towards the end to utter a yell that transcends physics and reality.
12. Why does your character think he/she does what he/she does?
The first slice is in pain, and it feels that it can only attempt to warn the others as well as attempt at a typical human expression of pain.

What the audience needs:
• Understanding: What events past, present and future push your
character into action
The two slices in the past were born in a bakery, as their mother sacrificed herself to create their birth slices. They feel somewhat more protective of their siblings in the present, and their future deaths are meant to be a warning to the other slices.
• Emotion: How your character feels
The slices feel at peace at first, but once they are harmed, they feel pain and fear.
• Urgency: How important this is for your character
They strongly want to live their lives and protect their siblings.
• Sympathy: Why your character does what he/she does
The first slice yells to warn the others, and both slices have always watched over their siblings due to a sense of responsibility for their mother's sacrifice.
• Specificity: Detail making your character’s motivation clear
They stay in their wrapper, never attempting to leave, because they value the protection and bond with their siblings.
• Originality: Something we’ve either not seen before or have seen
before but is being presented in a different way.
The bread slices are characters on their own, and they are also the main characters.
• Mystery: Building the puzzle about what your character will learn
about him/herself one piece at a time
The second slice realizes he can't survive for his family, but the first slice realizes with enough willpower he can transcend physics, and they both learn that humans can't be trusted.
• Flaw: A problem to help humanize your character in our eyes.
They both give up on living throughout most of their torture scenes.

Characters- The Hungry Man: "Roger"
1. How does your character think?
The man usually thinks about his family and work often, but at this moment, food is consuming his thoughts on this Sunday afternoon.
2. How does your character think he/she thinks?
Even so, at the back of his mind he worries about how his job isn't going as well.
3. What does your character want?
He wants to make a sandwich for lunch.
4. What does your character think he/she wants?
He actually is worried about work, and he feels like the food will calm him down.
5. What does your character believe?
He believes in family values, and he is traditional in many senses.
6. What does your character think he/she believes?
He sometimes thinks about escaping from the typical suburban life, but he knows there are simple ways of dealing with issues.
7. What is your character’s truth? Mythology?
He knows that relaxing and eating lunch will help him get through the rest of the Sunday and prepare for Monday.
8. What is your character’s real truth? Real Mythology?
He also knows that lunch can't cure everything, and he will still stew about some of the issues at work.
9. What does your character need?
He needs to take a moment to realize that food isn't everything.
10. What does your character think he/she needs?
He thinks right now all he needs is the perfect sandwich.
11. What actions does your character undertake?
He slowly takes bread slices and ingredients out, he toasts the bread, spreads mayo on it, adds the ingredients, slices it, and he eventually eats the sandwich. He is also murdering the twin slices in the process.
12. Why does your character think he/she does what he/she does?
He is doing it to create a perfect sandwich in hopes of relaxing.

What the audience needs:
• Understanding: What events past, present and future push your
character into action
The man was assigned a job a while back he assumed he would enjoy, but it feels mediocre to him presently. This leads to his events of slowly making a sandwich to relax.
• Emotion: How your character feels
He feels hungry and stressed until he makes his sandwich.
• Urgency: How important this is for your character
He feels making the sandwich will really help him relax, and the urgency to make it perfect is high.
• Sympathy: Why your character does what he/she does
He murders the bread simply because he is unaware his relaxation technique is killing what seems to him to be a lifeless object.
• Specificity: Detail making your character’s motivation clear
He wants to make a perfect sandwich because he knows the taste will relax him and help his thoughts of worry drift away.
• Originality: Something we’ve either not seen before or have seen
before but is being presented in a different way.
He is strangely very determined at the sandwich being perfect, and he is also completely unaware he's committing a murder.
• Mystery: Building the puzzle about what your character will learn
about him/herself one piece at a time
He learns for a moment that maybe making the sandwich wasn't good when he hears a yell, but he changes his mind feeling that maybe his hunger and stress made him imagine it.
• Flaw: A problem to help humanize your character in our eyes.
He is drowning his worries through food.