Conflict: BEING CAPTURED

BEING CAPTURED

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HELPFUL TIP:

Conflict is your story’s secret sauce, supplying tension, relationship friction, and complications to a character’s journey. It comes in a million different forms, so identify the obstacles and problems that will hit your character the hardest by using the Character Builder to uncover their primary insecurities, fears , and desires. Don’t forget to include everyday conflict scenarios that will frustrate them and keep the pressure high.

Missing family, friends, and daily comforts
Not having a way to alert loved ones about the situation
Sustaining physical, mental, and emotional injuries
The character not knowing where they are
Not being able to sleep
Loved ones not knowing where the character is or what happened to them
Needing to develop rapport with a captor
Trying to identify the captors and their motivations
Needing to protect information the captors are trying to obtain
Having to find a way out of captivity
Being forced to create propaganda that will demoralize others
Needing to pay the captors to secure release
Learning intel about the captors but being unable to pass it on to people who can use it

BEING CAPTURED

HELPFUL TIP:

CATEGORY:

EXAMPLES:

MINOR COMPLICATIONS:

POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS RESULTS:

RESULTING EMOTIONS:

POSSIBLE INTERNAL STRUGGLES:

PEOPLE WHO COULD BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED:

NEGATIVE TRAITS THAT COULD MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE:

IMPACT ON BASIC NEEDS:

WOUNDS THIS COULD LEAD TO:

POSITIVE TRAITS TO HELP THE CHARACTER COPE:

POSITIVE OUTCOMES: