Character Layout: External Presentation & Physicality

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External Presentation & Physicality - Signature Traits: Distinctive behaviors, habits, or affectations that make them instantly recognizable. - Symbolic Features: Scars, adornments, or traits that serve as metaphors for their inner landscape. - Aura: The emotional atmosphere they carry—what others feel in their presence (e.g., danger, longing, serenity). - Voice & Diction: Their rhythm, vocabulary, and tone—how their speech reveals status, restraint, or volatility. - Cadence & Tone: Is their speech clipped, lyrical, bruised with restraint? Language becomes a mirror of psyche. - Lexicon of Emotion: What words do they avoid or overuse? What phrases betray their vulnerability? - Silences: When and why do they choose not to speak? Silence can be more revealing than dialogue. - Physicality: Not just appearance, but posture, movement, and the way they occupy space. - Sensory Imprint: How they move, smell, sound—details that linger in the memory like perfume on skin.

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