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Character Profile Template

Fill in your character online, then print it, copy it or download it. Forty questions in seven sections, from basics to biggest fear.

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Basics

Appearance

Personality

Background

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Relationships

Goals and fears

Extras

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How to fill in a character profile

A profile is not a form to finish. It is a set of questions that make you decide things about your character before the story decides them for you. Forty answers about eye color and favorite food will not make a character feel alive. Five honest answers about what they want and what they hide will.

  • Start at the end. Fill in Goals and fears first: what they want, what they really need, and what stands in the way. Everything else should explain those answers.
  • Give them a flaw that costs something. A flaw only counts if it gets them into trouble. Our list of 165 character traits and 30 flaws helps when you are stuck on a word.
  • Be specific. "Carries a stopped pocket watch" tells you more than "mysterious". One concrete detail per answer is enough.
  • Let them contradict themselves. A kind person who lies, a coward who would die for one friend. Contradictions are where scenes come from.
  • Leave blanks. Skip any question that does not matter for your story. A printed blank prints as writing lines, so you can come back to it by hand.

Character profile, character sheet or OC template?

They overlap. A character profile is the writer's version: personality, history, relationships and goals. A character sheet in tabletop games like D&D tracks the numbers, such as stats, skills and hit points; use your game's official sheet for those and this profile for the person behind them. An OC template is the version shared in fandom and art communities to introduce an original character. This template covers all three: fill it in, then copy the text into Toyhouse, a Discord post or a Google Doc.

Where to take your character next

Need a character to start from? Our 160 OC ideas each come with a look and a hook, and the character archetypes guide shows the roles a character can play in a story. For the personality section, the character personality generator drafts strengths, flaws, habits and a voice to edit. For the background section, the AI backstory generator turns your answers into a full history with a secret and story hooks, and the character name generator helps if the first box is still empty.

The blank template

All 40 questions, to copy into a doc or a post.

Basics

  1. Full name: First, last, and any titles
  2. Nickname or alias: What friends (or enemies) call them
  3. Age: Or apparent age
  4. Gender and pronouns: e.g. woman, she/her
  5. Species or race: Human, elf, android
  6. Occupation or role: What they do all day
  7. Hometown: Where they come from
  8. Genre: Fantasy, modern, sci-fi

Appearance

  1. Height and build: Tall, wiry, broad-shouldered
  2. Hair: Color, length, style
  3. Eyes: Color and what they give away
  4. Distinguishing marks: Scars, tattoos, freckles, a limp
  5. Typical outfit: What they wear on an ordinary day
  6. Something they always carry: An object that matters to them

Personality

  1. Three words that describe them: e.g. loyal, stubborn, funny
  2. Strengths: What they are good at, inside and out
  3. Flaws: What gets them into trouble
  4. Habits and quirks: Small things people notice
  5. How they talk: Accent, catchphrase, how much they say
  6. What makes them laugh
  7. What makes them angry

Background

  1. Where and how they grew up: Family, home, money, the mood of it
  2. Family: Who is alive, who is gone, who they still talk to
  3. The event that changed them: The moment their story really starts
  4. Education, training or skills: What they learned and from whom
  5. A secret: Something they hide, and from whom

Relationships

  1. Closest friend: Who knows them best
  2. Rival or enemy: Who they compete with or fear
  3. Love interest: Or who they wish would notice them
  4. Who they would protect at any cost
  5. Who they can't forgive

Goals and fears

  1. What they want: The goal they would tell you about
  2. What they really need: What they would not admit, even to themselves
  3. Biggest fear
  4. What stands in their way: A person, a flaw, a rule, a place
  5. What they would never do: And what it would take to make them

Extras

  1. Likes: Foods, places, music, weather
  2. Dislikes
  3. Theme song: A song that sounds like them
  4. Notes: Anything else: inspirations, art links, plot ideas

Character profile examples

Three filled profiles. Load any of them into the template above to edit it.

Fantasy

Bruk Stonevoice

24 · Man, he/him · Half-orc · Traveling blacksmith who wants to be a bard

Three words that describe them
Gentle, stubborn, hopeful
Flaws
Trusts strangers too fast and lends out tools and coin he never sees again
The event that changed them
At sixteen he stole a lute to follow the bard Lian, turned back, and was offered a place on her road anyway. Two years later she vanished in the port of Vess.
A secret
He still has the stolen lute from his youth, hidden in his pack
What they want
To find Lian and prove a half-orc can be a bard worth hearing
What they really need
To play for himself, not to earn anyone's permission
Biggest fear
That he is only ever going to be the hired muscle

Anime

Hana Kurose

17 · Girl, she/her · Human · Second-year transfer student, kendo club

Three words that describe them
Blunt, loyal, secretly soft
Flaws
Says the true thing at the worst moment and refuses to apologize for it
The event that changed them
She lost the regional final on purpose so a rival could keep her scholarship, and has never told anyone.
A secret
She threw the regional final
What they want
Win the national tournament and reopen her grandfather's dojo
What they really need
To let people help her
Biggest fear
Ending up alone in an empty town like her grandfather

Sci-fi

Teo Oduya

31 · Man, he/him · Human, born on a station · Medic on the long-haul freighter Patience

Three words that describe them
Calm, dry, quietly reckless
Flaws
Does not sleep, does not ask for help, and treats his own injuries last or never
The event that changed them
During Kettle's last evacuation he had to choose which of two patients got the only stretcher on the shuttle.
A secret
He is flying on a forged medical license
What they want
To keep the Patience crew alive until the contract ends
What they really need
To forgive himself for the stretcher
Biggest fear
Running out of supplies halfway between ports

Character profile template FAQ

The basics (name, age, role, where they come from), appearance, personality with strengths and flaws, background and the event that changed them, the people in their life, and what they want, need and fear. This template has 40 questions in seven sections; fill the ones that matter for your story and skip the rest.

Start with Goals and fears: what the character wants, what they really need, and what stands in their way. Then give them a flaw that causes trouble and a secret. Appearance and likes come last. Specific answers beat general ones: "carries a stopped pocket watch" tells you more than "mysterious".

An OC (original character) template is a list of questions for building your own character, often shared on Toyhouse, Tumblr, Discord or art communities. This character profile template works as an OC template: fill it in here, then copy the text or download it to paste wherever you post your OC.

Yes. Press Print to get a clean black-and-white sheet. Questions you answered print with your answers, and blank questions print with writing lines, so printing the empty template gives you a paper form to fill in by hand.

It is free and needs no sign-up. Your answers save in your own browser as you type, so they are still there when you come back on the same device. Nothing is sent to us. Use Copy text or Download to keep a copy anywhere else.

A character profile describes who someone is: personality, history, relationships and goals. A character sheet in tabletop games like D&D tracks game numbers such as stats, skills and hit points. Many players use both: the sheet for the rules and a profile for the person behind it.

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