Oct 3 Protagonist Profile

CHARACTER INTERVIEW / PROFILE

Name: Longfellow Mikolaj Dark

Background
Birthday: 7/31/1964
Place of birth: Charlottetown NY
Parents: Ann-Marie Michaux and Emerson
What was important to the people who raised him: Family, faith, and honesty
Siblings: Stephanie, Regina, Veronica, and Michelle
Economic/social status growing up: lower middle class
Ethnic background: Quebecois, Metis, Mohawk, and Polish
Places lived: Charlottetown and Albany NY
Education: AS in Computer Science from Charlotte County Community College, BS in Computer Science and BA in American History from Binnekill College (SUNY)
Favorite subject in school: Math and History

Friends: Many women, former soccer teammates, nerds from work and along the way
How do people view this character: “Just something about you that makes women have naughty thoughts” and “What is it about you that makes me want to be honest?”
Dating, marriage: Widower
Children: None, that he’s aware of
Relationship with God: Why did you take her from me?

Physical appearance
Body type: Medium height, surprisingly muscular
Posture: Catholic school straight
Head shape: Round
Eyes: Downturned brown
Nose: Medium length
Mouth: Full lips
Hair: black, think, unlike his Mohawk cousins
Skin: olive
Tattoos/piercings/scars: Plenty of scars, especially “through” his left eye
Voice: Loud
What people notice first: The glasses
Clothing: Business casual in the office, black and leather while working
Health/disabilities/handicaps: Near-sighted

Characteristics
Personality type (choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholy): Sanguine
Strongest/weakest character traits: Affable, talkative
How can the flip side of his strong point be a weakness: Listen and not talk
How much self-control and self-discipline does he have: Slow-burn
What makes him irrationally angry: Fake accents and fake people
What makes him cry: Some movies, remembering his wife
Fears: Open-space heights
Talents: Ghost talker
What people like best about him: Excellent cook, non-judgmental sexually

Interests and favorites
Political leaning: Liberal Democrat
Collections: Books!
Food, drink: Yes, please
Music: Love songs, disco
Books: Fantasy, pulp fiction, hardboiled
Movies: Fantasy, sci-fi, action/adventure
Sports, recreation: Former soccer player, golfs with great-uncles and “uncles”
Did he play in school: Yes
Color: Plum Crazy, forest green, “Bordeaux”
Best way to spend a weekend: Naked and reading
A great gift for this person: Books!
Pets: Cat named Eddie
Vehicles: 1970 Barracuda

Idiosyncrasies:
Laughs or jeers at: Mel Brooks movies, “dad jokes”, puns
Ways to cheer up this person: Feed him
Ways to annoy this person: Whiners
Hopes and dreams: To not cry over his wife
How does he see himself accomplishing these dreams:
What’s the worst thing he’s ever done to someone and why: Ghosted a girl
Greatest success: Graduating college three times
Biggest trauma: Death of his wife Vanessa
Most embarrassing thing that ever happened to him: College soccer, shorts ripped, exposed his fully tanned penis
What does he care about most in the world: Family
Does he have a secret: Yes, talks with ghosts
If he could do one thing and succeed at it, what would it be: Return to being an author only
He is the kind of person who: Gives shelter to those in need
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compulsions, addictions, denials, hysterical ailments, hypochondria, illnesses,
behaviors harming the self, behavior harming others, manias, and phobias):
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