Journey is You

My storytelling is over for now. The prompts of yesterday and two days ago are for you to play with. 

Have you noticed that I have been rather vague about the characters and the setting? You know only that there are two children, and there is a park and there is a woods. The details are for you to fill in. That is the nature of your play.

Begin your play by making character sheets for each of the characters. The older child, the younger child, and the creature. You can look back at what you have already written and drawn for inspiration. 

• Name your character
• Decide the character's gender
• Describe your character's appearance (height/weight/skin,eye,hair coloring/scars or other obvious physical difference
• Describe your character's general emotional state; are they usually happy? Intrepid? Timid? Loud? Is there a difference between what they show to the world and what they feel?  Do they show one face to the world and hide their truer self? What are their fears, their joys? What do they long for? 
• Describe their intellectual capabilities
• Does your character have any physical, mental, or intellectual challenges? 
• How healthy is your character? 
• What is your characters religious state? 
• Describe the characters relationship to the other characters both in terms of blood - family, friend, strangers that met at the park, babysitter-babysittee and in terms of how they relate to each other and feel about each other (at this point the children are unaware of the creature, so it is "don't know" for them, however, the creature may very well harbor thoughts or feelings toward the children. It depends on how sentient you want the creature to be)
• What is their family position? What is the make-up of their family? Is their family-life a healthy life?
• What is their financial status? What is their social status? Have their been major changes in either? What caused the change if it exists?
• What secrets do your characters hold or are they an open book? What you see is what you get?
• What are they wearing? Is this their usual garb? Do they wear a coat when leaving the house on a cold morning, then discard it as soon as they are out of sight of mom? Do they hike up their skirt? Or pull it off revealing forbidden pants?

While this (And Then) prompt will continue over the next week, take as long as a time as you need to finish the tasks that will be given.