Journal #7: Stalker Project

Character Profile Worksheet

Basic Statistics

Name: John Thomson

Age: 27

Nationality: American born Scottish

Socioeconomic Level as a child: Middle class

Socioeconomic Level as an adult: Upper middle class

Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin

Current Residence: Brooklyn, NY

Occupation: Editor-in-chief at the Daily News

Income: $65,000

Talents/Skills: Can play the flute

Salary: $65,000

Birth order: 1 older sister and 1 younger sister

Siblings (describe relationship): He talks with his sisters one in a while, just to keep each others up to date about their daily life.

Spouse (describe relationship): None

Children (describe relationship): None

Grandparents (describe relationship): Only has a grandma who he really loves and misses. They have a very special relationship because he feels like his grandma is the only one who understands him and she has been giving him support since he was very little.

Grandchildren (describe relationship): None

Significant Others (describe relationship): Never had a girlfriend

Relationship skills: Popular amongst his friends

Physical Characteristics:

Height: 4 feet

Weight: 105 Lb.

Race: Scottish

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Dark/dirty red

Glasses or contact lenses?: None

Skin color: Light pink

Shape of Face: Oval shape face and his head is bigger than his body

Distinguishing features: Has facial hair

How does he/she dress?: Wears knit hat, red flannel shirt, skinny jeans (folded at the ankle) and desert shoe.

Mannerisms: Very patient, curses a lot, and checks his phone often

Habits (smoking, drinking etc.): Both

Health: Achondroplasia

Hobbies: Watching the latest action movie, reading the news, playing the flute

Favorite Sayings: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

Speech patterns: Deep voice

Disabilities: Dwarfism

Style (Elegant, shabby etc.): American Eagle Outfitters model style

Greatest flaw: Height and smoking habit

Best quality: Kind, caring, and understanding

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: Graduated with masters in Journalism from Middlebury College

Intelligence Level: Up to date on current events

Any Mental Illnesses?: None

Learning Experiences: He always found physics to be the hardest subject and loved English

Character's short-term goals in life: He wants a volunteer to do a piece on Sam Childers because he recently watched the Machine Gun Preacher

Character's long-term goals in life: Find an accepting woman to marry

How does Character see himself/herself?: He use to be embarrassed for being short, but now he is over it, in fact he embraces it

How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others?: He is looked down upon a lot as he is not able to do a lot of the manly activities such as enlisting or reaching for something on top of the cabinet when girls can’t reach it

How self-confident is the character?: He deeply believes that one doesn’t need to be tall enough to reach their dream because what ultimately matters is their brain and character

Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?: He is ruled by logic and emotion

What would most embarrass this character?: When girls think of him as a little kid

Emotional Characteristics

Strengths/Weaknesses: His biggest strength is his brain and his ability to let his brain take control of his feelings. His weakness is that he worries too much about his future, whether he will find his Cinderella

Introvert or Extrovert?: Extrovert

How does the character deal with anger?: Smoking

With sadness?: Watches sad movies and cries during the sad parts

With conflict?: He says whatever is in his mind

With change?: Tries to cope with it

With loss?: Isolates himself and plays old memories in his head

What does the character want out of life?: Marry someone as kind and caring as his grandmother

What would the character like to change in his/her life?: A stop to social discrimination against anything

What motivates this character?: Peter Dinklage, because Peter Dinklage reminds him that nothing can stop him from getting what he wants

What frightens this character?: Spending the rest of his life alone

What makes this character happy?: Meeting someone who doesn’t judge and someone who understands him

Is the character judgmental of others?: Some of times, if he feels like the people are judging him

Is the character generous or stingy?: Generous

Is the character generally polite or rude?: Polite but can be rude sometimes

Spiritual Characteristics

Does the character believe in God?: No

What are the character's spiritual beliefs?: Apatheism

Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life?: He was born into Roman Catholic family and was baptized but eventually stopped believing in god because lots of his prayers as a child were never fulfilled

If so, what role does it play?: None

What does this character want?? Need? Wish? Hope?

His life is perfect, loving family and friends and his dream job but he just wants one thing. He wants being short or dwarf to be nothing or normal. He hates it when people stare at him from the corner of their eyes in public. He wishes people to stop pitying him at first because there is nothing to pity for being short. He hopes for the kids with dwarfism to stop feeling self-conscious about their height and learn to accept themselves as soon as possible.

            That’s it; this bitch has been starring for too long, it’s time to do the usual, stare right back at them in their eyes. Wow, this girl really didn’t learn any manners from her parent. I took off my headphones, and stared at her, “Yes, I am 4 feet tall, born with Achondroplasia, but you know what? My life is way fucking better than your ramen noodle every night life because this midget right here is the editor-in-chief of a newspaper that you can’t afford, so no thank you for your pity.” I plugged my earphones back in, pulled my knit hat from the back, wiped my Friscco by Steve Madden against the back of my jean, and dusted new flannel with swag, as I existed the train. Now that has ought to teach her some manner.