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Characters that hold together

Short guides to writing a character, keeping it in role, and stopping it agreeing with everything you say. No sign-up needed to read any of it.

Two ways to have a character
Character platforms store your character on their servers and attach it to a profile. Writing the character in the message keeps it yours.
One sentence beats a character sheet
A long character sheet produces a vaguer character than a single precise sentence. Four elements are worth including, and the rest is padding.
Continuity is resending, not memory
Nothing is remembered. Continuity is the earlier messages being resent, and a long story outgrows that. Three habits keep it coherent.
What stays refused, and why it is stated
An uncensored character is still not a way around the law. Two categories are refused here regardless of any setting, and it is better said plainly.
Four habits that carry a scene
The difference between a flat exchange and a scene is 4 habits, and none of them is a longer prompt.
The most comfortable failure
A character that agrees, admires and adapts is reflecting you. It is pleasant, it is the default failure mode, and it is worth being able to spot.
The 4 reasons a character slips
Falling out of character has 4 causes, and only 1 of them is the filter. The other 3 are fixable by how the scene is set up.
How to stop a character agreeing with everything
The default is agreement, and agreement makes a character useless. Three instructions produce a character that holds a position.