// PROCESS 02 / INPUT · 12 STEPS

Character Build Process

CHARACTER BUILD

A character is not a database. Filling in name, age, height, and hobbies does not guarantee that a person will move on the page. The same table can produce a human in one hand and a paper doll in another.

The Character Build process starts from a seed and moves through twelve steps until the character breathes. Creator and AI coworker build one full character in roughly 8 to 15 hours, including five medium-specific outputs.

INPUT
A Handful of Seeds

Keyword bundles from a client brief or five randomly drawn cards from a 30-card seed deck.

→
OUTPUT
Integrated Sheet + Supporting Outputs + Five Media Formats

A twelve-step integrated sheet, a 1,500-character daily-life scene, answers to 22 deep questions, five-act transition, and output formats for library, TRPG, scenario, animation, and web novel.

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14-Part Series

Fourteen lectures that teach the twelve-step procedure itself while example characters appear as supporting tools.

01
A Being That Breathes Enough — Character as Human, and Who the Creator Is
02
From Seed to Output — The Twelve-Step Flow
03
What to Turn On and Off — Four Layers and Five Preparation Modules
04
Seed Decision — Thirty Cards and Brief Seeds
05
The Mirror of Self-Objectification — Scales That Abstract a Person
06
Daily-Life Scenario — The Character Writes Themself
07
Twist and Drama — Reverse Cliches and Body Anchors
08
Flaw, Lack, and Trauma — Into the Gray Area of Morality
09
Goals and Conflicts — Want, Need, and the Lie Believed
10
Relationships and Cast — Five People Beside the Character
11
Immersion Operation — Proust, Letters, Diaries, and Five-Act Change
12
Output to Five Media — Obsidian, TRPG, Scenario, Animation, Web Novel
13
Non-Typical Characters and Diversity of Works
14
Five Diagnostics and the Final Greeting
Publication Link → MEJE Books →

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Applied Projects

Used as a standard procedure for B2B character persona design and internal IP character construction.

B2B Character Persona Design
Original character build for idol, brand, and game IPs, delivered as character sheets and design guides.
FEWK Short Stories
Characters for a cyberpunk world short-story collection, with build time allocated by narrative hierarchy.

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Inside the Pipeline

Character sheets enter the Librarying Vault and later become material for Lorebook character sections and Storytelling 100 protagonists.

↓ Next
Librarying Process

Character sheets become person entries inside the integrated Vault.
↔ Paired Input
Seoyeongak Process

Character builds from zero; Seoyeongak captures existing characters in a source work.
↓ Output
Storytelling 100 Process

Character sheets become the first input for one hundred scenarios.
↓ Output
Lorebook Process

Character sheets feed the character encyclopedia and NPC mini-card sections.