Character Development - Week One

1. What basic human needs are compromised? The need for love, interaction with other people, and as we get older, a certain autonomy is granted.

2. What kind of lies could develop for this character? She could make up scenarios about the father she never knew. She could go on a search for that father once she finds out about the cryogenics. Perhaps the cryogenic company is managed by her mother. Why didn’t the mother get pregnant the normal way? Why use the cryogenics firm? There is something the mother is not telling Julia. She wants to find out the truth.

3. What fears? The fear of never being good enough. The fear of not being a real human, what with the cryogenics manipulation of embryos. Perhaps she investigates the cryogenic company, finds out all there is to know about the embryo transfer process. She finds that the company is not the most honest in their dealings. Is her mother really her mother, or did they make a mistake in their records?

4. What types of behaviors and responses could develop? Total distrust of anyone, especially those in charge of her life. I can see this person somehow destroying the Tragg’s Cryogenics offices, the labs, anything that pertains to the company. As a child, we trust our parents implicitly. Once she finds out the truth, her world is instantly changed.

5. What could trigger her wound? A love relationship where her futures spouse asks about her family. How does she tell a future spouse that she has no idea what the cryogenic process has done to her as a human. Does it change DNA? Does the freezing and thawing of embryos somehow damage the future human?