Character Development

Attributes list:

• ·         Brash
• ·         Impatient
• ·         Hungry
• ·         Crazed
• ·         Chaotic
• ·         Over-reactive
• ·         Violent
• ·         Observant
• ·         Energetic
• ·         Good sense of humor
• ·         Easygoing
• ·         Positive
• ·         Rude
• ·         Boisterous
• ·         Loud/always using outside-voice
• ·         No sense of boundaries
• ·         One-track mind
• ·         Dim-witted
• ·         Gourmand
• ·         Cocky
• ·         Self-centered
• ·         Narrow-minded
• ·         Independent

Back story

Raven-Ash Zi-Zhu Mok is a ghost who has died 200 years ago at the age of 23 from an attack during the Opium War.  Her body was mutilated heavily in the attack and her ghost form reflects the state of her body.  She was a worker in an opium den owned by the Undying Phoenix group in Hong Kong when it was raided by rival Triad group The Nine Dragons.  Because of her gruesome death, she hasn’t been able to move on, but she’s been content with existing among the living, being fascinated by the new fashions, technologies, and cuisines.

Before her death, Raven-Ash lived with her parents and two siblings.  As the middle child, she was often ignored and undermined by her family, so she developed her personality as the loud, abrasive, rebellious gourmand throughout the years to unapologetically get the attention that she craved.  She got attention, albeit negative, but she enjoyed it all the same.  Her parents named her Zi-Zhu, but she gave herself the name Raven to assimilate with the British.  Raven was known throughout her neighborhood as a harsh food critic; she would eat anything, but the telltale sign that she enjoyed her meal was that she’ll eat it whole, not leaving a single grain of rice behind.  To fund her hobby as a food critic, she was forced (by her parents) to get a job.  She knew she was getting into trouble by working at an opium den, but it paid well and it wasn’t too hard dealing with the addicts.  She was able to work there for two years before dying.

Toll booth exercise

Raven-Ash was just minding her own business, floating here and there, admiring the vast, wide road that lay before her.  After travelling along it for a while, she noticed a structure that stood before her—a toll booth.  She admired the intricacies and complications of the machine, seeing how much more advanced a toll booth had gotten since the time she’s been alive.  Ah, technology has come so far!

However, she is a ghost.  Ghosts don’t have money!  She looked around to see if anyone had left any change around, but found nothing.  Just that ticked her off.  Raven started yelling obscenities and hitting the toll booth (but without actually affecting the machine).  She started writhing around, shouting even more, cursing the toll booth to hell and causing a scene among the present spirits.  She was embarrassing herself, but she didn’t care.

Mid-tantrum, a car drives up to the toll booth, phasing through her.  She stopped and remembered that physical objects were no obstacle to her.  Raven got herself right-side up and phased through the gate.