Stalker Journal

Character Profile Worksheet

Basic Statistics

Name: Peter Couch
Age: 37
Nationality: American/Caucasian
Socioeconomic Level as a child: middle class
Socioeconomic Level as an adult: Upper middleclass
Hometown: Benson, New York
Current Residence: New York
Occupation: auditor for a Wall street firm
Income:
Talents/Skills:
Salary:
Birth order:1973
Siblings (describe relationship): A brother Ted.
Spouse (describe relationship): Sarah, she’s a teacher. She met her husband while in college and
had ironically been a neighbor of his. Sarah loves her husband but sometimes longs for just a little
more.
Children (describe relationship):
Grandparents (describe relationship):Note at the moment
Grandchildren (describe relationship):Not at the moment
Significant Others (describe relationship): Sarah his wife, He loves his wife. But sometimes he
feels as
Relationship skills: Married

Physical Characteristics:

Height: 6;2
Weight: 160
Race: American
Eye Color: Dark brown
Hair Color: Dark brown
Glasses or contact lenses? Glasses
Skin color: White
Shape of Face: Square, shaped manly face
Distinguishing features: Square face, with sharp dark eyes, He’s built in relative proportion to how
he looks.
How does he/she dress? Large beige over coat, Pin striped black suit with matching tie and white
shirt.
Mannerisms: Quite, keeps to himself and his friends. He respects everyone equally as long as
they don’t ask for anything to extreme.
Habits: (smoking, drinking etc.)
Health: He works out when he can, however like many men his age. His frame seems to fit his
Hobbies: He spends much of his time outside doing household duties but when he gets away. He
like to drive his old 98 mustang down the High way with the top down and just feel the air in his
hair.

Favorite Sayings: Never sweat, just smile.
Speech patterns: Northern New Yorker accent.
Disabilities: uses glasses but it seems to be equally fine without.
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.): A sartorialist
Greatest flaw: He cant relate to his wifes family
Best quality: He’s logical and a sartorialist

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: Dartmouth college
Intelligence Level: Average but hey he went to Dartmouth so he knows his stuff
Any Mental Illnesses? No
Learning Experiences:
Character's short-term goals in life: Get the roof to stop leaking and find a way to get to the
traveling agency.
Character's long-term goals in life: To one day retire, Find a way to find something more
interesting in life, Have kids with his wife maybe in a few more years.
How does Character see himself/herself? He’s an adult. He’s aging and he knows it. But he just
wants to enjoy a few more years
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? He doesn’t seem to notice that he is
perceived. He keeps his head low but knows that he probably is seen as a business man.
How self-confident is the character? He’s confident.
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?
What would most embarass this character? He’s more logic than reason, but he knows when to
use both, Emotion is something Sarah handles he just does the logic.

Emotional Characteristics

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Introvert or Extrovert? Introvert
How does the character deal with anger? He takes the car out for a ride or runs to the office
With sadness? He doesn’t cry much. Maybe its because he forgot how to cry. Its easier not to.
With conflict? Conflict can divide him, but logic before conflict always
With change? I feel as though he is discovering what change is.
With loss? He hides it. He prefers to deal with in silence than smile at pain.
What does the character want out of life? He wants change from his old routine
What would the character like to change in his/her life? Haha his wife, naaah maybe his house or
dog,
What motivates this character? His job
What frightens this character? The economy
What makes this character happy? A fishing trip to his favorite point out along lake George
Is the character judgmental of others? Yeah but he prefers not to say it. He judges people in his
head.
Is the character generous or stingy? Generous
Is the character generally polite or rude? Polite

Spiritual Characteristics

Does the character believe in God? Yeah well sort of. His wife’s parents were Methodist and
when they lived next door they use to go to church together. When they moved some were else
though, he and his wife stopped going. Sometimes he and his wife go to church. Which is three
times in a month.
What are the character's spiritual beliefs? His parents where religious and took him to church but
when he went to college it was just a thing he stopped following. He believes in god, but cares
little to belong to any mainstream religion.
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? Not really thought occasionally he does
donate money to a church charity.
If so, what role does it play? It’s a secondary role to him.

What does this character want?? Need? Wish? Hope? He’s at the point in his life, when him
and Sarah are almost at there 40s. He wants to change his life, but he doesn’t see much of a
reason why he should if not much has changed about him. His muscles are getting stiff and
he’s not the young man he use to be. But he wants more and he knows Sarah deserves better.
So he’s trying to find a way to change that. He wished he could be rich but he won’t be. So he
works for the feds. He wishes he could leave this job but he can’t. He hopes for something new to
happen in his life.