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CONVERSATION QUESTIONS

1. What conversation topics does your character find the most engaging? The most dull?

2. Is there any topic that makes your character ramble, whether due to enthusiasm or heightened emotions/anxiety?

3. Is there any topic that makes them clam up?

4. In an average scenario, does your character typically do most or least of the talking in a conversation, or break pretty even?

5. How long can your character talk about themselves or their interests before feeling self-conscious about it? How long can they listen to someone else talk about themselves or their interests before their attention drifts or they get annoyed?

6. If your character is caught in a conversation they aren't enjoying, what do they do?

7. How attuned are they to whether other people aren't enjoying conversations with them?

8. Is your character shy about talking to strangers? Do they have a go-to icebreaker?

9. What's preferable, small talk or silence?

10. Whether or not they enjoy it, is your character good at small-talk? Do they think it can have value?

11. At a dinner party, would they more often talk to the whole table or to their immediate neighbors?

12. Does your character like to gossip? If so, what about? How do they respond when other people try to tell them gossip they don't want to hear?

13. How likely is your character to offend people in conversation? Accidentally or on purpose? How easily are they offended in turn?

14. Are they prone to oversharing? What do they consider TMI?

15. How strong is your character's filter between their thoughts and feelings and what they say? Do they blurt things out without considering them first? If they usually don't, what would it take to make them?

16. How frequently does your character interrupt other people while they're talking? How do they feel about being interrupted?

17. If people in a group talk over or ignore something your character says in a conversation, what do they do?

18. How do they react to someone explaining something they already know? How about someone assuming they already know something they don't?

19. If your character realizes they got a fact wrong, called someone by the wrong name, or misused a word in conversation, do they correct themselves? How long does it keep them awake later?

20. What if they tell a joke no one laughs at?

21. Does your character laugh at jokes they don't really find funny?

22. Does your character have a particular style of joke or joke-delivery they prefer?

23. Could your character have a civil conversation with someone they despised?

24. How do they feel about unemotional disagreements, such as debates about whether a book was good or bad? How invested do they get in proving that they're right?

25. What about emotional disagreements? How good are they at keeping a level head? Do they ever say things they don't really mean, or only things they really do?

26. Does your character talk with their hands? Touch people while speaking with them?

27. Do they prefer making eye contact while they talk to someone, or having something else to look at?

28. What assumptions would people generally make about your character's background (nationality, class, education, etc.) based only on the way they speak? Are those assumptions accurate?

29. Does your character change how they talk—such as their level of formality or how carefully they consider their words—when dealing with different types of people?

30. Is your character multilingual? Does that affect how they talk (aside from the obvious ability to do so in more than on language)?