Characters who remember how they feel about each other.
Tell Storyworld who your characters are to each other, and how each one treats the other. Every scene you write and every shot you generate after that plays it, from the first episode to the last.
Mei and Nara
Mei → Nara
Nara → Mei
What it is
Every pair of characters has a bond: who they are to each other, like sisters, rivals or old partners. On top of that, each side has its own stance toward the other, because two people rarely feel the same way about each other.
- A stance says what one character wants from the other, what they hold back, what they call them and how they speak to them.
- It also says how close they stand, and when they give way.
- A stance can change at any point in the story, and the change holds until something changes it again.
How you use it
Describe your characters to your agent the way you would to a co-writer, and it records the bonds and stances for you. You can see and change all of it in the studio.
- The Characters screen draws your cast as a map, one line for each pair.
- Step through the story episode by episode and watch each stance change.
- Select a pair to read both sides of it, and edit either one in place.
Why it matters
Lovers and enemies stand, look and speak differently. When your story remembers how two people feel at every point, the scenes and the shots stay true to it without you repeating it in every prompt.
- Your writing agent sees how each pair stands before it writes the next scene.
- The Director is told how the people in a shot feel about each other, so the camera can show it.
- The change you set in episode four is still there in episode forty.