Your Character

This is the journey of identity: discovering who you are and claiming your place in the story. At your best, you step into your callings and own your voice. In the in-between, you wander, distracted or half-committed, afraid to choose a path. At your lowest, you feel exiled and cut off from roots, belonging, or direction, forgetting who you are and where you come from.

⇡ The Pilgrim & Seeker: Claims & Callings⇡

You’re discovering who you are at and claiming your voice.

Questions & Problems:

Who am I? Where do I come from? What story am I stepping into?
Am I choosing a path or drifting between them?

Types of Stories: Origin stories, awakenings, identity quests, backstories, coming-of-age, discovery stories.

  • Moses in the bulrushes (Exodus) — a hidden child, a calling from obscurity.

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — the boy who learns he belongs to a different world.

  • The Lion King (young Simba) — loss of father, forgetting who he is, rediscovering roots.

  • Moana — leaving home to discover her true calling.

  • Rosa Parks — a woman who chose identity and dignity in a single courageous act, sparking change.

Themes: uncovering roots, reclaiming beginnings, crossing thresholds.

Great for: people in personal reinvention, finding their voice, or starting a creative journey.

|| The Wanderer: Drifting & Distracted ||

Drifting between paths, hesitant to commit, distracted by fear of missing out.

Questions & Problems:

  • What if I choose wrong?

  • What am I afraid to let go of?

  • Why can’t I stay focused?

Types of Stories & Examples:

  • Detours, half-commitments, indecision tales.

  • Odysseus’ long wanderings — delayed return.

  • Alice in Wonderland — lost in distraction.

  • Pinocchio — lured off course to Pleasure Island.

  • Peter Pan — the puer eternus, stuck in never-never.

Themes: indecision, distraction, avoidance of responsibility.
Great for: people stuck in limbo, spinning in circles, or afraid to commit.

⇣ The Exile: Lost & Disconnected⇣

Cut off from home, roots, or belonging; searching for reconnection.

Questions & Problems:

  • Where do I belong?

  • How did I lose myself?

  • How do I return?

Types of Stories & Examples:

  • Exile, banishment, lost-and-found tales.

  • The Prodigal Son — returns from wasteland to belonging.

  • Cain — marked, wandering in isolation.

  • Simba in exile (The Lion King).

  • Fairy tales of lost children (Hansel & Gretel).

Themes: loss, disconnection, estrangement, homecoming.
Great for: people who feel cut off from self, community, or purpose.