Overview
Relationships in fiction fail when they are static: two characters who like each other, or two characters who don't, and nothing changes. A relationship that drives a story is one where the two characters want something from each other that they cannot fully have, where their dynamic shifts under pressure, and where what they cannot say to each other is more powerful than what they can.
The Character Relationship Dynamics Prompt generates the full architecture of a relationship between two characters: what they give each other, what they take, what they avoid, and how the relationship transforms across the story's arc.
What you get: - What each character wants from the other - What each character gives and withholds - The specific tension that keeps them apart or in conflict - What they cannot say to each other - How the relationship changes across 3 story stages - The scene types their dynamic generates - The moment the relationship is most at risk
Built for: Novelists, screenwriters, and any writer building a relationship — romantic, antagonistic, familial, or platonic — that drives the story forward.