The Dark Matter Character Maps *PDF* Digital Download

THE DARK MATTER CHARACTER MAPS

Protagonist & Antagonist: Lite Edition

These worksheets are tools for writers who want characters to feel embodied, not explained.

They are built around three orienting questions:

Who am I?
Where am I?
How do I feel?

Rather than focusing on traits or backstory summaries, these maps help you locate a character in their body, their beliefs, and their internal logic, especially where things resist being named.

This 10-page PDF includes:

• A Protagonist Map focused on embodiment, fear, want, and relational gravity

• An Antagonist Map focused on belief, justification, authority, and permission

• Parallel structure without moral symmetry

• Space designed to be left blank

• Emphasis on implication over explanation

These maps are not diagnostic or therapeutic.
They are narrative tools for precision, restraint, and depth.

You do not need to fill out every section.
Absence is useful information.

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A NOTE ON CARE

If you’re working with heavy material, move slowly.
You don’t need to excavate everything to write something honest.

The work is not exposure.
The work is precision.