Day 9 - MME's

Today I'm supposed to work on MMEs. First off, I have to remind myself what an MME is. Let's see here...(sound of PDF opening)...

All right, an MME is the characters major motivation experience. It is the experience that much of their life is based on and gives them goals and focus. This is related to MMB, which is a major motivating belief. The belief comes from the experience.

So, let's begin with the dragon, the character I understand the best. His MME is that all other dragons were killed by a meteor nearly a billion years before. He only survived because he was underground at the time. Because of this, he was practically alone for nearly a billion years. This gave him the belief that it could happen all over again. He fears this with all of his being, because of the terrifying loneliness. He believes that humans will destroy themselves with nuclear war and in that way cause it again. So he is preparng for the inevitable by building an underground lair to hide some of humanity in.

The protagonist is the next major character. His belief is that he isn't all that bright and his only strength is his strength and good looks. This came from an experience he had as a child. When he brought home good grades from school, his dad would call him a nerd and tell him not to do that or other kids would make fun of him. His dad pressured him into football and other sports. When he did well at them, it made his dad happy. In fact, he was very good at coming up with plays in football to beat the other team, but he could never apply that intelligence to other things and barely scrapped by in other things, always saying it was too hard. He would sabotage his own efforts to succeed by not studying.

The next major character is the teacher. This person wants to horde all of their power and not give any of it up. He was the first born child in his family, until he was thirteen when his brother was born. No matter what he did, the baby got all of the attention. In part this was because the parents believed they would never be able to have a child again, and in another part it is because he had a skewed version of the world and didn't notice the attention he got, but rather the attention he didn't get. Whenever he could, he would take advantage of his younger brother, until his brother got old enough to get revenge on him. His brother tricked him into bungee jumping, and had cut the chord partially through, though he could never prove it. This led him to getting horribly injured, and gaining magic energy. Afterward, he gained the attention of his family, for a while, but soon it went back to his brother, who was much less negative to be around. Finally he learned magic from another man, and when he had learned what the man knew, he killed his teacher. He has since made it his life to torture his brother in any way possible.

The girlfriend. She judges people based on their appearance, though she doesn't like to admit it. In fact, she puts a lot of effort into looking nice, but not too nice. This was because as a child her mother was very critical of the appearance of others and of her. Over time it changed the way she looked at things until she believed looks were what mattered. She tries to fight against it by not dressing too nice, but the belief is still there. She also believes that men are their to protect women. One time when she was a child, some kids egged her house, some boys from school who didn't like her. Her father caught them, and told their parents about it. When one of them later picked on her, her father put an end to it, though she won't speak of how he did it. In fact, he terrorized the kid straight.