The Lens of The Interpersonal Circumplex

The relationships between your characters can be understood by creating a graph with one axis labeled hostile/friendly, and the other labeled submissive/dominant. Pick a character, put it in the middle, and plot out where other characters lie relative to that character. Ask yourself these questions:

• Are there any gaps in the chart? Why are they there? Would it be better if the gaps were filled?
• Are there "extreme characters” on the graph? If not would it be better if there were?
• Are the character’s friends in the same quadrant, or different quadrants? What if that were different?