Creating a Character - DAY 3

Outline of the main character:

• Caucasian
• Old lady - 53 years
• Has mental illness - wants to look young; she does this by killing young, beautiful girls and using their skin to sew onto her face
• Lonely, depressed, and insecure
• Single - lives alone in an old apartment
• Killer

Her Appearance:

• Doesn't look her age (around 40)
• Skinny, always have narrow/slanted posture to reflect her insecurity
• Pale, white skin
• (Slightly) Wrinkly skin
• Thin - to give an impression of fragility and weakness
• Tall, Slender

Inspiration - 

1) Annie Wilkes from Misery (1990)

Annie is a psychotic, former nurse who is a number one fan of romance novels, including the Misery series by Paul Sheldon.

She has some type of mental illness that seems to border the lines of being manic-depressive, and is also suffering from a severe case of paranoia. 

There is a connection between Annie and our character as they are both mentally ill and obsessed over one particular thing to an extent where they are no longer humane. 

3) Mother Gothel from Tangled

Her similarity with our character is that she wants to stay youthful. She achieves this by trapping and keeping Rapunzel in a tower, using her power.

3) Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs

Jame Gumb or known as “Buffalo Bill”, is a transsexual, and particular disturbing antagonist for kidnapping overweight ladies and removing their skin as if they were cattle. He does this to create a female skin suit to hide his manhood.

He links with our character as they both own a workroom in a basement, and kills women for their skin.

4) Evil Queen (Ravenna) from Snow White and the Huntsman

She captures young women into her Kingdom to drain their youthfulness. The reason for this is to be immortal, young, and beautiful for eternity.

5) Esther from Orphan

Esther is really a 33 year old woman (who looks like a 9-year-old) with a rare disease that stops her from ageing (in appearance). She goes into peoples homes all sweet and innocent, then tries to engage in sexual activities with the man of the family. When he says no, she takes revenge and kills all the family.

Like our character, she is a murderer and has absolutely no mercy/regret after killing people. She is emotionally unstable as she is constantly having mood swings, and raging.