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In addition, I was thinking about Novinha's children. They're mostly quite good examples of a characters with traits that are strengths or weaknesses that are described briefly. And Card goes out of his way to try to show interactions between as many people as possible -- as he says, you normally only have what the hero thinks of other characters and vice versa, but if you try to show more, you end up with ~n2 perspectives to show.

Miro - The one who decides things
Ela - The sympathetic martyr
Quim - The religious one
Olhando - The one apart
Quara - The withdrawn one
Grego - The firey thoughtless little boy

OK, the last two are stretches. And I'm not sure how to describe Miro. And Quim and the little ones change a lot between Speaker and Xenocide, almost reversing, though he's still wilfull.

But I would like to do a "Which are you" quiz meme. Except -- what questions wouldn't make it completely obvious equivalent to just asking "Are you Ela? etc"?

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