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How do you test out their breaking point? see how their values hold up?
I'm not talking fill out sheets. I want to know about writing exercises that happen write before your eyes, you can actually read the character in the words, not just explaining who they are, showing who they are.
I just want to know about other character writing exercises.
One of my favorites is to generate a random word, then write your character a short story themed around that word. It'll help you get associations, as real people have ideas, opinions and experiences with almost every word.
Like, for example, you might roll and get "Trust"
And for one of my characters, I would write about how he takes advantage of everyone's trust, and manipulates them to do what he wants them to do.
But for the other, it would be talking about how trust is entirely foreign to her, and how she's trying to differentiate the difference between working together with someone and trusting them.
That's a basic example it can get a lot more complicated when you draw a word like "Bark," "Particle" or "Professor"
Main thing is to write it as a snippet of their life, an experience they have gone/will go through sometime in their lives.