What can be immediately surmised of this character tetrahedron?
It has four vertexes, six edges, and four planes. However, the planar surfaces are not structural components. Taken out it looks so...
The tetrahedron is the smallest conceptual structure. A triangle on a convex-concave plane can have angles totaling more than 180 degrees. If you convex a triangle's edges you will eventually create a circle and for a tetrahedron, convexing leads to a sphere. This is the logic behind the converting of 'character tetrahedron' to 'character sphere'. But what about the term 'character'?
Within narrative - any account of a series of events, historical, present, or future - the term character refers to a construction of self. A series of events are decision/action showcases for various, self-related occasions by which the audience receives and, I feel, wants to psychologically mirror. This is an explanation to why we value complexity in our characters, because we enjoy the inner-working-out of agreement and disagreement.
So next it should be determined what are the structural components of character, of self?
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