Read the shape, not the score
A practical guide to the five-axis pentagon and what the public roster comparison can tell you.
Project notes
Five directions, no total to chase
Every profile’s pentagon uses the same five axes: curiosity, warmth, courage, mischief, and energy. Each has its own scale from zero to one hundred. The values are authored character settings. They are not a psychological assessment, a record of observed behavior, or a measure of how much a friend likes you.
Curiosity describes a tendency to explore and ask questions. Warmth shapes how openly affection and encouragement come across. Courage influences decisiveness and adventure; mischief makes room for teasing and harmless surprises. Energy sets the pace of expression. None needs to be high for a character to be worth meeting.
Look for a combination
Try Shiro Bear. His warmth is high and his energy is low: the combination points toward gentle encouragement with space to breathe. Flister’s high mischief and high energy suggest a much livelier entrance. Neither shape is the winning one. They offer different kinds of company.
Notice how one axis changes your reading of another. A curious character can ask a single careful question or fire off a string of excited possibilities. A courageous character can be solemn. A mischievous character can care about your answer. The story and inner-world notes make those distinctions more specific than the outline alone.
Use the roster as context
Select ‘With roster’ on a character’s profile to add the public roster average to the chart. The accompanying table gives the values directly, and the text below it shows how many published characters are included. That sample size matters: it tells you which group produced the comparison you are seeing.
‘Strongest trait’ identifies the character’s highest value. ‘Furthest from the roster’ identifies the largest difference from that reference group, which can be above or below the average. Those are different questions. A character’s highest score does not have to be their most unusual trait.
Turn a shape into a question
Pick one combination, read the character’s story, and ask about a situation that brings it out. For Shiro, try planning a small celebration after a tiring day. For Nhara, ask what deserves patient attention. You are looking for a recognizable point of view, not trying to make a chart increase.
The pentagon remains an introduction. Motives, values, contradictions, and the way a character handles disagreement belong in the deeper identity. Relationship history is a separate part of the experience being developed; these five values do not stand in for trust or shared memories.