We all are <| sep |> That ' s ridiculous . No business should make employees earn rewards , especially based on company goals . That ' s just savage . Everyone deserves a trophy , er , day off . <| sep |> People have secrets . Give someone a thing they don ' t want other people to know . Depending on what kind of person they are , that can drive a lot of their actions . Something else I try to do when I ' m thinking of a character is figure out what elective classes they would ' ve taken in high school . It ' s weird and specific , but it ' s an exercise I try to do because it immediately paints the person as having things they ' re interested in and things they ' re not interested in . If a character takes an extra art class , why didn ' t they take an extra gym class ? I actually was struggling with that electives thing with Tulip for awhile . I knew what kind of person she was and how she reacts to things , but I was having trouble nailing down what sort of things she liked and didn ' t like . Then , a bunch of women came to Cartoon Network from Google to talk about their jobs in programming and engineering . Danny Hynes asked them what they did when they felt frustrated , how did they react to things , stuff like that . I remember one of the women describing herself and she was just describing everything about Tulip ! That ' s when I realized the elective Tulip would take was programming and she became like a fully formed person in my head .