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Many times when we're writing our stories and we engage too with our main character, develop their personality, habits, ways of seeing the world in which he or she lives, but in many cases we do not give sufficient importance to our support characters beyond to give more weight to the story that we are developing, they also have their own life.

These supporting characters in our story always play key roles in this, to these beings divided by five levels of relevance in the story, here's a brief stopover I've managed to somehow arrange the characters of the stories I've worked with:

First Level: Those characters without them the story just does not make any sense, usually the protagonist, often rivals, depending if the story revolves around the history between these two, or usually the villain or antagonist of the story (not in every story there is a well defined antagonist, but worth mentioning), provided the overall story revolves around their lives and how they relate to each other, a clash between these gives rise to our plot. As mentioned the name, placed first as its priority level in history is always the highest.

Second Level: Those characters who despite having a high relevance in history, with a related life of one form or another to any of the characters of first level, they are not as important as the main characters. A clear example of a character in Second Level is the travelling companion of the protagonist, a childhood friend or a close friend who has enough appearances followed in our history, and surely at some point there will be a piece of their personal history. These characters include them in second-level and supporting characters from the first level and gives a break to the story of just focusing on a single angle.

Third Level: Those characters that appear from time to time, the reader will always remember something specific they did the last time they appeared in our history. For example, a king who always mentioned for doing something and rarely appears to give orders, also a relative that died and always advised the First Level a character or in some cases Second Level, or we can say that an assistant or servant of an important character that appears from time to time to make a dialogue with a character of first or second level would serve as an example. The difficulty of the third level is that many of these people can easily fall into the category of second level or fourth level, depending on how the author manages the character.

Fourth Level: Those characters that appear fleetingly in our stories, but yet many fail to remember at least that was what made or gestures, if you have a funny name that's probably one of the few things that the reader remember him. Not for this fourth-level characters are less important, their work in history is to harmonize and to put bad form "fill" an empty space in a character that does not stand out much, but if you can use for more than a dialogue. A good example of this is a strange encounters with the protagonist, a conflict will gun for anything that comes to mind and so he came, so it goes. Usually these characters appear in a single chapter or fragment of our history, yet many times these characters have gained enough popularity to scale to a third level.

Fifth Level: Those characters we just provide the backdrop, yes, background, his role is simply to make space, when we speak of a crowd can say a thousand, two thousand, three thousand, five thousand people are these characters Fifth Level are present in our history when we mention a "crowd", or illustrate to people walking on the street or shopping at a market, does not necessarily have to name them by Michael, Craig, Allan and Ashley, their work is simply to exist.

Well, those are the five levels that I propose to differentiate the characters in your story, you can serve pretty when creating characters for a new project or simply enhance an existing one, but let me give you some advice:

It is not all mathematics and physics, many characters can fall as well level up whatever the author wants.

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