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The people a story trusts to do its dirty work and steal your heart.
means The imaginary persons (or beings) who populate a story, or alternatively the individual letters and symbols that make up written text.
from From Greek kharakter, an engraving tool and the stamp it left — a mark pressed into metal, then into pages, then into souls who walk around in novels.
Round vs flatForster split them: complex versus cardboard cutouts.
Typed limitTwitter's old 140 counted characters, not words.
Real word rootSame source as charisma: both stamp an impression.