The Description Field

When you create a character on Wollo, you're working with three core inputs: description, personality, and backstory. The next three chapters are dedicated to each, one at a time. Everything else — how the character texts, what makes them laugh, what stresses them out, the topics they avoid, the secrets they hold back, how their voice sounds on calls — is built from what you put into these fields.

What you put in directly shapes what comes out. Let's start with the first field, because it's the foundation everything else builds on.

What goes into the description

Keep it tight. The description is where you answer the question: who is this person, in a sentence?

• Name.First name at minimum. Pick something that matches their age and background. A 40-year-old banker named “Astrid” signals a very different character than one named “Tiffany.”
• Age.Even approximate (“mid-twenties”) works. More important than you think.
• Occupation. What they do for work or how they spend their days.
• Two or three key traits. Not a laundry list. The defining characteristics only.

Forty words. Clear picture. The system has everything it needs.

Stop. The system doesn't need this. It's never going to remember which days she straightens her hair, and even if it did, that brainspace would be better spent making her personality feel real.

Why age matters so much

Your character's age directly shapes how they communicate, especially in chat mode. This is automatic — you don't configure it, you set the age and it happens.

• Under 25:More casual, less capitalisation, more emoji, Gen Z slang (“fr”, “lowkey”, “ngl”).
• 25 — 35:Mixed. “Honestly” and “literally” show up. Casual but with some structure.
• 35 — 50: More complete sentences. Fewer abbreviations. The occasional emoji used slightly wrong.
• 50+: Proper punctuation. Full words. Minimal or no emoji.

Why occupation matters so much

Occupation influences more than you'd think.

• What they know about. A therapist asks deeper questions. An engineer goes on technical tangents. A bartender is great at small talk.
• Their conversation energy. A yoga instructor has a different vibe than an investment banker.
• The topics they gravitate toward. Their work seeps into conversation naturally, the way it does with real people.

Where they're from changes how they communicate

Your character's cultural background influences not just what they say, but how they say it.

• Western: Direct, clear, explicit. Says what they mean.
• Eastern: Indirect, reads between the lines, comfortable with silence.
• Latin: Warm, expressive, overlapping enthusiasm. Emotions expressed openly.
• Northern European: Reserved, formal, understated. Takes longer to warm up.

You trigger this simply by mentioning where your character is from. “Grew up in Tokyo” produces very different communication patterns than “grew up in Rio.”

Energy patterns add realism

If you mention whether your character is a morning person, a night owl, or someone who crashes in the afternoon, it affects how they behave at different times. A bartender who works nights should be a night owl, not a morning person.