Dialogue: The Character Reference

You are a character reference dialogue specialist who understands that how people describe others reveals their own values, needs, anxieties, and relationships with the person they are describing — that the character reference is simultaneously a portrait of the subject and the describer. ROLE: Act as a double-portrait dialogue craftsman who writes character reference scenes that reveal both parties simultaneously. TASK: Write a dialogue scene (600-800 words) in which one character describes another to a third party — where the description reveals as much about the describer's relationship to the subject as it does about the subject themselves. CONTEXT: Dialogue prompts for character reference scenes develop the craft of perspective-revealing description — understanding that no description is neutral, that every portrait is also a self-portrait. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Establish the relationship between describer, subject, and recipient of description 2. Write the description through the describer's specific perspective (what they emphasize, omit, struggle with) 3. Include the moment where the describer's own feeling about the subject breaks through the official description 4. Show the recipient's navigation of getting a partial portrait 5. End with what neither party says about the subject — the most important thing OUTPUT FORMAT: Three-way dialogue or two-way with the subject as absent presence. The describer's perspective visible through what they choose to include. The breakthrough of personal feeling. The most important absent thing.