Relationship
No one is an island. Relationships—positive, negative, and ambiguous—help to define a character. Choose another cohort member that is significant to your character. Have a dialog with their player and choose one relationship type that defines your primary relationship. Each relationship type has an associated trait.
While relationships are often symmetrical and reciprocal (two cohort members sharing the same relationship type with each other), they may be asymmetrical. For example, one cohort member may be another’s brother (Kin), but that brother’s relationship distinction may be with a Life Partner rather than reciprocal with the Kin. While three or more cohort members may share the same relationship type (a group of Childhood Friends, for example), the subject of each connected trait is only one other cohort member. That is, the trait for every relationship type is only effective for one designated cohort member.
Quirk
Though they are important to you, that same cohort member can also get on your nerves at times. There is that one thing they do that can really rub you the wrong way.
Choose one of their traits. It can be virtually anything: Their motto, ethos, background, ability, or relationship are all possibilities. Any time they use this trait, this quirk becomes a Hindering(-) -1/1 to the cohort dice pool.
Childhood Friend
You’ve known each other since childhood, and have been on close terms ever since.
Growing Together
TBDCultural Comrade
You come from the same culture and have bonded through cultural norms. This could be related to a shared faction, bioform, education, or locale.
Pop Culture
TBDKin
You are potentially siblings, cousins, parent-child, or other relatives no more than two generations apart. You may be a blood relative with the same bioform, a Chimera with at least one shared bioform, or have an adoptive relationship.
Family Matters
TBDLife Partner
Through vows or circumstance, you have committed to each other for the long-term.
For the Long Haul
TBDRival
You are antagonistic to one another, but something keeps you working together. It may be a simple case of constantly trying to one-up each other, or a sort of “frenemy” situation.
Nice Try
TBDSurvival Oath
You survived a traumatic, life-threatening situation together, and carried each other through. This could be mutual (where you saved each other) or more one-sided situation (where one saved the other).