A Character That Survives Six Images
A fixed six-to-ten phrase character block, pasted unchanged into every prompt, so the same figure comes back across a series.
What it is for
A reusable written character sheet for keeping one figure recognisable across a set of images, plus the shooting rules that limit drift. Reach for it before starting a picture book, a comic, a series of ads or anything with a recurring face. If the tool you land on accepts reference images, use one alongside the block rather than instead of it — the block is the part that survives a new conversation or a run where the reference does not take. It prevents the six-panel story whose hero becomes a different person by panel four.
The skill
Ask for the same character twice and you get a cousin. The one thing you fully control is the wording, so write the description once and stop improvising it. Build a character block of six to ten fixed phrases and paste it unchanged into every prompt in the series. Change nothing between images except the scene. Word-for-word matters — a synonym is a new person. If your tool takes a reference image, attach the best picture of the character too, and use both. The block is what still holds on the run where the reference is ignored, or where you start a fresh conversation. Cover these, in this order of importance: 1. Silhouette. Build, height, hair length and shape, headwear. 2. One unmistakable prop or garment — a mustard scarf, a cracked green helmet. This carries recognition better than a face does, and it survives changes of angle and distance. 3. Palette. Two or three named colours: "rust-orange coat, cream trousers, black boots." 4. Face in structural terms. Round face, heavy eyebrows, freckles across the nose, gap in the front teeth. Not "beautiful", not "kind eyes" — those describe nothing that can be drawn the same way twice. 5. Age as a number. "About 9 years old." Age drifts faster than anything. 6. Rendering style, stated identically every time. A style change reads as a different person even when every other word matches. Then design around the limits: - Keep camera distance similar across the series. Faces vary most between a close-up and a wide shot. - Vary the scene, the light and the action. Never vary the block. - Keep the block in a file and paste it from there every time. Retyping it from memory is drift you cannot blame on the model. - When one image is right, write THAT image's character back into the block in words, and carry on from the words.
How to install it
1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template. 2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona. 3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.